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Closing drinks 4-6pm Sunday 28 Jan

Opens Thursday 14 Dec

7-9pm + Afterparty

'til 28 Jan

by appointment only

The universe, our perception~~~ 'unfolds on the interiority of minds’1   Intimate, unbound time laid bare ⌭ ’til it's twisted~ corrupted by a planetary mechanism of production.  Normalised >> ‘It is always the same shape.’2

'To be in the margin is to be part of the whole but outside the main body.'3  'In a holographic universe, even time and space could be no longer viewed as fundamentals. Because concepts such as location break down in a universe in which nothing is truly separate from anything else.’4  Touching an other, elsewhere. The centre ~◯ simultaneously everywhere and the margin nowhere.

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‘Writing, power, and technology are old partners in Western stories of the origin of civilization, but miniaturization has changed our experience... has turned out to be about power... and these machines are eminently portable, mobile... People are nowhere near so fluid, being both material and opaque.’5

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1 Graham Harman | 2007 | On Vicarious Causation

2 Charlotte Perkins Gillman | 1892 | The Yellow Wallpaper

3 bell hooks | 1984 | Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

4 David Bohm | 1980 | The Holographic Universe

5 Donna Haraway | 1985 | A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century

The fantasy of promise must never go to waste.

Scurrying across individual platform wheels``` an entrepreneurial self creating the perfect brand image whilst a darker manifestation lurks in the holes of networks, behind platforms, through portals and under seas.

These are the minds and the minds are the market~~~ For driving invisible hands towards glorious monopolisations. Mega rich histories. Ivory towers. Echo chambers. Glass ceilings. Silicon valley start-ups - the futuristic tech industries - dedicated to commitment and excellence in hoarding billions off the back of beautiful, entrepreneurial you.

'Neoliberalism doesn’t simply win because they take over the state, although it helps.  It wins because it’s a convincing story of who I am and what we can hope for – it’s a very upbeat story.'♡

Mont Pelerin Society is how this story starts and spills - to manipulation of markets and economic promise. ‘Politically bankrupt, intellectually stagnant, and aesthetically predictable.’﹋﹌

Scraaaaatch.

This is Neoliberal Grooming.

``` Ilana Gershon sights Facebook as training wheels for the neoliberal self

♡Philip Mirowski, author of Where do Neoliberals Go After the Market

﹋﹌On Tirdad Zolghadr's Traction

SHARE Lab is a research and data investigation collective for exploring different technical aspects of the intersections between technology and society.

Gary Zhexi Zhang is an artist and researcher interested in distributed systems, including biological swarms, networked sex and national internets. Recent projects have involved workshops for DIY teledildonics, and a film about parasites. As a writer, he is a regularly contributor to Frieze and other publications. Recent exhibitions include ‘All Channels Open’ at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire and ‘Beyond Telepathy’ at Somerset House. In 2017, he will be in residence at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and CCA Creative Lab, Glasgow.

SUPERCELL is a fluid and amorphous experimental art and technology collective forming decentralised social networks with mutual interests as the basis of function. SUPERCELL's Prototype is a digital network for up to ten users, activated on screen via web browser on mobile phones and devices. SUPERCELL was formed by Millicent Hawk and Prototype was coded by Andy Anderson, full stack developer and software engineer. Thanks to Graham Stevens, interdisciplinary specialist (environmental science, art, architecture, and law) and Scott Wark, who studies internet memes.

Millicent Hawk is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist whose work explores the evolution and enmeshment of organic and machinic ecologies through a gender-conscious lens. In 2015 Hawk founded Avalanche - an artist-run lounge in Peckham - whose programme relates to her work and research. She is a volunteer on the Executive Committee for Artists’ Union England and principally works with other artist-led project spaces and initiatives.

Nye Thompson  ⁙  UBERMORGEN  ⁙  Millicent Hawk  ⁙  Joana Moll ⊹ Cédric Parizot

TERMINAL>_

Opening party 17 December 2016 ⁙ 7pm 'til late

'til 12 Feb by appointment

+ Spin Sunday closing drinks 4-6pm ~ bring vinyl (not lycra)

Hotfixes ~~~   Thursday 17 December from 6pm

Incl. TTIP* Christmas Song.  Open 'til 31 Jan by appointment

Eva Fàbregas ⁘ Holly White ⁘ Fran Meana ⁘ Edgar-Walker  ⁘ Jon Pilkington ⁘ Millicent Hawk

In artistic production and in the thick of office politics, the photocopier has repeatedly played a significant role in the production of work and in its unceasing inspiration to mark festive celebrations in office-based parties at the end of each working year...

Hotfixes ~~~  interweaves Microsoft’s user interface; Siegelaub’s Xerox Book*; and the pedestrian, office-based Christmas party, which amidst indifferent furniture plays host to cathartic and temporal devolution from corporate politics to anarchy ~ a blurring of cognitive divide.    ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~

Sign the petition against TTIP

*  Xerox Book (1968) was conceived of as an exhibition in print.  Seven artists (Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris and Lawrence Weiner) had 25 pages of works that were bound into an artists’ publication. Downloadable version

* TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, is a proposed 'free trade' agreement negotiated in almost total secrecy by the EU and US in round table discussion by select corporates with vested financial interests in the agreement of their sales terms between nations.  The US term is TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership.  Amongst many of the alarming agreements within this (not so good for most) 'deal' is ISDS (Investor-State Dispute Settlement).  Seen by any rational person as outrageous, under ISDS corporations can sue government in private for loss of sales under new legislature passed to protect citizens - such as setting carbon emissions or labeling GM food products.  Watch Joseph Stiglitz discuss TPP.  Democracy Now

MACHINES FOR HARDROCK

A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction…  Liberation rests on the construction of the consciousness, the imaginative apprehension, of oppression, and so of possibility…  Social reality is lived social relations, our most important political construction, a world-changing fiction.  

Donna Haraway (1985) "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century"