Lantian Xie & Sabih Ahmed: Mass Traffic

Text by Lantian Xie, Sabih Ahmed, Deepak Unnikrishnan, Nabarun Bhattacharya, Supriya Chaudhuri, Santhosh S, Kabelo Malatsie, Aarushi Surana, Aasma Tulika, Kaushal Sapre, Alla Semenovskaya, Hala Ali, et al.



Mass Traffic is a kino-political theory of the 21st century. From political fictions to statistical abstractions, the book renders motion as a theoria complex. Concepts take the shape of brawl clouds and images surge as high-heat crispy formulations, reading the contemporary world through exponentiality and exuberance. Congestions of bureaucratic procedures meet the traffic of indeterminate actions-singing, swerving and dispersing across chapters on: organs; culture; the archive Infra-habibi-technics; the exhibitionary supply chain. Lantian Xie is an artist mobilising images, objects, things, things that happen, formulations, swerves, jumps, books, working groups, jazz bands, motorcycles, and parties. Sabih Ahmed is a curator moving between exhibitions, infra-/para-/axial-institutional appearances, archives, pedagogy, and theorisation.