Refwd form qnoors : [-empyre-] in-situ

["Melinda Rackham" <melinda@subtle.net>]

>>dub_qnoors:inbox (location) insitu-facilitator intro_ remix01.


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  Hi its A (?)


>>hi.
>>don't think we've met.
(location)


  a day late...


>>not(t)ime
>>like the present
>>7 dayz past . insitu (we go back to our badlands now)

>>no need 4 personal introductions (locations)
>>we no it's polic(e)y


  emphatic demands
  kick off this
  Location,


>>Failure, Failure, Failure.


  These three words could represent a manifesto for the 21st century.
Abducted from
  visual buffet.
  ((( that's cultural capital.


>>archived acmi onsite i/v: where is your audience? what do u hope to
achieve?
>>archived acmi concern: will it look like homeless people have moved in
(oh it's 1 of those cardboard box things.seen it b4)


  Does place matter?


>>rent due 19 of each month.landlord intends to kick qnoors out on its ass
(see b-lo additions)


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>>criteria: it would look better if u talked 2 people.explain yrself.


  and co-opted into the vernacular of contemporary visual practice, the
paradoxical lure, absurdity,


>>acmi guide to teenage boys: this is one of the lo-tech works. i don't know
what they r doing. u might want to see the good hi-tech works downstairs.
>>boys: cool.


  this earnest catch-cry


>help.can't breathe.dark in here.


  exposes questions


>>yeh.right. repeato/repeato.
>>always emphatic demands for answers
>>some choose to ignore the inbox
>>some choose to impose their audience
>>some walk str8 past when they shld no-betta

>>some sustain us (we know who u r . xx )



  about the binary relationship


ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo


  de-centralisation


>>de-pression, melancholy, lost signals, disinterest, disconnection, timed
out, not on track
>>time 2 de-institutionalize + de-tune
>>vary that d-sharp pitch (hey mr. nash?) ;-)


  Some might say location


>>lonely is an eyesore



  because the right location can ensure access to audiences -


>>workspace not a showcase

>>on last count, we made less than $3 an hour per year. on a good day. we
add it up.
>>some of my frenz r in the gutterz


  And history documents a set of responses to this condition.


>>on 1 condition
>>>u talk. we listen. u talk some more. u make wid da boxes.


  a snub to the centre,

  a refute to capital.
  an action to subvert and expose while still engaging the paradigmatics of
certain spaces:


>>recycle night: sunday. soon all this will be picturesque ruins.


  think museums, galleries, and, in the case of much public art, urban
spaces.


>>think bedrooms, gutters, car boots, storage devices, sick beds, trams,
u-bahns, sleep, stillness, words of love, slayer-fests, cupboards,
cardboards, attics, borrowed time, kindness of frenz, things 2 do with no
money, (location) , trash piles/hard rubbish, (location), terror tactics,
stolen words, txt voice, job clubs, private chat, empty mornings, no
tomorrow after today,


  past
  colonisation
  space
  vagaries
  flaneur


>>some Locals are bigger than others
>>they r not yr curator. they (will) refuse 2 visit the inbox. they take no
interest


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>>drowning with intent.

>location (a.nash+comrades : +qnoors in residence on grnd flr. we connected.
netverked residencies like no other.



  tantalised by taste,


>walk past the box.nose hi(gh). go back 2 a. steel/glass office.



  experiencing the multiplicity of the arts as a


>bad taste in our mouths.

>sickness saved by melinda r + charity b + helen s (x2) with offers of soup,
coffee, extra post-it notes, words of kindness 2 the holed-up artist


  In-situ suggests a greater interactivity,
  to pressing buttons or a cog


>artists on their knees.crouched + disappearing. waiting 4 signal 2 b picked
up. no reception. only cardboard, (faraday) - well conducted

>>we prefer technology that fails more often that we do


  destabilised space.


>>will it have structural slickness? u have no 45degree angles
>>will u get city sickness?
>>children threaten to destabilize the inbox
>>others choose to knock
>>say hello (l. anderson)


  New media and process-based collaborations articulate another view again.


>>we were rendered inarticulate
>>we did not go 2 art skool
>>we r beauty skool drop-outz
>>we need more food vouchers than art exhibit invites



  So, for artists, perhaps the question is what


>>we know this question.
>>we prefer to ask the questions now
>>do u inhale or exhale?
>>do u like to stretch out and wait?
>>do u feel any better today?


  are the aesthetic, political and contextual concerns



  evoking?