In figuring out how to contact the inhabitants of this “alter-culture,” the first thing to acknowledge is that all our questions are wrong, must be wrong by default. All our strategies are worthless because they are innately within our own culture’s frame of reference. It is impossible to contact the alter-culture without completely getting rid of ourselves first. Unless, as we suspect, there exist portals.
Parch Es and Scarlett Kim reenact strategies authored by artists and researchers as well as devise their own methodologies to cut and re-arrange time and other dimensions, in order to identify glitches in our own culture. Using performance, media and conversation, they attempt to find and create portals into the alter-culture.
By Scarlett Kim & Parch Es