altar of trash — CosmiKnots — EAST COAST LOGISTICS

“Techno-Animism”

“The more computed our environment becomes, the further back it returns us to our primitive past, boomerangs us right back to an animistic world view where everything has a spirit, rocks and lions and men. So all the objects in the world become more responsive, things that were once regarded as dumb become addressable, and that universal addressability—a network of things—creates this enchanted landscape. Magic is literally in the air. And that is an altered state, and an endlessly productive one.”

Techno-Animism with John Kelsey, Katja Novitskova, Jacolby Satterwhite and Mark Leckey in Mousse Magazine

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SETTING OF A SERMON:
What do we see and what do we choose to look at?
What is vital, is visible, is virtual and valued attention?
What is overturned underground, forgotten from the surface?
How to begin to reconcile and re-cognize our footprints on the planet?

A TEMPLE OF ALTER-TIME
At the pulse of plastic
An altar of trash
A sacred surplus (of stuff)
Accept holey excess
Access holy space
of human x_here_x
a-men.

ReCap/Rewind/Move_Forward: Day2Details

CosmiKnots is envisioned a creative network embodying spirtu-ecological/decolonial concerns through live arts productions that stage critiques of contemporary issues and current events. Much as cosmonauts command control of a spacecraft, we imagined our co-conspirators and ourselves as physics-defying autopilots journeying through a universal entanglement of embodied dimensions.

In A Call=OUT B4 the Fall-OUT: Public Ceremonies for the Cult of Consumption, CosmiKnots includes #KrittyKouture, who brands herself as an avatar that seeks recognition through crafted composite of popular consumer expressions, which she critiques to be too simple; blonde, pink and bossy, she is a decoupage of all that she sees as being desired. She plays as a foil to Coupon, whose lack of cultivated taste is balanced by her glittered pop-color palette and daydream play. Then, we positioned a character known as guardian alien as a non-earthly conscious entity that watches the unfolding process of humanity’s planetary situation and our staged drama. Finally, our confused cult believer, Hardly/OK, straddled the state of suspension, stuck between ritual belief and bold refusal.

We were a mini-polity representing disparate figures for communication and conflict. And of course, excesses of consumer stuff surrounded us, bringing us figurative ‘believers’ in conversation with surplus garbage materiality habitually ignored. We wanted to create an inverted ritual space of commercial animist ‘worship’ for the performance-art public audience, though we also sought to touch on today’s obstacles in the collective orientation towards community. Although we published a schedule of events, we barely followed it; we were too busy being divided in conflict or collectively distracted by our digital devices. This played out the contemporary story of human life, celebrating through techno-material consumption but on the whole, still incapable of coming together in conscious unity.

Unexpectedly, on the second day, the character that played Hardly (Rachel J!<3) had an accident and went to the hospital. I could barely prepare for the performance knowing that my good friend had gotten into a total crash. Four became three — #KrittyKouture, Qpon and Guardian Alien (xfatherfigurex). Me, I could do nothing but turn my clown’s face into a frown, with blue sparkle tears literally falling down my cheeks… The next series in this tumblr cascade will be from Day 2: Crysis, Crisis –>>

“We are vital materiality and we are surrounded by it, though we do not always see it that way.”

“Techno-Animism”

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