Colonel & Khaled D. Ramadan
In the debate on expatriatism, nation-states most fear the satellite dish and the Internet—in other words, any facility aiding the construction of a “virtual identity. “This concept of virtual identity is the focus of the multimedia project cast by the artists Colonel (Thierry Geoffroy) and Khaled D.Ramadan.
The project presents the way in which expatriates become
the “authors” of their own identity and the processes by which they constantly
draft and redraft themselves in virtual/personal logic. Much of the literature
on expatriate identity focuses on the construction of so-called false
identities and the notion of identity swapping. read
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