Dance-driven: Jaamil Olawale Kosoko: The CLOG

Story featured at The City Paper CLOG, June 3, 2009
 

There are quite a few ideas that drive the creation of VIRUS: technology addiction, social economic crisis, and the multitude of viral pandemics that have swept the world within the last 30 years. But I'm focusing my lens on asking the question, what does it mean to be living on Earth in the aftermath of all this? Our 21st-century culture is obsessed with discovering new ways to sever distance to become closer. But it seems as if the reverse is happening. People of my generation are unlearning how to communicate and express themselves. We all walk around entranced by iPods, cell phones and laptops, reaching for those far away, but we cannot connect with the people right here in front of us.