Ben Christ
Floating, not knowing you’re drowning
Was there ever a chance of me radicalising into right extremism?
The Internet has become a safe haven for letting out one’s negative emotions. Protected by the anonymity of online forums people can freely express their opinions without having to fear backlash. Feeling empowered by the affirming comments and threads on these forums people very easily start to become radicalised. Right extremist groups have realised the potential of this phenomenon and use these dark corners of the internet as a place for recruitment. By louring white men onto ‘white nationalist’ forums they fully submerge them in their ideology. They offer easy solutions to those who seek purpose and a social circle for those who are lonely, to create soldiers for their cause.
Being a German, white cis-man that grew up with the internet there was a constant danger for me, and the men I grew up around, to radicalise into right-extremism as well. This project explores through 3D renderings, photographs, and 3D printed sculptures the topics of isolation, coming of age, and hyper-masculinity which can lead to radicalisation into r
ight-extremism.
I am here; not now
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Why don’t we care more for the place where we used to play as kids?
I have been getting more and more frustrated with the lack of care we as humans give to the forest. Throughout my childhood, I loved to play in the forest and for this project I decided to visit one from a child’s perspective hoping to re-ignite that love. If we started seeing the forest through the eyes of the children we used to be, maybe we would give it more care and make better efforts to preserve it.
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Contact:
christ.ben31@gmail.com
@benchrst
