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SPACE: Why It Is Weaponized

Personal essay about needing, finding and freeing space

“Ideas, representations or values which do not succeed in making their mark on space, and thus generating (or producing) an appropriate morphology, will lose all pith and become mere signs, resolve themselves into abstract descriptions, or mutate into fantasies.”

— Henri Lefebvre. (1974/91). The Production of Space.
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, p. 416.

“I Need Space”- A multi-screen 3D Performative video portrait of a family in Lockdown, 2021. Produced by DYSPLA.

From the beginning; we learn to associate our place in this world with the space we occupy. Space is hierarchical in this sense, its form, shape, and structure, relate to our active, reactive and apparent power.

… the space thus produced also serves as a tool of thought and of action … in addition to being a means of production, it is also a means of control, and hence of domination, of power.
-Lefebvre, Henri,
The Production of Space, Blackwell, 1991. p. 26.

Space defines independence and agency. It represents who we are and enforces how we think. Space is equal to our access and our privilege. It is our mirror. Space is also a byproduct of capital, both financial and social. It represents our…