To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the public interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

APPARATUS

These devices will be used by myself during the performance. While interacting with the handmade apparatus I will try to physically represent the unfair, exploitative inner workings of the capitalist system. Each device has a specific function (from ball cleaners to tube stoppers) playing its own role in the action as a whole. As I am the one who makes it all work it could be said that I am placing myself in the position of "the controller". Using my body as a physical embodiment of capitalism, to expose and confront it.

Upcoming action

Center For Tactical Magic - The Tactical Ice Cream Unit

http://www.tacticalmagic.org/CTM/project%20pages/TICU.htm

CARTOGRAPHY OF ART

The aims of this event:

• to bring people together under the banner of creativity
• to explore the travels of art around the world
  
• to discover patterns in the flow of art that may relate to the larger global power structure
• to investigate the elitism in art
  
• to make space between the drawer and the drawing
• to have fun with experimental mark making
• to provoke lively discussion on the issue of exclusion within art