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Some documentation of my ritual performance as a wiccan dolphin, burning some towers that represent binary gender.

process

For my final work I am going to combine this thinking about queer bodies and identities and sexuality and animals and the map of a guided meditation to make a work that "follows" the map of the guided meditation to its end point. I will do a performance piece as a dolphin ( an animal that represents western new age spirituality and also sexuality), taking the metaphor of the towers as socialised oppressive belief systems, in this case of binary gender but as I talked about before I think they could work as a series and be applied to other systems of oppression. Im going to move the towers from metaphors to physical sculptures and perform the end of the meditation where they are destroyed, and extend the work by swimming away into the sunset, performing a really cliche paradise image, as a queer body, as a human, as an animal, as rewilding, as an end point for humanity.

final assessment

MEDITATION TO BECOME AN ANIMAL

alot of ppl have done good talking n art making abut queer sexuality n animals, this is a good explanation from queermap.com

Animal

Homosexuality is linked with animals and animality. Jerry Falwell calls us “brute beasts.” We are seen to represent the carnal and sensual instead of the rational and spiritual, as if there were no dialogue between these realms. And yet the word “animal” originates in the Latin anima, meaning both soul and breath. Carl Jung used the word “anima” to describe the female element in every male, always so carefully concealed from others and oneself.

Man with Centaur, metal statuette, possibly early 8th century BC

We live in a society where human beings feel cut off from their identity with nature. The language of beasts seems strange and incomprehensible. The ancient and enduring connection between people and animals has been lost to consciousness, along with the emotional energy and intuitive wisdom it supplied. Gay and lesbian people can celebrate their animal nature. We can claim animal ancestors, totem animals, and animal powers. We can create queer as a lived understanding of biological diversity. Homosexuality invites us act and advocate for the wild.

Shadow: The animal nature requires attention. It can be attended through denial, expressed through pathologies and exorcised with self-righteousness. Or we can choose to honour the Animal integrate the Beast heterosexuality would project onto an “other.”

im going to make some become an animal guided meditations now

fem hypnosis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQNtrpEH_E

Fem- hypnosis is a form of guided meditation/ hypnosis that "helps you become a woman" ( there is a few "become a man" ones but its a drop in the ocean compared to the number of fem hypnosis youtube videos)

This is a pretty interesting n weird sub genre of guided meditation, kindof similar to the "become rich and powerful" ones, like very intense and manipulative language.. intense use of the word "natural", and the subtext of assumptions and intense cliches about trans women is easy to hear.

I would like to make some realistic ones like become a ocd computer programmer nerd with a lingerie fetish from a loving but conservative middle class family ect etc. or a "become a man" one that is a critique of western mascilinity.

The idea of using the platform of guided meditation to critique and recreate the projected ideals of what people should strive to become that are displayed here.

CONCIOUSNESS RAISING

Following on from making the guided meditation, I have been thinking about the potential for an extension of this concept- which is political education in the form of a guided meditation. The term "consciousness raising" was created by feminist groups in the 70s to describe the women's story sharing groups they held.

"In the Old Left, they used to say that the workers don't know they're oppressed, so we have to raise their consciousness. One night at a meeting I said, 'Would everybody please give me an example from their own life on how they experienced oppression as a woman? I need to hear it to raise my own consciousness.' Kathie was sitting behind me and the words rang in her mind. From then on she sort of made it an institution and called it consciousness-raising."

— Anne Forer

quoted by Susan Brownmiller in In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution, p. 21

The other was people talk about consciousness raising is in meditation and new age spirituality, talking about joining our collective consciousness and becoming aware of the ongoing destruction of our planet and species.

In relation to sexuality, which is kind of always a present thing in my work-

In the 1960s, consciousness-raising caught on with gay liberation activists, who formed the first "coming-out groups" which helped participants come out of the closet among welcoming, tolerant individuals and share personal stories about coming out. The idea of coming out as a tool of consciousness-raising had been preceded by even earlier opinions from German theorists such as Magnus Hirschfeld, Iwan Bloch and Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, all of whom saw self-disclosure as a means of self-emancipation, the raising of consciousness among fellow un-closeted individuals and a means of raising awareness in the wider society.

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this is a kindof joke meditation I made about how to become a badboy just to balance out the serious ones, and to look at the genre of self help as a bit of a desperate joke, even tho i'm also into it.

my instructions

1. Go for a walk and collect 2 flowers that you like the look/ smell of

2. take them to a private place where you can lock the door and where there is a mirror

3. lock yourself in the space or do what you need to to feel alone and safe/comfortable/private/present

4. take off all your clothes ( shoes, socks and accessories can stay)

5. place the flowrrs behind your ears, one each

6. make yourself as comfortable as possible infront of the mirror so all/ as much as possible of your body is visible to you

7. touch yourself while looking in the mirror until you reach orgasm

This is my response to the Do It instruction of STEVE KALTENBACH to start a rumour

The Fauxist International - Regrette Ectcetera

Transfeminine Tele(path)ology & Mythinformatic Schizo-Science

Beginning with Psychology’s myriad misuses of Daniel Schreber- the German judge turned into “a woman with an ass irresistible to God” by cosmic telephoto-Rays- We elucidate the linkages in transfemme tele(path)ologies from hysteria to dysphoria to fetishism. Skipping from Schizoanalysis, Neurotheology and Parascience to millenarian postmodernism & media culture’s obsession with ‘the transsexual’, We inhabit contemporary cultural trans-techno-hysterias in accounts of Alien Feminizing Rays, transfemme ghosts, Spiritualism, EVP, & the strange new field of “Feminization Hypnosis”, & thus trace the intertwined trajectories of the occult psychoanalysis from1898-2011, and outline all the projects We’ve generated along the way…

This piece of writing is from a fake movement and refers to a fake project.

From the artist :

Country Ball is the attempt to recreate a home video from the late 80s of my familys mothers day cookout. My process involved looking for 35 of my mothers drawings that illustrated outdoor recreational utilities, then I trace my mothers drawings by hand onto the computer, import them into a 3D program: build them to create a computer generated landscape.

I am reallly into the process that this artist uses, he brings his mothers work as a classic outsider artist into his own contemporary and queer context through his technological process. This is a form of creative, generational mapping.

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Assessment 1

research text

I used a website called queermap.com as a starting point for my research. This site maps archetypes, stereotypes and truths of LGBTIQ culture on a symbolic level, for example, "animal". Queers have long been likened to animal as a for of degridation, referencing a primal and wild connection to sex. I was interested in using mapping as a tool for expressing untold truths and nuances about subcultural groups. I made a few maps using identity descriptors and linked them with aesthetics, locations, issues and values of particular groups. I felt that this was too anthropological to use as assessment and started looking at other forms of maps.

Computer games are maps, that if the gamer is able to "follow" correctly, guide the gamer to "winning", and in referencing the concept of failure as emblematic of queerness, ( failing to be "real" men n women), I used the format of a computer game as a map that guides the audience through one queer identity. As I am not a programer I "wrote" the game as a robot describing what is happening in each level. This kind of abstract mechanic narration lead to me consider guided mediation as a map.

I developed this final work to be a stand alone work that uses to the concept of transcendence within the genre of guided meditation to navigate and release the queer body, referring to the heteronornavitve stereotype of queer bodies as animal, and also to immerse the audience in a utopian world as an escapist tool of cultural critique and potentially useful revolutionary imaginings.

Guided meditations have diversified from their original focus on spiritual transcendence to offering a wide range of results from "grow taller" to "become a sex god". I incorporated my critique of these capitalist and patriarchal ideals, of aiming for these constructs of success through the quick fix of guided mediation ( manifest destiny) into my guided meditation. There is no end result promised or described in my work: the journey is the destination.

The work also operates as a guide for me for the second assessment as I will read this "map" and take its directions to a destination of some kind of personal utopia where I will feel creatively empowered to make my second work.

queer community mapping

QUEER MAPPING

I'm researching queer cultural mapping, the documentation of a complex system of symbolic meanings elaborated over centuries throughout the world.

This is interesting to be because I was raised in a queer community on many levels and I am realising that because of this I have a deep cultural understanding of queer symbols in the everyday.

All oppressed groups develop signs and symbols to communicate, for obvious reasons.

This website is a really interesting project mapping queer signs and symbols.

From the video creator:

This session works to guide your mind down to a brainwave state where hGH is usually released, providing the increase of your body height!

I am thinking about guided meditations as a map to spiritual enlightenment, releasing stress as a destination, and all the weird ****improve yrself** guided mediations, grow taller, become confident and the more socially loaded fem hypno audio tapes to "become a beautiful woman" aimed at transgender women.

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