Re: [-empyre-] Matrixial Encounters

[marc <marc.garrett@furtherfield.org>]

Hi Kate,

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

Well, yes & there is on various levels I feel but they are and might not 
necessarily fit into any specific agenda or ideal. Rather, they are 
clusters/occurances, usually organized via collaborative intentions.

co-becoming - is a small process of gradual multi-groupings and 
meetings, that has been happening between all those who have met each 
other via a networked collection of experiences. For instance through 
the years, many of us have a been meeting online together, as clusters 
at various times for different reasons. Not all together at once but the 
function itself declares that our meetings and times declare our 
co-becming(s). So, our 'agencies' are forming a cohesive identity or 
multi-identities (like now on this list) that also reflect momentary 
meanings for that actual duration, cross polonization (in the creative 
sense) occurs through circumstance and occassion.

I would argue that it has been happening to some degree already and a 
multitude is meeting all of the time, not just online now but also in 
the physical, breaking down past restrictions of past institutional 
barriers that were once too slow and static to facilitate such a fluid 
process of multi-behaviour.

We have been experiencing and expressing moments of cultural transitions 
without needing to be conscious (sometimes), not fully aware (possibly) 
that it is actually happening whilst it occurs. Sure technology has 
enabled the potential for it to happen as a tool, but the most important 
thing to note in is that many people have the need of such changes and 
have put platforms/systems in place, with various nodes of mutual 
transaction for it to take place (not as matrixial aesthetics, but close 
may be).

As time has gone by, clusters of individuals have come and gone, 
disappeared and arrived, or stayed connected/linked to various creative 
clusters and have grown with others forming a healthy environment of 
co-becoming.

I would also say that it is already happening regarding the other terms 
that stated. And yes, there are some pretty worrisome examples that we 
can use of patriarch dominated groups who have decided not to develop 
further than a mission statement or funding remits. Yet, the desire is 
there still here and many more people are putting in place there 
(collected) own versions of what they see as mutualist agency. And many 
of them might not specifically reside wholly in the New Media Art arena, 
but might have templates that sit close in certain degrees close to what 
you define as matrixial mtualism, but not necessarily matrixial aesthetics.

Having said all the above (phew), I feel that there is always a place 
where re-defining, mutually asserting, evaluating and sharing such a 
process of matrixial aesthetics, is needed. Mainly because it seems that 
it has not been declared or fully realized yet - perhaps you are of 
those people who should set such an explorative way of working up, 
creating clear guidelines in respect of what matrixial aesthetics 
actually is, and if people wish to be part of it - they can join.

marc





>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 ŒI 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 ŒMatrix ­ Borderline¹ Catalogue to
>Exhibition of Work by Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger at Museum of Modern Art,
>Oxford)
>
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> 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 ŒI 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 ŒMatrix ­ Borderline¹ Catalogue to
> Exhibition of Work by Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger at Museum of Modern Art,
> Oxford) 
>
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