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I was not offended when you looked at me and I realized that there was no one in my place to look at you back. I comprehend. Seriously, I have strange feelings about the different wars that are going on in the universe and I am ready to take some action, very serious action. No jokes. This is not some kind of whatever mechanism that you find in a shopping mall or you fish from the pockets of extremely annoying weirdos while they’re sleeping. Flowers in the middle of the unspeakable, caramelized news behind curtains in front of other curtains and all of them become layers and some kind of onions that all my friends talk about; it’s over for my cup of tea. It is empty talk. We got used to talking with our fingers or pretending that if I wink, you will get what I mean, but I want you to get something and if you think this is a problem then you have an issue, which a dentist can take care of. First of all it is about the dogs. Something went wrong with the dogs in the mastermind cities and all of them have their own leashes. The parks are brighter, too many lights to keep any secrets, the smoking is not permitted and all of us we have one particular something to take care and especially ourselves. Then, I missed all my friends in a well-established university. I’m bored and I don’t know why. I never have enough money to go up and down anywhere. The issue here is that no one, I’m telling you no one, is going to take care of you. Just think about it when you look at me;

Georgia Sagri

One

Opening and Performance Dec 11th 2010 8-10pm @ SOTOSO, Brussels http://www.sotoso.org/a/a/imgboard.htm

Note

Violence is not taken, is acted up at the moment of the oppression. In order to take it back you need to be a part of violence at the moment of the oppression. If you are not a part of it you are in a life in which you don't have any desire to take anything back.

Community in a state of civil war is a false community. What that means? It means that a subject in a state of civil war can’t be part of a community. A subject in a state of civil war will always be in a state of emergency. The community in a state of emergency is always formulated within the community for reasons of survival. There is a distinction then between the subject of survival and that of life. The subject inside the community for reasons of life is to create the conditions of forms of life and not the conditions of survival. Life forms are not waiting from someone to name them as such. So, in a way life forms only exist in the presence of non-identity. How we can talk about a political subject without identity? How we can name a party when there is no one to identify it as such? A community for reasons of life owns such complex regions that it will be hard for someone to give them a distinctive name. What would be then interesting here is not to focus on the question of name but how that community can maintain its complexity so no one will be able to name it. Complexity here is not a construction or a refusal of construction of an identity but the creation of life forms that can maintain their particularity. On the first book of Plato's Republic, Socrates says that injustice causes civil war and by a civil war even a single individual is incapable of achieving anything, because he is in a state of civil war and not of one mind; second it makes him his own enemy, as well as the enemy of just people. How then we expect the creation of community in the state of civil war? What kind of community that would be? Are we interested to examine, to follow strategies and to create community in a state of civil war when we know that even as singularities we are enemies of ourselves, even when we know that our communities will fall into patterns of survival by creating them in a state of civil war? Are we interested to imagine forms of life outside the environment that creates them? Is it useful to think of that ? why ?

civil war

humanity against economy
economy against technology
technology against nature
nature against the earth
earth against the galaxy.

The governmental politics is a construction. Construction is representation. In order to have something out of the state which is a stage of the image then we need to realize that the subject is part of that stage as well. The subject although in display must be able to create life forms. What is that outside the image? Is it creative to think outside of the image? What about virtual reality and telepresence ? It is interesting to consider cross-sensory explorations between stereo visual imaging and auditory dimension. After images. Thresholds. Physiological resonances. Acoustic spaces of felt sound phenomena, experienced eithersubliminally, or making recognizably direct physical resonances to the body. Composite mental images of immersion in space, as in stereo vision; direct physiological experience of an acoustic space, as distinguished from the perception of an acoustic space, aurally, as "image."

Those thresholds inside the image are images. The thing that makes them different is that they don't exist topologically and they are constantly changing dimensions and users. There is no separation between who is producing and who is consuming. Composition (production-consumption) throws a party every night and there will be soon no institution to prevent where, when and by whom this may happen.

Time issues might sound banal for some.

Real and symbolic become the same in this variety of praxis. Ideas become commons and exist in multiple spaces. Can still mathematics count the flow of those different spheres? Free mathematics, counting systems and pressure measures will be the next important concern.

Note

For rhythms

If you don't know the way

you can clap your hands and

figure it out.

Then maybe you can set

patterns.

Design

a song

Make a beat

loop it for millions of times

and sing words

Things you see around

Two snickers

A hug

The appliance electronic giants

and a backpack

You let the sound be

and you can just leave.

Note- I thank the city who

My friend Stefanos died and I thank the city that remains the same. I can walk on that corner we talked this dream and argument and I can stay there for a while and it won't be so hard to say bye.

why are some people hot in clothes? - for Stefanos only-

wHY aRE sOME pEOPLE hOT iN cLOTHES?

animal nudity are not going to address this issue, instead they are
going to celebrate the once (scantily) dressed kelly lebrock this
saturday at cakeshop. a FREE concert for ALL ages with 25 bands being
all geeky and amazing. at the strike of midnight get ready to
experience "weird science" as you've never seen it before with sounds
provided by hells hills.
the international KELLY LEBROCK'S bday invitational w/ 25 bands, each
playing 10mins.

animal nudity coming on stage at 10.50pm.
see full lineup at
http://www.cake-shop.com/calendar/calendar.php?year=2007&month=03

animal nudity currently consist of stefanos tsigrimanis (guitar) and
performance artist par excellence georgia sagri (cello). the two of
them have never played together before and have vowed to destroy any
evidence of their upcoming performance so that they can claim the same
thing for future events. they are both theoretically entrenched in the
concepts of amnesia and improvisation. expect nothing less.

cakeshop
152 ludlow st.
kelly lebrock bday celebration, sat 3/24, 8pm - midnight

cAPITALIZATION kILLED tHE lOWERCASE sTAR

set yr alarm clocks, mark yr calendars, tattoo yr forehead if you will: animal nudity at club midway, next thursday, 4/26 at 9pm.

ear-splintering moments of ritualistic silence and sprawling improvisatory excess for guitar/cello/voice.

animal nudity are stefanos tsigrimanis (guitar) and georgia sagri (cello, vox). they promote forgetfullness and they advocate the institutionalization of sesquipedalian verbiage as the next step towards amnesia. they like reading and being read. expect nothing less.

a video of their last performance can be found at: www.myspace.com/animanudity

club midway, thursday 4/26

25 avenue b, btw 2nd and 3rd

$5

sean mccaul, 10pm

animal nudity, 9pm

top down, 8pm

animal nudity's final appearance for this year at one of nyc's most celebrated dens of iniquity: siberia.

guitar/cello/vox+freemprov+coordinated+randomness+amnesiac+differentiation

a video of a recent performance of theirs can be found at www.myspace.com/animanudty.

animal nudity, 10pm

siberia

356, w40th st,, btw 8th and 9th

$8, 21+ w/ID

Exodos- 13/9/2010

The demand is made by the movement of the mirror reflecting the parliament, the city, the passers by and the faces, the buildings' details and the streets.

Note -exit, virtuosity and revolution: the political theory of exodus, Paolo Virno

"Nothing is less passive than flight. The "exit" modifies the conditions within which the conflict takes place, rather than presupposes it as an irremovable horizon; it changes the context within which a problem arises, rather than deals with the problem by choosing one or another of the alternative solutions already on offer. In short, the "exit" can be seen as a free-thinking inventiveness that changes the rules of the game and disorients the enemy. One has only to think of the mass flight from the factory regime set in motion by the workers of North America halfway through the nineteenth century as they headed off to the "frontier" in order to colonize low-cost land. They were seizing the truly extraordinary opportunity of making their own conditions of departure reversible."

ok, but is it possible to act as if you are outside the action? how can you construct action already being outside of it? To depart from, means that you are already part of something or you are somewhere that you depart from. The possibility of the action of exit cannot create space which you can depart from. The question is who makes the space that you depart from. Is it the same one who makes the space and he/she departs from it? Is it a different kind of departure when it is a space of your creation or someone else's ? When is the right time of departure when the space you have made it's already made as a space of exit?

Note

we want to be part of a conversation. i don't want to be part of any conversation. it is not about i tell you something and then you buy it or sell it at the end. it is about you tell me something and then i sell it at the end. it is not about closed dialogues. it is only about closed dialogues. as artists we can't still think we are out there just to sell our stuff. as artists we are out there to sell our stuff. collaboration is just simple as that. collaboration is complicated and tiring and by the way i hate this word. collaboration is beyond ego, creativity is owned by everybody and not only from creative people. collaboration is only about ego and creativity well we are going too far. you have to get over yourself and stop assuming you are some genius and that everybody is an idiot and you have to collaborate with everybody, with peers, with people you have no common language, with groups coming from different cultures and fields. i don't want to collaborate with anyone and you are an idiot. art can't be outside of the conversation and artists can't still think of themselves as special people. i am more special than you think i am, do you want a kiss? reality runs faster than any artist's idea. reality doesn't exist anyway, do you want a kiss? i can't waste more time to think of another art-project, i prefer to participate in terms of reality not art. Buy all my wasted time and i will not care if you participate or not.

Note

Landscape with Diogenes, Nicolas Poussin, c. 1647, Oil on canvas, 160 cm x 221 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris

"According to one story, Diogenes went to the Oracle of Delphi to ask for its advice, and was told that he should deface the currency, and Diogenes, realizing that the oracle meant that he should deface the political currency rather than actual coins, traveled to Athens and made it his life's goal to deface established customs and values." The difficulty of the prophesy to Diogenes lies in the fact that the alter of the currency, refers to the change of the political currency and state currency but also to the actual face of the coin. With the current socioeconomic chaos seems that the prophecy is solved because the currency has no face anymore. Economy acts out through fiat money, let it be done money. Money counts time and only, time of exchange, time of investment. The central image on the coin doesn't exist, the superior face is gone and we don't believe in it; and if we have any memories or symptoms of belief they count nothing. We are sure now, more than any other time that capital exists in its own world, in its own time, acting out capital. Diogenes was a living example of another possible political currency but he didn't amend the face of the actual coin, the currency itself. I wonder at the current political and economic situation without thinking the "coin's" altered symbolic, material and representational state we will end up talking and acting politically although there is something more drastic to be done. In order to alter the political currency we need to think of it in connection to the changed currency. We cannot distinguish those two. If the face is already destroyed then our work is to make time, separate of the entropy of capital and political examples.

Note - The Open, Man and the Animal by G.Agamben

"..Every environment is a closed unity in itself, which results from the selective sampling of a series of elements or "marks" in the umgebung*, which, in turn, is nothing other than man's environment. The first task of the researcher observing an animal is to recognize the carriers of significance which constitute its environment. These are not, however, objectively and factically isolated, but rather constitute a close functional- or as Uexkull prefers to say, musical- unity with the animal's receptive organs that are assigned to perceive the mark (Merkorgan) and to react to it (Wirkorgan). Everything happens as if the external carrier of significance and its receiver in the animal's body constituted two elements in a single musical score, almost like two notes of the "keyboard in which nature performs the supratemporal and extraspatial sympony of signification", though it is impossible to say how two such heterogenous elements could ever have been so intimately connected.."

*the environment-world that is constituted by a more or less broad series in which we see a living being moving