This project by the artist Paloma Polo is the result of a collective effort which provides a basis for structuring and organising a fiction film that reflects on the possibilities of social change and the difficulties inherent in the exercise of imagining a better future. The artist brings together and proposes a collective and multidisciplinary effort in an attempt to think of and propose new models of social organisation. She seeks to further a practice and alternative thought that can give way to new modes of existence and conceive a post-capitalist society.
The project focuses on a specific programme for economic development in the Philippines, where an area of isolated, unsupervised agricultural land inhabited by poor, oppressed country folk is contrasted with a government programme that promotes this space as a strategic geopolitical enclave. The grotesque disparity between development and despoilment reflects the contradictions of monopolist capital, which also underpins social existence and the contemporary social fabric. The result and conclusions are presented in a publication and a visual art form that includes a film and other related works, in order to capture the comprehensive and experimental dimensions of the project under the title Unrest.
The project focuses on a specific programme for economic development in the Philippines, where an area of isolated, unsupervised agricultural land inhabited by poor, oppressed country folk is contrasted with a government programme that promotes this space as a strategic geopolitical enclave. The grotesque disparity between development and despoilment reflects the contradictions of monopolist capital, which also underpins social existence and the contemporary social fabric. The result and conclusions are presented in a publication and a visual art form that includes a film and other related works, in order to capture the comprehensive and experimental dimensions of the project under the title Unrest.
