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W.A.T.

WAT ARE TIS

• WAT: "WAT", OR "WAT ARE TIS" IS A CAMPAIGN OF VIRTUAL DERTOURNEMENTS 2015-16

• HOE: A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT INJECTIONS INTO CYBERNETIC SPACE MEANT TO DISRUPT AND RECONTEXTUALIZE FAMILIAR CYBERNETIC SPACES SUCH AS FACEBOOK, PHOTOBOOKS, ATHLETICS, ACADEMIA, SKYPE, YOUTUBE, VISUAL ART, MY LAPTOP, WALKING, STUDYING, CALL CENTER QUEUES, WRITING, AND LAST-BUT NOT LEAST- EXHIBITION

• WHY: I REALIZED VERY LATE THAT IN ORDER TO MAKE I HAVE TO HAVE FUN, AND BE SIMPLE WITH MY APPROACH TOWARDS ART. I HAVE DONE LITTLE PROGRESS WITH EXPLAINING THE COMPLEX METAPHORS BETWEEN SOCIETIES OF CONTROL AND MYCELLIUM, IN FACT: I WAS STUCK, SO LET'S CHANGE TRACKS! I HAVE A LARGE AFFECTION FOR INTERNET CULTURE, AND I HAVE MOSTLY LOOKED AT IT FROM A FAR VANTAGE POINT. THE VIRTUAL KIDNAPPING PROJECT WAS MY FIRST SUCCESS IN MEDIA DESIGN, SO LET ME CONTINUE THAT PRACTICE. LET'S SEE WHAT GROWS OUT OF THIS. IN THE SPIRIT OF DETOURNEMENT AND SITUATIONISM, AND ALL OF WHAT I HAVEN'T DONE Y

"Situationism is premised on the social scientific insight that the naïve psychology—that is, the highly simplified, affirming, and widely held model for understanding human thinking and behavior—on which our laws and institutions are based is largely wrong." - https://thesituationist.wordpress.com/about-situationism/

RELATION TO FORMER PRACTICE

• Artificial Voice Distortion Experiment
• The Archive of the Transcendental Archive
• The Procedural Photobook
• Virtual Kidnapping
• Skype & Cigarettes

CURRENT PRACTICE

• The Procedural Photobook
• Club Queue

FUTURE PRACTICE

• WAT ARE TIS QUEUE
• WAT ARE TIS EXERCISING
• WAT ARE TIS ART
• WAT ARE TIS WORKING
• WAT ARE TIS EXHIBITION
• WAT ARE TIS EXHIBIT
• WAT ARE TIS TROLLS

INFLUENCES

• The Situationist Manifesto, G. Debord
• [The Society of the Spectacle, G. Debord]
• The Production of Space, H. Lefebvre
• [Dazed, H. Steyerl]
• [General Idea: SHUT THE FUCK UP]
• to be continued