#thaemlitz

[otoradio]

Terre Thaemlitz - "Soil"

Сегодня в полночь на OTO-Radio лейбл Pocket Fields представит шестой выпуск программы "Альбом Ночи". Этот поздний час мы отведем альбому "Soil", записанному Terre Thaemlitz в 1995-м году. Terre Thaemlitz - "Soil" @ Instinct Ambient, 1995 Tracklist: 1. Subjective Loss, Day 83 2. Elevatorium 3. Yer Ass Is Grass 4. Trucker 5. Aging Core, Aging Periphery 6. Cycles pocketfields.com http://oto-radio.ru

[btw-ldn]

Having hosted Terre for an event back in June of this year at Plastic People, it's refreshing to see what we would term as 'mainstream' media outlets giving her the time warranted by a DJ & producer of such ilk. Not that this is in anyway a comment on a shift into more recognisable circles on her part; merely that (unfortunately) the editorial content remains that much higher here than say 80% of dedicated 'dance-music' publications. If a culture (sub or mainstream) is only as strong as the media that provides its oxygen, then the generic interviews, incoherent reviews and lazy sugar-coated editorials that litter the internet and dedicated dance-magazines would go someway to explaining the recent all-encompassing blight of low-slung, deep-house over the past couple of years.

[btw-ldn]

Stepping out on the btwpod is our in session guest at Plastic People this Saturday - Terre Thaemlitz (aka DJ Sprinkles) - on how the racism of the US charts killed techno-pop.

[queerinsurrection]

"Both MTF and FTM transgenderism also involve a tremendous amount of self-surveillance, particularly through the social pressure to "pass" as either a man or woman. In this sense, transgendered identity involves a similar multiple self-awareness as surveyor and surveyed. However, a key difference emerges when we consider how the subject/object formula relates to the physical body. For women, the physical body remains reconciled with the object aims of the act of surveillance. Whether a woman is judged "womanly" or "unwomanly" the physical woman's body remains visible and identifiable as the target of such qualitative judgments. However, in the case of the transgendered body the physical body is not reconciled with the object aims of the act of surveillance. For example, when a MTF is judged "womanly" or "unwomanly" ("passable" or "unpassable", "gorgeous" or "a mess") the target of such qualitative judgments is not the transgendered body, but the woman's body. Similarly, an FTM's "manliness" is judged in relation to the ability to invoke images of a man's body. Both the "success" and "failure" of a transgendered person's appearance point us toward expectations of a physical body other than the one before us. As transgendered people, we come to survey ourselves in relation to a foreign body. In this way, the physical transgendered body exists on a social plane that is both invisible and unconsidered, by both the transgendered person and other observers. Despite the many processes of surveillance involved in formulating a transgendered identity, in most cases the physical transgendered body itself remains completely unsurveyed. Whereas the majority of identity politics have focused on a disenfranchised social group's struggle for "visibility", within transgendered communities the struggle for "visibility" seems to be nothing more than the struggle for an alternative "invisibility". I find this alternative invisibility inspiring because, with the proper spin, it implies that the transgendered body has, in effect, eluded dominant systems of representation and operates below radar. There is potential freedom in that awareness - perhaps not a transformational or redemptive freedom, but a freedom of the moment. A spell to break all spells...."

- Terre Thaemlitz. Viva McGlam?

[Source]

Brilliant analysis on representation, feminist theory, spectatorship, trans bodies / subjectivities, glam culture, and performance of class with the aid of trans theory and personal experience.  I've just recently started reading trans theory and it's blowing my mind.  Highly recommend reading the linked article above, she offers some amazing points in a relatively accessible way (kind of academic but playful).