The Unstitute: last chance to see Francoise Knoetze + EREWHON + #BlackLivesMatter + opportunities!

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these senseless paralinguistic corridors shift from one possible connector to the next in a meaningless, chaotic fashion; this road leads anywhere but to its end."


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This month at The Unstitute…

THE_PROJECTION_ROOM:

Francoise Knoetze
CAPE MONGO: VHS | GLASS | METAL | PLASTIC | PAPER

screening until 15/09/15

The Unstitute is pleased to present a collection of 5 videos by prolific South African artist Francois Knoetze from his CAPE MONGO series. The project has been specifically curated to coincide with the EREHWON edition of [dis]Corporate Bodies.

"Mongo n. slang. object thrown away and then recovered

Cape Mongo follows the stories of five characters as they journey through the city of Cape Town. Each Mongo character is made from the city’s discarded waste – mythical ‘trash creatures’ which have emerged from the growing dumps of consumer culture. In five short films, the creatures revisit the spaces of their imagined pasts – the locations associated with their material existence and the constitution of their social relations – as if walking against the consumer-driven currents of city. From postmodern shopping malls to the bustling streets of the Bo Kaap to leafy suburbia and desolate shipping-container yards, these characters’ journeys conjure up imagery that touches on some of the historical trajectories that have lead up to the endemic inequality and social alienation which characterises present day Cape Town."

Artist Francois Knoetze has constructed six wearable sculptures entirely out of waste. Rather than merely disposable items which are purged from our lives as soon as the garbage truck disappears around the bend or which lie dormant in an ever-widening layer in the crust of the earth for future archaeologists to marvel at; Cape Mongo imagines trash objects – specifically, the packaging of domestic consumables and the electronic devices used to record every-day life – as mnemonic vestiges of the activities that shaped them. Performing all over the city of Cape Town for a period of two years, Cape Mongo is the documentation of these performances but also pulls together found footage relating to various issues around housing, food security, inequality and racial segregation.

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Visit The Projection Room:
http://theunstitute.org/Projection.Room.html

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[dis]CORPORATE_BODIES_9

EREHWON
an Evolving [an]Archive
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The 9th edition of [dis]Corporate Bodies exists in a state of becoming. It is EREHWON.

The following assembly of outstanding material for your considered enjoyment represents 4 months of research and collaboration with 8 superb practitioners across multiple fields and media.

The actual TOPIC of our research is left purposefully vague. Who are WE to tell you what to think? People do so for themselves. To prove it, The Unstitute has employed its most sensitive devices in the production of a roadmap for Artificial Intelligence, known as project GORT.

But to add some London flavour to an otherwise international edition of [dis]Corporate Bodies, we begin with this news clip from the BBC, with Darcus Howe and Fiona Armstrong.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdjr64bBosg[/youtube]

Nota Bene:

There are many important Twitter #hashtags relevant to the contemporary crisis in race that we can go investigate ourselves; it is recommended that you do so. Join the swarm of voices, hear those who cluster around trends to influence and inflame, vilify and demonise - a great, discordant symphony of human feeling…

#BlackLivesMatter #ICantBreathe #HandsUpDontShoot


The Unstitute is excited to present participating artists: AMELIA JOHANNES (AU), fuZZy face (LINDA STEWART) (SA), DR JAMES LUCHTE (UK), CATHRYN QUAIL (UK), THE UNSTITUTE (EREHWON)

Enter [dis]Corporate Bodies:
http://theunstitute.org/disCorporate.Bodies.9.html

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THE_CUTTING_ROOM:

MUVVER TONGUE
by some bloke

Until 15th September!

A police 'stop and search' operation, somewhere in deepest, darkest Bermondsey (Sarf London) degenerates into a racist incident, possibly fatal for the young Latin American Gentleman so viciously taunted by the thugs in uniform. Who are these police - one who claims to have been born in a test tube - whilst the oter does nothing but laugh at the taunts of the first? Are they even officers of old father antic 'The Law'? Fuck knows, really mate. But all i know is, i doesn't dare go out in the bleedin' car no more 'cause of the things you hear these days. Really."

#BlackLivesMatter #ICantBreathe #HandsUpDontShoot

Visit The Cutting Room:
http://theunstitute.org/Cutting.Room.html

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PARTICIPATION:

Open Submissions
@ The Unstitute
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The Unstitute invites submissions for these projects:

The Projection Room - monthly feature screenings @ The Unstitute
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[dis]Corporate Bodies - an evolving environment @ The Unstitute
http://theunstitute.org/disCorporate.Bodies.Project.htmll

Vidiot - a place for watching and being watched @ The Unstitute
http://theunstitute.org/Vidiot.html

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http://theunstitute.org/Extensions.Residency.html


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