'We Cannot Decide', Diploma Final Year Project, 2008
Creation of a periodical 'We Cannot Decide', a think-piece magazine featuring news coverage and op-eds on current affairs in a editorial and aesthetic tone that is both documentary-neutral and hyperdramatised at the same time — clashing traditional editorial rigour with curation and a cinematic perspective.
Inspirations were from film ('Sriyana', the work of Adam Curtis), social, urbanist and economic theory, as well as the Situationists, progressive Latin American literature collectives, and the work of Alain Badiou and Michel Foucault.
The presentation was geared towards a fast-paced, bravura-style, with a narrative that touched on the humourous to the disturbing. Meta interventions and techniques were employed as well; some of the pages were die-cut to further hint at certain ideas, and some pages were deliberately missing to disrupt the flow of information, for readers to comprehend that information sources are not always reliable, and as well as the problems/dangers of the transmission of whistleblower-type news — often information and individuals implicated, have their lives endangered.
Promotional posters
Promotional poster featuring "peel-off" censorship stickers that revealed messages below after removal.
Its interactive element was designed to evoke the very act of ethical approach to consumption of information as well as a journalistic ethics: peel off the surface layers and you shall find.
