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Health and Wealth is extrapolated as a process with the human individual as a node of exchange:
a portrait of the human subject as an exchange resource.
The organisation of this exchange resource is in the form of a social syndicate.
The individual person today is mapped out by administrative data banks, electronic identity cards, and dynamic data trails unique to each subject : as the unit figure of the global-consumer.
The data maps both describe new social spaces and define new enclosures. In the new social spaces mundane everyday micro-social networks have acquired significance as 'controllers', binary gateways through which subjects are incrementally marked in the filtering processes of data trails.
These processes are normalised by siting themselves in ‘pre-conscious’ informational reality - virtual reality - preceding human choice. Such microprocesses mediated by economic imperatives now accumulate and proliferate within civil processes where they retain their virtuality though frequently rupturing to the surface in localised if geographically distant environments.
The ruptures expose the coordinates of the topography of a new environment
mediated by virtual and real economies and the distances between individual subjects: as constituent subjects, and contingent subjects in the new forms of exchange.
In these spaces of exchange, the physical body has itself become the central landmark in which the human figure of 'bare life' is both the starting point and the vanishing point.
Health and Weath at Belfast - the Space Shuttle in Blackstaff Square - used the National Lottery as a tool to penetrate the subject randomly - to explore the coordinates of the private world of personal hopes and individual values that invisibly saturates public space. These coordinates create the public but a public as Walter Lippmann described that is no more than a phantom subject to processes external to it.
At Blackstaff Square, this public was collated in form through a lottery syndicate.
The same processes are extrapolated to create a new structure or container for a virtual space shuttle
that reproduces the syndicate (as a collective body) for new operations in the financial markets and stock exchanges. The theoretical form of the process as a social system is described in the first essay produced for Space Shuttle Discoveries publication/ ps2 Belfast April 2007
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