A scandal started when I published an interview that analysed our process during the Cooperativa Performativa project by pointing some extensions to society and politics. Aggressive attitudes and some hysterical reactions appeared in the community. In analytical psychology this overreactions are clear signs that hidden complexes and problematic points are touched. I didn't wrote nothing new, nothing that we didn't discussed before, so the scandal must be related with the public image, social appearance and all what is associated with this - social status, power and influence in the community. Is very interesting to observe how the proposal of challenging the hierarchies, influence, property, dominance in artistic context was extended in our personal life and now seems to be extended in the dance community.
Stere Popescu a Romanian choreographer active in the 60's followed very closely the cooperativa performativa activity, especially the present scandal between us, extended in the dance community too. He's known for his entire life research on scandal and he is a convinced anarchist. Anyway we figured out at some point that he uses twitter in order to reflect on our process and especially on our scandal, to give us some messages, advices and even some instructions. We all follow him on twitter because he's a living legend of Romanian dance history.
There are some rumours that he felt in love with a cooperativa member. And some say that he's observations are irrelevant because he was too subjective or he just followed an hidden agenda. I think that this is a mean strategy to dismiss he's disturbing criticism, observations and insights. The fact that he felt in love didn't change the fact that his observations were true, insightful or provocative. I can see his twitter stream as an interesting and of course subjective documentation of our process. Is interesting how each tweet function independent but also can make sense together with the others. Twitter was also one of the influences for cooperativa concept as a model for a decentralized, anarchic, sharing and network based culture, so i think that can be interesting to see his twitter stream..
But before that is good to mention that he sometimes use his own cryptic terminology like:
"ianegic complex" - named after a romanian teacher and choreographer known for her excessive protectiveness, territorialization, aggressive rejection of new tendencies and also for her behaviour of not saluting and displaying strange grimaces to her artistic enemies (the avant-garde).
"sect" - he affirms that a part of our dance community functions based on unquestioned common core of attitudes, believes, values and behaviours, in order to reinforce some practices and to protect artistic territories.
"dated" - Stere use quite often words like old-school, out dated.. He believes that we are in an accelerating evolution/change period. The things are getting quicker out dated and this enhance the tendency of people to be stuck in the "old" patterns of doing and judging things and also the tendency to identify themselves with the old solutions, to protect them aggressively and to force them upon new situations.
"sedative art" - he calls like that a large part of art practice that is politic unaware and because of this, is perfectly integrated and assimilated by a consumerist-capitalist-neoliberal frame, functioning like elevate entertainment for the system. He oppose this term to "radical" or "terrorist art".
Stere's twitter stream about cooperativa: http://twitter.com/sterepopescu
"products and information should be guarded, kept secret, and used as a means to separate for competitive advantage" #dated
don't be ashamed to use your own ideas and call you an artist
morality and social norms are to protect the property, to territorialize, not to sustain the real relations or feelings
training for a cultural terrorist - notice the hidden hierarchy, influence and dominance in your group, speak about it and run...
the power has the monopole of true.. if another true enters the stage is received as aggression and the scandal begins, im happy..
propose a new direction in art with the hidden motivation to upset your friends.. allow the ianegic complex to appear..
what do you protect? your identity? your image? your social status? your commodity? all this will disappear, soon.
the #sect rejects the change because everything is ok, provoke a scandal to allow the good atmosphere to disappear
identify yourself with your group and then you will just know what is good/bad, correct/incorrect, moral/immoral..
the sect kills the public debates and keep things private to can control them secretly in the small talk and gossip activities of community
reject agreement based collaborations as #dated and unhealthy propagation of common sense and prejudices, allow disagreement, be happy
distractions, parties, drugs are so 90's.. awareness, performative activism and cultural terrorism are the new fun..
#dated = your attitudes and values are not questioned and updated, they come from the past and are inadequate and irrelevant to the present
talent, creativity, self-expression, aesthetic, composition and fantasy are easy to remove obstacles for a postspectacle terrorist artist
avoiding normalization is a constant struggle.. and if you are close to succeed the reward is excommunication
find an open and relax way of approaching your audience, pretend that you are better than them..
kill the artist inside of you and feel free to look outside, via @brynjar
we do everything to protect our way of life, our commodity, that's why we are so happy
to be in harmonie with something profoundly wrong is sick, be a terrorist to your own identity - do something regrettable..
sedative art is so boring and overestimated but helps the people to be more attuned to the corporate neoslavery
kill the private, go public there is nothing to hide or protect, everything is acceptable, share your life, the posthuman is near..
radical politic art, cultural terrorism, performative activism are making contemporary dance to look so 90's #dated
@florinflueras you pretend to do "a brave search of the ultimate reality", check the dominance-influence relations in your group
extend open source and deterritorialization into your life and relations, but don't cry after
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