CosmiKnot

Reading about  Hito Steyerl   I found the desire to reclaim the experience of art exciting but I began to recollect a discussion I had attended about theory communiste, which advocates the creation of instantaneous revolution rather than the production of preparatory propaganda for a revolution of the future. The power of the institution is upheld by direct protest art like the songs of the proles. This is what Orwell revealed when Winston and Julia betray Love in 1984. It's what one might call fucking self-neutering art. Art belongs to a realm beyond and outside of the institution accessed from the gaps in the fabric of its all enveloping mesh. Art understands the language of the soul or perhaps it is that but only by virtue of appearing in the gaps in the living society. The problem is that much time and effort is spent reacting against the patriarchal institution and yet much of this this effort by attempting to adopt a cynical or aggressive stance, rejects the soul in equa...

Human beans were put on this earth To learn to find the ending of a roll of selotape To hear the sound of goats’ bells as they make good their escape To learn to spot their luggage on a moving carousel To learn to read expressions and eye brow tics as well To walk around full circle Til youre back where you began To rescue eggs for turtles With an exiled Syrian man To bemoan the lack of signage on railway platform walls To fall in love with a cleric who wont return your calls To instigate a transfer that’s a record breaking deal To own a long haired hamster That gets caught in its wheel To compile an algorithm of the latest cool Tell children theyre forgiven for the stunts they pull at school To grow tomatoes in a green house Because you like the smell Of bloody marys in the morning And the theme to William tell To learn to conquer evil in the driving rain And free a tangled seagull Then ho...