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In The Tribe series I used objects in a different way, they were symbolic
representations of different groups of the tribe from the first moment.
Together with the clementine, used as offerings to the Silverbird, these
objects were placed in the temple. A young person found a mobile phone on
the field after the man in the sunglasses, who offered the tribe a deal, left
the island. We watched four individual improvisations in the temple using
the objects. The question about whether to accept the deal was in the air,
objects and images that represented the community were in the space and so
was the mobile phone, an object that the young person was not able to use in
the fiction. As screenshots® show the participants combined the objects in
a variety of ways. Some actions were reflected on by the focus group.
P1: When Tomi pointed that stick on the mobile.
T: That moment really stuck with you?
P2: I thought he was going to sacrifice the telephone, or something.
P1: He wants to break it up, then maybe he can find a trail. Or maybe he’s afraid
of it; it is really dangerous. I think it’s a very dangerous object and that’s why he
was doing it.
P2: It can turn into a danger, because it might call the guy in the sunglasses and he
can find out things that can put the tribe in danger. [...]
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