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a poetic version:
Thin line between abolition and death. There’s history that cannot be told and conversation that cannot happen. We who try to survive together. Artists are collaborators with monad fragmented, intermingled and guided by the unknown, operates on the ground, joint hand with the temporal interference between Deep time, Present, and Speculation.
Shock waves are sent from the epicenters to echo throughout the body of the earth, on the immense geological scale we indeed are reaching a planetary consciousness of the unfolding destruction, on a smaller sentient scale such mediation is ceaselessly performed as an aid to feel such vibrations passing through our body and psyche.
Walking, dwelling, hanging out with hyper sensitivity and tension. A humming unstableness.
Matter to matter, permeating such liberating paranoia.
A structural version:
LYW (b.1940s 2000s 2020s) is a militant researcher, filmmaker, and artist. Their practice as a relation-led inquiry concerns with immediacy, surfaces/layers, and intersubjectivity as symptoms of the contemporary (in)operations of law and sovereignty. Loren is interested in working with actions that circumvent the law and critically disavowed lawful soverignty. Their practice is a medium through which abolition transmit.
They currently live in Los Angeles with their dog/collaborator.
time: (post) late capitalism and ongoing colonial genocides
space: the so called “frontiers”
artistS: intermingled
Deeply influenced by the Argentine laboratory, Loren’s methodology aligns with the critical engagement of revolutionary ‘potencia’ in Colectivo Situaciones‘s writing.
Quoting from Colectivo Situaciones:
“Militant research does not have an object. We are conscious of the paradoxical character of this statement – if there is research, something is being researched; if there is nothing to do research on, how can we talk about research? – and, at the same time, we are convinced that this character is precisely what gives potencia to the investigation. In fact, to do research without objectualizing already implies abandoning the usual image of the researcher, to which the researcher-militant aspires.”
Loren read this “potencia” through both the frankfurt school and decolonial militancy.
Walter Benjamin’s concept of “divine violence” that developed in The Critique of Violence(1921) which serves no means and protects end-in-itselfness, and Frantz Fanon’s pharmacological account of anti-colonial violence as a force that makes room, clears ground, and refuses domestication within any fixed political or legal architecture.
Quoting from Walter Benjamin on Divine Violence
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“The fact of vibrant humanity, the ability to make choices for ourselves, to make the law for ourselves, and ultimately our ability to reveal the world through language, sociality, and observation.”