[mf2012] building towards a network insurgency

[shu lea cheang]

yeah

i appreciate this going back in time....in quotes.

Rachel
Question: Can we move beyond mapped representations of the City as CPU and
'take to the stage to wreck the fetishistic performance' in an
'unauthorised, illegitimate production'?


>>>  let's get back to the larger quotation, the context-
"Those responsible for creating the imaginary world prohibit themselves from
communicating real life, turning real life into madness; they fabricate
angels of seduction and little monsters of fear in order to display them
to the miserable rabble through the networks and circuits that transmit
the sanctioned hallucination. [ . .] To rise up from the ' registered
location,' to take to the stage to wreck the fetishistic performance:
that is what the metropolitan guerrillas of new communication have set
out to do from the start. "


Fundamentally, moving forest scenario sets up the fabricated tales, a king
with non-tangible kingdom, an estblished structure within a 
unpreditable structure.
There is no accidentally uprising in this case, (or in any case of 
the real life).
it has to be thoughtful , schematic maneuver. The forces are 
registered, like an IP address,
being pirate or not, you are identified within a larger network system.
When you say "unauthorised, illegitimate production'", you already 
point a power
division. Who is to authorise and legitimate moving forest performance?
Or is this the complex underdog symdrome? actually a status hype?
Who are we asking permission? or who are we held responsible?
In this case, does Pardade Ground location legitimate us? or as james (stevens)
questioned, do we go for "posh housing project with inlaid LED things"?
There is nothing to move beyond, but to move within and out.


Josie
  >>>Do we want to create a guerilla counter-games, a
transgressive communications triathlon, an energy expenditure spree of
olympian pointlessness, a relay race of relentless transmissions of
subversive messaging, maps of the olympic Lager? Anti-citizenship tests?

relay is a great notion.
If moving forest is rendered as a game, preempting the august game,
let the playground knows no dome, no city limit.

last december, i visited Harwood at Southend in between workshops...
the concept of network insurgency was brought up... I do not refer to
Gordan's CPU mapping of Shenjen as the model mapping Moving Forest
should be taking... it is the 'logical order' that we are breaking away from...

hang a few more laundry, it makes the wind of revolt....

love u both
sl