Re: [-empyre-] COVID 19 Movement III: Presto

2020-04-29 Thread Christina McPhee
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Patty—you inspire a presto search for that sonata Writing about this grief and torment is far from easy - thank you for three powerful movements and moments A grateful reader, C On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 8:17 AM Patricia Zimmermann

Re: [-empyre-] Bio-Fascism: Eclipse of the Social /Decline of Politics -- question marks

2020-04-24 Thread Christina McPhee
--empyre- soft-skinned space--> > dear Johannes and all, > > Thanks so much for your queries about my Shapeshifters drawings. I > apologize, I've been away designing a book for days on end and nearly > disappeared into the computer. > > The works Johannes is

[-empyre-] from the book of questions in honor of passover in the time of plague

2020-04-08 Thread Christina McPhee
--empyre- soft-skinned space--"Do we have a tale here? " "My story has been told so many times." "What is your story?" "Ours, insofar as it is absent." "I do not understand." "Speaking tortures me." "Where are you?" "In what I say." "What is your truth?" "What lacerates

Re: [-empyre-] rehearsal of a network - [week 2]

2018-06-15 Thread Christina McPhee
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Audrey and Francisco of FRAUD- How great to have the chance to bring this intervention on lichen, the incalculable /-financialization abstractions, and forest culture into the heart of London at Somerset House. Please could you

Re: [-empyre-] Introduction

2018-06-08 Thread Christina McPhee
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Reading about Mai-ling’s architectural design work in the Liverpool Biennial suddenly reminds me of some superb and whimsical mycelium furniture by DEZEEN - by chance encountered at the London Design Week show at Somerset House last

Re: [-empyre-] In memory of Marilouise Kroker 1943-2018

2018-06-02 Thread Christina McPhee
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi — Marilouiae and Arthur were amazing out of the blue editors and publishers of my artist writings on CTheory and in two subsequent edited books of new media artists’ — theorists’ collected essays - I’m sure you all treasure them too.

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane

2018-02-06 Thread Christina McPhee
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks, Renate, for the comments around the aesthetics of early days -empyre- and the quote in which I compare -empyre- to an Ant Farm inflatable! When I started moderating in 2002, I sometimes posted as Christina McPhee and sometimes

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to Week 2 on Contamination

2017-11-16 Thread Christina McPhee
ing >> them back into the environment as a final intervention. The simplified >> prompt I gave to these 1st year art students prompted engaging discussions >> about health and safety, politics, the environment, language, truth, and >> more not to mention to

[-empyre-] Coda: Carolyn Castaño

2016-08-12 Thread Christina McPhee
eo.com/41060029 “ http://lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2016-July/009209.html ---- Christina McPhee naxsm...@mac.com http://christinamcphee.net ___ empy

Re: [-empyre-] Camera Obscura

2016-07-27 Thread Christina McPhee
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Johanna, Thank you for this provocative suggestion, so strong I just want to highlight it for emphasis, as this is something we can do. You write, "I would suggest that we explore our engagement with the camera obscura as a way to

Re: [-empyre-] Camera Obscura

2016-07-27 Thread Christina McPhee
light work as a medium for ‘nomadic collective identities”— in the context of the Camera Obscura…. or is it too soon to tell ? my best Christina Christina McPhee naxsm...@mac.com http://christinamcphee.net > On Jul 27, 2016, at 5:49 AM, Cortez, Beatriz <beatriz.cor...

Re: [-empyre-] Post #3 After critique and the politics of capta

2016-07-21 Thread Christina McPhee
that representationalism supports--that a world can be known in some stable way.” — Drucker’s challenge causes me to ask what element in this semiosis is ‘stable’. I think, perhaps that she is onto something when she asks, in another post about enunciation and voicing. Christina Ch

Re: [-empyre-] visualization between art and anthropology

2016-07-09 Thread Christina McPhee
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Fiamma, thanks! In your work in Tijuana, you undertook to visualize some structural power differentials -- right? -- in the aftermath of artist-cultural interventions and programming by the project group InSite? In the mid-oughts ? Did

Re: [-empyre-] : Across borders and networks: migrants, asylum seekers, or refugee?

2016-02-16 Thread Christina McPhee
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Re: wanting to be thinking on these topologies, freedom *and* survival, repression *and* production, I did, again last summer, during the first wave of the Syrian refugees, and came upon a figure like this: “Asylum”

Re: [-empyre-] detention vs movement violence (kinopolitics and Femicide)

2016-02-12 Thread Christina McPhee
fronteriza para inmigrantes: http://ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=744 > <http://ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=744> ). > > Abrazos, Ricardo > > On 2/11/16 4:50 PM, Christina McPhee wrote: >> --empyre- soft-skinned space-- >> Speaking of mov

Re: [-empyre-] detention vs movement violence (kinopolitics and Femicide)

2016-02-11 Thread Christina McPhee
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Speaking of movement violence and femicide strongly brings to mind the artist and writer Etel Adnan’s sublime novel (1973), “Sitt Marie Rose.” Set during the Lebanese Civil War and based on a true story, Sitt Marie Rose follows the

Re: [-empyre-] detention vs movement violence

2016-02-10 Thread Christina McPhee
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- The Cherokee people were forced to walk from their home in the southern Appalachians to the plains of Oklahoma (pre-state “Indian Territory”) in the 1830s. Here is the question of language: what is it to speak of and to recover language

Re: [-empyre-] Introducing Christina McPhee

2016-02-08 Thread Christina McPhee
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thank you, Renate. I think this is the first time I’ve ever been a ‘guest’ (after a lot of time as a moderator). Maybe in the spirit of the ‘ignorant schoolmaster’ thought i am far from being anyone’s teacher, I’d like to help us think

[-empyre-] Christina McPhee news and happy new year

2016-02-02 Thread Christina McPhee
ion/> Carbon Song Cycle, as a live performance work, with multichannel expanded video by Christina McPhee and Pamela Z, premiered at Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive in California and Roulette in New York in 2013...http://www.christinamcphee.net/carbon-song-cycle-bampfa/