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[MICROSEXES] Pangender Cyborg_ANTIBODIES_DISSOLUTION OF THE BODY POLITIC 0.01 a metamedia metaformance by REVERSO___Jaime del Val/JdV/JaiVal & OLINTO 10__Toulousse - April 2010 9__Porto-Aveiro - November 2008 8__Murcia - November 2008 7__Santiago de Chile - October 2008 6__Buenos Aires - September 2008 5__Madrid - Puerta de Alcalá - August 2008 4__Madrid - Catedral y Palacio Real - July 2008 3__Madrid - Congreso de los Diputados - July 2008 2__Madrid - Museo Reina Sofía - July 2008 1__Madrid - Gran Vía - July 2008 Tests - July 2008     PANGENDER GUERRILLA PANGENDER CYBORG TAKES THE STREETS _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ THIS SUMMER AN ANTIBODY WALKS AROUND THE STREETS OF MADRID. MAYBE YOU WILL MEET HIR.... ACTIONS IN THE STREETS OF MADRID - SUMMER 2008 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ AMORPHOUS BODY PARTS PROJECTED ON CATHEDRAL, ROYAL PALACE, CONGRESS, MUSEUM AND COMMERCIAL CENTRE OF THE CITY MULTI-PROTEST AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA, GENDER BINARIES , SURVEILLANCE AND CONSUMER SOCIETY _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GENDER STRIKE: PANGENDER ACTIVIST DENIES GENDER BINARIES _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ RECENT ACTS: 1st ACT - COMMERCIAL CITY CENTRE & MARGINAL SEX DISTRICT 2nd ACT - MODERN ART MUSEUM REINA SOFIA 3rd ACT - CONGRESS - POLICE INTERVENES 4th ACT - CATHEDRAL AND ROYAL PALACE 5º ACTO - PUERTA DE ALCALÁ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ POLICE ACTED ILLEGALLY _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CRUSADE AGAINST METRO JOURNAL: CHEAP SENSATIONALISM AT THE EXPENSE OF SERIOUS JOURNALISM REVERSO CRUSADE AGAINST INTERNATIONAL PRESS: the journal METRO.CO.UK has publisehd an outrageously false article on the actions of JdV. We are studying prosecuting online sensationalist publications that have falsely depicted JdV as a "high tech pervert", "flasher" and exhibitionist, who goes around showing off his masculity to attract womens attention, as a means of power and to reassure himself................. MORE INFO ON TRIALS SOON - possible legal action against the journal metro.co.uk _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ COMING ACTS: Agenda SOME WILL BE DONE WITHOUT PRIOR ANNOUNCEMENT _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ © CRÉDITOS TEXTOS Y FOTOS: REVERSO_Jaime del VaL/JaiVal/JdV

PANGENDER-STREET-MEDIA GUERRILLA: ANTIBODIES OF SOCIAL CONTROL

AMBIGUOUS GENITALS PROJECTED IN THE STREETS

AMORPHOUS BODY PARTS PROJECTED ON CATHEDRAL, ROYAL PALACE, CONGRESS, MUSEUM AND COMMERCIAL CENTRE OF THE CITY
MULTI-PROTEST AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA, GENDER BINARIES AND MACHISM, SURVEILLANCE AND CONSUMER SOCIETY

Jaime del Val, selfidentified as "pangender cyborg", artist and activist from the transdisciplinary group REVERSO, projects amorphous images of body parts (amongst which genitals) taken from surveillance cameras placed on his body, onto façades of emblematic buildings representing economic, political, cultural and social power structures.

The series of actions that is taking place in the streets of Madrid this summer is a multi-protest against homophobia and machistic, patriacal, male-dominant society, against surveillance and control, and against consumer society, and standardisation of bodies and subjects induced by global communication technologies in latecapitalism. It is both an artistic and technological experiment, and a new kind of queer, transgender and intersex political protest, which also denounces social hypocrisy around sex and demands a more public and open approach to it.

The first action was done in the commercial epicentre of the city, denouncing consumer culture; the second in front of the main entrance of the Modern Art Museum Reina Sofia, denouncing the way cultural institutions work at the service of power; the third was in front of the National Deputy Congress, to denounce the weakness of democracies that work at the service of markets, and requesting an Intersex Law, that allows to legally self-identify as intersexual or intergender, and not only as male or female; and the fourth one (in the pictures) was in front of the Almudena Cathedral and the Royal Palace situated opposite it, denouncing the homophobia of the church and the way touristic icons work as superficial instruments of seduction of consumer culture.

Nudity in public space is permitted by law in Spain, so the artist is not infringing any law nor can be considered an exhibitionist from the point of view of the Spanish Penal Code, since according to its article nº 185 exhibitionism happens only when there is obscene sexual provocation to under age or mentally incapable people, and nudity cannot, under this light, be considered an offence. This, of course, changes in the case of other countries.

MICRODANCES IN THE CITY: UNCERTAIN SEXUAL ORGANS AND AMORPHOUS BODY FRAGMENTS PROJECTED IN THE PUBLIC SPACE OF THE CITY TO COUNTERACT MECHANISMS OF SOCIAL CONTROL AND BINARY GENDER NORMATIVITY

THE CITY OF DESIRE: UNDOING ITS ANATOMY AND DESTINY
__YEAR ZERO OF THE METABODY ERA__

Anatomy is destiny
S. Freud / Napoleon

Anatomy is a tecno-political fiction: undoing anatomy is undoing the political destiny of the body.
JdV_REVERSO

 

ANTIBODIES_DISSOLUTION OF THE BODY POLITIC is a Metamedia Metaformance, a political, artistic and technological intervention/performance/action in the public space of the city by the group REVERSO.

JdV_REVERSO use surveillance cameras on the body to decompose its anatomy and gender, and dishabilitate mechanisms of social control, in a unique convergence of dance, performance, media arts, electroacoustics, architecture and space interventions. A metapolitical experiment in wearable technology, an exercise in the undoing of of surveillance.

A naked body covered with micro-surveillance cameras walks by the streets of the city, projecting fragments of the body through a projector placed in the chest. Images becomes unintelligible and amorphous through proximity and angle of the cameras placed on the skin. At the same time exposed and illegible, the hiper-vigilated body becomes uncontrollable: amorphous, post-anatomic, pangender, defying binaries and categories of sexuality and intimacy. It moves slowly in a series of minimalist microdances, microcoreographies of a fragmented and multiple body that defies all categorisation, as it appeals to the desiring look in all its diffuse and fragmentary potential. Its voice is processed life in a minicomputer, becoming a chorus of dissolving voices.

So does the group REVERSO denounce that we are all vigilated and subdued to multiple explicit and implicit norms that we tacitly accept. Subverting the same technologies that constitute the norms, the vigilated body rebels against mechanisms of control and against the normative and disciplinary scaffolding of market driven management of bodies.

It is the MUBP: MOBILE UNIT FOR BODY PRODUCTION, also called MUAP, MUGP or MUSP (MOBILE UNIT FOR ANTI-ANATOMY / GENDER / SEX PRODUCTION), a war-machine against the disciplinary social organism understood as power machine, the gender, sexuality and public-private binaries and the apparatus of affective production of bodies in latecapitalism.

An independent initiative by REVERSO.

 

 

SUBVERTING THE USE OF SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS PLACED ON THE BODY TO PRODUCE AN AMORPHOUS INCONTROLLABLE BODY

ACTIONS AGAINST THE NEW FORMS OF TOTALITARIANISM AND IMPLICIT CONTROL IN NEOLIBERAL SOCIETIES THAT OPERATE BEHIND THE FAÇADE OF DEMOCRACIES AND NATION-STATES

ACTIONS AGAINST GENDER, SEXUALITY AND INTIMATE-PUBLIC BINARIES: CLAIMING AN INTERSEXED, PANGENDER, METASEXUAL SOCIETY AND PRODUCING A PUBLIC RELATIONAL PANSEXUAL BODY

REVERSO LAUNCHES A NEW CONCEPT OF PERFORMANCE, STREET INTERVENTION AND SOCIAL CRITIQUE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY, IN THE CONVERGENCE OF MEDIA ARTS, MUSIC, DANCE AND ARCHITECTURE: A TECHNOLOGICAL, ARTISTIC AND POLITICAL EXPERIMENT.



GENDERBUSTERS: PANGENDER CYBORG HUNTING OUT TO GET RID OF THE PHANTOMS OF GENDER BINARIES