Inmates based in a juvenile prison, correction center are overcoding the rule systems of their surveilled spaces with the re-staging of a Soul Train: a line dance which was practiced in the seventies in an afro-american TV show called Soul Train. The imprisoned participants will perform an improvised line dance in a fictive,anonymising mask/costume [...]
kotomisi – non essential mix Vol 1 is a diagram of ornaments and voices, clothes and foldings, performative inventions , audio pieces, and radio tracks.
link to Performance-videos: kotomisi /as not / MacGhillie
exhibitions
Shedhalle Zürich, “connect”, 14.7.-11.9.2011
Moscow Biennal, “DADA Moscow”, 22.9.-30.10.2011
Museo Maga, Gallarte (I), 25.9.- 29.10.2011
kotomisi denotes a traditional piece of clothing of female slaves [...]
macghillie is roaming around, defying a goal, without intention, withdrawing from purpose, crossing the cybernetic loops. macghillie defies classification, attributions are shifted into the void, no will to communicate. recognition does not help. how long this can last in a postutopian space? are there moments for something that does not want to be anything?
A participative dis/play – Is the voice of the piece renarrating a TV-report about a failed and half way interrupted attack of a Palestinian boy on an Israelian checkpoint, or, unfolding a fictive imagination about a hybridisation of the suicide bomber with a military robot and its surrounding security architecture into an undecodable animated being?
werde los, Funktion, drucklos
[infected, as not] : infection room + urban project — in development
The [infected, as not] project introduces a new figure, an ephemeral urban border crosser, an infected being, into the grey zone of the human-animal distinction. The [infected, as not] are creatures that intensify the zone of indistinction between human [...]
Opaque Presence / Manual of Latent Invisibilities
ed.: Andreas Broeckmann , knowbotic research
156 pages, Broschur / ISBN 978-3-03734-108-7
published by diaphanes Berlin, Edition Jardins des Pilotes
Hacking the City 05.06 – 26. 09. 2010
Folkwang Museum Essen
Kuratorin: Sabine Schmidt
FEEDFORWARD. The Angel of History
Cleaning up after the 20th century. What is progress now?
The Angel of History addresses the current moment in history where the wreckage of political conflict and economic inequality is piling up, while globalized forceslargely enabled by the “progress” of digital information technologies inexorably feed us forward. The exhibition title references Paul [...]
BlackBenz Race BBR focuses on the often hidden space of Albanian migrants in Switzerland. BBR is aiming to render temporarily visible the dynamics of the Swiss/Albanian migrational space by conducting a semi-fictional car race from Zurich (CH) via Bari (IT), Tirana (AL) and Tetovo (MAZ) to Pristina (Kosovo, UNMIK controlled) and back to Zurich. A [...]
A NEWBORN sign was circulating through the media, i.e. New York Times, Syndey Morning Herald, BBC and Pravda, and had been made visible by hundreds of internet-postings in blogs, Flickr and Youtube. The media presence made the sign apparently hyperprecise and generic: One could get any information about the sign: Produced by the global advertising [...]
A fight broke out in Mishimishimabowei-teri during the anthropologists Chagnon and Asch’s stay in this village in 1971. The conflict developed between the villagers of Mishimishimabowei-teri and their visitors from another village.
Adam Curtis, BBC, re-examined the fight 2001 and asked, “You don’t think a film crew in the middle of a fight in [...]
“naked bandit / here, not here / white sovereign” […] addresses places where suspects are held, and where their rights as citizens and their legal status as prisoners of war are suspended. In their participative installation […], knowbotic research have created a setting in which the arbitrariness of anonymous free-floating power can be perceived, but [...]