Re: [-empyre-] reclaiming
Just sharing a project that may be related to all that Pablo has explained about Fukushima: http://www.indiegogo.com/WEAREALLRADIOACTIVE *We Are All Radioactive* is an innovative experiment in online filmmaking that integrates storytelling, fundraising, and awareness-raising. I'm thinking on how this communication tools can be (or not) helpful to get people aware of the situation and create new resistance/resilient/recalcitrant/reclaiming movements. Any thoughts? Ethel --- Ethel Baraona Pohl | dpr-barcelona http://www.dpr-barcelona.com/ twitter @ethel_baraona https://twitter.com/ethel_baraona | about.mehttp://about.me/ethel_baraona ethel.bara...@gmail.com (+34) 626 048 684 *Before you print think about the environment* On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote: Pablo, great map, thanks for sharing it! And I think it should be great if you wrote something about your book and your project Situation Room, a really collective book :) with my foreword and edited by Ethel's publishing house DPR! It was a book preceding your stay in Japan and your work with the nuclear... Ana On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Pablo de Soto pablodes...@gmail.comwrote: hola Ricardo et all last year we did an of incomplete map of student actions in Europe: http://hackitectura.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/B-side.jpg the idea was to visualize the highlighs and most creative students actions from book block to the temporary squatting of very iconic monuments we did not have time (it was a 3 days workhop) or the enough network capacity to make the global map, including the very intense squatting actions in America all along from California to Chile best pablo El 6 de marzo de 2012 15:24, rrdominguez2 rrdoming...@ucsd.eduescribió: Hola all, While I can appreciate the exit culture of performing recalcitrance, which at least for me recalls Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-street with his mantra of I would prefer not to - the urban capabilities that enable those who are less powerful to reroute around the recalcitrance of those in power to change or delete themselves - is connected to another R word (we seem to be enjoying the impulse of alliteration): reclaiming. Performing reclamation of spaces that dislocate and add to the entanglements of recalcitrance, resilience, resistance has been an important trajectory for recoding the flows between the country side and the urbanscape - specifically for me the gestures of the Zapatistas, since 1994, to reclaim land and the city as an intercontinental process. In fact they enact the reclaiming the planet as a whole. Here at UCSD students, labor, and faculty have been performing the reclamation of spaces that the UC system says it can no longer afford - libraries and student study areas in the last couple of years. At this moment the UCSD Chancellor space has been reclaimed as well. As a study area for students. By reclaiming space, and time (study-time), as not being an occupation shifted the response by the UCSD police and the Administration. To what degree then can urban capabilities function as sites for reclaiming what has been condemned into less than ruins by the violence of financial weapon for the Forth World War (as the Zapatistas like to say) by not only staying in the city - but reaching out beyond its walls of the smart city to the even smarter site of country where recalcitrance, resilience, resistance has been developing as well and perhaps even longer - as networks to reclaim the ruins of system yet to be built. http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/jessica-davies/2010/02/zapatistas-reclaim-mother-earth http://reclaimucsd.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/statement-of-intentions/ Thousands of students and activists marched on the state Capitol on Monday http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-protest-20120306,0,718441.story My very best to all, Ricardo Domingue http://bang.calit2.net On 3/5/12 9:07 PM, Ana Valdés wrote: There are many of you who named Olav Westphalen and his research at Mejan, Kungliga Högskolan i Stockholm, the Royal Academy for Fine Arts, here comes the invitation for a seminar about it. A pity I am not in Stockholm now. Ana Welcome to *Performing Recalcitrance,* a week-long public programme taking place at Kungl. Konsthögskolan | Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm between March 24 and March 30, 2012. *Performing Recalcitrance* comprises performances, lectures and workshops. It serves as the public culmination of a thematic cluster of courses and academic events around recalcitrance, which are being held throughout the academic year at Kungl. Konsthögskolan | Royal Institute of Art. But it is also its own symposium, festival and meeting point for discussion. While resistance and revolt are commonly employed as positive terms, recalcitrance has overwhelmingly negative connotations. The current
Re: [-empyre-] reclaiming
Thanks Ethel for sharing it, very interesting! By the way the new forms of grassroots fundraising are very imaginative and I think they are changing the ways Art and other forms of cultural production are working. Instead of relying in states we rely on our own networks. An autogestionated culture? Ana On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Ethel Baraona Pohl ethel.bara...@gmail.com wrote: Just sharing a project that may be related to all that Pablo has explained about Fukushima: http://www.indiegogo.com/WEAREALLRADIOACTIVE *We Are All Radioactive* is an innovative experiment in online filmmaking that integrates storytelling, fundraising, and awareness-raising. I'm thinking on how this communication tools can be (or not) helpful to get people aware of the situation and create new resistance/resilient/recalcitrant/reclaiming movements. Any thoughts? Ethel --- Ethel Baraona Pohl | dpr-barcelona http://www.dpr-barcelona.com/ twitter @ethel_baraona https://twitter.com/ethel_baraona47 | about.mehttp://about.me/ethel_baraona ethel.bara...@gmail.com (+34) 626 048 684 *Before you print think about the environment* On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote: Pablo, great map, thanks for sharing it! And I think it should be great if you wrote something about your book and your project Situation Room, a really collective book :) with my foreword and edited by Ethel's publishing house DPR! It was a book preceding your stay in Japan and your work with the nuclear... Ana On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Pablo de Soto pablodes...@gmail.comwrote: hola Ricardo et all last year we did an of incomplete map of student actions in Europe: http://hackitectura.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/B-side.jpg the idea was to visualize the highlighs and most creative students actions from book block to the temporary squatting of very iconic monuments we did not have time (it was a 3 days workhop) or the enough network capacity to make the global map, including the very intense squatting actions in America all along from California to Chile best pablo El 6 de marzo de 2012 15:24, rrdominguez2 rrdoming...@ucsd.eduescribió: Hola all, While I can appreciate the exit culture of performing recalcitrance, which at least for me recalls Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-street with his mantra of I would prefer not to - the urban capabilities that enable those who are less powerful to reroute around the recalcitrance of those in power to change or delete themselves - is connected to another R word (we seem to be enjoying the impulse of alliteration): reclaiming. Performing reclamation of spaces that dislocate and add to the entanglements of recalcitrance, resilience, resistance has been an important trajectory for recoding the flows between the country side and the urbanscape - specifically for me the gestures of the Zapatistas, since 1994, to reclaim land and the city as an intercontinental process. In fact they enact the reclaiming the planet as a whole. Here at UCSD students, labor, and faculty have been performing the reclamation of spaces that the UC system says it can no longer afford - libraries and student study areas in the last couple of years. At this moment the UCSD Chancellor space has been reclaimed as well. As a study area for students. By reclaiming space, and time (study-time), as not being an occupation shifted the response by the UCSD police and the Administration. To what degree then can urban capabilities function as sites for reclaiming what has been condemned into less than ruins by the violence of financial weapon for the Forth World War (as the Zapatistas like to say) by not only staying in the city - but reaching out beyond its walls of the smart city to the even smarter site of country where recalcitrance, resilience, resistance has been developing as well and perhaps even longer - as networks to reclaim the ruins of system yet to be built. http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/jessica-davies/2010/02/zapatistas-reclaim-mother-earth http://reclaimucsd.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/statement-of-intentions/ Thousands of students and activists marched on the state Capitol on Monday http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-protest-20120306,0,718441.story My very best to all, Ricardo Domingue http://bang.calit2.net On 3/5/12 9:07 PM, Ana Valdés wrote: There are many of you who named Olav Westphalen and his research at Mejan, Kungliga Högskolan i Stockholm, the Royal Academy for Fine Arts, here comes the invitation for a seminar about it. A pity I am not in Stockholm now. Ana Welcome to *Performing Recalcitrance,* a week-long public programme taking place at Kungl. Konsthögskolan | Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm between March 24 and March 30, 2012. *Performing Recalcitrance* comprises performances, lectures and workshops. It serves as the public
Re: [-empyre-] re/claiming and unsettling / continuing artistic practices
dear all thanks for all the postings herel I was intrigued to read the conceptual (theoretical) notions offered, perhaps as a form of political thought or analysis, alongside the reports from the activist fronts and resiliences, and here i especially found it helpful to hear of movements allowing us to imagine the urban contexts to be also, possibly, in strategic dependence politically on the non urban (the regions and hinterlands). So, thinking less of 'swarm' logics and emergences, and more of grown/rooted resiliences and how they are/were tactics of the past. kamen argues: This notion - of retreat, of losing the centre - is something I'm researching right now in terms of art practice could you elaborate on that, and your proposition that citizens produce public space, perhaps also in response to Alan Sondheim;s justified skepticism, and his mentioning of the resilient governing forces? I was also trying to think of Aristide Antonas speaking about the situation in Greece (Athens, he suggests, is emblematic for the future - why?) , and wanting to hear more from Leandro about how he values the rural based Sin Tierra movement in Brazil (i remember them occupying a huge strip of space going down the hill towards the government sector in Brasilia, i remember the red earth or sand where they had camped). So many different locations were mentioned, in these past days, the struggles seem always local, and how to you compare Fukushima and, say, the Organizing for Occupation (O4O) movement to protest foreclosures of houses auctioned off in Queen, New York? [cf. Gary Younge, The Itinerant Left has found its home in Occupy, 27 Feb 2012, Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/26/us-left-home-occupy-middle-america]. Does it however require, as Zizek maintains, to think in totalities? (and to assume neoliberal global capitalism to be one such totality unavoidably present and powerful?) I am going to try tomorrow to report on a discussion we had in London last week when Slavoj Zizek came for a talk on The Deadlock – Crisis, Transition, Transformation: Revolutionary Thought Today, and his analysis of the OCCUPY movements was not encouraging (suggesting that 2011 was the year of the revival of radical politics, in its emancipatory form [OWS, Arab Spring, mass protests in Europe] as well as in its reactionary form [Hungary, Scandinavian countries, etc.]., Zizek hinted that, however, the very massive visibility of these protests does bear witness to a frustrating deadlock -- what do the protesters effectively want? Do they contain a vision which reaches beyond moralistic rage?). I am unable to say anything yet, have conflicted feelings and am trying to understand what networking means now; I was in Yamaguchi, Japan, last week for a workshop; and my friends in Tokyo, who had been much worried about the fall out from Fukushima, tell me that the status of Japanese society has been changing completely. It is said that Mt. Fuji will be active; and very interestingly, after the disaster last year, the leading companies move their head office to Osaka. For example, Panasonic has moved their head office to Osaka and their procurement department has moved into Singapore ! Thus, even in performing arts, we hope to construct huge networks all over the world (not limited in internal Japan). I participated in such a networked project last week, but it was not activist or politicized, and thus unrelated to resilience, resistance, recalcitrance. It had an artistic side and an educational outreach side (to communities children), but there was not a single reference to politics in four days. regards Johannes Birringer dap lab ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
Re: [-empyre-] re/claiming and unsettling / continuing artistic practices
El 07/03/12 15:34, Johannes Birringer escribió: dear all thanks for all the postings herel I was intrigued to read the conceptual (theoretical) notions offered, perhaps as a form of political thought or analysis, alongside the reports from the activist fronts and resiliences, and here i especially found it helpful to hear of movements allowing us to imagine the urban contexts to be also, possibly, in strategic dependence politically on the non urban (the regions and hinterlands). So, thinking less of 'swarm' logics and emergences, and more of grown/rooted resiliences and how they are/were tactics of the past. kamen argues: This notion - of retreat, of losing the centre - is something I'm researching right now in terms of art practice could you elaborate on that, and your proposition that citizens produce public space, perhaps also in response to Alan Sondheim;s justified skepticism, and his mentioning of the resilient governing forces? I was also trying to think of Aristide Antonas speaking about the situation in Greece (Athens, he suggests, is emblematic for the future - why?) , and wanting to hear more from Leandro about how he values the rural based Sin Tierra movement in Brazil (i remember them occupying a huge strip of space going down the hill towards the government sector in Brasilia, i remember the red earth or sand where they had camped). So many different locations were mentioned, in these past days, the struggles seem always local, and how to you compare Fukushima and, say, the Organizing for Occupation (O4O) movement to protest foreclosures of houses auctioned off in Queen, New York? [cf. Gary Younge, The Itinerant Left has found its home in Occupy, 27 Feb 2012, Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/26/us-left-home-occupy-middle-america]. Does it however require, as Zizek maintains, to think in totalities? (and to assume neoliberal global capitalism to be one such totality unavoidably present and powerful?) I am going to try tomorrow to report on a discussion we had in London last week when Slavoj Zizek came for a talk on The Deadlock – Crisis, Transition, Transformation: Revolutionary Thought Today, and his analysis of the OCCUPY movements was not encouraging (suggesting that 2011 was the year of the revival of radical politics, in its emancipatory form [OWS, Arab Spring, mass protests in Europe] as well as in its reactionary form [Hungary, Scandinavian countries, etc.]., Zizek hinted that, however, the very massive visibility of these protests does bear witness to a frustrating deadlock -- what do the protesters effectively want? Do they contain a vision which reaches beyond moralistic rage?). I am unable to say anything yet, have conflicted feelings and am trying to understand what networking means now; I was in Yamaguchi, Japan, last week for a workshop; and my friends in Tokyo, who had been much worried about the fall out from Fukushima, tell me that the status of Japanese society has been changing completely. since 60s and early 70s activism in Japan was very little, mainy because massive students movement finished very badly at internal level (united red army killings) and externally (huge repression by state police) and because of Fukushima more japanese people is becoming to engage in politics... It is said that Mt. Fuji will be active; and very interestingly, after the disaster last year, the leading companies move their head office to Osaka. For example, Panasonic has moved their head office to Osaka and their procurement department has moved into Singapore ! yes, and factories that were destroyed by tsunami are relocating to Vietnam and Thailand... so corporations will cut workers expenses, it said is gonna be a quite big change for japanese productive economy it s a typical corporate movement after a disaster, the ones that N. Klein explained in the Shock Doctrine about the previous big tsunami in Asia Thus, even in performing arts, we hope to construct huge networks all over the world (not limited in internal Japan). I participated in such a networked project last week, but it was not activist or politicized, and thus unrelated to resilience, resistance, recalcitrance. It had an artistic side and an educational outreach side (to communities children), but there was not a single reference to politics in four days. sure, I have been 3 months in an art center in Tokyo with the same -no very much- political feedbak by artists but there a few very political and active in town you can see their work from page 42: http://es.scribd.com/doc/81789987/NuclearPowerPlants-RadicalArt best pablo ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
