2. LOOK AND FIND CHRIS

 

I WILL LOOK FOR AND FIND CHRIS.

AFTER OUR MEETING IN SEPTEMBER, I WANT TO TALK MORE. I INTEND TO DO SO USING ‘LOST’ STYLE POSTERS AROUND THE CITY WITH A CONTACT NUMBER.

 

I met a homeless man in September. He introduced himself as a war veteran suffering with PTSD and read me poetry. It was only later he told me his name; Chris. Chris was explicit in his expression of a sole desire for conversation over money or food, which in turn forced me to consider our daily opportunities for conversation.

Interested in the public space and our means of communication within in it, I chose to litter posters around Plymouth city in an attempt to reconnect.

Prompted by a close reading of Nicholas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics (1998), and thoughts of technologies effect on society, I was keen to test the potential of dwindling and possibly outdated communication tools. Here, I have attempted to open-up communication zones and bridge the gap between efficient ‘communication super highways’ presented by technology, and new and chance encounter opportunities.  

Although, I have not yet found Chris, others have found me.

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