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Abbi Torrance
| Abbi Torrance makes intricate drawings which explore the primacy of structure or agency in human behaviour. Do individuals act independently or do recurrent patterned systems control the choices available. Control is pervasive. We have learnt from early psychology experiments that we are easily manipulated by authority and even lie to ourselves to fit in with the crowd. In capitalist societies the individual is regarded as a subject endowed with being a self-conscious responsible agent, whose actions can be explained by his or her beliefs and thoughts. This is acquired within the structure of established social practices, which impose on the individual. We are influenced by societies ideologies at an early age through family, school, church, government, media and advertising. Herbert Marceuse said ‘a comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization, a token of technical progress. The uncritical and conformist acceptance of existing norms of structure and behaviour is one-dimensional thinking’. Today, we live our lives to a predetermined formula prescribed by powerful global companies, whose only aim is to make a profit. The government’s neoliberal ideological program seeks to subordinate culture to the imperatives of business. Taking as a starting point the way that large corporations see us as samples, data, markets and demographics, Abbi reuses choreographed formations appropriated from synchronised swimming to highlight the current social landscape. The abstract mappings of social networking diagrams link the formation drawings to each other, in such we are reduced to a pattern. |
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