a name change / disorganization :: livestream show on 4.25
Changes are afoot, big and small. (Odd—at least, to this migraineur—that isolation is both a preventative measure against COVID-19 and a treatment for migraine.)
May we rise from this with a renewed commitment to strengthening our social safety nets, fighting for single-payer healthcare, and cultivating workplace democracy for all.
A Livestream Show
I’ll be livestreaming a set with Pip the Pansy and Avery Leigh’s Night Palace this Saturday. Thanks to the folks at the Lewis Room and Tweed Recording for hosting it.
You can watch the livestream by visiting twitch.tv/tweedrecording at 6:30pm on Saturday, April 25th.
A Name Change
I now use the name Lydian in my daily life, and I continue to use they/them pronouns.
As a relatively obedient subject living under capitalism, I’ve felt some trepidation about changing anything about my identifiers. Heaven forbid a life require disambiguation. See:
“Becoming everybody/everything (tout le monde) is to world (faire monde), to make a world (faire un monde). By process of elimination, one is no longer anything more than an abstract line, or a piece in a puzzle that is itself abstract. It is by conjugating, by continuing with other lines, other pieces, that one makes a world that can overlay the first one, like a transparency.
“Animal elegance, the camouflage fish, the clandestine: this fish is crisscrossed by abstract lines that resemble nothing, that do not even follow its organic divisions; but thus disorganized, disarticulated, it worlds with the lines of a rock, sand, and plants, becoming imperceptible.”
—Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 280
Here’s to worlding through disorganization.
A Conference Future
Robert Jackson of the University of Alberta is organizing an online colloquium, WASTE OF HISTORY, scheduled for May 6-7. I’ll present on the methods I used to compose Eingedenken I, and I’ll generate recordings from conference participants to compose Eingedenken II.
The Eingedenken Project was inspired by Walter Benjamin’s monumental posthumous work, Arcades Project, which is composed of fragments of his thinking on Marx, dreams, consumerism, Paris, and collective architecture. You can read my documentation for the project here.
A Conference Past
Ariel Ackerly and I presented at the Library Collective back in March. We led a session teaching librarians how to sew an illuminated mask out of conductive thread, and we shared our own circuit templates used in workshops that we held for patrons in our own library.
You can find the documentation we created for our e-textiles workshops here.
This conference was the last time I was in a large group of people before shelter-in-place laws were passed. I hope to see them all again next year in this still-uncertain future.