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A story: Yesterday, I was at work. I was packing the shopping of Lady XXX. She remarked on the neatness & speed of my packing skills. I replied that these skills were the product of five years worth of specialist arts education. She found this difficult to believe. I responded that not only did I have a first-class honours degree in fine art and a twelve year old daughter to support as a single parent, but that I also combined my work as a supermarket checkout girl with the organisation of an Arts Council Grant that had to pay a large number of artists and supply time & money for a book research project for myself & my co-cultural workers. Lady XXX looked like she was going to cry. I said, Don't be sad, I am really happy with the way my life is. She responded that she found it hard to accept that what I was telling her was true. DIGITALIS 2004
'We are subtly schooled to feel that to possess is to capture power; indeed that possessions are the source of power. The greatest danger to consumer capitalism is the possibility that people... will decide that they have more or less everything they need.' Clive Hamilton, Growth Fetish.
DIGITALIS hopes that you enjoy the work of IRIS.