Tag: empowerment
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Ceci n’est pas une pub. This is not a commercial.
This qr code links to a recording of a street improvisation by ordinary passers by, facilitated by Akutsk, using the Anthropomorfer. Sound graffiti you may call it, I use the name fonografiti. When using a qr code, we embark on the colonisation of the still rather virginal web based virtual track of the street. Although…
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Bikestruments, bridgestruments, anti padlock guerilla
Related articles Spelling out the invisible social wall (akutsk.wordpress.com) Help I’m a bike, curate me ! Giantophone (akutsk.wordpress.com) Lefebvre’s Spatial Vision of Revolution (pathtothepossible.wordpress.com) Brandalism, An Anti-Billboard Guerilla Art Campaign in the UK (laughingsquid.com)
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Building streetstruments: paint-bucket-bass, drain-trombone and sewer-chimes
First workshop: constructing streetstruments _ _ _ Second workshop: Collective improvisations on electrified streetstruments After the workshops: The streetstruments are left in their street, inspiring passers by to make their own street improvisations Related posts: Construction site interacts musically with neighbors Quotation: Lefebvre about the living disorder of the street The street sound activist’s toolkit
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Organisation’s lethal selfpreservation
Originally posted on Larval Subjects .: For the last couple of days, I’ve found my thoughts haunted by McKenzie Wark’s brilliant interview over at Occupy Times. Apart from Wark’s provocative claim that politics doesn’t exist– though perhaps it could come to exist, in a sense analogous to how Meillassoux talk of a “virtual god”? –this…
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Construction site interacts musically with neighbors
Concept: During a street art decoration of the wall around the local metro construction site, akutsk is making a ‘streetstrument’ workshop. The workshop is going to be in two parts: a streetstrument building workshop. In these weeks, I’m collecting debris from the construction. At the event August 11, these objects will be the material for…
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The street sound activist’s toolkit
The fundamental reason why I work with these “street interventions”, using the Anthropomorpher as a tool for inviting passers by in the street to make collective improvisations on the street’s sounds, is because I want to ignite a trend where people start making sound art as street art. There is no official name for this,…
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Spelling out the invisible social wall
Owing to the curious lay-out of the town it is quite possible for someone to live for years in Manchester and to travel daily to and from his work without ever seeing a working-class quarter or coming into contact with an artisan. He who visits Manchester simply on business or for pleasure need never see…
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How do we store the analogue?
Why is it so important to store analogue knowledge? Because our collectives with their extended analogue illiteracy waste to much energy and develop too many negative behaviours, instead of inspiring people to solve common problems in sustainable ways. Developing sustainable forms of analogue interaction is crucial to our collectives, but without an efficient method of…
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Learning from folklore / Reversed colonialism 2.0
It is characteristic for folklore activities that they include people non regarding age, gender, or body shape. I’m at my son’s capoeira graduation, batizado, and I see kids, 50 year old men, young people, tall or small, skinny or heavily build people, all engaged in the same activities, each with his/her own personal style. It’s…
Building Sound Collectives 