[resource-net] GEGEN HOMOPATIK CONCEPT - reSource 003: tm/CTM partner events

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*GEGEN HOMOPATIK: THE GOLDEN CAGE*


The present Idea of a Golden Age of Information with full access causes a
risk of redundant positive thinking where strange mechanisms appear. In
this rhetoric, the accent seems to exalt the desire to enter a world of
welfare in which endless possibilities are given by the free redistribution
of resources. This notion represents a contradictory picture; the surface
of an iceberg where the cold hidden dark side is the biggest part of the
whole composition. In the social media economy the “access as
contextualisation” intends to trace information as consumption routes,
producing a “golden age” in the hands of platform owners in a double bind
between social control and digital capitalism. In this theoretical skyline
Facebook digital skies fuse themselves with Berlin gentrification
mechanisms as the non-plus-ultra of what Saskia Sassen defines as “global
city”. Celebrating the Dark Age of the Golden Cage, two historical
post-identitarian events productions GEGEN and HOMOPATIK decide to create
holes in the golden dawn of private universes by re-discussing identitarian
dialectics and applying tactile dialogics, by obscuring transnational
markets and developing new forms of viral promotion, by mixing genders with
human manufacts and stealing life of the social network near death
experience. Crisis is the intra-dancefloor of strange actualisations where
models of entertainment are constructed on identifying processes. To
experience the unexperienced is the only way to expand an idea of the self
that, not recognising itself, gives spaces for the flowering of the new. A
sliding idea in which scenes cannot be represented by shadow-promoters;
markets cannot be absorbed by Oligopolies and musics cannot be replicated
as original. So this is an invitation to understand the platform as cage
and perceive yourself within. Constriction is construction where your
pathology is desire. Let your digital cage become yourself, there you'll
shine as pure, liquid metal.


GEGEN HOMOPATIK

www.gegenberlin.com

http://www.facebook.com/hpatik
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