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’]
I WANT TO BE A SUICIDE BOMBER
> ha. i tried it and most definitely do not want to be one.
> Barb F: what were you saying about vortexes on january 12, 2046?
> wtf.
> well, perhaps, I should have known that this book doesn’t apply to North Americans
> as a deleuzian you shouldn’t buy into identitarian politics so readily.
> well perhaps you shoudn’t jump into a typically American response so readily
> first of all, i’m not american. second of all, there’s nothing typically american about the response: i got as close to this without actually doing it as i possibly could and/or wanted to, and i definitely decided, from as knowing a place as i could, that i do not want that. nor do i want to valorize it —- EVER —- in the name of theory.
> i wish you the best in your endeavours, but they are not my endeavours —- either by theory or praxis.
> ah Americans, nothing can save you from stupidity!
Lin Tianmiao
Focus
2001
digital c-type print on canvas, hair, silk threads, cotton threads
95 1/4” x 5” x 69 3/4”
Traditional Indian dance mask from the town of Monimbo, adopted by the rebels during the fight against Somoza to conceal identity. Nicaragua, 1978.
Alan Bennett
Klein Bottle
1995-96
glass sculpture
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when i’m describing relation being simultaneously bubble and weave, this is the best visual approximation of what i’m suggesting … put this into rotational motion and you have a self-contained vortex … what puts it into motion? … affects, desires, psychic fields, material vibrations, electromagnetic transfers, etc., with other klein bottles? … the “opening” of the klein bottle as sucker or sphincter, in non-touch contact with other openings … can there be a sort of n-dimensional klein bottle with n-openings to describe our n-relations? and how do we understand n+1, n-1 deleuzoguattarian relations with this interpretive model? … the klein bottle as umbilicus and placenta of copoietic impulsion — in material, psychic and semiotic connection — giving birth to one’s self-in-relation … the outer surface of the klein bottle is composed of razor sharp fractal edges … we are told we may create a klein bottle by suturing two moebius strips together, one right-handed and one left-handed … is bennett’s klein bottle illustrated above a version of n-dimensionality? …
Patricia Reed
The One As The Many (Purple Square)
2011
purple election ink on paper
132 X 132 cm
(installation view and detail)
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Aesthetic Management: “The same ink that is used in new democracies to prevent election fraud by marking ones finger (remaining for three days), has been used to performatively stamp a surface with the single index finger of the artist, creating an inconsistent monochrome.”
