[-empyre-] creative interventions in the borderlands

[naxsmash]

Hi Irina, We are continuing until June 7...


On Jun 3, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Irina Contreras wrote:

> is it really supposed to be over?
> hmmm....
> thanks for yer sexy sharing!
> xo
>
>
> --- On Sun, 6/1/08, lotu5 <lotu5 at resist.ca> wrote:
>
>> From: lotu5 <lotu5 at resist.ca>
>> Subject: [-empyre-] creative interventions in the borderlands
>> To: "soft_skinned_space" <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
>> Date: Sunday, June 1, 2008, 2:32 PM
>> Ah damn, its june 1st, so I guess this month's awesome
>> topic is over. It
>> looks like you all had a lively discussion. I was hoping to
>> have the
>> time during this month to join the discussion, but thesis
>> writing took
>> all of my attention. Sorry for the very late intervention!
>>
>> If I had had time, I would've written something about
>> the projects I've
>> been working on, namely Sharing is Sexy [
>> http://sharingissexy.org ] ,
>> which is a queer open source porn laboratory, which I see
>> as a creative
>> form of biopolitical resistance to control over bodies
>> through the free
>> proliferation of images of new genders and sexualities and
>> through
>> community building online and offline.
>>
>> If I had more time, I would've also written about the
>> Boredom Patrol of
>> the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army [
>> http://circasd.org and
>> http://youtube.com/lotu5 ] , which I was a part of, and our
>> use of
>> imagination and the figure of the clown as a way to disrupt
>> and subvert
>> the plane of conflict created by the network of
>> anti-immigrant forces
>> around the San Diego / Tijuana border, including
>> paramilitaries like the
>> Minutemen, but also ICE, police, etc.
>>
>> The basis for these projects has been, in my opinion, to
>> find a way to
>> use desire and pleasure as a basis for political struggle,
>> to find
>> methods of resistance which fulfill our desires instead of
>> always
>> draining our energies.
>>
>> One of the main forms of "intervention" that
>> these projects use is
>> online public space, on YouTube or in porn, as a way of
>> interjecting
>> some disturbance into the massive flows of media already
>> occurring
>> there, trying to go to where people's attention already
>> is focused.
>> Although the Boredom Patrol's intervention also occurs
>> in physical
>> spaces where the Minutemen are.
>>
>> Both of these projects have also been presented in various
>> artistic
>> contexts, at universities, in galleries and in artistic
>> publications and
>> events.
>>
>> I have great respect for many of the groups and people
>> who've posted
>> this month, and I hope to be able to revisit the discussion
>> in the near
>> future.
>>
>> If you have any questions, or ties to the discussion,
>> I'm happy to respond!
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>>  lotu5
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
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