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THE SEA IS A BRAIN || ADRENAL COLLAR
New work and research by Rumi Josephs and Matt Drage
For the past eight months, Josephs and Drage have been having conversations with each other about submission, resistance and transcendence. They have located a battleground deep in the gut and in the hidden recesses of the central nervous system—in the bodily roots of hunger and desire. They believe that the manner in which the battle is fought will determine our ability to withstand the forces of social control. Tactics include: medication, perversion, ritual and augmentation.
For their exhibition at Lima Zulu, they will set up a temporary research centre. For ten days they will be living and working in the gallery space, making sculptures, writing and conducting interviews.
Josephs says:
“Hidden coastal farms employ ‘spiritual participants’ as slave labour. They are using sleep to enter the lower levels of the ocean. Young boys from local fishing villages are lured away from their families to become workers at the farms. They are indoctrinated into a religion according to which the sea is a brain. Advocates for the sea preach obedience. In its deepest realms, the sea contacts participants with a spooky erectile tissue which is both intercessor and magistrate. Participants take these plateaus of euphoria by strategy – they work in their sleep wearing mercury shoes.”
Drage says:
“Sometimes I walk like a lobster, head down, tail up, patiently waiting to be broken-in by something that knows less than I do. This is a devotional practice, borne out of a belief that if I let myself be penetrated deeply enough, the heat in my groin will flow upwards through my spine and turn acid, dissolving the collar around my adrenal gland, and with it, all desire. But today I watched a video of a man being fucked to death by a horse. It really happened; he really died. Now I am dog-tired and I don’t know where to look.”
PROGRAMME
THURSDAY JANUARY 19TH, 6PM-9PM - PRELIMINARY RESEARCH PRESENTATION
7PM-8PM: Presentations from Josephs and Drage
8PM-9PM: Open discussion
TUESDAY JANUARY 24TH, 7PM-9:30PM - GUEST SPEAKERS
7:30PM: IAIN BALL, “Philips 2013 - The Guts”: fractals, Black Swans, speculative realism, Mayannnectivity and the Age of Uncertainty
8:30PM -- BORIS JARDINE, “An ape with angel glands”: a practical guide to techniques of embaling, cryonic preservation, simian gland procurement and votive offering
SUNDAY JANUARY 29TH - FINAL RESEARCH PRESENTATION
6PM - 7PM - Presentations from Josephs and Drage
7PM - 8:30PM - Open discussion |
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Bitcoins, Money (and Credit)
Tuesday 16th August 2011 7:00pm
Bitcoin is a virtual currency whose claim to fame is that some US politicians
became aware of its use to buy drugs on the Internet. However, the Bitcoin
project is much more ambitious than merely providing a somewhat anonymous way to buy stuff on the internet. Bitcoins are meant as a new currency: a new money for the Internet age. In fact, this new money is based on different principles than all modern currencies, i.e. credit money.
Because of this ambition, the project provides splendid opportunity to ask
what money *is*. That is, we claim that Bitcoin reflects on various qualities
of money which are usually taken for granted by addressing them as "technical challenges". In particular, the Bitcoin design is an attempt to solve the "technical" problem of how to exclude people from social wealth and how to maintain a permanent conflict of interest. Hence, we want to present how
Bitcoins work and discuss what these technical innovations imply about the
social conditions known as the "free market".
Furthermore, the Bitcoin protocol is an expression of scepticism against
credit and credit money. For example, the total amount of currency that can
ever be created is fixed to the arbitrary magnitude of 21 million. Hence, a
lot of discussions about Bitcoin focus on the imminent "deflationary spiral".
On the contrary, if there is time left, we want to discuss the question why
all modern currencies are credit money. That is, why does capitalism lead to
the development of a credit system and in the last instance credit money.
Instead of discussing the advantages/disadvantages of a new gold standard we want to discuss why there is no gold standard any more.
No prior knowledge of computer science, finance or Bitcoins is necessary to
participate.
Format for the evening: London's Wine and Cheese Appreciation Society present an hour long breakdown of the workings of the bitcoin phenomena, with a structured analysis of its relationship to the gold standard and modern currencies.
This will be followed by a facilitated discussion on the implications and possible applications of virtual currency exchange. We're not setting a time limit to the length of discussion - if necessary we'll run till the early hours. |
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Live Screening of Adam Curtis' New Documentary -
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
films exploring how computers have radically changed our society.
Monday, May 23rd, 30th and June 6th· 8:30pm - 11:00pm
Ginger Beer Reception @ 8.30pm
IRL Chat Room Post Screening
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Winter Season 2010/11
Your Space Is Our Business
Lloyd Corporation
Thursday 18th November
2010
The Daisies (1966) / Twilight (2008)
A film evening with a talk by Hana J
Thursday 25th November 2010
Let’s Go Outside
Curated by Iain Ball, Emily Jones
and Ben Vickers
Thursday 9th December 2010
Anal Panopticon
Huw Lemmey
Thursday 16th December 2010
Your Affectionate Friend
David Buckley
Thursday 13th January 2011
Urban Film 1: Los Angeles Plays Itself
Thursday 20th January 2011
Freedom To! Power To!
Katie Schwab
Thursday 27th January 2011
Kill Joy (Act 1)
Lily Keal
Thursday 17th February 2011
The Pot Show
Thursday 10th March 2011 |
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Baldwin's Nigger/Take This Hammer (Double Bill)
a night of films featuring the American novelist, playwright and poet James Baldwin, including a talk by London based writer Michael Harding
Wednesday 10th November 2010
Who are Old Forest?
Paintings by Anna Rosen and Georgina Nettell
Music by Old Forest
Tuesday 12th october 2010
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Summer Season 2010
STAMFORD HILL DIARIES/ MEMORIES OF BIRMINGHAM
James Whittingham
Friday 11th June 2010
EVERTHING MUST GO
Morag Keil and Manuela Gernedel
Wednesday 23th June 2010
DAMOCLES
Lawrence Westlake
Wednesday July 7th 2010
SEX/COMMUNE
A short season of films on sex in radical politics
Organised by Huw Lemmey
Monday 12th to Sunday 25th July 2010
HELEN
Richard Whitby and Jamie George
Wednesday 4th August 2010
NO LONG TERM
Seth Pick
Thursday 19th August 2010
An evening of films and performance at Limazulu
Lucy Parker and Siân Robinson Davies
Wednesday 8th September 2010 |
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Spring Season 2010
Limazulu interview, Artlicks
L'USINE ABANDONNEE
Rosanna McLaughlin & Katie Schwab
4th February 2010
RHSP
Richard Hards & Seth Pick
18th February 2010
ON COMMUNES
Julia Gouin
28th February 2010
There Is Only The Taking Up Of Tools
Mary Hurrell, Beatrice Loft Schulz, Hania Stella-Sawicka, Ursula Wild and Rosanna Mclaughlin
18th March 2010
THE POST-CRITICAL PANTHER PARTY
Roman Liska
01st April 2010
PLACE ON TOP
Oliver Robinson
15th April 2010 |
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Autumn/Winter Season 2009/10
HYDROGEN DOORWAYS
Dan Blurton
22nd october 2009
KODACHROME
Sam Thomson, James Stodart, Claire Baily, Neil Kilpatrick and Ellie Wright
6th Novermer 2009
BROTHER PARTISANS
Huw Lemmey
19th November 2009
OSCULATE
Lola Wilson with Michael Harding and Steven Pank
3rd December 2009
NU WRKZ
Richard Parry
10th December 2009
THREE POINT
Michael Levitt
7th January 2010 |
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Summer Season 2009
TIMES NEW ROMAN
Jonathan Mainley
ENCARTA
Alex Head, Matthew Robinson, Katie Schwab
GRACELAND
Michael Levitt, Seth Pick, Lola Wilson, Katie Schwab and Huw Lemmey
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