Theresia Alamsyah

"Collective Sculptor"

Section MS19, Alison Bartlett

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In this contemporary digital landscape, mobile phones have risen to prominence as a ubiquitous instrument. They embody a significant aesthetic carrier that aligns with Jacques Ranciere's understanding of the distribution of the sensible, by extending human senses, democratizing representation, and enabling individuals to reinterpret and collectively shape what is seen, heard, and felt. They inevitably disrupt traditional hierarchies, serving as a tool for diverse voices to contribute to the informative landscape.

Collective Sculptor is a project that underscores the undeniable significance of mobile phones, highlighting their evolution into new essential organs that allow seamless capture and sharing of one's world from an individual perspective while allowing revelation of the concealed narratives and alternative truths that exist beyond the dominant representation. This fusion of forensic architecture and alternative use of mobile phones heralds a new form of collective information dissemination, stitching together individual perspectives and recasts them into the collective narrative. It unveils concealed histories, challenges the status quo, and empowers the public to access pure and genuine accounts of events. It offers a decentralized platform catering for public access, unfiltered by vested interests.

Collective Sculptor celebrates this synergy as a forceful antidote to the hidden narratives that has too long been accepted in the masses as the oblivious truth, reframing mobile phones as instrument for collective storytelling through multifaceted process and series of perspective layering, ultimately enhancing the agency within the distribution of the sensible.