OFLUXO

The parking garage is a the “inferno of the same” (the agony of eros). It is a labyrinth in which the ceiling is often the floor, a schizophrenic environment that does not allow the face to be recognized. The(se) structures or modern functional ruins are a global phenomenon and in most cases duplicate a common design. In this way the parking garage can act as a portal, an access point into multi-linear spaces (this way amd/or that). All parking garages comprise a kind of universal parking garage, when we are in one parking garage we are in all parking garages.
The global effects of the internet have displaced direction and have effectually erased all horizons. The rhizomatic connections of the internet, a(nother) decentralized and/or multicentered domain. The parking garage when empty is a blank and timeless space, each floor or level a duplicate of the prior and the next and each parking garage a duplicate of the last and the next. In this way it represents the equalizing malignancy of capitalism in its attempt to make everything exchangeable. When occupied by workers and/or consumers the fixation of individu(aliz)ation (masking/obscuring the sameness) can be seen with its dehumanizing forces in one’s wandering and being lost (with)in the labyrinth, a maze in which objects and surroundings lose their distinctions, and collapse into one (another). That which was once an extension of the self (the fetishized/fetishizing vehicle) is seen to be an extension of the apparatus (society, other(s), the prevailing order and systemization of the economy, the so-called self, the endless lines of communication) that which individuals are inseparable from and immanent within – eating and being eaten; the ouroboros.
(an ouroboros with many heads and many tails, all devouring and being devoured by one another, multiple tenses at once)
This is the beginning of what will be an ongoing experiment, to test and/or investigate some of the observable limits, a cutting away at the present (past & future).
The parking garage acts in this way as the representation of the timeless and distanceless space that we inhabit (online & IRL), while the internet acts as its rhizomatic companion of transmission/distribution and presentation (communication).
Each participant or group in the project will take their respective works to a local parking garage of their choice and take documentation of said work in the garage using the space as a double / doppelganger / representative of and for the universal rhizomatic parking garage. We will gather all the documentation and release it as a group show. Each participant will also take a google earth photo of the work in the garage to pin In google earth.
The first show will have the theme(s) of the Rhizome & the Ouroboros. Let me know if oh have any questions.
Thank you very much for your time.