Danielle Adair

Acting as a representative for a gossip blog, Danielle Adair covered the 2016 US Democratic and Republican National Conventions. The manifesto Caution bomb takes up and refigures the omnipresent US Homeland Security slogan, ‘See something, Say something,’ through the lens of performance and protest. It is the ‘brief’ of her findings.

More info: https://danielleadair.com/caution-bomb

Caution bomb (2016), Paper, 8.5 x 11 in.
Caution bomb (2016), Paper, 8.5 x 11 in.

 

Edgar Endress

Bandaging the interferences of unnecessary upset and injury to the human body (2018)
36 x 35 7/8 in.

 

The Mask of the Shoeshiner
Photographs
19 x 12 ¾ in. (Twelve photographs)

 

The Face of the Homeland (Public action in the city of La Paz, Bolivia)
Printed document on photographs
18 1/2 x 13 in.

Elena Bajo

By researching the history of anarchist women and their writings, a cumulative manifesto text compiled by the artist is accessed and interpreted by female performers into choreographic movements after being decoded into musical notes, following an aleatory system used by John Cage.

The scores are traced into its abstracted pixelated forms, a series of black and white dots, will constitute new structures for movement, new trajectories for possible choreographies and sculptures, reverberating Malevich’s “Black Square” and referencing Louise Michel’s political action in 1884 Paris, Anarchism’s “Black Flag” historical origins (Louise Michel took out her black underskirt and took a wooden stick and use it as a flag).

The performance undertakes anarchism as artistic strategy, by implementing elements of disentanglement and affects, as a point of dissidence and disruption on contemporary political choreographies. Choreography as an encrypted / encoded manifesto is explored and speculated through as political strategy.

 

STILL SQUARE, BLACK SONATA (score) (2018), Polyurethane-reclaimed garbage bags, 2 x 3 ft
EVERY SOMETHING IS AN ECHO OF NOTHING (anarcho-sculpture) (2012-2018), Wood, polyurethane-reclaimed garbage bags, 7 ft.
It was recreated this time with polyurethane instead of fabric/rubber as material for the anarchist flag.

Elana Mann & John Burtle

These prints by John Burtle and Elana Mann are selected performance scores from their forthcoming artist book, Propositional Attitudes: what do we do now?, published by Golden Spike Press in March 2018. The book includes contributions from over 40 artists from around the world, with an introductory essay by artist Robby Herbst. This book reflects the artists’ process of deeply questioning how to participate in society. The scores in Propositional Attitudes: what do we do now? are propositions for play, insubordination and intervention to empower one another amidst larger political struggles for equality and justice.

Four scores from Propositional Attitudes: what do we do now? (2018), Digital prints, 13 x 19 in. each

 

Fiona Jack

There’s something wrong somewhere (2017), Embroidery on linen, 58.5 X 6 in.

 

This we refused (2017), Embroidery on wool, 45 X 2.5 in.

 

Speakers Corner (2017), Applique linen on wool, 49.5 x 28 in.