| The mixed societies that have emerged as a result of migration have benefited enormously from the arrival of people from many different cultures. Cities have become more heterogeneous ('colorful'), music and cinema have been enormously enriched and philosophy gratefully uses the potential offered by thinking along the lines of and through metaphors relating to migrancy. This has been the case for much longer, as Mary Jacobus argues for psychoanalysis. Theorizing itself opens up its creativity thanks to the need to shed the limitations harbored by local habit. There is an aesthetic to thought as much as to, say, fashion, film, or food. In short, this project examines the positive import on the everyday that comes with migration, the now-common state of hybridity (where speaking of origins becomes almost forced and often impossible), and the 'small' aesthetics. It focuses on the utterly small yet significant aspects of everyday culture and academic thought that are 'foreign' in origin but not 'foreign' any longer. In a sense, these aspects are 'beyond' identity but still carry traces of 'foreignness'. My current video works all center on this cultural transformation |
