Private Domain

		by Rejane Spitz
Curator's Statement: Rejane Spitz's work Private Domain (please, keep off!) displays an ATM with the accents of northern Brazil. Users adopt as an avatar one of several characters from the North and then try to manage the character's money. 


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Father Ezequiel: For many years Father Ezequiel has said mass at Church and organized the parish festivals and processions. He gets along well with the ranchers and helps the small farmers. Even the hired guns confess to Father Ezequiel. In order to get everyone to attend mass, he has even made a deal with God and the Devil.
Josefa: A washerwoman, she wakes up early, fixes the kids' school lunches and goes out with a huge bundle of clean clothes balanced on her head. Her husband is retired, sick and bedridden. Dona Josefa bore 15 children, but four died before the age of one. The children work in the fields, the older girls work as day maids and help out, and the younger girls take care of the little ones.
Dr. Murilo: He's the most popular dentist in the area. He studied in the big city but came back to his hometown to treat his neighbors. Highly educated, he's a real bookworm. He can pull a tooth without making you flinch, and he doesn't charge people who can't pay. 

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		Artist's Statement
This work is about those empty hands that are on the fringe of the Web. It is about those words that cannot be translated, about those emotions that cannot be shared and those meanings that cannot be understood by people from other cultures. It is about the richness of human beings living in their different realities, with their own systems of ideas, concepts, rules and meanings.

Who are you? You possibly do not speak my language, do not share my beliefs, do not look like me. But you may come in if you respect my feelings, my logic and my rules. If not, please keep off! This is a private domain. Information is never public or neutral.



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Rejane Spitz, PUC-RIO, Departmento de Artes, Rua Marques de Sao Vicente, 225 CEP 22453, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, rejane@art.puc-rio.br. 



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