Dear Bassel Khartabil, responding to your call in this climate of urgency has been a liberating experience. Your work is especially heartening in the midst of an international climax that defies our previous definitions of conflict, and our understanding of its geographies. I was reminded of the significance of this in the emergency room yesterday:… Continue reading War-zones and battle-fronts / Dear Bassel Khartabil / Free culture
Category: running water
Forest School writing: What did I think this was going to be, the revolution? On the Free/Libre Arts Unconference and TropicalBurn
(1) Notes on the Free/Libre Arts Unconference and TropicalBurn / The difference between me and a free person July 2019, Ixodos at A Casa Lar, Tijuca Forest, Rio de Janeiro Are YOU able to trust in a fully participatory format? / On the academy as capitalist enclosure (edu-factory). / On the (arts) academy as a… Continue reading Forest School writing: What did I think this was going to be, the revolution? On the Free/Libre Arts Unconference and TropicalBurn
perhaps it’s the nihilism, OR “If I were to start over, I would have been researching public fountains”
The following is written in response / review to the State of the Monument (Nov 20, 2018 organised by the Cultural Studies and Contemporary Arts Lab, European University, Cyprus) via Loizidou, C. (2014) Commemoration, Public art and Memorial Politics in Cyprus, 1901-2013 [thesis] If monuments are about asserting or compensating for insecure regimes, then I… Continue reading perhaps it’s the nihilism, OR “If I were to start over, I would have been researching public fountains”
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top google keywords for my academic work, no joke.
The goddess position: negotiating natural childbirth in Cyprus, 2018 OR Overcoming Foucault by birthing in the clinic: A cultural historian’s near-orgasmic squat into ‘knowing’
I realised early on that I would have to be OK with peeing myself. It seemed counter-productive to labour towards opening up more and more and more with each contraction, and during this maintain an exception for bladder control. I would have to let go of that as well. (I had come across no explicit discussion of bladder control during labour anywhere in the literature and clearly this wasn’t the time to look it up, although in retrospect a birth story from Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth comes to mind, where a woman mentioned that the toilet was where she felt most comfortable. Perhaps she was troubled by the same contradiction while relaxing her pelvic floor. In any case, labouring in the loo was out of the question. I needed to keep moving.) This also meant that I wouldn’t be able to rest much on the bed: wetting the bed was an inhibition I didn't care to break, plus lying down during contractions seemed to make them shockingly longer and stronger.
on Kyriaki Costas’s waterways
7/4/2015 Writing while the project is still in development, I wonder how Kyriaki's work on water might develop in exhibition-format. That is, I wonder how what I understand as a thoroughly rhizomatic project will be set-up and crystallised into a series of artworks and / or an edited volume - a process of institutional distillation… Continue reading on Kyriaki Costas’s waterways
running water
This is being constantly rewritten, but at least it's out. The above, and the rest of its series by Lucas Inghile & Ayla El-Moussa, (I am compelled to start writing without going any further into their site) seems to draw on /rearticulate, a brand of fashion photography. A particular type of employment of the female… Continue reading running water
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