Video: Primitive tribes in modern subcultures
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Any community of people has its own traditions, rules, rituals and other elements inherent in primitive tribes. It is precisely in the form of primitive tribes that the artist presented representatives of some modern and not very modern subcultures Olaf Breuning.
Any two people, even completely different from each other, have at least something in common. And if there are three or more of them, then this is already a subculture. And subcultures over time tend to turn into strong communities of people with their own rules and rituals.
Moreover, the main elements of these rules: initialization, prescribed behavior, confrontation according to the principle of friend or foe, and so on, were still characteristic of primitive tribes.
So the current subcultures are just compensation for the fact that the modern Western World has lost its tribal structure and clannishness. People themselves recreate their own social model at the genetic level.
The Swiss artist Olaf Browning (already known to us from a series of quite understandable avant-garde sculptures) decided to visually show this tribal nature of modern subcultures through a series of photographs. On them, he presented completely different modern human communities in the form of primitive tribes. This is an ordinary family, and skaters, and tennis players, and role-playing games, and many other addicted people.
Each of these groups has much more in common with primitive tribes than with any other subculture. After all, the basis of social behavior is the basis, and hobby is just a superstructure, on which little depends.
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