{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"RENATURED","provider_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog","author_name":"Marina","author_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/blog\/author\/admin\/","title":"PROTECTED ZONE by Chus Garcia-Fraile","html":"[caption id=\"attachment_308\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"243\" caption=\"Still from Protected Zone\"]\"Still<\/a>[\/caption]\r\n\r\n...click here<\/a> to see video of Protected Zone<\/em>.\r\n\r\nI've been intermittently reading Deep North<\/a>, the document produced by Transmediale 2009, an annual festival held in Berlin that weaves\u00a0 media, social change and a thematic issue. This year was loosely Climate Change\/Social Change (my piece The Poster Children<\/a><\/em> was in the exhibition).\r\nThe book contains an essay by Hilary Koob-Sassen<\/a> called \"Faith in Infrastructure, An Errorist<\/a> Manifesto.\" In this he states that\r\n\"Elaboration moves along when structures subside from direct experience to a position of foundational relevance. The aqueducts have disappeared- we have faith in subterranean pipes. Upon this faith we buy a house. Upon this faith we live in New Orleans. An evil experience is the same for the living and the built: the floods were outside of that range of reality to which the structure could respond. The levee breaks and no hidden capacity reveals itself: no preternatural burst of adrenaline allows the slipping deer to spring to a foothold, no particularly well-fashioned piece of levee exceeds its nominal strength and endures. No response. These two syntaxes- genetic and materialist- must name reality faster than it changes. Otherwise, reality deletes them.\"<\/em>","type":"rich"}