Agora Phobia (digitalis) explores experiences and imaginations of being (un)safe and isolated: What is a safe place for you? What is an unsafe place for you? Where do you feel isolated? How do you control your space? Agora Phobia (digitalis) is a mobile monument containing a website and a traveling, inflatable Isolation Pillar. In this temporary free zone you are invited to reflect on the personal experience of a public space and a private space, in the context of a mediated society. HOW Agora Phobia (digitalis) invites you in an inflatable semi transparent Isolation Pillar; placed in dynamic public spaces like train station hall, square, museum. Inside the Pillar one can still feel the physical tension of the crowd; but one can only vaguely see the crowd. Inside one feels very safe within an intimate space, and at the same time, lacking control over the outside, very vulnerable. The Isolation Pillar is big enough for one computer and one person to enter at the time. Here you are invited to chat with someone who lives isolated somewhere else, like: someone from prison, cloister, a digipersona, someone living illegally in the city, a prisoner of war (POW), someone suffering from agora phobia. HERE Left you find the Dialogue-Archive including all dialogues. In Add Monologue you can add your own text; which will be part of Monologue-Archive. Your participation will be anonymous unless you want a name. Agora Phobia (digitalis) provides for an isolated communication space, in which notions of being inside and being outside are reversible. SHOWS 2007 - Oog Volkskrant en CBK Amsterdam (NL) 2004 - Villette Numerique, Parc de la Villette, Paris (France) - Direct Exposure, Helsinki (Finland) 2003 - Eyebeam, New York (USA) - SKOR and City of Utrecht Beyond / Parasite/Paradise (NL) 2001 - Podewil Berlin, Alexanderplatz Hackesche Höfen (Germany) - ArtFair Berlin (Germany) 2000 - De Appel, Amsterdam (NL) - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL) - City centre of Amsterdam (NL) 1999 - [Nes]Theaters Amsterdam (NL) |