CatArmy is a collective and a Hyperobject. We have supported Trans rights, BLM, feminism, and the environment. We use all tactics of art to bring people together and connect them on issues they care about. We are a mobile collective that can pop up anywhere at anytime. We are spiritual but claim no specific doctrine, though we are in support of belief in a goddess. We use the Bee as a symbol for the goddess and also to clue people into the symbiotic reality that we need other species to survive. Cats as well, Bastet is a goddess known to protect against illness and with the killing of cats in the Middle Ages due to superstition we had the plague. Art can be like a ritual. We hope to make a body of work together that is a ritual to save the world. Arrogant we know, but how can you be an artist and not fight for a world that will live to see your art. CatArmy is strongly influenced by what took place and developed out of Black Mountain College. What do we mean by strongly influenced by BMC? We took the principals of a happening, but we do something closer to a flashmob, and I’m calling this the year mail art broke. Mail Art is inside the internet and the internet is inside mail art. Also scores, which post flux scores paved the way for. If I can afford to make pamphlets I will make a CatArmy score where doing the score includes trying to get other people to do it and so on. What about making art in the age of the anthropocene? Part of making art in the age of the anthropocene is to realize our abject state, (humans are not on top) and also the ability to spread information is weak, we have to become Hyperobjects to effect anything. We do this by being mobile and repeatable like a dna code or mitochondrial dna. We are the bacteria that keeps art alive, injected back into the system to create an ecologically aware art that will “preserve an audience” for our activities. Saving the world is the only option an artist has left. Don’t hate the Hyperobjects become a Hyperobject is our creed.
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