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*Hola Tod@s and Marc,
Sorry to be late in responding-but the holiDAZE here in this part the
world and travel kept me from responding to your
question Marc:
"So, this brings me to my question, do you see that our established
concept for borders are more than just regions and place, and if so -
how can we transcend them and what do these look like? Wishing you well.
marc"*
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*TBT is still a gesture in the process of becoming and unbecoming – it
is still shape shifting and performing itself into potential spaces of
use and poetics. TBT is border disturbance art that constitutes a
visible geo-aesthetic/geo-ethics gesture against the boundaries and
borderless borders that are crisscrossing every single body on the
planet. We call for a geo-aesthetics that starts at the nanoscale and
reaches up to dislocate the GPS (Global Position System) grid system
that floats around the planet. We call for a geo- aesthetics that
connects both the human and the inhuman, geography and ethics; which is
to say, we call for a geo-aesthetics that crosses into and dislocates
the smooth space of geo-spatial mobility with ethical objects that can
be used for multiple forms of sustenance and desires. We live in a world
where only goods and services have rights to cross borders, of things
and proto-things that create wireless clouds of data that facilitate
access and containment, of tran_border bodies, market bodies, and state
bodies – a world that is a chaosmosis of markets that demand global
exchange and aggressive state and social filters. We need a
geo-aesthetics that can construct ethical and performative complexities
for the /new earths /to come, or better said the /new//earths/ already
here between us, among us, and made by us, that will allow us to imagine
new geographies for new bodies – trans_bodies with transborder rights –
and artwork that can function as a geo-philosophy for bodies that are
flowing as transborder bodies across the arcs of the world.
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*The key practices that fractalize this geo-aesthetic are: artivism,
tactical poetries, hacktivism(s), new media theater, border disturbance
art/technologies, augmented realities, speculative cartographies, queer
technologies, transnational feminisms and code, digital Zapatistismo,
dislocative gps, and intergalactic performances.
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*Abrazos grandes,
ricardo
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