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FWC MOBILE CAPSULE / at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam / MA fine art programme

In a society in which mobility is praised as a feature of freedom, a mobile device is becoming a living device, an enclosed unit containing comfort, communication and protection infrastructure. The car is no longer just a transportation device, but a mobile office, a mobile home and a mobile communication and entertaining device. It is a manifestation of an object in neoliberal societies, which is based on being "more than" what it is!
The luxurious cruising ships (such as "The World") are floating cities where a dweller is offered a total living environment in which economical conditions are the basic criteria of inclusion/exclusion. To be free doesn't necessary mean to be mobile. Freedom is much more related to the possibility of being away, in conditions regulated by oneself. The more one can pay, the more freedom one can enjoy!?

Mobility . Freedom . Isolation
Mobile Capsule is a mode of isolation, capsularity and exterritoriality related to any kind of mobile situation. It can include means of private or public transportation, but it can also be related to temporary moving dwellings.
Several questions related to the mobility - understood in terms of isolation, capsularity and exterritoriality - will be raised, such as: mobility as ultimate freedom? Mobility vs. connection and mobility as a loss of physical distance?