Tower (Easy)
2024
Can online spaces be tools for both isolation and its cure? As offline LAN parties were not primarily about the game itself, but the experience of the community, memes mainly operating with humour can also carry messages of support and affirmation – being an organic part of some (often dominantly masculine) digital subcultures. The “WAGMI / We’re All Gonna Make It” meme is an example of such, it stems from 4chan’s fitness board and is generally used to show comradery and as a motivation to keep going in life.
Tower is an installation built of stainless steel parts, with a WiFi router on its top. The router hosts a public WiFi network named “we’re all gonna make it brah”, without internet access.
Photos 1–2. by Noémi Szécsi.
exhibited at
- 2024, Lament, group exhibition, art quarter budapest (HU)