Traveling and dwelling and dwelling and traveling is an integrated part of contemporary modern life, alternative thinking on people's (dis) engagement with space in everyday life.

Placement and disembededdness, attachment and deterritorialization to place are mutually constituted in terms of space in modernity (Fouclt). Traveling is a metaphor of mobility, displacement, deterritorialization, and border crossing from one place to another. To be grounded in everyday traveling, people continue to construct some sort of boundaries around their places, however permeable. Traveling and dwelling and dwelling and traveling are to reveal, not the functions of the movement/place-based dynamics, but poetics in the production of space. Place is no longer fixed, permanent, constructed, but connected space by traveling as an everyday practice of border cross, making places permeable.

Jakobson says poetics in everyday life is a selection and combination: The selection is produced on the base of equivalence, similarity and dissimilarity, synonymity and antonmity, while the combination, the build up of the sequence, is based on contiguity. The poetic function projects the principle of equivalence from axis of selection onto the axis of combination. Equivalence is prompted to the constitutive device of the sequence.

I want to emphasize that, as people point out, the tearing apart of space away from the place has been identified as a paradigmatic feature of modernity. The way space is s converted into units of places are through the selection and combination of places and we border cross in and through these various places. Time gives a textured sense of a linear sequence. Thus, I call traveling in dwelling/ dwelling in traveling as space poetics in our everyday life. My film wants to convey the textured sense of how one experiences space poetics, through selection, repetition and combination. But what is the principle of equivalence that projects our (somewhat narrow ranged) selection and combination of places? Ideology, perhaps.

 

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