Health and Wealth as a process continues through the portrait
of the human subject as an exchange resource.

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', gateways through which subjects are incrementally tracked easily through their data trails. These processes are normalised by situating themselves in ‘pre-conscious’ informational reality - virtual reality - preceding individual choice. Such microprocesses now accumulate and proliferate within civil processes where they retain their virtuality though frequently rupturing to the surface in localised situations. The ruptures expose the new environment mediated by virtual and real economies and the abstract distances between individual subjects in new forms of exchange. In these spaces of exchange, the physical body nonetheless becomes the 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 gathered in form through a lottery syndicate.
The same processes are extrapolated to create a new structure or container
to reproduces the syndicate (as a collective body) for new operations. 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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