[-empyre-] contamination and artivistic

[dj lotu5]

naxsmash wrote:
>  slipp!!
>
> so how petroleum /silicon are these drugged environments 
> plasticizing/forming new projections through postnatural biospheres--
> so are you saying or wishfully dreaming of priori deep type or 
> life-type forms linguistically tucked
>  inside the assemblages of ecosystems  (laced with the drugs we have
> // petrol, cinema, silicon, psyllicibin //  and these
> blow out into community-spaces via
> punctuation (exclamation point?!)

...i think that i'm being co[nt]aminated by mez breeze's twittereality 
poems...

but at the same time i'm thinking, how can we step from the death of 
artistic autonomy and irony towards [1] aesthetic strategies that can, 
say, stop the olympics in vancouver? [2] how can we think postnatural 
and indigenous solidarity simultaneously? Can micropolitical gestures, 
such as love, sex and artworks actually shift the plastic and organic 
flows of endogenic unfolding, actually change the "world"? I'm part of 
the collective organizing Artivistic 2009 [3], which I'd love to talk 
about more, and really get into the similarities and differences between 
relational and artivistic?


1. Just came across this gleefully anti-feminist review that is so sad 
and angering and baffling...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/5759329/Jeff-Koons-Popeye-Series-at-the-Serpentine-Gallery-review.html

" In Koons’s world only the strong, the gorgeous and the pre-menopausal 
survive. These sculptures and computer-generated pictures may well 
represent the last gasp of Pop art, the gaudy flowering of its final 
decadence. But so what? It’s here, it’s happening, and I’m hopelessly 
smitten."

2. http://www.no2010.com/

3. See artivistic's call for proposals here:

Call for participation

*TURN*ON
Artivistic 2009 (Fall)*
Montreal, Canada

The world to come is so sexy. We are unstoppable for we are fueled with 
an incredible urge to embrace the pleasure provided by difference, 
exchange and freedom. Our actions today are charged with an energy that 
is animated by the rise of change and a movement that is simply 
irresistible.

New movements are arising at the intersections of sex, politics and 
technology. These movements are inspired by, as well as critical of, the 
long traditions of struggle they stem from, remixing gender bending, sex 
work (and play), and media activism. From body hacking to the implosion 
of the service economy, where are we today and what new possibilities 
can we envision and nurture?

For its upcoming fourth edition, Artivistic is going sexy. Discussing, 
questioning, and imagining the past, present, future, and infinite 
possibilities of sex. While keeping issues of power and control in 
question, we want to turn to the potency of pleasure, curiosity, humor, 
and desire in order to *TURN*ON* that which has yet to be thought and 
experienced differently.

Building on previous generations of gatherings, Artivistic 2009 asks the 
following questions:

    *

      What kind of world is worth fantasizing about? How can imagination
      act as a productive tool to think sex with and beyond the body?
      Fantasy always plays a role in political projects when we imagine
      the "world we want", but how does that fantasy become reality?
      Where does the line blur? What feedback loops are created between
      what we desire and the lives we live everyday?

    *

      What actually makes resistance irresistible? The different notions
      of sex, gender and sexuality draw our attention to the task of
      naming. That task can be appropriated in liberating ways. How do
      we move away from tired and troublesome terminology in order to
      create different relationships that unleash new ways of thinking
      (and relating) and new strategies for political action? How can
      reimagining sex contribute to a process of decolonization in every
      sense of the word?

    *

      What are the alternative infrastructures of sex? Sex is
      everywhere. Everyone talks about sex and this can tend to be
      polarizing and unproductive. /How/ we address sex might get us
      somewhere more, say... stimulating, by welcoming the critical
      analysis of the production and consumption of sex, and an
      exploration of self-organized, even intimate, initiatives. What
      new libidinal economies of service and information are emerging
      with respect to sex work and how can we struggle for the rights of
      communities forging these new paths?

In line with the self-organized aspect of the upcoming gathering, the 
Artivistic collective seeks proposals that intervene in the very 
(infra)structure of the event, welcoming proposals that involve food, 
space, venue, communications, hardware, software, skill sharing, 
documentation, dissemination and so on. The gathering further encourages 
submissions that take on the challenge of collective participation and 
collaboration, opening onto unconventional praxes and theses of 
knowledge production.