On 06/27/2015 08:53 PM, pin@riseup.net wrote:
and probably for print :
MicroMacropleasure Open laB
Focus by zooming in and out.
Over the course of the research the lab will research connotations of production (modi operandi) by a synthesis of actions, choreographies, sculptures, prototypes and installations. The Lab will pervert the streamlined
techniques of traditional medical devices, which are determined by functionality and profit. The logics of efficiency will be scrambled in favor of excess and pleasure. The research of the body as a static 'object' is extended nto a body in flux of cellules, energy and desire.
MicroMacropleasures enters directly into the philosophy of biopower, by making our bodies the most desirable technology and by using scientific processes as a testing ground.
By activating the body's extrasensory perceptions, the lab reconnects our ability to enable microorganisms in the macro universal organism that we together inhabit.
We will question (once again) what medical and cultural institutions (have refused) banished/expatriated from the comons of knowledge.
In exploring these intra-related questions the proto matter/experience, created by multiples experiments/activities will expose the body as a diffracted entangelement, an agency which becomes what would later be defined as a non identities or diffracted entities.
Lab Sessions will culminate in a performative presentation in which visitors can try on and wear the prototypes and samples.
The open lab becomes a proposition: the mediator of boundaries and comfort (?) as it binds the viewer’s body to the work.
the performance of knowledge
As a karen Barad defines :
Barad propose that true knowledge has an experiential performative aspect--what I am calling “the performance of knowledge.” Instead of representing an independent world, this perfomative aspect encompasses the relations and exchanges (i.e., information, communication, intelligence) between bodies, objects, environments: an ongoing embodiment that emerges from our various capacities. Performing knowledge is an enactment of a world that is inseparable from the performing body. This performance restructures our very selfexperience changing our body, our chemistry, our muscles, the patterns of our neural connections—just as this performance changes the world through our participation in it. Thus, knowledge is more than something that you have, it’s something that you do – the performance of knowledge.