PREDISPOSED
My Life As a Potato Part II
An art installation composed of my 6th grade official portrait for the Secretariat of Public Education Systems, and 37 Idaho potatoes in the typical student group formation. It is through boundaries that identity is created, both at an individual and at an institutional level. These boundaries by which we understand our place within society are largely delineated by the pathways of rational and promiscuous systems of power and socialization which define the difference between the normal and the pathological, the acceptable and the unacceptable, the productive and the obstructive, by laying out quantifiable tables of codified categories and classifications deployed through education, discipline, even everyday practices. What is most important in this is that these systems of power and ordering are so ingrained so as to appear unquestionable. They to a large extent form the lens by which the world is made visible to us.
An art installation composed of my 6th grade official portrait for the Secretariat of Public Education Systems, and 37 Idaho potatoes in the typical student group formation. It is through boundaries that identity is created, both at an individual and at an institutional level. These boundaries by which we understand our place within society are largely delineated by the pathways of rational and promiscuous systems of power and socialization which define the difference between the normal and the pathological, the acceptable and the unacceptable, the productive and the obstructive, by laying out quantifiable tables of codified categories and classifications deployed through education, discipline, even everyday practices. What is most important in this is that these systems of power and ordering are so ingrained so as to appear unquestionable. They to a large extent form the lens by which the world is made visible to us.
