Showing posts with label Network Ensemble. Show all posts
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1.7.17

Offshore yourself ! Demystification Committee :: First Empire Management Meeting @ Berlin, 10th July, Postdamer Platz

Global Gateway, Seychelles. The approximate legal location of one part of Empire Management.

"In inventing the homo oeconomicus, economists have engaged in a double abstraction. First, the unwarranted one of having conceived of a man with nothing human in his heart; second, of having represented this individual as detached from any group, corporation, sect, party, homeland, or association of any sort”

Gabriel Tarde, Psychologie économique, 1902

Read more @ Transmediale


The scale and complexity of the offshore financial system has come to light, as have many of its effects, but what of its day-to-day experience? What does it mean to be offshore; intentionally detached, and necessarily diffuse? Where is offshore, and can we go there? What do complex offshore structures look and feel like from within?

To begin to unpack these questions the Demystification Committee - a framework for art and research - has set up an international corporate structure across a number of jurisdictions: an Offshore Investigation Vehicle. At the head of this corporate structure is Empire Management Limited, a UK Private Limited Company. 

On Monday 10 July, Empire Management Limited will hold a general meeting of shareholders specifically aimed at onboarding new investors and introducing them to the current global structure of the company, its objectives, and its business strategies. Through this meeting shareholders will engage in participatory examples of the business strategies of the company and its offshore subsidiaries, as well as discussing and voting on resolutions that shape its future.

Attendees will need to be shareholders in Empire Management Limited for as little as the duration of the meeting, or — should they so wish — for the lifetime of the company. For as long as they are shareholders, attendees will have the right to attend (physically or virtually) any of the company’s general meetings at which they will be able to, among other things, vote on company resolutions and experience further offshore investment and tactics.

Empire Management General Meeting
Monday 10 July, 14:00-18:00
PretiumOffices
Potsdamer Platz 5
10785, Berlin

The process of becoming a shareholder will be taken care of prior to the meeting’s commencement - shares cost €1, and the company offers an immediate buyback scheme. If you would like to invest in Empire Management Limited and attend the General Meeting, please email with a little about why you would like to be involved.

The sun never sets on Empire Management.

Related participants: Demystification Committee it gb, Obsolete Capitalism (it wo), and Kyberneticos Kommando (cy, wo), Total Bureau (cy, wo) and many more...

6.9.16

Moneta, Rivoluzione e Filosofia dell'avvenire



Moneta, Rivoluzione e Filosofia dell'avvenire is a book of political philosophy designed for Obsolete Capitalism Free Press. The authors investigate some grey areas of accelerationist politics through the lens of the most visionary philosophers: Deleuze, Foucault, Guattari and Klossowski.



Obsolete Capitalism writes:

'We live projected into an era of instant communication and total monitoring. New forms of control appear unstoppable. The museum of ideologies is filled with dying concepts such as Capitalism, Neoliberalism, Marxism, Keynesianism. Today the system modulates the various forces that innervate our world: Money, Research, Control, Information, Circuit are old names which through acceleration produce a new power.'

'The higher the immanence of the Market, the greater the likelihood that interruptions, viruses, leaks, bifurcations, invisibility will replace conflicts.'

'This anthology begins with the analysis of a fragment written by Friedrich Nietzsche and nestled in a crucial passage of Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus. This fragment of thought is the point of departure of a journey throughout which, perhaps, a different kind of accelerationism can be advanced. One expressed through a new politics of bodies, waves and forces whose relationship with technology is mediated by experimentation, creation and critique, trial and error, do-it-yourself and do-it-together.'





As part of the same project, Obsolete Capitalism also collaborated with the Network Ensemble. A sonic contribution to the book, or more specifically 'sonic writing', was composed using a 1975 speech from Félix Guattari. This resulted in the production of two tracks: 'La Machine Informatique Dub' by Obsolete Capitalism Sound System and on the B-SIDE the 'Urban Sonata Remix' recorded using only sounds produced by the Network Ensemble.

Both tracks are available on Souncloud or as a vinyl record. Get in touch to order a free copy!




5.5.16

Contact Festival @Apiary Studios, London, 6-8 May 2016


A festival of experimental film and video showing the work of over 70 artists/ filmmakers, featuring single-screen films, multi-screen/performance-related works and site-specific installations. Accompanied by a publication including discussion pieces by Luke Aspell and collective-iz (on collective practices), Sally Golding, James Holcombe and Cathy Rogers (on different manifestations of contemporary expanded cinema), and short essays by Maria Palacios Cruz (LUX, Deputy Director), William Fowler (BFI, curator of artists' moving image) and Nicky Hamlyn (filmmaker and writer), plus complete listings.

http://www.contactscreenings.co.ukhttp://www.contactscreenings.co.uk

The Contact festival is programmed by Andrew Vallance and Simon Payne. 

The festival opens on Friday 6th of May at 6pm. 

Installed works exhibited throughout the weekend:

Ian Bourn’s Cornered–2 Mirror Self Portrait; David Cunningham’s CMY; Louisa Fairclough’s Can People See Me Swallowing; Riccardo Iacono’s All For The Captured Time Of Our Being; Jamie Jenkinson’s Oscillating Fans; Conor Kelly’s Room Sound; Gareth Polmeer’s Field/Relation; Cathy Rogers' Between Here, There and This II, Francesco Tacchini and Oliver Smith’s The Network Ensemble; Mark Watson’s Protomoto CCTV; and Ian Wiblin’s City Circular 2016.

On Friday from 6pm, Saturday from 2pm and Sunday from 2pm we are showing single-screen films and expanded cinema/performance pieces at the following times.

Programme of single screen/performance/expanded works for Friday, Saturday and Sunday:

Friday

6pm 
Laura Hindmarsh Exposure Test

6:45 
Kerry Baldry Mumble and Punch
David Leister Blinder
Oliver Bancroft Sunday School with Rev'd Alfred Bissette

7:30
Bea Haut Passage
Jenny Baines Insertional

8:00
Karolina Raczynski and Anita Konarska Body Scan: [A]live Screening

8:30
John Smith Steve Hates Fish
Nick Collins Three Little Pieces

9:00
Sally Golding and Spatial


Saturday

2pm 
Emily Richardson Beach House
Patti Gaal-Holmes Liliesleaf Farm Mayibuye: Double Take

2:40
Jennet Thomas The Unspeakable Freedom Device

3:30
Steve Littman The Enlightenment – New Variations
Nicky Hamlyn Gasometers (Part 2)
Simon Payne Reason’s Code

4:15
George Barber Akula Dream

5:00
Maria Anastassiou Lightning Strikes
Jayne Parker and Joan Key Piano Performance for Tania Chen
Jennifer Nightingale Rectangle Window Arch Window

5:45
Amy Dickson North, South, East, West 

6:15
Mary Stark Film As Fabric

7:00
Małgorzata Drohomirecka Untitled
Samantha Rebello Midas (I)
Anna Thew Prometheus’ Stolen Time

7:45
Malcolm Le Grice The Probability of God is About Zero
Karen Mirza and Brad Butler Everything for Everyone and Nothing for Us

8:15
James Holcombe and Secluded Bronte Against Cinema

9:00
Lynn Loo Washi # 2 (extended version)
Guy Sherwin Looped Leaders


Sunday

2pm
Hilary Koob-Sassen Transcalar Investment Vehicles

3:00
Luke Aspell Alexander Berkman
Marek Budzynski A Little Bathroom Film
Adam Kossoff Fragmented Forest

3:30
Savinder Bual Agni
Matthew Noel-Todd Untitled (iPhone)
Heather Phillipson FINAL DAYS: UNDERWEAR

4:00
Daniel Brackenbury and Joe Gilmore Under Glass
Andrew Vallance Commonwealth Archipelago
Ben Rivers Things

5:00
Duncan Reekie Over and Over Again
William Raban Time And The Wave
Deniz Johns Media Blackout I

5:30
Francesco Tacchini and Oliver Smith The Network Ensemble

6:00
Steven Ball and Martin Blažíček More Speakers

6:45
Andrea Luka Zimmerman Towards Estate
Lis Rhodes Journal of Disbelief 

7:30
Laura Wilson 800 Lights in 177 years

8:00
Karel Doing Pattern/Chaos

8:30
Vicky Smith and Bouche Bée Primal 1

9:00
Greg Pope and Kostis Kilymis Cipher Screen 16