The Jetlag Society
In our world, time and place have been disconnected. A Skype call can take us to the other side of the world. Our screens are filled with images that show us realities and fictions someplace else, some other time. It challenges our minds to the max: how can all these realities be one world? What will teach our brains to make sense of the temporal and spatial relation of all these unconnected events unfolding before our eyes? What will show us that the world right here and now is more real than all the stuff we are bombarded with on our devices?
This desynchronisation of time and space has us in a constant state of jetlag. It is the continuous struggle of keeping up with everything, when actually our mind is never fully aligned with our body anymore.
The Jetlag Society is an enquiry into this unprecedented state of being. Designed as an e-book, it comes in a hard-copy cover. Because we still have that yearning for something tangible, something that is actually right here, right now. Something that will not transform into something else, something that is constant and will last.
Jetlag Society is thus a hybrid, just like us. Just like this time we are living in. An investigation into how technology influences time and space and our synchronization with the world.