Unleashing the Collective Phantoms: Essays in Reverse Imagineering

Unleashing the Collective Phantoms: Essays in Reverse Imagineering Brian Holmes These insurgent essays develop and critique some of the cultural and artistic projects that first arose with the worldwide wave of protests, around the turn of the millennium, against what the global South has long called neoliberalism. Dissent and the refusal of a programmed existence return continually to the street, but they also unfold in the intimacy of the [...]

Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life:

Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life: Stevphen Shukaitis, Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life All power to the imagination? Over the past forty years to invoke the imagination as a basis for radical politics has become a cliché: a rhetorical utilization [...]

Speed, dromology and invisibility?

Speed, dromology and invisibility? Leonardo Electronic Almanac CALL FOR PAPERS Istanbul, January-30-09-10 SUBJECT Speed, dromology and invisibility? Deadline November 20, 2010 From the futurist’s speed through contemporary dromology to the disappearance of the human body? What are the future trajectories of a continuous process of acceleration? Is the disappearance of the body through artificial speed a process of invisibility or [...]

« Une politique de l’imagination »

Chimères n° 23 Cet entretien, où Félix Guattari interroge Franco Berardi sur la situation italienne, a été réalisé à Paris, le 10 décembre 1991, (Chimères n° 23). F. B. : Est-ce que l’imagination est fondée sur le pouvoir ou est-ce que le pouvoir est fondé sur l’imagination ? Je crois que dans la société dans laquelle nous vivons [...]

PER AMORE O PER FORZA. femminilizzazione del lavoro e biopolitiche del corpo

PER AMORE O PER FORZA. femminilizzazione del lavoro e biopolitiche del corpo « Donne e lavoro al tempo del biocapitalismo », Liberazione, 25 mai 2010 de Adelaide Coletti ” Nous voulons être à la hauteur d’un univers sans réponses” crie encore le Manifesto di Rivolta femminile de 1970 et le dernier livre de Cristina Morini “Per amore o per forza. Femminilizzazione del lavoro e biopolitiche del corpo” (” D’amour [...]

21 juin, conférence de Rosi Braidotti

«La philosophie… là où on ne l’attend pas» Apprendre l’art de raisonner dans un cadre et selon des règles bien précises, telle est la première mission de la philosophie. Mais aujourd’hui, dans une société dominée par la mondialisation et les nouveaux médias de communication, cette fonction vacille, et la philosophie contemporaine traverse [...]

« Sur Paris. Du parler sans la langue »

« Sur Paris. Du parler sans la langue  » Projet mixed media réalisé pendant la résidence à la Cité Internationale des Arts / Paris / 2008 Invités par la Mairie de Paris pour une résidence à la Cité Internationale des Arts, Francesco Ragazzi e Francesco Urbano entament une enquête sur le territoire. Il construisent une première cartographie en s’adressant à d’autres étrangers, interviewés au [...]

sexualisation de l’entreprise

sexualisation de l’entreprise L’agence médicale allemande Eizo propose douze pin-up photographiées aux rayons X. Le service a été réalisé par l’agence publicitaire Butter, et fait partie du calendrier produit par Eizo afin de publiciser ses machineries de radiographie à haute précision

quand une image est plus qu’une image

La Stéganographie est une technique grâce à laquelle on peut cacher un certain type d’ “information” par une autre. Comme l’information digitale consiste simplement en une séquence de bits, il faut qu’une certaine organisation vienne de l’extérieur : qu’elle soit, en quelque sorte, imposée. On impose une organisation, ce qui signifie aussi [...]

illegal_cinema #1 / W.R. MYSTERY OF THE ORGANISM

illegal_cinema #1 / W.R. MYSTERY OF THE ORGANISM TkH and Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers within illegal_cinema project invites you to film screening and discussion: W.R. Mystery of the Organism (Yugoslavia/West Germany, 1971) Directed by: Dusan Makavejev Duration: 84 min Presentation: Marta Popivoda Monday, May 24, 19:30, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers Dusan Makavejev is Yugoslav filmmaker, famous for his provocative and many times censored films in the late 1960s and [...]

Harun Farocki « Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges » (1989)

Ursula Biemann « World Sex Work Archive (WSWA) »

Ursula Biemann « World Sex Work Archive (WSWA) » World Sex Work Archive (WSWA) | 2003 ON THE SEXUALISATION OF FEMALE LABOR IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT The archive gathers video interviews and photographs documenting gendered aspects of the international division of labor and the particular migration movements that facilitate it. The focus of WSWA is on working and living conditions in transnational and post-urban sites such [...]

Ursula Biemann « Remote Sensing »

Ursula Biemann « Remote Sensing » Remote Sensing | 2001 VIDEO ESSAY, 53 MIN. 2001, ENGLISH Remote Sensing roams through the territories of the global sex trade moving us from orbit into women’s lives from Eastern Europe to East Asia. As Biemann explores the lifeworlds of sex workers, she invents a feminist media topography, layering her video perspectives of sexual [...]

Ursula Biemann « Writing Desire »

Ursula Biemann « Writing Desire » Writing Desire | 2000 VIDEO ESSAY, 25 MIN. 2000, ENGLISH http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZwJAliWYj0 Writing Desire is a video essay on the new dream screen of the Internet and how it impacts on the global circulation of women’s bodies from the third world to the first world. Although under-age Philippine ‘pen pals’ and post-Soviet mail-order brides have been part of the [...]

Ursula Biemann «Performing the Border»

Ursula Biemann «Performing the Border» Performing the Border | 1999 VIDEO ESSAY, 45 MIN. 1999, ENGLISH Performing the Border is a video essay set in the Mexican-US border town Ciudad Juarez, where the U.S. industries assemble their electronic and digital equipment, located right across from El Paso, Texas. Performing the Border looks at the border as both a [...]

22 juin, présentation de la revue ZAMÂN

22 juin, présentation de la revue ZAMÂN à l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art 2 rue Vivienne/25 rue des Petits Champs (M°Bourse ou Pyramides), 75002 Paris le mardi 22 juin, 18h30-20h00 en salle N.-C. Fabri de Peiresc (rez-de-chaussée) en présence du rédacteur en chef Morad Montazami et les contributeurs au numéro : Anahita Bathaie (artiste), Julien Audebert (artiste), [...]

Tomas Ochoa, « Mirror »

Tomas Ochoa, « Mirror » 4AM – GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR Pleaple standing in a line in front of the American Consulate. They were asked the following question: What race are you? What do you mean with “what race”? I am from Cuenca. What race? White. I am from Cuenca. White. Mestiza. [...]

Tomas Ochoa, « Indios medievales »

Tomas Ochoa, « Indios medievales » PART I : Los indios, movidos a cólera y envidia contra los españoles debido a la desmedida codicia destos vertieron oro fundido en boca de cuantos pudieron atrapar [...]

Tomas Ochoa, « Cineraria »

Tomas Ochoa, « Cineraria » FROM THE SERIES: CINERARIA 1-4 150 x 230 cm – 2009 mixed media (gunpowder) on canvas Cineraria 1 / 2009 Cineraria 2 / 2009 Cineraria 3 / 2009 Cineraria 4 / 2009 Cineraria 5 / 2009 Cineraria 5 (detail) / 2009 CINERARIA In this series, I am proposing an allegorical exercise, based on photographs drawn [...]

Tomas Ochoa, « Five dots »

Tomas Ochoa, « Five dots » “Five dots” examines the relationship between exercising punishment based on control over the body of the convicted subject and his resistance to power by virtue of [...]

Tomas Ochoa, from the series « Multitude »

Tomas Ochoa, from the series « Multitude » SAMMYS’ SHOW – ART BASEL / 2008 150 x 200 cm – 2008, mixed media on canvas. Private Collection WHO IS WHO – ART BASEL / 2008. 150 x 200 cm – 2008, polyptych, mixed media [...]

Rivane Newenschwander, Contingent, 2008. Digital video, 10 min 30 sec.

dehors !

dehors ! J’ai trouvé sur la revue Chimères cet édito de Valentin Schaepelynk que je reporte ici intégralement. Veuillez m’excuser de cette longue parenthèse (carrée) qui coupe avec l’excursus d’images et de mots mené jusqu’à présent, mais j’éprouve le désir d’enfoncer cette porte (déjà ouverte) sur la nécessité d’en venir à une vision la plus joyeuse possible [...]

Becoming intense, becoming animal, becoming…

Becoming intense, becoming animal, becoming… Le catalogue Becoming intense, becoming animal, becoming… rend compte de la partie artistique d’un projet, mené par l’Université de Heidelberg, qui analyse les questions de genre, de sexualité, de corps et de religion dans un monde transculturel, et notamment les divergences entre l’Asie et l’Europe. À partir du travail de onze artistes (dont seulement trois [...]

MARY ELLEN BUTE: SYNCHROMY No2 (1934)

Mary Ellen Bute a été une des pionnières du cinéma d’animation abstrait, en faisant tourner sa recherche autour de la musique visuelle (visual music). Elle a été une des premières metteuses en scène expérimentales aux Etats-Unis, et de 1934 à 1953 elle a mis en opéra 14 film musicaux abstraits. Beaucoup de ses films ont [...]

illegal_cinema #1 / W.R. Mysteries of the Organism

illegal_cinema #1 / W.R. Mysteries of the Organism TkH and Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers within illegal_cinema project invites you to film screening and discussion: W.R. Mystery of the Organism (Yugoslavia/West Germany, 1971) Directed by: Dusan Makavejev Duration: 84 min Presentation: Marta Popivoda Monday, May 24, 19:30, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers Dusan Makavejev is Yugoslav filmmaker, famous for his provocative and many times censored films in the late 1960s and [...]

illegal_cinema #2 – DAS ANATOMISCHE THEATER / MOUSE FILM

illegal_cinema #2 – DAS ANATOMISCHE THEATER / MOUSE FILM TkH and Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers within illegal_cinema project invites you to film screening and a discussion: Das Anatomische Theater, mouse film, interactive CD-ROM, (1999, Hungary) Directed by: Milorad Krstic, in collaboration with Radmila Roczkov Duration: 30min (in my version) Presentation: Ana Vujanovic Milorad Krstic was born in Slovenia in 1952. He graduated law at the University [...]

illegal_cinema #4 – Corps des zones inhabitables / Bodies from uninhabitable zones

illegal_cinema #4 – Corps des zones inhabitables / Bodies from uninhabitable zones Films projetés et discutés / Screened and debated films : UNDRESSING MY MOTHER (2004) Irlande, documentaire, 2004, Super 16mm, couleur, 6 min. Réalisation: Ken Wardrop Montage: Andrew Freedman Directeur de la Photographie: Michael Lavelle Opérateur Camera: Kate McCullough Son: Ruth Treacy Productrice: Kristin Brook Larsen Production: Venom Film Undressing my Mother est un documentaire poignant qui explore l’introspection singulière d’une femme sur son surpoids [...]

16 juin, Rédaction Publique aux Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers #2

16 juin, Rédaction Publique aux Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers #2 Chers participants à la première session de Public Editing, Public Editing #2 se tiendra le mercredi 16 juin à 19h30 aux Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, avec pour invité le philosophe Florian Schneider. Voici comment se déroulera cette session: 19h30 – 19h45 – introduction aux problématiques de la session (Bojana Cvejic et Ana Vujanovic, TkH) 19h45 – 20h15 – intervention de [...]

Curiosity and Horror: Transgenics, Cybernetics, and Evolution

Curiosity and Horror: Transgenics, Cybernetics, and Evolution Date: Saturday, April 3, 2010 Time: 8:00 Admission: $5.00 Observatory presents a an illustrated lecture with Shanna Maurizi, contributing artist to the current Observatory show Entomologia. Silkworms engineered to produce pharmaceuticals and hormones, cyborg dragonflies designed for high-speed missions and surveillance… In connection with her recent work, Shanna Maurizi has been delving into the nether regions [...]

Three Unique Medical Museums in Northern Italy

Three Unique Medical Museums in Northern Italy Self-portrait of wax modeller Anna Morandi Manzolini dissecting a human brain, Bologna An illustrated presentation by Marie Dauenheimer of the Vesalius Trust Date: May 1, 2010 Time: 8:00 P.M. Admission: $5 Presented by Morbid Anatomy Tonight’s visual presentation by Marie Dauenheimer will survey the collections of three unique and often over-looked anatomical museums in Northern Italy which [...]

Morbid Ink: Field Notes on the Human Memorial Tattoo

Morbid Ink: Field Notes on the Human Memorial Tattoo An Illustrated lecture with Dr. John Troyer, Deputy Director, Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath Date: Tuesday July 20th Time: 8:00 Admission: $5 Presented by Morbid Anatomy In 1891, Samuel F. O’Reilly of New York, NY patented the first “…electromotor tattooing-machine,” a modern and innovative device that permanently inserted ink into the human [...]

The Anatomical Unconscious: X-Ray Specs, Visible Women, and the Eros of the Unseen

The Anatomical Unconscious: X-Ray Specs, Visible Women, and the Eros of the Unseen Tweety Bird skull: Copyright Hyungkoo Lee, all rights reserved. An illustrated lecture with cult author and cultural critic Mark Dery Date: Friday, June 18th Time: 8:00 PM Admission: $7 Presented by Morbid Anatomy What do 18th-century wax “anatomical Venuses” doing a striptease in which they expose their internal organs; cutaway views of the imaginary anatomy of [...]

Electricity and the Body in Public Performance

Electricity and the Body in Public Performance An illustrated lecture by Torino:Margolis Date: June 15, 2010 Time: 8:00 P.M. Presented by Morbid Anatomy Please note: This lecture is paired with an event taking place on Tuesday, June 29; More here. Beginning with the first known public performance by Stephen Gray in 1729 and continuing through the present, scientists and artists have been exploring [...]

Event, Signal, Affect. The ‘Signaletic’ Event in Art, Culture and Politics

Event, Signal, Affect. The ‘Signaletic’ Event in Art, Culture and Politics Originally posted by Tatiana Bazzichelli at Networkingart.eu and reposted in http://www.thesaddj.com Conference-Colloquium, Aarhus University, June 12 &14, 2010, ADA building, room 333. This conference-colloquium at the Humanistic Faculty, Aarhus University, will relate to the widespread use of the concepts event and/or affect in contemporary research of media, art, philosophy, politics and culture. It is [...]