Wanna be your lab rat!
Grandma used to tell me: Do not look into the sun or you will go blind.
But I did look more than once, seeing the firy ball and playing with its impression many times.
I did not go blind, instead I learned to see:
True knowledge comes from unmediated experience only.
Manifesto
The own body is the tool of experience + Erfahrung.
The body is destined to be used up
Where objectivity and subjectivity exist balanced, the creative potential is at its greatest
The body belongs to me, only I decide how to use it, and for which purpose
Autonomy is base of human dignity
Intellect is a function of the body, it results from evolutionary pressure upon the body
The body has a corporal curiosity
Science has opened many possibilities for experiences, yet this is seen as rather negative and therefore regulated. Who gets to decide who may have access to new possibilities?
Art is not artificial, as nothing artificial exists in the universe.
Humans are integral part of the universe, not separate, human consciousness is therefore consciousness of the universe, in humans the universe is mirrored
Why is it encouraged to explore the outer-body space, but discouraged to explore the inner-body space?
The union of the political and the physiological ...has been a major source of ancient and modern justifications of domination, especially of domination based on differences seen as natural, given, inescapable, and therefore moral...We have allowed the theory of the body politic to be split in such a way that natural knowledge is reincorporated covertly into techniques of social control instead of being transformed into sciences of liberation.
The cyborg appears in myth precisely where the boundary between human and animal is transgressed. Far from signalling a walling off of people from other living beings, cyborgs signal distrurbingly and pleasurably tight coupling. Bestiality has a new status in this cycle of marriage exchange.
-- Donna Haraway
what i intend to challenge, is the construction of the body as we see it just now, as a means of production, with labor at the center of being. school, training, work, dating, family reproduction: this is the life-way prescribed for us, this includes and relies on the construction and encoding of binary gender roles and work roles.females are defined to sexual and family functions, and excluded from defining and shaping their own roles , but so are males, who are defined for production and life outside the family. alternative life ways have been essentially eliminated, there is no much left of monasticism or corp spirit, which, at some point in history, offered alternate life models. everything is under the rule of the market, ideals do not exist anymore, knowledge, is not a worth in itself, its to serve the market. same goes to art. the successful construction of the body is the mainstay of the market, the aim the homo economicus. for this end desires are installed and fed, humans, learning by mimicry, follow the idealized idols. gender installs the needed desire for a mate, which has to be impressed, which in turn requires money, gender also causes division, which can be used to control people, gender also leads to the needed production of re-production, men produce, women re-produce. also coded are the non-human bodies, the animals, the arbitrary border is set up, to separate, animals do not produce, they are produced, the divide human-animal is constructed, humans are animals, they are primates. under the heading animals are all non-human species lumped together, their gradual differences are ignored, as their similarities with us. constructed , with the divide, are also humans and their roles, as humans we are not permitted to cross the divide, we too are forced into prescribed functionality, mass roles, once certain roles and constructs are for animals, they are no longer for humans and vice verso, speciesism also affects us, our sensuality, our possible worlds and lives.
Exploring inner space.
Photography
The camera is an extension of my body. It freezes my perception, worldview, for others to see.
But, these views are fragments, observations or controlled arrangements, sampling reality as seen by me.