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naked bandit

export white_sovereign=’not_here() { while [ enclosed ] ; do echo “naked bandit: here, not here”; echo $white_sovereign| sed -e “s/ ( not_here ) /(& \& ) /g”> clone.sh; done; } ; ( not_here ) & wait $!’ ; sh -c “$white_sovereign” set-up for audio, code processes and the voice of the audience 

Algorithmic Colliders Luciana Parisi

  For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master’s house as their only source of support.[1] […]

knowbotic research, period 1993 – 2009

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manYdancing

knowbotiq’s manYdancing imagines dancing collective bodies with workshops, performances, and installations. Momentary encounters, relations of closeness, and surface structures are generated for various actors who want to let themselves be affected. In these situations, bodies and skins are augmented by fictive, molecular, everyday prostheses while techno-logical, techno-imaginary bodies are fabulated through metamorphoses. The praxis of […]

Amazonian Flesh

incantations

thulhu thu thu, before the sun harms you Incantation: Lamin Fofana Inscription: On the process of de-solidifcation of soil in environmental catastrophes. Especially in West Africa and in the Caribbean (see 2017 Sierra Leone mudslides and hurricanes in the Caribbean — Puerto Rico, Dominica and Bahamas). I’m thinking about “Erosion”, soil erosion, mudslides, and the […]

Amazonion Flesh_bots

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The Swiss Psychotropic Gold Refining

Script: The Swiss Psychotropic Gold Refining HD video, 21:13 min, © knowbotiq 2018 Concept, realisation, montage/animation: knowbotiq Script: Nina Bandi (Script: A Molecular Listening Session mit Fred Hystère und Nina Bandi), knowbotiq Sound: DJ Fred Hystère, knowbotiq Voices: Nina Bandi, Sally Schoenfeldt, Jord/ana Rosenberg, Romy Rüegger, Paolo Caffoni, Stef Huber, u.a. with quotes from: Karen […]

Swiss Psychotropic Gold – a critical fabulation

For more than three centuries, Swiss commodity trade has been caught up in colonial, and later in postcolonial and neoliberal entanglements. Having fuelled early modern industrialisation as well as contemporary finance, Swiss commodity trading activities have influenced vivid cultural, affective and moral economies.  They have contributed to Swiss wealth, but also to national narratives of […]

script: genesis machine

<JCVI-syn1.0> —– Mother Nature – a genetic engineer. thousands of years of crossbreed. The True and the Made are convertible,” “the True is precisely what is made” Luckily there is still company – human and not human The problem is that the rich and spoiled want a zero-risk society. We should stop being so overprotective. […]

script: oscillating at 40hz – vegetation young men became

  #||||||||||||||||||||#||||||||||||||||||# < the prosthetic body > Me, as landscape, speculating on extensions fabulating on prosthesis infiltrating the burdens you receive anonymously infecting you deeply with my formlessness, my molecular malaise highly contagious integrated, fused, reciprocal a parasitic take over What if you, you all being my prosthesis? Oh, quite bizarre when you all put […]

LETTRE à moi, moi-même et le DAHOMEY

  Digitale Video-briefe an die Kuratorin und Künstlerin Denise Lasagni anlässlich der Ausstellung Passant souviens-toi, dit Sœurette in der Médiathèque des Diasporas Place des Martyrs in Cotonou, Benin, 2017 Qu’est-ce qui moisit dans les archives? Sur ma, notre peau une multitude de bactéries roses fleurissent des millions d’histoires assemblées pas blanc pas brun pas noir […]