A VERY STRAIGHTFORWARD SHARING IMPULSE OF WHAT HAS BEEN PRODUCED THIS MONTH. Details will come later. Life first.
THEY LOVE THE IDEA OF ME WAS LAUNCHED <3
Jonas and I’s publication launch finally came to life!
Dear,
You feel heavy because you are
Lost in the sea of items.
Observing others and starting to feel what it could mean to be obsolete.
Will you get what you are not actively looking for?
Walking around, strolling through time,
Passing through mansions and houses, thinking of everything money can buy.
What if the life you once dreamed of sucked so bad?
What if the people you envy would like to die?
I won’t lie in the landscape of sameness,
Refusing to be a static object.
I know there is this sudden moment where one falls into sudden nothingness,
Somehow not coming to the surface again.
When is it?
Is it the end of the performance?
Removing physical beings, love, places, materialities,
Leaving you as I would simply exit a chat room.
Can you desire a template?
Can you decorate a black hole?
In this great act of performativity, you have to understand,
There is no way I am coming back.
The desire to retrieve and become one’s own entity is solely
A result of the loss of faith in institutional and ideological support,
There’s just me.
they love the idea of me is a catalogue for world-building through objects and artefacts. It’s an invitation to bump into a range of objects such as clothing, decoration, furniture, and household devices that in sum constitute a material topography paradigmatic of our times. Alongside these tangibles, a handful of writers and artists have contributed thoughts and texts that add to the making and meaning of the work. Through sampling, archiving and collaging, our efforts wonder: What makes a good living? What is so tempting about the consumption of image and object? How do we curate our homes, and what symbols do we, knowingly or not, borrow when doing so?
With contributions from Jonas Morgenthaler, Content y Contenido, Masha Ryabova, Mira Samonig, Carmen Lael Hines, Millie Rose Dobree, Klara Debeljak, Anna Rimmel, Enzo Aït Kaci, Morgane Billuart.
If you want a copy (19€), please drop me an email at billuart.morgane@gmail.com
ARTIFICIALITY AND EMOTIONS
This month, I produced quite a long episode on artificiality and emotions/desire. There, I cover some of my findings on the attraction and desire towards distant/unreal images/objects and dissect into how our current emotional economy is evolving more and more towards artificially rendered experiences.
REFERENCES AND INSPIRATIONS ON HUMAN-COMPUTER LOVE
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK - Park Chan-wook
Tove Lo - No One Dies From Love (music clip)
Ich bin dein Mensch - Maria Schrader
Women being obsessed with synthesizers
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
Automan (song) - Newcleus
The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson
Thomas est amoureux by Pierre-Paul Renders
Thanks for reading/listening to me <3
M