I am very excited to host the Desearch Repartment at the greenhouse artlab, February 1-7, 2017.

Desearch Repartment came out of a political shift in the early 2000s that coincided with the invention of relational aesthetics and the birth of the Internet. When the walls fell on 9/11 identity politics also fell away, opening up a new sense of cultural, political, and social relativity where artistic colonization could flourish. Through the combined genesis of social media and social practices, the commodification of human relations became a stepping stone on which DR built its foundation, laying the groundwork for the Institute for Durational Futures and the ESSENTIALHAPPINESSPOSSIBILITY.

There are several opportunities to engage with this work in Winnipeg this month! Please check out the following events I am co-hosting on behalf of the greenhouse artlab and IWGS.

Jan 6 – Feb 18 – YAGA video screening at PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts

February 3 – Desearch Repartment’s YAGA class hosted at MAWA

February 6 – Active Research Lecture Series with Desearch Repartment artist talk at PLATFORM

February 7 – Closed workshop with my class, “Art and Resistance” at the greenhouse artlab.

Catch this excellent article, “Selfie-care” by Steven Leyden Cochrane. (February 2, 2017).

Art collective’s satirical YAGA routines help energize and pacify in these troubled times.

“From ‘Ground Zero’ through Levels 9, 11 and 2001+, practitioners learn to awaken their ‘Shock-Awes,’ ‘privilege and colonize the spine,’ contain and integrate ‘free radicals’ and channel their ‘whi,’ which ‘floats freely across skin borders fuelling privilege, producing power.’ The goal is to finish ‘energized but also pacified.'”