Third World: The Bottom Dimension emerges from Massan’s interest in technological, social and economic decentralisation and includes participatory digitaltokens powered by Tezos. These divisions of the world and these terms were based on fictional, human concepts that define and decentre the larger part of the world as ‘periphery’. ‘Third World’ signifies a stratified structure which ‘level’ of the world are you on? How does this relate to access, connection and maintain Western control over market representation and value? I call attention to this structure ‘Third World’ a burden that was given, and itself a fabrication, to allow us to reimagine and rewrite. People are too invested in the idea of systems being something that are impossible to redefine. It’s a critique of a concept that persists in the everyday, more related to our own geographies rather than territories that truly exist. The project is a meta-simulation about warped perspectives and an exercise in terms. ![]() I want to create the experience of walking through possibilities and memories of life and narrative… A work that people can walk inside. Central themes include ancestral knowledge, healing, ecological awareness, transmutation, and agency. Through the lenses of decoloniality, queerness and decentralisation, Third World will challenge us to rethink the ways in which we understand and orient ourselves in the world. It will offer audiences an opportunity to play the game in a communal setting around site-specific set design, sculptures, sounds and films. ![]() Presented at Serpentine North from 23rd June to 22nd October 2023, the exhibition will extend the ideas that have driven the creation and development of the mirroring video game. The project is conceptualised by Brazilian artist Gabriel Massan in collaboration with invited interdisciplinary artists Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Novíssimo Edgar, and vocalist and music producer LYZZA. Serpentine to present, Third World: The Bottom Dimension, an exhibition, a video game and web3 tokens powered by Tezos.
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