Dali’s Paranoiac Critical Pizza
Facilitating Artist: Owen G. Parry
#queerspiracy, #antifascist, #pizza
Dates: 12-13 March 2021
Format: Online (Zoom & Discord)
Maximum Participants: 40
Module Description
Plot
“We need a plot against all plots” (Christine Quinn, Selling Sunset, Netflix 2020)
Dali’s Paranoiac Critical Pizza is an international business meeting for a cabal of antifascist art witches, queer automationists, eco-conspirators and you! Let’s conspire to “breath together” for the first time at a secret and highly convenient utopia [on zoom].
The plot for this meeting is that there is no plot, except the plot to plot against all plots; To explore the latent potential of conspiracy theory as an engine for the construction of counter myths and narratives set against those miserable fascist ones that dominate our daily feeds.
Rabbit hole
If in the “post-truth era” the truth teller has refashioned herself as the conspiracy theorist, then what happens if we take conspiracy theory from the hands of the perpetrator/victim and repurpose it as an antifascist methodology? Or, what if we conspire against conspiracy itself? What new critical-aesthetic practices might such an endeavour unravel?
This international business meeting will use these questions as a prompt for brain storming, presentations, and appraisals. It will turn to art as the business best positioned to respond to conspiracy theory. For art has already taught us how to conspire against the tyranny of representation and form via techniques of abstraction, and against knowledge by, for instance, “deserting from the culture wars” (Hlavajova and Lütticken).
We will explore how art’s potential to construct new logics, combined with its fashionable appropriation by the powers of commerce, puts art in a good position to influence and queer reality against all totalising narratives. Get your best tin foil hat on!
Requirements:
All welcome. You will need access to zoom and discord.
Frequency/ Contact:
Introductory session Friday 12 March, 7pm-9pm GMT (2 hours)
Workshop session Saturday 13 March, 11am-5pm GMT (5 hours w/ break)
Contact may be lasting; you can’t wash away the truth.
This event is brought to you by Queer Extension; Artist-Led Learning Online & By Correspondence. Queer Extension is funded by its participants and Arts Council England.
About Queer Extension:
Inspired by the University Extension movement that reduced barriers to access for marginalised communities; Queer Extension has invited queer artists to develop online and correspondence modules that enable queer community to learn together. Queer Extension is curated by Justin Hunt of I'm With You and produced by Jo Alloway of We Exist.
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All modules hosted by Queer Extension are pay-what-you-can. We recognise that many LGBTQ+ folx may be experiencing financial hardship right now. All events have a sliding pay scale with a suggested minimum payment of £5. Please email imwithyouclapton@gmail.com if you would like to attend any of our events but do not have the financial means to do so.
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