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[contemporaryartdaily]

New Red Order at Artists Space

[burymyart]

#COLLECTIVEFURY

Join Demian DinéYazhi´+ Cannupa Hanska Luger at Recess in Brooklyn, NY, as they debut a new performance piece that is a commentary on Indigenous masculine identity, residential boarding schools, enacting agency as radical trust and mutual care, the sacredness of Indigenous bodies, and a million other things that create cosmic savages.

Lou Cornum @spaceface2.0 will also present and read from the #COLLECTIVEFURY Critical Writing Fellowship piece.

Bring yr community out and SUPPORT LIVING INDIGENOUS POETS + ARTISTS!

@recessart | 07 FEB 2019 - 7PM 46 Washington Ave., Brooklyn, NY For more information on #COLLECTIVEFURY : https://www.recessart.org/demian-dineyazhi-r-i-s-e/

[peachpulpeuse]

The settler gay left tendencies toward tribalism, in a diminished understanding of the tribe in the here and now of history and not only a utopic before, has largely been a pull toward a sense of meaning, the kind of meaning often generated in spiritual practice. The sacred shouldn’t be associated with romanticized projections of Indigenous traditionalism but rather forms and practices that break outside enclosure: on every scale from the individual, to the body, to the family, to the nation state.

Lou Cornum, "Desiring the Tribe" in PINKO magazine (x)

[peachpulpeuse]

What kind of gay acts are outside capitalist accumulation? If the answer today is none, let us devise some by tomorrow.

Lou Cornum, "Desiring the Tribe" in PINKO magazine (x)

[elizabethminkel]

“In 2018, Donald Trump’s proposals for a U.S. Space Force are a redux of Reagan era “Star Wars” and its vision of omnipresent military might. Space entrepreneurs evoke a mythical heyday of unbridled growth from the wild, unregulated west. I too am nostalgic for outer space, but for one that never existed in my time, before white men with lots of money or state power (or both) were the only way off the planet. And I am nostalgic for the wild-eyed optimism-of-the-will-and-spirit practiced by spooky heartthrob and sad(ly) federal agent Fox Mulder, who said — and I repeat — “I want to believe.”

“I want to believe that there is a way to think about space differently. The conflation of space and outer space is intentional here: outer space is the place for us to think about the relationships and organizations of our lives here, on Earth, such that they might be resilient out there. The speculative might be a persistent genre of popular interest in part because we intuit that the shape of our world, and now the shape of outer space, are formed from the speculations of financial capital. But against the machinations of banks and corporations, there have been other ways to imagine the future. The pictures we have been given of outer space and of who gets to go there are not the ones we have to accept.”

— “Who Gets to Go to Space?” by the brilliant Lou Cornum