Welcome to this blog site established by Bruce Barber to accompany the Artspace exhibition Moment Making February 3rd - March 3rd curated by Laura Preston. The installation in the gallery will consist of a large painted IAM with vinyl addition of letters another to myself.com. IAM buttons will be distributed to members of the public walking past the gallery at 300 Karangahape Road, Auckland on Saturday February 17th and at other times during the week.
The button action, gallery installation and website including this blog provides an opportunity to explore and discuss alterity, negotiating some of the philosophical coordinates established by Fanon, Bhahba, Levinas, Ricoeur, Derrida, Agamben, Butler, hooks, and Badiou among others. The primary questions for members of the public to explore will concern self-hood, ethnicity and the identity of the other. Can we say that "otherness/alterity" is a social fact of life and/or a cultural construct? That we are all marked as others - to each other - and this becomes ipso facto our identity? Cannot one also be an 'other' -- a stranger -- to oneself, as many writers from Rimbaud to Kristeva have asserted? What does this suggest with respect to our political struggles and aspirations? Derrida posits: “no difference without alterity, no alterity without singularity; no singularity without here now” (Jacques Derrida, 1994). Does this suggest a philosophical conundrum at the point of the singular?
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