severally

There are more images than ever before, more than anyone can hope to process in a lifetime, and more still are being generated. 

Yet. 

Have we learnt how to see? 

Planetary upheavals are presumed to require colossal, systematic responses. Desertification thus appears to necessitate global solutions organised by state and extra-state entities, whose need for legibility to efficiently implement measures demand the simplification of complex processes and systems. Separating local and global, knowledge and action, to divide labour and assign roles; a paradoxical assumption that the world is a fundamentally static elsewhere, accessible only through screens and tools, changing as a result of our actions in manners made increasingly predictable through refined models and simulations, yet simultaneously full of exceptions and anomalies, of non-conformities, of outliers. The advancing desert line also is drawn between those responsible for knowledge-making, as scientific understandings and technological capabilities advance, and those who create everything else. This desert frontline needs to be rejected. 

Severally, rather than separately sees a world whose inhabitants are part of multiple territories and realms, geographically, hydrologically, and socially connected. A world that is never reduced to separate parts, passively observable, rather interconnected severally to a living space and in constant flux—one in which to act and to know is one and simultaneous.