{"id":41016,"date":"2022-09-13T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/prospections\/the-hauntologists-2\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T10:48:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T09:48:05","slug":"the-hauntologists","status":"publish","type":"prospection","link":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/prospections\/the-hauntologists\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hauntologists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThe Hauntologists\u201d is activated here as a Prospections<\/em> focus\u2014featuring both commissioned and archival material that has emerged out of the BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice 2021\/2022 program. It includes new texts, archival resources, interviews and other research-artistic contributions that bring together the Fellow\u2019s practices in resonance with pivotal concepts at BAK, including voices and ideas generated through the exhibition and gatherings program, as well as strands that dialogue with the \u201cSpectral Infrastructure\u201d focus (also featured on Prospections<\/em>) led by freethought<\/em> collective. \u201cThe Hauntologists\u201d launch takes place intermittently throughout the duration of eponymous experimental and collective research project in the fall of 2022 and beyond. <\/p>\n

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1. Zone<\/strong> Collective <\/span><\/b>(Kirila Cvetkovska and Megan Hoetger)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNotes from the table. A Not Yet Manifesto,\u201d<\/i> 2022<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Text contribution. Publication date 14 October 2022<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Alongside the <\/span>Zoning Play Complex<\/span><\/i>, Zone Collective also contributes the \u201cNotes from the table. A Not Yet Manifesto\u201d<\/i> to BAK\u2019s <\/span>Prospections<\/span><\/i> online forum, which outlines the <\/span>tenets<\/span> of their collective annotation methodology, as well as their commitments to <\/span>workshopping<\/span><\/i> as a form of knowledge production otherwise. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>Zone Collective<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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 2. <\/span>Cell for Digital Discomfort (Cristina Cochior, Karl Moubarak, and Jara Rocha)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cOn Digital Discomfort\u201d  <\/span><\/p>\n

Editorial focus. Soft launch: November 2022<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

On Digital Discomfort<\/span><\/i> provides in-depth reflections upon and suggestions about what it means to be technologically engaged in the complex realities of the mundane. Across several literary forms\u2014essays, interviews, poetic video experiments, and collective annotations\u2014it seeks to extend these conversations to intersecting fields of study. It does so through undertaking quotidian but attentive experiments to study the potential necessity for opacity, non-eurowhite calculation genealogies, trans*feminist infrastructural entanglements, anti-extractivist connecting cultures, and intersectional notions of hosting and hostility. The urgency for digital discomfort is produced by the contemporary stage of rampant monocultural digitization based on logics of coercion, quantification, and the capture-of-all aspects of more-than-human existence that emerge from ecosystemic and infrastructural arrangements: cloud-computing, hyper-availability, agile flow-management, optimized planetary computing, and so forth. Digital discomfort, like physical discomfort, can come from a politicized re-arrangement of an environment to allow for reimaginations of everyday technological engagements. Reimagining this means focusing on the experiences, aesthetics, and vernacular diversity of techniques as a way to problematize the calcified subjectivity of the computer user or the fairy tales of telecom companies, and to add, twist, or abolish worldviews while reshuffling activist tactics in relation to computational techno-ecologies. As artist and scholar Romi Ron Morrison puts it: \u201ctoday . . . is not a time of futility but of radical reimagining and visceral reconnection.\u201d <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Cell for Digital Discomfort<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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3. Dubravka Sekuli<\/span><\/b>\u0107<\/span><\/b> in conversation with Merve Bedir<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cBedtime Story for the Non-Aligned,\u201d 2022<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Text and sound contribution: Publication date November 2022<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

This contribution is a transcription of Dubravka <\/span>Sekuli\u0107’s conversation with Merve Bedir included in the <\/span>installation <\/span>Montecarlo,<\/span><\/i> <\/span>Learning Structures and Bedtime Stories for the Non-Aligned<\/em>.<\/span> In it, Sekuli\u0107 is prompted to react to different questions and topics that seek to intersect multiple perspectives and experiences that collectively draw \u201canother end of the world.\u201d Seeking to advance concrete forms of knowledge and action that pave the grounds for global solidarity against neoliberal governance, oppression, polarization, and conflict, and inspired by the Non-Aligned Movement (1961\u2013ongoing), the text discusses multiple unsettled dialectics between notions of home and diaspora, of resistance or abolition, and of being neither settler nor native. It aims to speculate and propose an <\/span>agenda of interdependent struggles for a coalition of nonaligned workers.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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4. <\/span>Denise Ferreira da Silva and Massimiliano (Mao) Mollona<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cBeyond Value\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Editorial focus. Launch: <\/span>November 2022<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Composed as part of the <\/span>Spectral Infrastructure <\/span><\/i>research trajectory, \u201c<\/span>Beyond Value\u201d is a digital research notebook consisting of a multimedia assemblage of interviews, texts, and visual and sound materials around mining. It articulates a<\/span> reflection on spectrality and its material manifestations, departing from Ferreira da Silva\u2019s raw materialist approach and Mollona\u2019s notion of \u201cspectral labor.\u201d Striving to develop both an anticolonial critique of extractivism as much as a proposition about spectral value, this editorial is intended as a gathering of matter that resists containment and capture through a visual grammar that takes opacity and hapticality as its starting point. With a fragmentary format and a \u201cquick and dirty aesthetics,\u201d this visual notebook revolves around the Katanga Mining complex operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the world\u2019s biggest producers of cobalt. Cobalt is a central component that underpins the transition to renewable energy that is associated with green capitalism, and hence, it is the raw material for contemporary extractivism and primitive accumulation. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Massimiliano (Mao) Mollona<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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5. <\/span>Yen Noh<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cBarren Cave Mute,\u201d<\/span><\/i> 2022<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Text contribution. Publication date December 2022<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Borrowing its title from Theresa Hak Kyung Cha\u2019s little-known performance and installation <\/span>Barren Cave Mute, <\/span><\/i>and in line with Yen Noh\u2019s study group <\/span>In Between Seances<\/span><\/i>, Noh\u2019s text contribution \u201c<\/span>Barren Cave Mute bears\u201d witness to the materiality of language in Cha\u2019s <\/span>Dictee <\/span><\/i>(1982), looking into the novel\u2019s linguistic and material displacements in terms of sonic ecologies. It is grounded in Noh\u2019s reading of <\/span>Dictee,<\/span><\/i> which aims to reveal the silence inherent in the bodily trials of living. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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