Cameron Hadley

guided audio tour of print work
sound compositions, print, interviews

 

The concepts of time, space, motion and counter cultures, relate to the Writings of Sarah Sharma’s “In the Meantime.” Who is allowed to use a space, why are they included or excluded? An aspect of “In the Meantime” that we spoke about in class is how one’s perspective and ideologies of how to conduct one’s self in public spaces are different for different people, the use of space we occupy is judged using these learned ideologies. Who is allowed to use certain spaces, for what reasons, why do people reject the use of space for certain activities? In the writing Sharma examines the rejection of homeless people by people who are not in the same lived experience. Sharma states, “...there is public outcry over the supposed nuisance of these “un-desirables” sleeping on trains while others are trying to “get to work.” = When migrant workers are asleep on the E train, they do not signify a hard day or night of work. They signal a life lived outside acceptable and normalized modes of being productive.” (pg.144) In our society people often have a stigma against displaced persons that occupy public spaces, they are seen as a disturbance or not fully cognizant because they are not adhering to the normal temporal labor timelines. Similarly, skateboarders use public spaces in ways that it isn’t originally intended for and are often pushed away from the public spaces because it is seen as a disturbance.