Peter Lambron Wilson aka Hakim Bey, coined the phrase T.A.Z. (Temporary Autonomous Zone) in an essay promoting fuzzy insurrectionism (yes ! A new ism !) carrying the seeds of a philosophy of protest fuelled uprising. The Gpsy’s film couples skiing with T.A.Z. via the intermediary of a poetic, almost oniric, universe. A state of stasis, a « normal life », on stand-by, dancing to the rhythm set by the winter and the snow. A winter during which each session becomes one of these autonomous temporal zones. As a passion and outlet, skiing becomes a means of uniting people on a human scale. However, the decision to take steps to enter an autonomous temporal zone reveals a commitment to wage war on the established order. To quote Mr Bey, this search for freedom is pursued in « an epoch where speed and « merchandise fetishism » have created a tyrannical false unity which tends to blur the individual and confound cultural diversity. (…)This paradox creates « gypsies », psychic travellers motivated by desire and curiosity, superficially loyal wanderers, indifferent to time and place and in search of diversity and adventure ».
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 15:49:16 +0000
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