Re: [-empyre-] Bare Life, Ghost Detainees, Exclusion and Performance

[Susana Mendes Silva <arslonga@netcabo.pt>]

Hi G.H.,

I am quite curious about the way that you built your character for  
this specific performance project.
Why did you choose a "borderline schizoid personality type"?


> For our next collaborative piece we did a performance work called,  
> Rant/ Rant Back/ Back Rant;
> “Peter Sinclair created a special interface to sample voice input,  
> manipulate it and send it back into the general audio mix in real  
> time. GH projects the ramblings of a borderline schizoid  
> personality type who can't tell the difference between media news  
> information, gossip and paranoid rumors. The piece is a techno  
> driven word or poetry jam that resembles the ranting of a  
> delusional street person. GH prepared the content by clipping news  
> articles and posting them on a web in a blog called rantblog PTP  
> (power to the people).”
> http://nujus.net/gh_04/gallery9.html


What do you consider "normal political discourse"? How do the  
communication strategy of terrorist groups and your action as an  
artist can be both seen as having that discursive political normality?

> The postions’ of bare life and the sacred man are situated in this  
> media-polis.  The terrorists use the internet to present their  
> message and recruit new members. Artists such as myself use the  
> internet to critique the global polis. The question is this; do my  
> actions and that of terrorists constitute normal political  
> discourse in a global techno society? Furthermore is expulsion or  
> bare life negation created by denying access to or recognition of a  
> perso in the web and internet and mass media?


susana