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“Personal Prosperity, Public Squalor”, Performance in Roman Agora

“Personal Prosperity, Public Squalor”, Performance in Roman Agora

Shoes; noun.  Shoes used as tool to explore and dive into different identities.

Other People’ s Shoes- Rehearsals

“Personal Prosperity, Public Squalor”, Performance in Roman Agora. Part 2

The rise of individualism follows the rise of indifference. 

“Personal Prosperity, Public Squalor”, Performance in Roman Agora

This performance approaches the philosophical premises that constitute the dominant ideology of our world. First, that our relationship to others is best filtered through a competitive lens (am I better, richer, etc.), which inevitably leads to rigid hierarchies, zero-sum logic and a lot of unthinking dogma. Second, it equates wealth with life success, which is then equated to virtue. Finally, the individual is the primary unit of power (e.g. Thatcher’s famous line “There is no such thing as society, just individuals and families”). The implication of this “philosophy” can be found on the prioritization of private property rather than collective ownership, on the economics of self- obsessed individual and on the atomization of our society. On the performance, the above relationships probe through bodies and public space. Intention is the redefinition of “public” and “common”.