For ongoing online updates to this project link directly to Tom Müller's World Passport Site: http://www.worldpassport.biz
Tom Múller
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GALERIE DÜSSELDORF
20 October - 13 November
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| The ideology behind Homoglobus is to provoke our sense of national boundaries in an artistic manner. It aims to advocate the human desire to gain experience through travel and to follow the 21st century's impulse for renewal: the transition from Homosapien to Homoglobus. Has the modern human being once again become nomadic? |
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Recipient of The Galerie Düsseldorf / Curtin University School of Art Post Graduate Scholarship for 2000
| The World Passport marks the beginning of a new consciousness. It embodies the notion of "Libertˇ - Egalitˇ - Fratenitˇ" and strives to connect the myriad strands of human diversity. It recognises our individualities within this world: the Individual within the Collective and vice versa. Steeped in the language of bureaucracy and the world of the administrative, it operates to permeate beyond the role of nationalism and uses the platform of art to liberate these confined boundaries that contemporary society imposes on us. The gallery is transformed into a world embassy as the artist takes on the role of world ambassador and issuer of world passports. Hard bound, gold embossed and complete with photo, personal details, serial number and thirty-four numbered pages, each passport allows its holder to become a member of this concept. It has been designed in the hope to achieve the most objective and 'worldly' passport/document. Blue has been chosen as the predominant colour throughout the document because of the colour's vast presence in the world around us - in the lakes, rivers and oceans that connects us and above in the skies that cover us. This piece is a highly detailed, conceptual work available for any individual wanting to acquire one: your own personalised artwork. Application forms will be available for the duration of the exhibition and are always available on the World Passport site: http://www.worldpassport.biz |
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Wanderlust Also available in Yellow, Buff and Black Wanderlust [biographical geography] is a compact travel journal ( limited and signed editions of 100), which allows its owner to document and map his or her journey(s) around the globe. A map is found within the book used to trace the individualÕs path around the globe, similar to a flight path. [The wall piece illustrates the paths of certain individuals.] $99 |
| The Airport Alphabet Table depicts all international airport runways classified in alphabetical order according to their International Air Transport Association abbreviations. Through their geometrically exact shapes, these diagrams naturally form their own language. |
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The Airport Alphabet Map represents all International Airport Runways in their geographically correct location.
The World Passport Map is an intricate piece consisting of a world map with each country's flag found within itÕs current national border.
Link to Tom Müller's World Passport Site: http://www.worldpassport.biz
CONTEXTUALISING THE WORLD PASSPORT > THE ARTIST AS AMBASSADOR OF IDEAS The
world passport is an artistic initiative developed by the artist Tom Mueller.
As a response to an ever-increasing globalisation, the world passport was developed
in order to conceptually deal with the Zeitgeist of our times. The world passport
recognises and respects the origin and culture of each human being in integrating
them to the world. This concept aims to dissolve political and social boundaries
and to encourage global awareness,
Worldly responsibility and environmental lucidity are some of many words that
echo the essence of the world passport,
The physical role of the artist performer forms an integral part of the work.
The artist takes on the role of "World Ambassador' in setting up a [World
Passport Embassy at various locations around the world.
"I would position the WORLD PASSPORT as an antidote to this ridiculous
US or THEM attitude --- there should be no THEM in this world, only US."
Matthew Jesse Jackson Gold, 2001
Link to Tom Müller's World Passport Site: http://www.worldpassport.biz
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