Athens2022
Plan with Zak
Friday
Kinship, trust, friendship
A random portrait of the global south.
Documenting as a way to show distrust.
Holy texts were memorized, not written. Writing had connotations of lack of trust during the early days of islam. The prophet didn’t want to show his literacy to the angel gabriel because he didn’t want to be associated with a kohen (a jewish sorcerer). Sorcerers were literate.
Check Abdelmumin Aya book.
A bit like the early days of money in christian europe. Kings and queens delegated this task to jewish people. Managing money was seen as a degrading activity (double check this).
Our Mission
Connect people through shared interests and create enjoyment
Our Vision
A Hyperconnected Humanity Free From Loneliness
Azar ethymology comes from a board game in arabic.
https://hyperconnect.com/en/
https://mtch.com/impactCreating Meaningful Connections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale–Shapley_algorithm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
Our mission is to spark meaningful connections for every single person worldwide.
https://www.braze.com/product/data-and-analytics
Data Analysis attached to Tinder
AZAR:
https://www.youtube.com/c/OfficialAzar/about
cringe
The time of the migrant is worthless.
broken.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2019/04/24/hidden-in-plain-sight-safety-innovation-in-live-streamed-video/
Portrait of the bored lonely global south
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/i-followed-my-stolen-iphone-across-the-world-became-a-celebr
How to not enter an exploitative and extractivist attitude?
How to not claim what is fragile, ephemeral and not mine?
How to not capitalise on my chosen and profesional excess of time as opposed to an unchosen one?
How to create a transversal movement of people across class, geography and
When/where does a transversal movement across class, geography and ethnicity happen?
The gallery space as a hospitality space.
Drawing, sculpture, hospitality, wood, tea, the wifi password.
How to communicate exclusion
I invite you not to come
We invite you not to see
Let’s be honest
Match, evaluate, swipe
Dismiss what you don't like
As if we knew what we like
“Youtube, YOUTUBE!”
https://ftw.usatoday.com/2021/02/ring-light-reflection-star-andy-reid-super-bowl-press-conference
He’s staring into our souls through Zoom.
How to stop the ring light from reflecting on your glasses!
‘’Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future.
Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?’’
Trainspotting
Le Coeur sur la Table avec Judith Duportail, écrivaine auteur de L’amour sous algorithme:
Comment rencontrer des gens? Comment, le geste du swipe est un geste fachiste
https://play.acast.com/s/157bb756-66a0-4d4e-88f9-6f024403eada/681b878f-84e1-4e1f-b15d-40a300307df9?seek=977
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Zacariya
In times when prediction tools have never been so abbundant and accurate, randomness is a valuable real estate for markets.
What happened while using azar?
What happens when we meet?
How and what do we share publicly?
Salim, Zakariya, Julia and Hugo
The artist, a guest, and hosts.
Artist, guest, gallery.
Una expo para una persona.
The public experiences something that happened, a stranger came to the gallery.
How relevant are the artifacts in the gallery?
The artwork need not to be built.
Common activity
Loneliness, isolation, ghorba, the internet,
Recording conversations audio,
Parc, Acropolis, Writing museum, Sunset Hill, Bath, Port,
Schedule with Zak:
A Hyperconnected Humanity Free From Loneliness
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As a North African living in Europpe, I feel the need to hear about people who are in a similar state of displacement in the world. Iike old classmates, I am curious about where everyone ended up, how are they doing, how they transformed or stayed the same, how we can help each other with soft lighthearted things as simple as hearing a specific dialect from the region, a tip,
I like to hear about people displaced in a similar way in the world.
I like the distance and anonimity of zones like azar because they don’t operate like regular clearnet social media. They are spaces of confession, time murdering and aimlessness.
I wanted to practice the question of what is azar about.
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Salim is curious about Azar, so he dedicated time to explore it by exhausting its use over 20 days.
Being in a gallery context and thinking about an exhibition format, he bought a ring light to give this task some professionalism.
The ring light reflection problem. too HD. The gallery and art language was an obstacle.
It went against the bscurity, clunkyness, ephemeral dysfuctional azar space.
Instead of extracting, let’s practice together the promised hyperconnected humanity free from loneliness.
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Can we get someone to come? let’s try.
Zakariya showed up on azar while walking in the streets of Bern in a festive moment. I asked if he wants to come, got into whatsapp and kept talking there.
Seemed like a cool guy, the fun of speaking the same mother tongue helped go ahead fast with the communication.
Here’s your ticket.
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Let’s hangout and have a good time.
We don’t have to do anything, it’s up to us.
ok, then where’s the whiskey, food and *****?
you’ve never been to Athens, so let’s do stuff tomorrow. This, this and that.