[-empyre-] Matrixial Encounters

[Kate Southworth <katesouthworth@gloriousninth.com>]

As has been clearly articulated in these discussions, there are some
practitioners who have developed certain forms of tactical responses to
aspects of contemporary capitalism.   The potential for other forms of
transgressive artworking to co-emerge has also been clearly articulated.
This potential co-emergent borderspace, fragile though it undoubtedly is, is
what interests me most.

If we are to co-locate potential spaces of ethical and transgressive
aesthetics then perhaps we need to take risks in our encounters with each
other, and perhaps to understand subjectivity as encounter. A shared
encounter, not between two people who know each other, but where as Griselda
Pollock suggests the ?I and the non-I encounter each other and exist without
attempting to destroy or master, to assimilate or incorporate¹.

Within this space there is co-becoming, co-begetting, co-generation,
co-connection, co-transformation, co-interpretation, co-knowledge.

Within this space there is a responsibility for others, and for ourselves.
If we deny what we know (what we see, what we feel in our hearts, stomachs,
limbs but can't articulate, what we can analyse and theorise), if we turn
away, then we hurt ourselves.  It is a space within which we put others
before ourselves.  

Is there a place for a matrixial aesthetics and ethics in new media art?

Kate

Ref.Griselda Pollock (1993), preface to ?Matrix ­ Borderline¹ Catalogue to
Exhibition of Work by Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger at Museum of Modern Art,
Oxford)