<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">____________________________________<br><br>Welcome to November 2019 on -empyre- soft-skinned space: Magick and Technology</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Moderated by Margaretha Haughwout (US)</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">November 4th to 11th Week 1: RUDERAL WITCHCRAFT: Oliver Kellhammer (US), Margaretha Haughwout (US), Marisa Prefer(US) with others to join<br>November 11th to 18th Week 2: CONJURING RE-ENCHANTMENT: CURSES, HEALING, and RITUAL ACROSS NEPANTLA: Lissette-Tatiana Olivares (<span class="gmail-_5yl5"><span>US/CL/CO</span></span>), Fabi Borges (BR), Lucia Monge (PE), with others to join<br>November 18th to 25th Week 3: MODERNITY’S SPELL: Ricardo Dominguez (US), Tony Discenza (US), Rhonda Holberton (US)<br>November 25th to 31st Week 4: QUEER PARANORMAL: Rachel Stevens (US) and Queer Paranormal curators and artists from the current show at Usdan Gallery at Bennington College including Efrén Cruz Cortés, Jessica Posner (US)<br><br> <br>This month’s theme on -empyre- concerns magical practices and their connections to technology. We ask, is magic a fugitive technology? Can technology be understood as one kind of magic? Is modernity a spell that can be broken? <br><br>To begin, I propose to think of magic in 3 ways. Within the category of SIGNS: to think of magic, the rituals, and practices associated with it as a way of knowing that includes alignment with the more than human. Processes of observation, of communication across distances, across species, with the dead, dreaming, haunting, the paranormal… entanglements… ‘animistic assemblies’ can be considered here. There is a heightened attention to nature. Spiralling, making cats cradles, “treading the same ground” -- this is the work we do when reading signs. Sometimes the signs point to possible futures, and work as forecasting or PROPHECIES. In this second category we can consider ways we know the future through technological and magickal ways, and the ways these futures might be impacted or manipulated through the ways we inquire about them. This leads us to a consideration of SPELLS. Languages of science and the sacred might be considered here. Here, we might consider everything from algorithms to multispecies worlding.<br><br>Always, we consider the ways technology is privileged and magic is demeaned within modernity. We must be vigilant in recognizing the impoverishment of our language. Magic here speaks to a range of practices by peoples who have never encountered the word ‘magic’ until colonization, and the term may or may not capture a culture’s supernatural (understood here as ‘heightened natural’) work. Histories of the processes of demonization of indigenous practices in the colonies, and witches in Europe -- through which the engines of capitalism and colonization justify their joint projects will be addressed. Magic is gendered, classed and raced. Magic is persistently queer.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>TO MAKE A POST TO THE SUBSCRIPTION LIST:<br>empyre at <a href="http://lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au">lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au</a><br><br>TO ACCESS ARCHIVE<br><a href="http://lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/">http://lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/</a> <br><br>TO ACCESS THE WEBSITE FROM THE CORNELL SERVER TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT –EMPYRE-:<br><br><a href="http://empyre.library.cornell.edu">http://empyre.library.cornell.edu</a> <div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br>--<br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(204,204,204)"><a href="http://beforebefore.net" target="_blank">beforebefore.net</a></span><br><div>--</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 9:18 PM Renate Ferro <<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu">rferro@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:<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----------------------<br>
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For the month of November we welcome Margaretha Haughwout as moderator for an exciting month of discussion on, Magic and Technology. Margaretha is a member of our -empyre- advisory board. She curated the October, 2017 topic, Radical Aesthetics of Multispecies Worlding, Eco Art and Solidarity in a more than human Capitalocene, <a href="http://lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2017-October/date.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2017-October/date.html</a><br>
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Margaretha participated in the Linz Unfinished project organized by Shulea Cheang and while she was there she participated in the -empyre- broadcast included -empyre- and four other listservs on radio.fro. <br>
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Margaretha teaches in the Department of Art and Art History, Film and Media Studies at Colgate University in upstate New York. Her personal and collaborative artwork explores the intersections between ideas of technology and wilderness, digital networks and the urban commons, cybernetics and whole systems permaculture — in the context of ecological, technological and human survival. Welcome once again Margaretha. We welcome your nurtuance of -empyre- this month. Many thanks Margaretha for your nurturance of our listserv this month. <br>
Renate<br>
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Moderator's Biography: <br>
Margaretha Haughwout’s (US) creative work is a kind of multispecies worlding — a phrase introduced by Donna Haraway, who understands it to be the "patterning of possible worlds," a co-becoming that occurs through entanglements with other species. Haughwout collaborates with humans, the more-than-human, and technology to enact possible worlds -- worlds that generate abundance, presence and relationship — and in doing so, antagonize proprietary regimes, colonial temporalities, and capitalist forms of labor. Installation, participatory event, walking tour, experimental pedagogy, intervention, speculative fabulation, and biological processes articulate stages of worlding processes. In 2019, Haughwout’s work has been featured at Stadwerkstatt in Linz Austria, at the Usdan Gallery at Bennington College, and as a part of SLSA’s Experimental Engagements exhibition.<br>
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Renate Ferro<br>
Visiting Associate Professor<br>
Director of Undergraduate Studies<br>
Department of Art<br>
Tjaden Hall 306<br>
<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu" target="_blank">rferro@cornell.edu</a><br>
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