Lads and Lasers -> Packaging the Crowd for fear of the Mob.
Crowds – commuting crowds, raving crowds, protesting crowds, angry crowds, happy crowds, large crowds, small crowds, flocks, herds, clumps, “we”. Over the course of FMP I have become obsessed by crowds and in particular the way in which they are controlled, regulated and minimised in everyday life whether that be through architecture, law or language. We are systematically being packed, packaged, sealed and sterilised into polite, containable, socially acceptable crowds (unemotional, sterile, inhuman) – crowds that don’t threaten the idea of a mob.
For my final piece I created a large (A0) publication that is communicating a warning – “crowds are being packaged”. However, within my publication this warning is disrupted; slowly disappearing between larger and larger pages simply state the word “Mob”.
The ruling classes fear of the mob is so overwhelming that it influences almost all ways in which crowds are allowed to exist in the modern world. Sometimes this influence is so ingrained into society that it is hard to even notice it.
When did “we” become antisocial behaviour?
When does “you” become “we”?
Crowds- threatening the air of a mob, they seek to keep us-
Confined,
Small,
Unemotional,
Live in a box, die in a coffin,
Complicity.
When did “we” become antisocial behaviour?