What Really Goes on in Room 101
George Orwell. 1984. Room 101. Inside it lays your greatest fear or phobia, brainwashing to ensure your complete acceptance, ridding you of all doubt.
Room 101 exists today in a different context. As a group on Facebook, it contains raw talent and pure artistic outlet for a community of creatives. By baring their souls and exposing their creations, they are in a way dealing with judgment phobia (which is an artist’s basic great fear) of bringing their works to light. Tony Khoueiry, founder of the concept, loved the idea of a room used to change minds, regardless of the original methods. Anyone can upload pictures or scans of their work and share comments, thoughts and feedback.
Room 101 does change our minds. It makes us realize the amount of brilliant art hidden and buried in various places that never see the light. It touches us emotionally and inspires all of us. We can all forget the prejudices, expectations and prior knowledge and just purely experience passion.
Check out the room HERE (the work will move you I promise!)
May 20th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
amazing work! best lebanese talent!
May 20th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
wow, i just finished reading the book! what a coincidence and what a great idea for a creative space! how i read/interpreted it, room101 was your worst fear although i do see how that is just a means to change your mind.
it still gives me the shivers though. way to take an ugly thing and make it inspiring.
everyone knows whats in room 101 he says
May 21st, 2009 at 1:23 am
Some truly inspiring work there…
Thank you Hala for digging all this out for everyone to see. Brava!
May 24th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
“It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same–everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another’s existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same–people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.”
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 10
June 11th, 2009 at 9:23 am
Thanks for the useful info. It’s so interesting