Fatima Mazmouz, Super Oum – Aventureland (2009), Video Still; courtesy the artist
There is a collective consciousness that impacts our language surrounding ideas.
Back in the 1990s it was about the notion of ‘peripatetic’ – that fashionable flow between locations. Then, with the rise of the global refugee crisis words such as detention, disenfranchised, and displaced emerged in our vernacular; and more recently, we have embraced the notion of ‘disruptors’ – the few who push back against systems and silos.
