<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dear Shu Lea, <br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thank you for encouraging my participation on this topic. <span><br></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">There is a long time I do not engage on any discussion on any list, so forgive me for the eventual lack of proper net-etiquette. <br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">It seems I was not introduced as part of a joined team, so my bio was not listed, but I am proud to be mentioned by Shu as one <span>of those coming "from the frontline of
resistance". Thanks ;-) <br></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I was grown and
raised in Minas Gerais, Brazil and saw whole mountains being wiped out and
landscapes being destroyed by multinational companies behind mass exploitation
of iron ore in the region, in the sake of an economy driven by international
interests and national submission since the early times of the colonization to
the post-industrial capitalism in the country.<span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On November 5,
2015, Mariana, a small city in the countryside of Minas Gerais gained
international prominence due to the massive socio-environmental disaster
resulting from the disruption of Barragem do Fundão (a big iron ore dam). About
60 million m3 of iron ore tailings were released directly into the environment,
<span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">sweeping two entire communities, </span>producing
irreparable damage to a whole river (Rio Doce) and leaving destruction and
death behind. <span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">About 20 people died and
the toxic mud followed the river, leaving a trail of destruction and death. </span><span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Since then, I am dealing with a feature film
about this context, following the environmental tragic consequences, mapping
the related conflicts in the state – saying it again, </span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">a region
historically impacted by colonialist exploitation practices since the diamond
and gold ages, </span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">and is still one of the
largest exporters of iron ore in the world.</span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"> The project </span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">has been taking shape of a hybrid documentary, made
possible through a series of journeys around regions impacted by the iron ore tailings
in the state, drifting through themes such as topophilia and solastalgia. <span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">From the bucolic landscape of mountains that
was part of one's affective memory [this was once very commonly associated to the state of Minas Gerais] only huge craters remained. While on the
trip we meet locals who have lost all they had and are facing an uncertain
future. The meetings has been conducted by Camilla, a character who sees
herself straightening her empathy in relation to the people's big losses, while
facing their attachment to the environment. </span><span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font><br><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">The company behind the environmental crime (the
transnational Vale, formerly a national company founded in 1942 to sustain
Brazilian's path to the industry, which was then privatized in 1988 after a
boom on neo-liberal politics in the country) brings up the idea of repeating itself
both as tragedy and as farce. At the beginning of this year, on January 25, another dam broke,
in Brumadinho, this time killing more than 300 people (!) and another river, Paraopeba, was
also sentenced to death. As if the state were a minefield, two other villages were
evacuated for risk of dam rupture - Macacos and Barão de Cocais. As a sudden, another
40 dams were put at risk only in 2019, some of them nearby bigger cities in the
state, which evidences that it is not just a single event, but a whole region
is threatened. It has been clear that managing the risk by installing and exception
state, helps the company to better manage the land by expanding its borders and
mining fields through the conflict areas. It all has been happening in a
complex thread involving big amounts of compensation for the damages it caused,
but in a context where the government policies does not have environment
protection aimed as a political agenda. <span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Fear is generalized: for
many communities, the exploitation companies provide employment and income,
since most people depend on the mining activities for their jobs. But the harm
is everywhere, the damage has been deeply impacting their life, their small
properties, their livelihoods. A whole landscape is altered. <span style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span></span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">As
such, Lavra is a film about disappearing landscapes, the losses of a world and the attempts to recover
them, in the ongoing war between capitalism and nature. <br></span></span></font></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></span></font></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">While doing the film, we
have been witnessing the upraising of awareness movements, such as <a href="http://mamnacional.org.br/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span>MAM –
Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens</span></a> and <a href="https://www.mabnacional.org.br/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span>MAB
– Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens</span></a>, assisting impacted
communities about their rights and also helping people to <span style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">review one's relationship with nature, consumption.
and the notion of progress.</span><span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB"></span><span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i>References:<span></span></i></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://vimeo.com/manage/327084774/general" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span>LAVRA [teaser]</span></a> – password: lavra<br></span></font>
<font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.lucasbambozzi.net/projetosprojects/a-vinganca-e-uma-especie-de-justica-selvagem" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64)" lang="EN-GB">REVENGE IS A KIND OF WILD JUSTICE</span></a><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64)" lang="EN-GB"> (2016)
[ongoing project, about nature and industrialization]<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i>Previous related films:</i><span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://vimeo.com/197975316" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span>ACROSS THE RIVER</span></a> (Oiapoque - English sutitles)<span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://vimeo.com/169642027" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span>O FIM DO SEM FIM</span></a> [English subtitles]<span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><i>Related authors: </i><span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64)" lang="EN-GB">Guimarães Rosa, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Christiane Tassis [my script
writer], Walter de Maria, Robert Smithson, Cildo Meirelles, Nelson Felix, Paulo
Nazareth, Robert Kramer [Route One], Jorge Bodanzky [Iracema], Walter Benjamin, Georges
Didi-Huberman, </span><span style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="EN-US">Stephan
Lessenich, </span><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64)" lang="EN-GB">Suely Rolnik.<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-1866408844063601148gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><font color="#232323">Lucas Bambozzi</font></span></font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><font color="#232323"><font color="#232323"><a href="http://www.lucasbambozzi.net" target="_blank">www.lucasbambozzi.net</a><br></font></font></span></font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>FAU USP<br>LabOUTROS <br></b></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><span style="color:rgb(61,133,198)"><a href="http://outrosurbanismos.fau.usp.br/author/laboutros" target="_blank">http://outrosurbanismos.fau.usp.br/author/laboutros</a></span></b></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><span style="color:rgb(61,133,198)"><span><br></span></span></b></font></span></div></div><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Labmovel</b></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><a href="https://labmovel.net/">https://labmovel.net/</a></b></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>AVXLab<a href="http://avxlab.org/"> <br></a></b></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><a href="http://avxlab.org/">http://avxlab.org/</a></b></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><font size="2"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>Faap [visual arts]</b><br></font></span></div></div></div><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><font size="2"><a href="http://www.faap.br">www.faap.br </a><br></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Em seg, 16 de set de 2019 às 11:25, Shu Lea Cheang <<a href="mailto:shulea@earthlink.net" target="_blank">shulea@earthlink.net</a>> escreveu:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
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<p>dear Brian</p>
<p>So good to hear from you!!! and thanks for always here! I read
you,. yes, washington post article definitely.<br>
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<p>There was this landmark case took place at the Supreme Court of
the United States , Bowman v, Monsanto Co.ET AL. <br>
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<p>
<a class="m_-1866408844063601148gmail-m_-4289536226438892644moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-796_c07d.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-796_c07d.pdf</a></p>
<p>At issue is the patented Roundup Ready soybean seeds by Monsanto,
the farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman lost the case in 2013.
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<p>and i made a web work out of this case-
<a class="m_-1866408844063601148gmail-m_-4289536226438892644moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fields.seedsunderground.net/" target="_blank">http://fields.seedsunderground.net/</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>the
site </span><span>renders the entire</span><span> court
document taken from the<span> </span>Supreme
Court of
the United States’ Vernon Hugh Bowman v. Monsanto case (held in<span> </span>Washington, D.C.<span> </span>on<span>
</span>February 19, 2013) into ever-replicating seeds,
transmitted by divine
wind and distributed by human/machine power across the vast
farmland. </span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span>(totally
forgot this work, but it was included in FIELDS exhibition
(Rixc, Riga) curated
by the late Armin Medosch.</span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u>soybeans!<u></u></span></p>
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<u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u>I quote also a newly published article at
MAKERY (fr) by Ewen Chardronnet in which it recounts Dimension
Plus' Soybean Futures exhibition at STWST48x5 this past
september.
<a class="m_-1866408844063601148gmail-m_-4289536226438892644moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.makery.info/en/2019/09/10/les-futurs-du-soja-nourrissent-le-debat-en-marge-dars-electronica/" target="_blank">http://www.makery.info/en/2019/09/10/les-futurs-du-soja-nourrissent-le-debat-en-marge-dars-electronica/</a><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u>i trust Escher Tsai of Dimension Plus will
also be join us here with a focus of soybean war between China
and Taiwan.<u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u>thanks<u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u>sl<br>
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<div class="m_-1866408844063601148gmail-m_-4289536226438892644moz-cite-prefix">On 16.09.19 15:28, Brian Holmes wrote:<br>
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<div>The global political economy alters the face of the earth.</div>
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<div>Since the introduction of GMO soybeans in 1996, followed by
the entry of China into the World Trade Organization in 2001,
land-use changes across the southern half of Latin America
have been extreme. Pools of financial investors gather capital
for slash-and-burn conversion of lightly forested land where
cattle were formerly run. The "technological package" of
modified seeds, no-till sowing, and heavy doses of RoundUp is
applied to vast acreages under corporate ownership, dwarfing
the size of US farms. Airplanes slosh pesticides over oceans
of fresh green beans. <br>
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<div>In 2003, a notorious advertisement of the Syngenta
corporation proclaimed the "Republic of Soy," a new territory
governed by agro-capital, including parts of Brazil, Bolivia,
Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. Most of the beans will be
made into animal feed to meet the rising demand for meat among
the new planetary middle classes. Soy is to South America what
fracking is to the North: a consequence of inceasing world
population and burgeoning desire, coupled with the capitalist
search for profit in an expanded global market.</div>
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<div>In Chicago, which is surrounded by an infinity of GMO corn
and soy, we partnered with folks in Argentina and Brazil to do
an exhibition about exactly these issues. It was also shown in
Carbondale, Illinois; Portland, Oregon; and Rosario,
Argentina:</div>
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<div><a href="https://www.regionalrelationships.org/tewna" target="_blank">https://www.regionalrelationships.org/tewna</a></div>
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<div>Concerning the article that Shu Lea sent, it's good and I
have no doubt that the demand for soybeans contributes to the
fires. But this piece from the Washington Post is a little
more precise about everything:</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/05/were-thinking-about-amazon-fires-all-wrong-these-maps-show-why" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/05/were-thinking-about-amazon-fires-all-wrong-these-maps-show-why</a></div>
<div><br>
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<div>best, Brian<br>
</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 1:53
AM Shu Lea Cheang <<a href="mailto:shulea@earthlink.net" target="_blank">shulea@earthlink.net</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span> </span>to
empyre-ers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1cm"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:7.1pt"><span>We
start the third week of STAY UNFINISHEDxxxYours
Sincerely, a special month long online edition of
STWST48x5 EXPANDED hosted by -empyre-.<br>
<br>
This past August, news from the streets of Hong Kong hit
us with tear gas, cannons of blue water, batons and
sticks, meanwhile, AMAZON is burning.<br>
The fire spread, The Brazilian government refused any
help from the 'first' world. </span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana">Let it burn!!
Some speculative news articles started showing up in
various press. <br>
Soybean, trade war with China and amazon fires, can you
weave these threads? <br>
<a class="m_-1866408844063601148gmail-m_-4289536226438892644gmail-m_-8423068439027572176moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-25/china-s-soybean-demand-in-trade-war-could-fuel-amazon-fires" target="_blank">https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-25/china-s-soybean-demand-in-trade-war-could-fuel-amazon-fires</a>?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;line-height:14pt"><span>forest,
cows, soybeans, machines, trades, global food/trade
politics++++++</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;line-height:14pt"><span>Some
keywords to start this week.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;line-height:14pt"> <span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black">I
have invited </span><span>Margaretha Haughwout, who
also serves as a empyre board of director, to be the
moderator for this week's discussion.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;line-height:14pt"> <span>Margaretha<span style="color:black">'s personal and collaborative
artwork is perhaps best understood as a kind of <i>multispecies
worlding, </i>a co-becoming that <br>
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;line-height:14pt"><span><span style="color:black">occurs through entanglements with
other life forms. Moving across technology and
wilderness, digital networks and the urban commons, <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;line-height:14pt"><span><span style="color:black">cybernetics and whole systems
permaculture, her practice seeks to antagonize
proprietary regimes, colonial temporalities, and
capitalist forms of labor. <br>
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;line-height:14pt"><span><span style="color:black">For STWST48x5 (Linz, September
6-8), Margaretha presented her recent collaborative
project, </span></span><span><span style="color:black">APRIORI</span></span><span><span style="color:black">, a faux research and development
group</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;line-height:14pt"><span><span style="color:black"> that uncovers revolutionary
ecologies between plants and machines with Efrén
Cortés Cruz, Lynn DeSilva Johnson[Elæ], and Suzanne
Husky.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;line-height:14pt"><span><span style="color:black">We are joined by</span></span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Fabi Borges (Brazil)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Amanda McDonald Crowley <span> </span>(USA)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Oliver Kellhammer (USA)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Escher Tsai <span> </span>(Taiwan)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Dawn Weleski (USA)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Dan Phiffer (USA)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>who Margaretha will further
introduce.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>From the frontline of
resistance, we also hope to bring in updates from </span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana">Lucas Bambozzi
</span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana">(Sao Paulo)</span>
who is working on disappearing landscapes and </span><span>jamie.kelsey-fry<span>
</span></span><span><span>(London) </span>of <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>#ExtinctionRebellion.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Has the fall arrived in your part
of the timezone yet?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>We surely welcome all insights,
input from you, the readers, the lurkers, let the amazon
fire smokes you out of the cave!!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>sl<br>
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