constantly inventing zero(s)
(f)or the destruction of centralized gravitation.
a perception of time and space in which there is only one zero-point is the common ideal. in this way the gravitation forces are focused onto one spot to which all subjects and objects are drawn. events are layerd like sediments around or above this anchor and because of that human history / memory works in a straight (time-) line.this travel through time is like riding rails you haven‘t laid, sitting in a vehicle provided by others. a passive one way ride, like walther benjamin describes in his book „ueber den begriff der geschichte“, when he writes: „a klee painting named ‘angelus novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. his face is turned toward the past. where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. the angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. but a storm is blowing in from paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. the storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. this storm is what we call progress." “the angel“ in this text is like us a slave of gravitation, which is the force that enables us to crawl, walk or stand on the surface of this globe. everybody or anything accepting this force fed logic is easy to control, passive and/or predictible in all actions. NEW HOMES LOST struggles for freedom we want to destroy the idea of centralized gravitation, by constantly reinventing zero, we will enable new forms of movements like flight. decentralized zero-points distracts the direction of timeflow and by that creates a mesh of events and interacting gravitation forces. the constant adding of zeros leads to a destabilisation of the whole (power-)structure. and under this conditions of shifting forces, individuals need (to learn) the ability to navigate and control their movements on an autonomous level. here we speak of „cybernetics“ in it‘s traditional greek sense (kubernetes ‘steersman,’ from kubernan ‘to steer.’), in which it describes the navigation and steering of the individual (small) boats through the rough sea between the islands, rather than the corrupted roman version of the word for centralized statecontrol. following heinz von foersters ethical imperative: „always act to increase the number of possibilities.“ the concept of NEW HOMES LOST is to unlearn passiveness and gain autonomy, by attempting free movement. we embrace all forms of nomadism, and hail the constant changing home, because is not inhabitable.
