compassion, collaboration & cooperation iN transistion
The exhibition was called The Founder’s Paradox, a
name that came from the title of one of the chapters in
Thiel’s 2014 book, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or
How to Build the Future. Together with the long and
intricately detailed catalogue essay Byrt was writing to
accompany it, the show was a reckoning with the future
that Silicon Valley techno-libertarians like Thiel wanted
to build, and with New Zealand’s place in that future.
These were questions I too was eager to reckon with.
Which is to say that I myself was interested – helplessly,
morbidly – in the end of the world, and that I was therefore
interested in New Zealand. And so I decided to go there, to
see for myself the land that Thiel had apparently set aside
for the collapse of civilisation: a place that would become
for me a kind of labyrinth, and whose owner I was already
beginning to mythologise as the monster at its centre.
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