Dwelling on the Clouds, Ugly Duck, London

The proposal is built on the shared cloud existence that people have nowadays. Clouds have been an integral aspect of human life since the beginning of time, and their meanings are constantly shifting. 

The phrase "cloud" has become a prominent metaphor in the internet age, referring to a global system that holds all types of information. Chaos permeates the cloud system, causing people to collapse into clouds of homogenous particles. As a cloud, we roam alone under the triple wrapping of de-corporealized information exchange, restricted echo space, and transparent, expanding, and impersonal social contact. "The Expulsion of the Other" creates "the Violence of the Same," creating connections without relationships, according to philosopher Byung-Chul Han. In this digital age, we seem to be deeply lonely without the Other.
Poetic Dwelling, The Arrival of Rationality, and The Expulsion of the Other comprise the show. The pieces featured will explore questions of contemporaneity around our knowable clouds and unknowable clouds. Dwelling on the clouds, do we have the potential to escape this chaotic state, return to the earth, and gain the freedom in nature to gaze at a piece of cloud again?