[-empyre-] [Science of the oppressed and garageScience]

[naxsmash]

dear Ricardo and Micha,

I really love your linking of Augusto Boal  to this idea of a  
subversive nano garage scale of production-- pervasive under the radar  
wet assembly~!
and your nearfuture scenarios (2011,2019, etc)

is it possible to talk a bit here about your fall 2009 launch  
( presumably real world?~)

I am referring to  your comment below " Electronic Disturbance  
Theater’s Transborder Immigrant Tool, a
work-in-progress (in collaboration with Brett Stalbaum, Micha Cardenas  
and
Amy Sara Carroll), is ready to move from alpha stage software design to
beta testing in the Fall 2009"


Your very long first post is much appreciated and I am just picking up  
on the last bit here.


-christina

Ricardo writes:

"[Science of the oppressed and garageScience]

"We can imagine Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, Chela  
Sandoval’s
Methodology of the Oppressed, Critical Art Ensemble’s tactical science,
Natalie Jeremijenko public experiments and what the Electronic  
Disturbance
Theater has framed today as the “science of the oppressed” – each of  
these
parts of a wide area call for a re-framed relationalilty between
spectator, poesis, praxis, experimentation and Sandoval’s differential
consciousness of the “la conciencia de la metiza”.  Each gesture  
diagrams
alternative social forms of life and art that fall between the known and
unknown, between fiction and the real, between clean science and dirty
science – each a part of a long history of an epistemology of social
production which privileges the standpoint of the proletariat, the
multitude, the open hacks of the DIY moments, and of autonomous
investigators who stage test zones of cognitive styles-as/and out of –
concrete practices as speculation and speculation as concrete  
practices –
at the speed of dreams.

"What the artivist adds to this circuit is the ability to stage  
potential
rehearsals for the now-and-future community laboratories, for the
nanoGarages to come, for the current empirical speculations of new
ecologies of social formations that can create a space for the agency of
actor-spectators – that can route around the neoliberal walls of  
“venture
science” as only protocol for “scientific” research and instead offer a
counter-frame/unframe of a science for and by the people. As Boal  
stated,
“we must move towards a rehearsal-theater and away from a
spectacle-theater.” The “science of the oppressed” for EDT is type of
“rehearsal-lab” that imagines community laboratories blooming from the
always/already “lowrider” robotics of East L.A., from the Zapatista  
“Open
Seed” an assemblage Open Wetware lab(s) – each garage a “rehearsal-lab”
for new agency(s) defined by the people/the citizen/the nomad to “resume
their protgonistic function” between/within/without art and science.

P.S.EDT is type of “rehearsal-lab”

P.P.S
Electronic Disturbance Theater’s Transborder Immigrant Tool, a
work-in-progress (in collaboration with Brett Stalbaum, Micha Cardenas  
and
Amy Sara Carroll), is ready to move from alpha stage software design to
beta testing in the Fall 2009."




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christina mcphee

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