Muy buenas,
Por si coincide que estais en Berlin o en Beirut en los proximos dias,
teneis tiempo libre y ganas de entretenimieto distendido y alegre os informo
de unos eventos muy bonitos.
Este sabado Johnny Chang va a realizar una intruccion que me pidieron
Rubén Patiño y Morten J Olsen cuando estuvieron aqui en Beirut hace un para
de semanas:
25.10.14 - Mattin "for Johnny Chang" -
Del Rex (Berlin-Neukolln)
Ringbahnstr. 29
Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
+49 30 00000000
Y aqui os paso tres la informacion de tres eventos en Beirut (ya lo siento esta
en ingles):
On Alienation:
3 events in Beirut 5,6 and 7 November 2014
5th of November, Wednesday
7pm AUB Gallery, Beirut
Ray Brassier & Mattin
Non-idiomatic Improvisation
Guitar and drums
6th of November, Thursday
Mattin in collaboration with...
7pm, 98weeks @ The Mansion
http://mansion-blatt.blogspot.com/
On Alienation is a doctoral research in different chapters and formats on the
concept of alienation.
For each chapter, Mattin does a performance in which abstract, theoretical
ideas are explored in a
concrete situation. Mattin is interested in collapsing scientific experiment
and experimental music,
and in reconsidering the correlation between cause and effect when particular
factors and concepts
are manipulated in real life.
On Alienations first performance is hosted by 98weeks, and will take place at
the Mansion on
November 6th at 7pm.
The following day, Mattin will present his theoretical research in conjunction
with an account of
the performance realized the night before.
7th of November, Friday
On Alienation talk
2pm, Art History Department, AUB, 


The concept of alienation is both intrinsic to the development of modernity
and closely connected
to aesthetics. For Schiller, the fragmentation of the individual in mechanized
modern society causes
humans to lose their natural wholeness; only through aesthetics and playfulness
in particular, could
this wholeness be recovered. For Hegel's dialectical thinking, the notion of
alienation is central
as it is the manifestation of mediation, a process that is constitutive of
human self-consciousness.
For Marx, alienation happens in capitalism when the worker objectifies her
activity in exchange for
a wage. Today, neuroscience is showing us a different type of mystification: it
exposes our
spontaneous beliefs about ourselves, and about what it is to be a self, as
illusions. In particular,
the work of Thomas Metzinger shows how the self is a projection generated by
our brains; a
projection which produces what he calls the illusion of transparency. This is
an appearance that
makes us believe that the self is real because we dont have access to the
processes that produces
this illusion. In aesthetics, the notions of alienation, estrangement, and
defamiliarization have
been used specially in modern art, theatre, literature, and cinema in order to
render unfamiliar
that which seems familiar, thereby encouraging us to question mechanisms of
production that appeared
to be natural or neutral. In noise and improvisation -the contexts in which I
work - some of these
techniques have been used before and have obtained powerful results. However,
my contention is that
they have become conventionalized and emptied of their original critical
purchase. This is
particularly the case when they continue to invoke the self as the decisive
agent of freedom. My
research seeks to synthesize the theoretical resources that deal with
alienation in order to develop
new techniques for a contemporary use of alienation in aesthetics, and more
specifically in the
practices of noise and improvisation, a field I work in.
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