Department of Biological Flow
Jewel Box
2013
ballizein poetics (no.2)
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[google docs live editing (or a dance floor) > 2 artificial identities + 1 opening + hearst castle inspiration + joules > james zabiela/sasha involv3r time constraint and emergent poem = ‘jewel box’]
Department of Biological Flow
In Security
(re)mixed media
work-in-process
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“red..stitches..memories…births..scars..scarring memories… triumphant cries” (mom)
Spin the bottle
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Dark matter, this
All fumble and handed
Strange charmer you
Are (will be (already)
You
You
Fall toward midnight
Depths pulling darkly
Strong our way curving
There, warmer than the
Math said dizzy (x) we
Expon’t upon these
Intensity pulsings
Here, these (x)yzz-vectors
Beginning to tremble we
Flip
Right through the bottle
Left you silkspinning
Still.
So stellar, this
Department of Biological Flow
Pac-Man Death Ritual
2012
process machine for kleinian gamespace
Austin, Texas
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An aesthetico-ethical gamespace is pre-imaged in Austin, TX, featuring a topological folding of the infamous Pac-Man videogame. The Department of Biological Flow players are to move in variations of 8-bit robotic through grid-like formations around an irregular gameboard.
Banana rewards await, and will be ingested.
Just as Pac-Man folds in upon itself at death, so too will the players — attempting an inversion of the body as if a contracting klein bottle in the death throes of impulsion. The banana peel remains — as remains — of this infolding or unfolding. And again and again, until the gaming process is complete.
Only en route do they find out the gamespace has already begun.
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Performance time: approximately 3.5 hours or 20 minutes.
Department of Biological Flow
minute second third
work-in-process
performance
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keywords: versus, sprinting, subway, dromology, clinamen, polygon, surveillance, exhaustion, tangent, vertigo, skin, curves
Like an ear or a seashell
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Stippling hives braille breathlessly
Bloody jam and sticky sense of
Diff’rence pitters past manifold
Shimmering sweet for all that
Feel its weightless worth in bold.
Knittering knots fail needlessly
Small sutra sutures given wing
For egress statements manifest
Smoothing slow vast digital
Velvet vistas far from rest.
Department of Biological Flow
NASA (New Analog Space Anticipation)
2012
performance and video
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The Museum of Human Achievement
Austin, TX
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The moiré — as a spacing operation of grids laid upon one another — is not the same as Deleuze and Guattari’s smooth space emerging or escaping from the limits of striation, nor is it the same as the holey space that connects the striated and smooth via declination or vortical movement. And yet its watered silk still offers us a hydraulic model to perceive, but only when we are in movement. When standing still the traces of the moiré’s interference pattern remain as afterimages, barely perceptible — though it has only come to life in the first place once we have as well: in movement (cf. the discontinuity of Massumi’s ‘movement-vision’??). Rippling, shimmering: as we move with these grids our relation unfolds to suggest previously unseen contours and trajectories lying dormant within the metric machinery of these information ecologies.
