Re: [-empyre-] on feminism and the cyclical nature of tools and technologies

2015-02-26 Thread Johannes Birringer
litant members of the Women’s Social and Political Union, on a number of artworks and artefacts in English and Scottish museums; and then these women went to prison for it? regards Johannes Birringer [Flourish schreibt] >>I just joined empyre, after finding out about it from Alan So

Re: [-empyre-] the University, outside

2015-03-06 Thread Johannes Birringer
reative and artistic pursuits. an open university would be open, no? and if it's closed down, the meta-lab can move somewhere else (potentially other zones of conflict) and be fertile. regards Johannes Birringer dap-lab http://www.brunel.ac.uk/dap ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] Engineering the University pas de deux

2015-03-10 Thread Johannes Birringer
hero') model that can be scrutinized as well, though I have of course fond memories of those who inspired me. (I am asking as I just read Edward Prutzer introducing/hosting Chad Wellmon almost with a book review of Chad Wellmon's forthcomi

Re: [-empyre-] engineering the university

2015-03-16 Thread Johannes Birringer
lizaBeth and Mimi did not directly address the politics of witnessing but brought up "self-care" under "neoliberal management.' What if you extend that to the racial-State war-State managements* under which most of us live? respectfully Johannes Birringer * (my term

Re: [-empyre-] engineering the university

2015-03-17 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- yes, indeed Kevin, and my comment had implied as much of course, namely that you and I, or the graduate students, and whatever campus, and those who graduate into the corporate business world, are part of the racialized state but (in the

Re: [-empyre-] Engineering the University & intellectual history

2015-03-21 Thread Johannes Birringer
ent metadata or hyperdata operators or information management systems. regards Johannes Birringer ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] Plants, sounds, context-shifts

2015-06-06 Thread Johannes Birringer
eractive interface? (and sited in an art gallery context quite at a distance to the context of your ancestors and family in the Philippines). Well, after experiencing your own installation in the gallery, how well did the plants "play" their part? regards Johannes Birringer __

Re: [-empyre-] nature's reserved camouflage

2015-06-15 Thread Johannes Birringer
"see" Beckett's not growing tree, and the waiting for Godot not coming, and the collapse of help systems, supports, the racialized disaster, the perverse DIY strategies cooked up, etc Do we notice when trees aren’t there? Oh yes, we do. with regards Johannes Birringer

Re: [-empyre-] nature's reserved camouflage

2015-06-17 Thread Johannes Birringer
plants (well, I do, the garden at my landlords' is 55 meters long and 24 meters wide, and my landlady Judith works there every day and i am amazed just watching her and the incredible richness and diversity of the life right near me, none of that art, but lively and full of energies and full of dansity. regards Johannes Birringer dap-lab http://www.brunel.ac.uk/dap ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] nature's reserved camouflage

2015-06-17 Thread Johannes Birringer
he tiny plants opened themselves to the robber, ever so gently. How then do plant scientists approach plants and humanists, Murat? And are sets of assumptions about plants changing (sets about otherness? about the code of the other?) regards Johannes Birringer ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] nature's reserved camouflage

2015-06-22 Thread Johannes Birringer
y or of aesthetics would proceed to undermine the spider story, or Murat's 'difficulty of the translator.' regards Johannes Birringer ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] disinhibited mediation / inter-esse

2015-06-23 Thread Johannes Birringer
-art and some criticisms the latter suffered). regards Johannes Birringer ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] disinhibited mediation / inter-esse

2015-06-26 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- just a brief question (and thanks Murat, and Florian, for picking up on some of the commentaries exchanged) --- I received twice a posting from the invited participants, Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt, and the postings seem ide

Re: [-empyre-] nature's reserved camouflage & sound art

2015-06-30 Thread Johannes Birringer
ection systems; and I would therefore ask what is it that you give voice to? I am really curious and want to understand better why such work would be considered 'plant art'? Johannes Birringer [Gregory schreibt] We have been invited

Re: [-empyre-] nature's reserved camouflage & sound art

2015-06-30 Thread Johannes Birringer
ection systems; and I would therefore ask what is it that you give voice to? I am really curious and want to understand better why such work would be considered 'plant art'? Johannes Birringer [Gregory schreibt] We have been invited

Re: [-empyre-] dispositif, capacitators & resistors

2015-07-13 Thread Johannes Birringer
ere never personalized except to the extent that one can think of "subjective" experience of responses (within rule bound systems) of the players and interactors (or resistors). http://empaclivemediaperformancelab.blogspot.com/ regards Johannes Birringer Interaktionslabor htt

Re: [-empyre-] self capturers

2015-12-09 Thread Johannes Birringer
nteracting with her/himself? I don't think "the culture" is obsessed with self-capture; but there are various forms or terror that have infiltrated our lives for sure, and I dread them. regards Johannes Birringer Fro

Re: [-empyre-] detention camps

2016-02-08 Thread Johannes Birringer
re pertinent and of course bleak (though there are different borders, and thus differently felt scenarios) - what do you mean, Ricardo, by suggesting that do you see the camps everywhere? Johannes Birringer ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] detention vs movement violence

2016-02-10 Thread Johannes Birringer
nts of sexual violence, puportedly committed by immigrant asylum seekers staying in Germany at the time of the criminal offenses (Cologne e.g.), and how such violence has been used now against migrants by the instrumentalizing political wings and press.

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

2016-02-11 Thread Johannes Birringer
unplugged, about the small steps of making sociality and community visible, that's the only chance... What i mean here is that chance of sustaining an ethics of community, of actually also pondering whether our island democracies [should you believe yo

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

2016-02-15 Thread Johannes Birringer
here, then? Regards Johannes Birringer ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] the mouth of Duck river

2016-02-16 Thread Johannes Birringer
ather than spelling out the boundaries of the cession." This vagueness benefited the government’s purposes in crafting treaties and executive orders. “Greater legality and more precision,” Saunt argues, “would have made it impossible to seize so much land in so short a time.” How d

Re: [-empyre-] the mouth of Duck river

2016-02-19 Thread Johannes Birringer
will invoke). Pau might answer that (42 invited guests, to a country as huge as Uruguay, abused the hospitality?). regards Johannes Birringer ps. I still tend to think "Kinopolitics" refers to Cinema/Kino. Moving images? ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] the mouth of Duck river

2016-02-25 Thread Johannes Birringer
en the former east and the former west? At what point do artistic gestures (like the passport from NSK's "state in time" that I hold) become ineffective, ridiculous, or arrogant? Yet your work, Tanja, seems to raise such important questions about sexual violence, degradati

Re: [-empyre-] the mouth of Duck river / in the Jungle

2016-02-28 Thread Johannes Birringer
? regards Johannes Birringer ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] TBT (ae)ffective as a kinopoltical gesture and safety tool

2016-02-28 Thread Johannes Birringer
t;expulsion"] these short paragraphs alone could of course be discussed at length My question about your notion of the "gesture" (and your theatrical reference in regard to the Transborder Immigrant Tool) was meant simply to rais

Re: [-empyre-] Liquid Blackness, Matter & Flesh

2016-04-09 Thread Johannes Birringer
ulptural, anamorphic. where 'representation' falters a little, at least. affects? attaching meanings and metaphors nevertheless seems unavoidable for the toucher. regards Johannes Birringer DAP-Lab London 'Performance Architectures, Wearables and Gestures of Participat

Re: [-empyre-] Liquid Blackness- Week II: Aesthetics

2016-04-14 Thread Johannes Birringer
being interchangeable"?), i think that is not what you are concerned with, yes? can you talk more about practical matters? with regards Johannes Birringer [thomas schreibt] oh sigh. the figure of the slave. it hurts me so deeply, this connection of blackness to the figure of the slave.

Re: [-empyre-] aesthetics / gestalten

2016-04-15 Thread Johannes Birringer
to touch and thus different modes of imagining gestalten (in the plural, not one Gestalt). respectfully Johannes Birringer [Thomas schreibt] black performance has always been liquid, or post, or excessive, or many other things because it is concerned with adornment and elaboration, individu

Re: [-empyre-] aesthetics gestalten within and without

2016-04-17 Thread Johannes Birringer
flipped my "plain text" and resulted in garbled (unreadable) code arriving at the empyre which then refused to publish the unreadable. Now isn't that ironic. regards Johannes Birringer [Alessandra schreibt] [...] aesthetics is found in the work and

Re: [-empyre-] Liquid Blackness and Materiality / blockbusting

2016-04-22 Thread Johannes Birringer
nt Matter: A Political Ecology of Things" (2010) is all the rage in town. Is it? i guess depends on the town. Ken your comments on oil and L.A. & blockbusting are fascinating! I am sending your post to my friends in Houston. regards Johannes Birringer [Ken schreibt] >>So

Re: [-empyre-] Liquid Blackness and Materiality / blockbusting

2016-04-23 Thread Johannes Birringer
indeed “liquid blackness” in his work, as Derek argues there is, then it is both the condition for what he is able to achieve AND its end product >> or maybe not, maybe we are constantly evoking exhausting contradictions that can't be solved under the realities of our politica

Re: [-empyre-] spatial flow

2016-04-27 Thread Johannes Birringer
k or not black) cannot be weightless? we cannot flow away that is the problem.. we shall (need to) be gathered? Johannes Birringer ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] spatial flow

2016-04-27 Thread Johannes Birringer
ed the whole architecture, a little. Then he rebalanced it, though I am not sure what color balance has in the dark. https://youtu.be/Iw4T-uM3n-U thanks Johannes Birringer ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] spatial flow / spatial justice

2016-04-28 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- oh, just to throw something in (listening to all of your very provocative replies), how is this week's focus on spatiality >> to commit/invest in the materiality of blackness while we are attending to its complex spatiality in th

Re: [-empyre-] social practice / institutions / whose measures?

2016-05-29 Thread Johannes Birringer
ans as a trouble shooter... The he says he left, feeling absolutely impotent, as an artist, having anything to say about the catastrophe. Would you care to comment on how you felt about this notion of the artist as social worker/troubleshooter, coming up with 'unauthorized" pr

Re: [-empyre-] social practice / institutions / whose measures?

2016-05-30 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- hi all new message now have appeared (out of time sync) due to the empire processing of discussants not part of directly enrolled guests), and I am sorry if questions I wanted to further direct at Corinna Mehiel are now perhaps no longe

Re: [-empyre-] those that are near those that are far, machine eye vision

2016-07-26 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] Camera Obscura and inner winds

2016-08-11 Thread Johannes Birringer
sonance in this and wondered whether we can continue to discuss a bit, as our moderator, Christina McPhee, has not closed the debate yet? regards Johannes Birringer * Martin Burckhardt, "Die dunkle Seite der Zahl," FAZ 9 August 2016, p. 13 >> [Jon Ippolito schreibt] A footnote

Re: [-empyre-] Feminist Data Visualization-- a coda

2016-08-13 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- thank you Christina for your special effort to wrap up this amazing month of discussion and for the reflections you offered as our moderator, and thanks of course to all the participants! best jb

Re: [-empyre-] your language games

2016-11-11 Thread Johannes Birringer
and (Murat suggests) as pawns at all times where there are no rules or infinitely changeable rules. and what wind exactly made the elections come out the way they did, in the united states or in britain? regards johannes birringer += [Adeena Karasick schreibt] All through the nightmarish

Re: [-empyre-] empyre discussion

2016-11-17 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear all Sorry to not contribute to content at the moment, but I have to echo Jonathan, I think the issue was reported to the list managers a while ago, I think it began about a year ago, that we no longer seem to have a functioning maill

Re: [-empyre-] Shadows in the Dawn

2017-03-15 Thread Johannes Birringer
sk notices, cutting, dismantling, and so forth. so there will be more talk, surely, on re-organizing ourselves? regards Johannes Birringer dap-lab ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] Shadows in the Dawn

2017-03-16 Thread Johannes Birringer
sanctuary city though people marched for it. This made we wonder if some of you could perhaps speak about what a sanctuary city would be able to do, politically/legally and whom it could protect and how? sincerely Johannes Birringer dap-lab ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] Shadows in the Dawn

2017-03-18 Thread Johannes Birringer
pending its riches to make what is >not there, in an expenditure without hope or need of recompense--minus.>> I am trying to grapple with, and understand this many regards Johannes Birringer ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] Shadows in the Dawn

2017-03-19 Thread Johannes Birringer
eatre of operations, betrayal, reporting on others not supporting the national cause, seems to be close at hand; and fear of being betrayed leads to silence. Johannes Birringer ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

Re: [-empyre-] Shadows in the Dawn

2017-03-24 Thread Johannes Birringer
yes? You are, then, speaking of a few years of surviving the republican party in government? perhaps take heed of how many other societies have survived their jefes. In my next post I'll try and come back to Simon's question about résistance and self-romanticizing the th

Re: [-empyre-] ethicopoetics of sight, in the fog, immoderately

2017-04-06 Thread Johannes Birringer
ting and tremendously humorous, back in the days, when Chicano performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña would quip that he could see the future, and the future would be bright, and also upside down, and gringos would run to the border south, to seek political asylum in Mexico).* regards Johannes Bir

Re: [-empyre-] starting at the edge of water..

2017-10-16 Thread Johannes Birringer
t the edge of water. – namely testing the sensing and listening and wayfaring you have suggested, needing time to spend making such links, as fantastical as they sometimes sounded, here, in these pages. thanks again to all, Johannes Birringer dap-lab http://www.brunel.ac.uk/dap [Gris

Re: [-empyre-] starting at the edge of water

2017-10-18 Thread Johannes Birringer
th Adam that plants, fish, and other not human species may assess things showing signs of alienation. yes how do I access their art critique? respectfully Johannes Birringer [Christopher Kennedy schreibt] "resistance" is happening all ar

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- 2018, a trip down

2018-02-07 Thread Johannes Birringer
-empyre- also, in that sense, for a while, was a family romance, many of us knew each other face to face or wanted to know each other's artistic work better. with regards Johannes Birringer dap-lab [Christina McPhee schreibt] >> Thanks, Renate, for the comments around the aesthetics of e

Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- pyres and family romances

2018-02-13 Thread Johannes Birringer
received was personal and never needed to be public.) respectfully, and without regret, thanking many and all here with whom I corresponded over the years on discussions that moved me, not backwards into a lost era of flaneurs, but forward,. Johannes Birringer dap-lab

[-empyre-] undulating technologically mediated philosophical borders?

2018-09-30 Thread Johannes Birringer
? respectfully Johannes Birringer dap-lab ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu

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

2020-04-19 Thread Johannes Birringer
nce surely the same resurgence of solidarity and protest will be assured to step up if elected governments fail to live up to the responsibilities of addressing public health and the common weal (I am reading a story about Mongolia, called "The First and the Last,"

Re: [-empyre-] On Francis Danby's Opening of the Sixth Seal

2020-04-22 Thread Johannes Birringer
quot; is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQnpBYpXYE8) this would be something I'd really like to see us discuss more, in a concrete way -- what are our materials? (and in my body-based performance or somatic practice, working with bodies of course forbid social distancing, and a

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

2020-04-24 Thread Johannes Birringer
or repeats," and (Christina) yet echoing. I am unable to respond much now to high theory, and may be forgiven, but our DAP-Lab ensemble's last dance, in December, was drawing the climate crisis into its thinking through material, and if you have time & a dark chamber, here i

Re: [-empyre-] [empyre] COVID and circulation workers

2020-04-26 Thread Johannes Birringer
ie McClanahan's commentaries on Marx, the labor of hands, machinic organisms, outsourcing of/and consciousnesses (..."the kind of theory that would give us an alibi for our own unknowing: that would reject the idea that we see these conditions clearly..") with regards Johannes

Re: [-empyre-] - noise of contagion

2020-04-28 Thread Johannes Birringer
image and Alan's brilliantly evocative " Confusion entanglement: etymological impulse, poetics rooted in roots", is also an ethical choice for dialogue (not the "new normal" which as Annie correctly assume will be the old normal) and the way one

Re: [-empyre-] - noise of contagion

2020-04-30 Thread Johannes Birringer
resist, love, hope, continue to dream. This song does not resonate with Jonathan Basile's plantation thesis: "Viruses are able to use us as machines because we are machines to ourselves. We are able to live because we can rely on the functioning of our own cellular machinery. With

Re: [-empyre-] - noise of contagion - tuer

2020-05-02 Thread Johannes Birringer
; - could you tell us more, Junting? thanks, with regards Johannes Birringer + [Junting Huang schreibt] Thank you, Luca. A quick note on your last point, Eric Hayot’s The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain traced that whole tradition to the Enlightenment peri

Re: [-empyre-] - noise of contagion - tuer

2020-05-03 Thread Johannes Birringer
pearing, back from Poland, grimly to order the dead bodies to be taken up ( «soulèvez les corps»). Exeunt. https://www.3sat.de/kultur/theater-und-tanz/starke-stuecke-hamlet-100.html respectfully Johannes Birringer [Junting Huang schreibt] Hi, Johannes, I a

Re: [-empyre-] sharing news on new work

2020-11-12 Thread Johannes Birringer
own in an inter-pandemic era, and my "Electric Dance, or How to Talk with Birds" will appear shortly in Critical Stages/Scènes Critiques #22 (http://www.critical-stages.org), alongside other theatre artists's reflections on what Annie called the unfulfilled promises. thank you for w

Re: [-empyre-] Week 4 | Flow and Real Time in the Urban

2021-05-28 Thread Johannes Birringer
tecture of four science towers, looming overheard, one more ugly than the next, more deadening, more desperately inhuman. regards Johannes Birringer DAP-Lab. London From: empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of Shama Nair Sent: 27 Ma