{___}et statement
2020-2021
Make-up, cotton, thread, hi-vis bicycle tape.
770 x 570 mm
[F]or woman is not about installing herself within {1}
...the different spheres reproducing capitalist totality, {2}
...so long as the gendered division of waged and unwaged labour and its place in the larger capital-labour relation remains unchanged. {3}
...Our fondest desire is to find or invent a politics unaffected by the politics of politics, {4} exempt from the politics of gender, {5}
...but {6}
... the shit stays messy {7} [.]
...In capitalist society {8}
[W]e call everything that is strong and active ‘male’ and everything that is weak and passive ‘female’ {9} [;]
The woman [has been] degraded and reduced to servitude. {10}
...In capitalist society... {11}
[w]oman must put herself into the text - as into the world and into history - by her own movement {12}
...The resultant {13}...text also [seeks] to undermine any and all efforts to wield a discourse of truth
to delegitimate minority gendered and sexual practices {14}
...we maintain that there is not one woman - more particularly, not one child - who can as such ‘assume’ his or her situation
in a capitalist society. {15}
...[T]here is no place for woman. {16}
— a proof of concept inspired by the work, reclaimed from some guy on Hinge.
Peace piece
1 minute 19 seconds
2021
Quelque chose de fragile et blanc cassé
with colour and a chord.
Holes patched in hi-vis blue
and if this doesn’t show through,
Désintégrates if felt or worked (werk)
work
Uncanny insulation of warm, worn
cotton.
Dilooted swipes (doubling as clouds):
Centreless, sky-high proportions.
Espèce de sale nappe
Trying to be clean of conscience
After the after-party
(et puisque c’est parti)
Mon kiki we’re just getting ready to spot blood on the
No
face up.
Please, touch.
1 Luce Irigaray, Catherine Porter, and Carolyn Burke, This Sex Which Is Not One, Reprint edition (Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell Univeristy Press, 1985) p. 159.
2 Endnotes, ‘The Logic of Gender: On the Separation of Spheres and the Process of Abjection’ Endnotes 3 (2013) https://endnotes.org.uk/issues/3/en/endnotes-the-logic-of-gender, 3.
3 Marina Vishmidt, ‘Counter-(Re)Productive Labour’ , Auto Italia South East, 4th April 2012, https://autoitaliasoutheast.org/news/counter-re-productive-labour/.
4 Geoffrey Bennington, Scatter 1: The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger and Derrida (Fordham University Press, 2016), p. 4.
5 Shunda L. Brown and Kathleen M. May ‘Counseling with women’, p. 62 Cross-cultural awareness and Social Justice in Counseling ed. by Cyrus Marcellus Ellis and Jon Carlson (Taylor & Francis, 2013)pp.61-87.
6 Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality’ and other Writings, ed. by Keith Ansell-Pearson, trans. Carol Diethe, 2nd edn (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006), Preface, 2.
7 Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts (London: Melville House, UK, 2016) p. 65.
8 Karl Marx, Capital.Vol. 1: A Critique of Political Economy, trans. by ben Fowkes (New York: Penguin Classics, 1990). p. 667.
9 Sigmund Freud, An Outline of Psycho-Analysis, trans. by James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1969), p. 63
10 Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: In Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan, trans. by Eleanor Burke Leacock (New York: International Publishers, 1972), pp. 120-1.
11 Karl Marx, Capital.Vol. 1: A Critique of Political Economy, trans. by ben Fowkes (New York: Penguin Classics, 1990). p. 667
12 Hélene Cixous, ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’ p. 71, trans. by Keith Cohen, and Paula Cohen, Signs 1.4 (, (1976) pp. 875-893
13 Ross Speer, ‘The Machiavellian Marxism of Althusser and Gramsci’ , Décalage, 2.1 (2016), 7, p.1.
14 Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 2011). p. viii
15 Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, trans. by Robert Hurley, Marx Seem, and Helen R. Lane, (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), p. 405.
16 Christie V. McDonald and Jacques Derrida, ‘Interview: Choreographers: Jacques Derrida and Christie V. McDonald, p. 70 Diacritics, 12.2 (1982) pp. 66-76.