‘other ways of living’: Celand, 2023

How might permanent nomadism give rise to new states of being?

It is the year 2040, and new laws on nomadism have been passed where home can be anywhere. CELAND is an micronation that claims the Charleston estate as part of its territory. The nation stages and celebrates notions of privacy as the possibility of freedom.

In the future, the boundaries between work and domestic life are no longer clearly defined. And privacy doesn’t mean being alone in a space, it is a critique on the idea of co-inhabiting, and collective dwelling. The existence of micro-society challenge domestication of society; the patriarchal logic of domestic space, and modern neighbourhood ecology.

Using tent as the housing typology, spaces are self-sufficient, shared ownership, liberation from gender roles, blurring the boundaries between private and public, live and work, sleep and eat. The proposal allows people who can’t afford to rent or own a property to be in the state of ‘permanent nomadism’.

Celand documentary, 2023

The documentary takes us on a journey of getting to know a micronation in the future - Celand. The small group of citizen in Celand search to promote their years of artistic creativity into an artistic venture. They seize the importance of personal relationships and private life, through creating an autonomous lifestyle. 

The film takes the form of desktop documentary, to examine, record and captures the reality, through methods of structuring, and organising. Where an image is maintained by the boundaries of the frame, the film is preserving the image into an archive. With first and second chapters speaking about real situations and events, interpreting factual materials around the topic of micronation. While the last chapter introduces unreal elements or fictional situations of Celand.

Medium: film, 1920 x 1080

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