aupa mattin,
pues justo ibon rodriguez y yo vamos a hacer una girilla
por el estado
islamico e irak en noviembre, a ver si nos coincide y nos
pasamos!
aitorR
El 2014-10-22 12:46 PM, mat...@mattin.org escribió:
> 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 AlienationÂ’s 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
donÂ’t 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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