orsolya bajusz - open call
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First Exercise (3 – 4.30pm, Sunday 30th August at LIMBO, Unit 5, 7-‐17 Latona Road, SE15 6RX, London)
The first intervention would be a teambuilding game, to prepare for the second intervention, a self-‐help circle. The teambuilding game is “The Making of the Ur-‐Omelette.” The playground is the circular non-‐horizon, where subjecthood formation unfolds. Should somebody want to progress/start at all, not participating is not a choice, just like with all the other playful teambuilding games of LDN UK. The playground is there for the enactment of the re-‐formulation of subjecthood -‐ a circular non-‐horizon. I hope there will be lots of people “we” respectively hate -‐ right-‐wing nuts, or just total strangers “we” feel we have nothing in common with. Membranes will be dissolved and as rigid boundaries expose the horror of each of us allegedly being an island, propose boundaries, expose the horror of the same forces animating you or I, or any random obnoxious idiot. To sort of arbitrarily paraphrase G. Simondon: ‘The living individual amplifies itself without stabilising itself, at the most primitive level similar to a state in which a crystal is being born.’ Also don't forget the whole world is an egg. New clothes and optimal environmental circumstances will be provided. Those allergic to eggs, or too concerned with health and safety need not bother. Second Exercise (3 – 4.30pm, Sunday 30th August at LIMBO, Unit 5, 7-‐17 Latona Road, SE15 6RX, London)
"Activism has turned into one big group therapy session. It doesn’t matter what we accomplish—what matters is how we feel about it. The goal of the action isn’t to change the material balance of power, it’s to feel “empowered”… This rerouting of the goal from political change to inner change is the reaction of both a spoiled, self-‐absorbed people, and the utterly desperate, desperate to do something, anything." -‐ Lierre Keith This exercise creates a self-‐containing space to contain self-‐pity. The circle might have no end and beginning, but it certainly has an inside and an outside. This will be a self-‐help circle in which to share problems with temporality (“I am not made for my time”), with or without re-‐enacting the carefully cultivated PR-‐personas.
Whether one decides to pursue success in either logistics or violence (or through whichever terms one conceives of any structured logic) eventually beliefs, roles and customs have to become one with the pursuer. From secret societies ,or institutions of elite soldiers having to be initiated through murder, depending on the particularities of the given military training, either cultivating or oppressing the berserker circuits in our nervous system, to psychotherapy or liberal feminism aiding the transmuting of anger, or new cults like “spiritual capitalism” helping engineer the affective states of the docile neoliberal citizen. Successfully engaging with a given field has a price (more often than not ones soul, flesh, blood) and more often than not this price has to be paid in a slowly drawn out, agonising manner through culturing the self through the subjectification practices (culture) of the respective professional field. In fact even class-‐ based identity is becoming affective, something to be felt and articulated as such-‐ “I am privileged to love my job”. Culture also supplies us with the right kind of vision ( = success) to be pursued, the ocularcentric fields of professional creatives, culture-‐makers have to busy themselves with most dazzling ones -‐ how otherwise would anyone be ready to believe that haircutting is creative, but staying alive one night out on the street is not so much? Creative practices too are structured by the logic of capital, yet as we are entering a new era of production and consumption, it seems less and less clear what exactly this logic entails, canons change, and ontology competes with ontology. This plunges us into new, endless creative opportunities for self-‐pity. No wonder people have so much of the thing. Our pitiful topics would be: linear time, the idea of cause and causality in a linear manner, or the extension of one’s life and self constrained within linear, clear, measurable and quantifiable boundaries, the self as something to be cultivated along set trajectories -‐one needs to work on being a loveable human and deserving of love, one needs to work on knowing themselves better and thus being able to perform better, so on so on. Participants are encouraged to talk about how they suffer from time passing by, having to grab the moment, wasted opportunities on every corner, calendars, clocks in public, having to carry the weight of history, of revenge, being afraid of birthdays, the horror of the spreading of the quantified self movement, life logging, and the media representation of ageing, having to work by a self-‐timer app, having to clock in an out of work with a card, or just a longing for alternative modes of temporality. There is no “message” to submit, no set goal to reach, the conversation does not need to address the philosophy of the event, or refer to any actual clocks. The project is open ended, the only constraint is the time of the hired talents, who will be paid for one hour. Third Exercise (6pm, Sunday 30th August at London Bridge Station, Meeting on the inside of the Shard exit)
“I am the quasi-‐case, I am my own operator” Human capital development strategies on display – embodied / performed. A few yogic acts will be put on display, balancing between affects of precarity -‐ if being devoid of money (asking for it) is read as a playful gesture it is tolerated, even read as 'good practice', but there is less and less place for those whose poverty is inscribed on the body. We don't need expensive clothes or DVDs or personal trainers, we self-‐develop and have the guts to turn it into a carefully positioned spectacle and ask money for it. Have you ever wondered how low does a downward dog have to go to bypass the Vagrancy Act of 1824? I think there is no need to worry – [a] contemporary art is most often read through its lowest common denominator which leads people to [b] agree that it is a good thing that a nice young foreigner does something for the community and busies herself with raising awareness about homelessness. If the Riot Wombles have gotten away, the public in this city really has a high threshold. Orsolya produces work across multiple platforms, preferring to work in collaboration, networked practices or anonymously. She is interested in art beyond conventional means of representation and object-‐centric narratives. Recently she is concerned with two things. Firstly, the utilisation of existing art methodologies and toolkits to examine strategic means of presentation. Secondly, the role and agency of art in the quest for new ontologies and new visions for the fundamentally networked and interconnected states of (not-‐quite-‐so) individual self-‐hood. www.obajusz.blogspot.co.uk LIMBO is a fledgling arts facility, located in South East London and organised by Charlotte Lindsey-‐Cook, Joe Highton, Victor Ruiz Colomer and Imogen Stanley. This event was co-‐curated with Olivia Foster. www.limbolimbolimbo.com
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