2021 | UK, Malaysia | Experimental

PHARMAKOSIS

  • English English 13 mins
  • Director | Sze Lin Pang
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Released

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We live in a world where looking and being looked at has become a kind of currency, where “likes” have literally become income. How can we locate or make space for the radical Other? In PHARMAKOSIS, a series of confrontations at a museum illustrates this exclusive economy of images and illuminates a complex set of permission structures surrounding who is allowed to look and who is not. An articulation of the Pharmakos – the figure in ancient greek religion who was ritually expelled from the polis in the belief that such sacrifice would bring about purification.

Currency Exclusion Gaze Ritual Visibility
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