Passport

Three fragments of a passport installed off a wall Macro shot of passport shred Macro shot of passport shred Macro shot of passport shred Macro shot of passport shred Macro shot of passport shred
Medium
Fragments of a cross-cut shredded passport
Date
2023

The passport is built rigid and immalleable — in fixedness failing to describe a broader world. Then all dimensions codified on paper manage to index an implicit value declaration. Sensibilities are made indelible, and innate restriction emerges by limited imagination. The construction is revealed as incommensurable to any pluralistic model of identity. The gesture of the shred then affords the possibility to imagine alternative, by a manufacture of strategic ignorance.

Liam Macann is an emerging arts practitioner with a theoretical focus on the philosophy of technology. Recently graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from UNSW, his research-intensive practice engages with a profusion of disciplines across an agile and experimental body of work.