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The Laurence Rassel Show(Terre Thaemlitz website)

...The German art critic Walter Benjamin once rebuked the Surrealists, demanding that artists who assume the mantle of revolutionaries would do better engaging actual political struggles than promoting their individual artistic careers. Benjamin challenges artists to pursue sustained and committed relationships with social movements.

Conversely, simply listening to political movements poses its own inadequacies. Convention and territorialism inflict many political organizers producing tendencies that result in stagnation. Leadership too often becomes a claim to power rather than a participatory process.

A challenge to instrumentalism, a critique of goal-driven strategizing, a deconstruction of exclusions, and the distribution of power can inform art's contribution to an encounter with(in) social movements. Solidity, duration, and faith in the process become necessary conditions for such an encounter. As Ultra-red member Leonardo Vilchis argues on the release "Encuentro" (PR 2-01-011), let these terms define the basis of a sound political art practice.

Produced for German Public Radio by musician and trans-activist Terre Thaemlitz in collaboration with Laurence Rassel of Brussel's cyberfeminist collective Constant. The album combines original and liberated music with spoken word examining the gender politics of the copyLeft. An album so cutting edge German Public Radio banned it from broadcast. Also starring Tina Horne, Pierre De Jaeger, Nicolas Malevé, Femke Snelting, Marie-Françoise Stewart, Aiko Tsuji and Wendy Van Wynsberghe.