WHAT ARE THRESHOLDS NOW?
an ongoing research project questioning
in an age that is expected to always be available, productive, responsive and connected, the boundary exists physically, but mentally and digitally it disappears.
"late modernity has transformed freedom into compulsion."
-Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society
treating thresholds as filtering mechanisms, focusing on how information, attention and presence are controlled rather than simply how bodies move through space.
no information experiment.
creating a condition of intentional seperation through the experiment of removing external input for six hours.
later inspiring the idea of thresholds shifting from space to behavior.
after the research and experimentation the project arrives at a central position of thresholds being ACTS of
of filtering
of deciding
of rushing in
of taking your shoes off
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such acts are repetitive, preparatory and embodied.
almost ritualistic in the way that they structure behavior rather than symbolizing any meaning.
in this sense, these ritualistic acts function as thresholds by producing transition through action.
the threshold is no longer simply crossed but it is performed.
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the new threshold must introduce
time, action and attention in order to produce
a real shift.
crossing emerging through the acts.
repetitive, preparatory and embodied acts such as waiting, touching, repeating, counting become mechanisms of crossing.
ordinary acts such as hanging a coat, placing a bag or washing hands become rituals that constuct the threshold.