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Jenna Sutela @ The White Building, Dec 1

30 November 2016

Jenna Sutela will be reading from her forthcoming publication Orgs: From Slime Mold to Silicon Valley at London’s The White Building (SPACE Art + Technology) on December 1. 

“..But their circuits are self-growing and self-repairing, producing systems tolerant to interruptions or failure..”

The event is #11 in the OpenPROCESS series that provides a platform for process-led practices, and will take the form of a “performative, sonic transcription”. The reading will also feature Clara Jo, Emily Jones and Ming Lin.

The publication focuses on “decentralized organisms and organizations” and expands on Sutela’s interest in the simultaneous, multiple voices that related to a neo-biological future of technology. The Helsinki-based artist works across installation, sound performance and writing to “identify and react to precarious social and material moments, often in relation to technology.”

See the White Building website for details.**

 

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Moist Heat @ The White Building, Sep 29 – Oct 15

26 September 2016

Laura Yuile, Megan Snowe, and Special Tears (Cassandre Greenberg and Christopher Kirubi) are presenting Moist Heat at London’s The White Building, opening September 30 and running to October 15.

The four artists will present new work and works-in-progress developed during their three-month residency at SPACE Art + TechnologyThe residency investigated affective computing and emotional capital. The press release further explains, “the human body is commonly accepted as the primary site of subjectivity, empathy and affective processes” and “the breakdown between human and machine”.

Snowe will present a stage set, a series of texts and notes, sound for a new play called ‘Sticky’ and four texts that move in the same direction. Each text will be printed separately to form a series of four books.

As part of Art Licks Weekend 2016 and to coincide with the exhibition, SPACE Art + Technology’s OpenPROCESS #9 programme will take place on October 2. The event promises an afternoon of readings, presentations and custom cocktails. Snowe will read a series of short texts that surround and approach and her play. Yuile will make a short presentation relating to the research she has conducted throughout the residency. Special Tears will read together in an attempt to contact a character who can dream with us but cannot dream for us.

See the FB event page for more details.**

Moist Heat @ The White Building, Sep 29 - Oct 15
Special Tears, ‘Moist Heat’ (2016). Promotional image. Courtesy the artists + SPACE Art + Technology, London.
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Megan Snowe @ Res., Sep 22

21 September 2016

Megan Snowe is taking part in the next I Had This Feeling reading group at London’s Res. on September 22.

The programme is focused on emotion and affect theory, the emotional economy, and the sensual impacts of language. They will discuss ‘The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling’ by Arlie Russell Hochschild, who coined the term ’emotional labor’, on their next meeting.

Alicia Grandley’s article ‘Emotion Regulation in the Workplace: A New Way to Conceptualize Emotional Labor‘ will also be referred to as it gives a brief overview of theories about emotions and the workplace from 1983 through the late-90s.

New York-based artist Snowe is currently resident at London’s The White Building for SPACE Art + Technology’s OpenPROCESS #7 programme, where she is researching “emotion-as-substance with words, actions, drawings and substances (provided), co-creating enhanced issues, more thorough than before.”

See the FB event page for details.**

I Had This Feeling @ Res., Sep 22

 

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