"As the cultural critic Erik Davis proposed, we are living in an intensely technologised world, made possible by the ability to 'know' about characteristics of our universe and its forces through science. But this doesn't quell our appetite to appreciate the unknown side of it. Rather the opposite, new technologies, especially those which transcend, break-down and control borders between countries, cities, homes and offices, fuel our appetite for the mystical and magical and the need to speculate about the nature of our world.

The Parallels Almanac is a made mythology that presents such a mystical, speculative interpretation of the world. A world populated by the spirits of omnipresent systems like passport control, money and airliners, where a Maori warrior makes a quest in reaction to the way these immense global architectures have changed his culture and a Cowboy seeks membership with a tribe of Cattle Men.

Located online within a digital almanac, these stories entitled ""Kupe and the Whale"" and “First Entry” are shown through networks of films, audio, photographs, drawings and texts visualizing and re-telling oral histories constructed by the artist. Each component is accessed through graphic maps containing the What, Why and How of this extensive project.
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"As the cultural critic Erik Davis proposed, we are living in an intensely technologised world, made possible by the ability to 'know' about characteristics of our universe and its forces through science. But this doesn't quell our appetite to appreciate the unknown side of it. Rather the opposite, new technologies, especially those which transcend, break-down and control borders between countries, cities, homes and offices, fuel our appetite for the mystical and magical and the need to speculate about the nature of our world.

The Parallels Almanac is a made mythology that presents such a mystical, speculative interpretation of the world. A world populated by the spirits of omnipresent systems like passport control, money and airliners, where a Maori warrior makes a quest in reaction to the way these immense global architectures have changed his culture and a Cowboy seeks membership with a tribe of Cattle Men.

Located online within a digital almanac, these stories entitled ""Kupe and the Whale"" and “First Entry” are shown through networks of films, audio, photographs, drawings and texts visualizing and re-telling oral histories constructed by the artist. Each component is accessed through graphic maps containing the What, Why and How of this extensive project.
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