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The Syncope
Each person鈥檚 life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came before. Svetlana Boym, the acclaimed critic takes Nabokov鈥檚 word Syncope to describe immigration in 鈥淪peak, Memory鈥�.
The word means a change of rhythm in music or a brief loss of consciousness in life. It is the gap between lives. This show chooses to focus on immigrants/migrants experience of time and place that is experienced as a break or the Syncope as Nabokov puts it.
Evidently, this zone of discontinuity is unsettling. The 鈥済ap in between lives鈥� sets a challenge for the immigrants as they are compelled to find a new sense of belonging and preserve personal identity which often times is conflicting. For some Syncope represents resistance to the oppressive stereotypes of the dominant culture and the need to find a safe space in the new surroundings. For others, it is an emptiness caused by disintegration from their cultural environment.
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Each person鈥檚 life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came before. Svetlana Boym, the acclaimed critic takes Nabokov鈥檚 word Syncope to describe immigration in 鈥淪peak, Memory鈥�.
The word means a change of rhythm in music or a brief loss of consciousness in life. It is the gap between lives. This show chooses to focus on immigrants/migrants experience of time and place that is experienced as a break or the Syncope as Nabokov puts it.
Evidently, this zone of discontinuity is unsettling. The 鈥済ap in between lives鈥� sets a challenge for the immigrants as they are compelled to find a new sense of belonging and preserve personal identity which often times is conflicting. For some Syncope represents resistance to the oppressive stereotypes of the dominant culture and the need to find a safe space in the new surroundings. For others, it is an emptiness caused by disintegration from their cultural environment.
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