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DBLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080440487765932535noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2635026743440029618.post-61146619864276231502018-08-06T21:14:00.000-07:002018-08-06T22:00:26.190-07:00Ankoku-Butoh Workshop with the Harupin-Ha Dance Theater<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Harupin-Ha Dance Theater will be coming to Los Angeles
September 15-16, Oct. 6-7, and Nov.3-4 to share their holistic style of
Ankoku-Butoh. <br /><br />Techniques transcend beyond the dance studio and
stage. From daily maintenance, core work, and internal imagery,
techniques become useful in daily life and provide a foundation for life
long learning and growth. These workshop will culminate with a
performance in December.<br />
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This is the first of the workshops. Feel free to invite anyone to this
that you feel might be interested. It is truly a rare event to have
butoh masters Koichi and Hiroko Tamano in LA. <br /><br /><br />September 15 &16 (Saturday and Sunday) 11am-3pm<br />
October 6 &7 (Saturday and Sunday) 11am-3pm<br />
November 3&4 (Saturday and Sunday) 11am-3pm<br />
<br />Cost: 40 for one day, 60 for both<br /><br />To reserve a spot email: <br />josie: info@razethewhitebox.com<br /><br />*Walk-ins welcomed<br /><br />We Live in Space<br />2520 W Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90018<br /><br />*********<br /><br />Harupin-Ha Dance Theater<br /><br />Koichi
and Hiroko Tamano were among the very first to perform Ankoku Butoh,
which translates literally to “the dance of darkness.” The genre emerged
in the late 1950s in post-atomic bomb Japan. It was created by two
dancers, Kazuo Ohno and Tatsumi Hijikata, who sought to create a new,
uniquely Japanese form of expression that completely rebelled against
the Establishment, and both Eastern tradition and Western styles. Koichi
joined Hijikata’s dance company in 1960, as did Hiroko a few years
later. Hijikata encrouaged the Tamanos to introduce Butoh to the United
States. The Tamano’s performance in the 1976 “Japan Now” exhibition at
SFMOMA was the first Butoh seen by an American audience and made a big
sensation. The Tamanos moved their dance company Harupin-Ha from Tokyo
to Berkeley, California in 1979 with the blessings and encouragement of
their teacher. For decades the Tamanos lead dance workshops in Berkeley
and also operated the restaurants, Country Station and Tamasei, which
served as meeting places for the dance and theater communities of the
Bay Area. They are known for their holistic approach to the art of
Butoh. The Mayor of the City of Berkeley, California declared March
28th, 2017 to be the “Koichi and Hiroko Tamano Day.”<br />
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Body awareness, conditioning, and exploration meet up.<br />
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come join us at the Zorthian Ranch for this exploration. Bring water, a
towel, free moving clothes, comfortable athletic shoes (the flatter the
better), A yoga mat, if you got it (well be on the floor outdoors), a
willingness to sweat, play and explore the environment outside and
with-in yourself. Feel free to invite anyone that you feel might be
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in movement ideas that will work in these areas. If you are unsure, come
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This is all levels. Listen to your body and keep your own pace.<br />
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*Next Corporeal Reformation Exploration will be August 19.<br />
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**These sessions will end in a meditative play experience/ photo / video shoot at the end of the month.*<br />
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5-10 suggested donation<br />
11:30am-2:30pm<br />
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My
movement practice is an extension of my search to unlock internal
memory. This "built-in" info I believe will help us function in this
planet not as separate individuals but as part of an organism.<br />
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have started to collect exercises and play activities that I believe
will help awaken already built in ways of healing, conditioning, and
inherent ways of centering yourself.<br />
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include: Working with dichotomies, open eye imagining/ meditation,
theories of flow, metamorphosis, athletic conditioning (endurance for
ecstatic dance) sensation work (meditations to awaken sensitivity) and
play (playing with forms {playing within parameters}).<br />
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it comes to body work my background started with performance art,
branched out to Butoh and now Martial Arts. I still am actively
searching and wanting to learn and share new methods of body work. I am
interested in the exchange of these ideas and fascinated with how
lineages grow and cross pollinate. <br />
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My hopes is to build a way to
become fully the animal we could be. In a way a universal way of
approaching movement that is approachable and helps in everyday life,
work, self defense and in play. Not animal as reactionary but adaptable
and intellect, contributing to the graciousness of our ancestors.<br />
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I don't see myself as a teacher but possibly a facilitator that wishes to learn as well.<br />
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personally use the term Corporeal Reformation, a way of saying at this
moment my body needs a reevaluation, a reorganizing, a re-shifting that
is deep and spiritual.<br />
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DBLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080440487765932535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2635026743440029618.post-18556583894656735532018-05-12T15:33:00.000-07:002018-05-12T15:34:56.604-07:00Face the Music Dance Festival<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Butoh has influence me in ways that extend pass the imprint it has left on my body and dance. Working with the Harupin-Ha Dance Theater is always a lesson is conscious existing. Therefore this fest is not only a milestone for me but an honor, a gift, and a challenge...so it goes... growth stops in death,...but even death is a transition. </div>
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Through learning Butoh Master Koichi TAMANO's Method, you will know
what body is, what mind is, why you are here in this life, a life with a
limited time, a life that is in constant limbo between vitality and
death, beauty and the grotesque, Joy and sorrow. <br /> <br /> Performance : One hour performance based on Work Shop's vocabulary. <br /> <br /> <br />
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DBLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080440487765932535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2635026743440029618.post-59172786053752266662017-04-10T21:53:00.002-07:002017-04-10T22:24:29.131-07:00The World Tree (Ecstatic Energy Lab)-Colab.Performance @ CAI<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I could use some help setting up, tearing down and running the event.
If you have an interest in participating in what is fairly un-glamorous
work, please let me know. <br /> <br /> Thanks Again,<br /> Mark Soden</span></span></div>
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I don't really connect myself to the Dancer lineage. I feel that those artist master their craft beyond what I can do, but I see now that there are and have been influential Dancers in my life. As I get older I am finding a long yet loose thread to some kind of lineage. Maybe my teenage angst is finally receding. Now I can except my elders more respectfully. <br />
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Maybe the first Dancer was Michael 'Boogaloo Shrimp' Chambers ,"Turbo" in the movie breaking. His sweep piece still sends chills through my body. Ko Murobushi, which a couple of years before his passing followed me on FB...just a lil possibly meaningless accomplishment. Of course my long time teacher/ sages the Tamano's. I learn something new each time just interacting with Hiroko Tamano. Lessons beyond movement. She is the closest I have experienced to a sage in my life. The closest that has changed it. Thank you profoundly.<br />
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Yesterday I saw one of these few influential Dancers in my life perform, Oguri. Oguri is based in Venice, Ca and like the others I mentioned has continued to develop his craft throughout his life. Seemingly ageless, something about his and Hiroko’s form that seem to not fear death but embrace the existence of the body, not to destroy it but be in it, sense in it, exist in it, understanding its fragility, and respecting it. Not to say they wish to be immortal...not at all. They stare at mortality and make it their intimate friend, not their over indulgent co-conspirator. This and their soft view on life and movement I believe slows their existence...a stroll to smell the flower on their chest. <br />
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I always have a profound experience watching Oguri. Yesterday was no different. In his form I see humanity, its ugliness, its silliness, its frailness and the way trauma can fracture it; transmuting these pieces into something wholesome, and healing. This piece I saw was about death and how our love ones from our childhood become the lovers of our present. How in dreams and memories these things blur, we embrace, this embrace becomes a holding of what was once before, a hope to remember a warmth from the past. We are just children hoping to be loved. Hoping to hold a familiar warm hand. Hoping to have someone there to tell us, it’s ok. To hold us to their chest and kiss us on our small foreheads.<br />
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Yet in life we sometimes are alone. Sometime we are scared. Sometimes we are broken. This is life, without this darkness the washing that is love would not feel so sweet. <br />
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I wonder why memory, for me, is so fresh in soreness. This lesson of memory as a warm fire, is a new one for me, it is something I am learning.<br />
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Thank you to my elders, thank you to the people I love.<br />
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My darkness finds home in your light. </div>
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Looking for artist, performers, movers, makers, doers, and
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This piece will be a remake of a historical performance.<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> Potential for career altering exposure to general merriment in a semi large scale. </span><br />
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DBLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080440487765932535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2635026743440029618.post-68006466603762925352016-12-16T01:06:00.003-08:002017-02-09T21:27:28.573-08:00Rememebring Something that Comes to Me at Every Life- A Rose Perished<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I do miss you, a rose that perished.<br />
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I imagine your color is much more yellow. Your smell much more sweet. I hope your roots are stronger and your highest vine higher than before. I still think you were the perfect one. Despite your beauty you were contained and restricted by a cancer of doubt. A cancer easily developed. Something I to felt. Delusions of your form are always present. More vivid when I sleep. I have no answers only questions. A bond through the ages, maybe, destined to always be almost. I fear to reach out because your space is sacred, I rather leave it to someone else's doing. I had your image in my mind before I knew you, therefore I can't forget what was there before me. </div>
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<b>“A Rosie Smell, Still Turns My Nose if Grown with Distaste” <br /> game experience in three parts (grey 3)</b><br />
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When invited to the Chamber feel welcome to come along. The space you
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to exist at a moment with another force other than yourself. You are
free to leave at anytime, until another is chosen. We are mirrors to
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Come closer to the figure(s) that
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only now able to see the pale blue delicate soup that you are. Harmony
easily broken with any influence dropped in. Decipher your roots. <br />
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Five with frogs follow the figure(s), the rest follow the five. Five
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DBLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080440487765932535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2635026743440029618.post-48374058480249964022016-09-10T15:46:00.000-07:002016-09-10T15:46:30.495-07:00Four Direction Prayer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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One Human being presented on this Planet (under his feet=Earth, above<br />
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Standing toward to East (Sunrise, Future, Possibility, make things better).<br />
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His body deform to Bird (to cross the sky), to Monkey (Hug a Tree),
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Earth through his body to the Sky, Carry back Sky into his body
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<span class="_4n-j fsl">in collaboration with Mike Meanstreetz from the LA band Present (drums) and Z. Vital (loop effects) to close this circle. <br /> <br /> Bass pushing air,
creaking, cracking a wooden device called the Basso, to set the bio and
molecular rhythm of the space. A device, part bazooka subwoofer speaker,
part drum, and part bellowing feedback loop. Supplier of urban noise
this wooden sub-woofer will be the splintered connection to indigenous
past. </span><span class="_4n-j fsl"><span class="_4n-j fsl"><span class="text_exposed_show">A past rooted in a vibration. A slight alteration. </span></span> </span><br />
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<span class="_4n-j fsl">A exploration in movement call<span class="text_exposed_show">ed
Corporeal Reformation will occupy the rest of this space. Inner woven
reaction to time, space voice and body, will be aided by the pulse of
the sub, riding on witnesses inside a WhiteBox as landscape with their
collective voices to activate our collective memory.</span></span><br />
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<span class="_4n-j fsl"><span class="text_exposed_show">Sound, Movement and Voices will, I hope, conjure somewhat of a memory in us all. A dormant behavior that is of a collective experience and a collective understanding. If only for a second, a fleeting moment of understanding, may we forget the destructive philosophy that we follow without question. This “performance” is more of a hot box of possibility. <br /> </span></span><br />
<span class="_4n-j fsl"><span class="text_exposed_show">Free to voice yourself. We will need you to be the creepy crawlers in a night by the lake. The many gorgeous songs on a perfect night while we form the body of water and the movement of the sky. Be the bubbling pot that is the voices at a crowded bar. The musical conversations on a semi crowded bus. The silly conversation over heard by reason of proximity. This WhiteBox will converge to be a primordial soup of abstraction of Growth and collective participation, a dance easily achieved by living. <br /><br />This is a collaboration, concept by DivineBrick, vocal loops by Z. Vital, and textures and rhythm by Mike Meanstreetz. At center the Basso.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span class="_4n-j fsl"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> Trying to
reclaim some sort of indigenous or forgotten belief or behavior is close
to impossible when these things have been destroyed or co-opted. Where
does one turn if their past does not exist to borrow from it? Sometimes
the things that the colonizer has stereotyped as “indigenous” become the
only symbols on which to connect to, either in act of dissent or in
hopes of connection. This will further convolute this already broken
system. This semiotics are also the way the colonizers themselves find
ways of connecting to more holistic styles of existing. Unearthing
resources and the destruction of land not only uproots the indigenous
people but also further removes the colonizer from forgotten memories of
coexisting, not occupation of this land and its inhabitants (this
includes plants and animals). Soon the definition of colonizer and the colonized bleeds into a convoluted One. </span></span><br />
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<span class="_4n-j fsl"><span class="text_exposed_show"> josie j, Mike Meanstreetz
and Z. Vital have collaborated on may projects and events including
Parallax Beach (An exploration in primordial development in time).<br /> </span></span><br />
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DBLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080440487765932535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2635026743440029618.post-87082187202840420682016-05-01T18:39:00.000-07:002016-05-12T00:43:50.194-07:00Proposal For Human Resources LA Decolonize LA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Proposal for “Raze the WhiteBox”</b></div>
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To raze the WhiteBox will be a symbolic action of a greater deconstruction. Working within models of colonization will only develop concepts consumed by colonizing behaviors. Dismantling of this gallery space would be the only method to decolonizing it.<br />
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The WhiteBox (any gallery or museum space that hermetically isolates artwork) in its design and conception will always contain/own an object or thought. Property and borders are red flags of colonization. Dismantling a structure which is designed to contain objects and thoughts within 6 sides would be the action to decolonize it. Cement is not fertile ground, it is dead inactive space. A public space that allows community, inspiration and creativity does not exclusively exist as a collection or claim to ownership as does a museum or gallery. Community, inspiration, and creativity by their very nature will always remain fluid and un-owned. These three concepts only empower when used by the collective mass. The process of decolonizing spaces will involve replacing structures in which people collectively perform these concepts. <br />
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The remaining land, once this WhiteBox is dismantled, should be a network in which Peoples (any groups that have internalized a colonialist ideology) can regain a culture, but also regain what mother nature once offered in its harsh but nurturing way. The colonization of a People resulted at times with a simultaneous colonization of the land as well. Returning the land to its state of natural symbiosis will plant the seed of change that is necessary for this wounded earth to remember its role and for us to see its glory. This demolition is the only holistic therapy/ cathartic ritual that will remember the many forgotten People, forgotten knowledge, and resources that the colonizers either stole or destroyed. A WhiteBox and its confining walls symbolically and literally censor the past and the land onto which it has rooted itself. <br />
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The demolition will be followed by the introduction of indigenous plants and animals. This will inhabit the majority of the land and be integrated in whatever else is built. Some land will remain for agriculture and a stage/ gathering area for community and artist use. In the decolonization of this WhiteBox we must not forget about the inheritors of the colonized state of mind, the children. A place in which children could learn how to engage with nature and relearn the art of symbiosis would replace the structures that now exist on 410 Cottage Home St. If any structures will be built, they will remain small, since the land itself should provide a stage or setting for most things. Monetary means are intangible compared to community action and the blood and sweat of artist and activist. The land will be kept by its users. <br />
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If life is art how can life exist in a vacuum? Can the only definition of what art is be contained within a closet, which doors are only opened by someone with the means to own this space? Art removed from life, suffocated in a crate... Is this inspiration? Is art an object free from worldly interaction? Is it a phenomenon sheltered by the very thing that causes its chain-reaction? Transporting artwork produces waste, does this ill benefit this earth? Is a space built like a fortress a structure that welcomes the collective mass?<br />
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The brick unit is the beginning of growth. The straight lines imprisons the dirt, the self, the ripple of effect. - Raze the WhiteBox: A Think Tank of Change <br />
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DBLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080440487765932535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2635026743440029618.post-91789463086280619362016-02-21T18:26:00.000-08:002016-10-12T20:41:20.829-07:00On Art Practice and Corporeal Reformation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The practice that is this work is not about criticizing colonialism, it is a allegorical response. A very personal response that I might sometimes consider a universal response. The hope is to filter down not the philosophy but the intent, to get to that universalism. A simple state of being that is efficient only in its holistics. Free of biases and specialization, my hopes is to find a way to learn and observe, to live and exist, to breath and touch, to forget by remembering. For now I see this universality as growth, be it cancer, population or regeneration. Finding the precise balance to explore the external and the internal self is one of the challenges with this exploration of this growth. Why the self? It is the first sensor that we are given to understand this Growth. I theorize then that this must be the best at understanding this Growth, holistically each part of the self canceling out the inherent biases. <br />
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This exploration as it pertains to the physical and movement I have called Corporeal Reformation. Corporeal Reformation is the act of remembering and learning. It seems to me that performance work is the most radical thing I can do with art. It sets no boundaries between active and passive. We all become part of the community once again. My question would be which community is this we are suddenly a part of when experiencing a performance. The performer or the audience? Are we invading or uniting? Depending on approach a public performance can be a continuous state of colonizing. I think the only way to remedy this is by the passive and the active both being in full effect, and transferring between the hosts (the colonized and the settler). <br />
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So it seems that the act of decolonizing can be many messy deeds. In a post-colonial system the colonized and the settler becomes muddled and both become agents of each others restrictions. They both share the initiation rituals of the colonized. Both share symbols and stories in which the powers that be, the first settlers have establish. The colonized start to assimilate the settlers approach, find new land, growth credited partly from new places that one has never seen nor understood. The settlers lost in empty promises lose their own heritage in hopes that assimilation and whitism will provide more than what came before, since it has made a few wealthy and untouchable. Little do they know that the settlers are cattle just as the colonized are the human resource that is a staple of an industrialized nation. </div>
DBLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080440487765932535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2635026743440029618.post-20694583300275115892016-01-02T23:14:00.000-08:002016-01-31T20:22:10.043-08:00Release Party (La Cita)/ Toad Removed (Audio Track)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<u><b>La Cita DTLA Tape Release Event</b></u><br />
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February 2, Tuesday I will be performing along other artist at
La Cita's Experimental Night. 8pm no cover.<br />
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In collaboration with Brennan Lowe part of my set will have video accompaniment. <br />
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Part of the continuing Island of Misfit Toys night at La Cita,
this event is also the Parallax Beach/ DivineBrick Tingo Tongo Tapes split tape release.
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tape contains recordings of sounds connected to movements of
body once witnessed. The audio can rightfully stand alone but
without the movements that once occurred in tandem, the full
concept and experience is lost. In method of Corporeal
Reformation each visceral performance can only have that one
outcome. Context and setting influences the movement. Truth be
told there is video of these particular performances, at a
particular place, with movement repeated but not rehearsed, on
my site. Feel free to inquire. <br />
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Parallax Beach is a collaboration with Brennan Lowe (movement),
josie j (movement), Mike Meanstreetz (sound), Zach Vidal
(sound), and Wes Johansan (video). The tape contains audio from
Parallax Scroll a work that explores concepts of primordial
beginnings.<br />
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<iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=1939433824/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=fe7eaf/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; height: 442px; width: 350px;"><a href="http://divinebrick.bandcamp.com/track/toad-removed">Toad Removed by DivineBrick</a></iframe><br />
<a href="https://divinebrick.bandcamp.com/releases">https://divinebrick.bandcamp.com/releases</a><br />
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Unfolding reforming a motion toward expansion. Meeting
points in which this toad will be left for fine. What will out last the green growth , the crawling friends, the moisture alive? A new form of
exploration, fast, but rolling as a troll. Finding shelter in destruction. Full round we have something oozing out the other end. Still pulsing still growing. <br />
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Accompaniment by the Butó Flutó.<br />
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DBLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080440487765932535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2635026743440029618.post-71609845839836308922015-12-27T00:13:00.001-08:002016-02-16T21:31:02.971-08:00Richard Berger- RIP<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
RIP Richard Berger.<br />
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He died earlier this year. I only found out
recently. A very influential professor and Oakland artist. I will miss
your bad boy approach to the art world and will miss your profound
poetics in your work. His approach to the history of sculpture
navigated my flickering ideas of history.<br />
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Richard, you didn't know how
influential you were to me. I told myself I would visit you before you passed. Some how I knew it was approaching. It hurts me to not have seen you, one last time. To engage you in your philosophical thoughts, listen to your stories. Wished to share the new Ideas I had. I find happiness in knowing you and being your extension of thought. <br />
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DBLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080440487765932535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2635026743440029618.post-22502326331597018792015-08-31T22:41:00.002-07:002016-04-20T19:08:11.908-07:00The Sun Bear (three legs and a rail) ep4<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have been seeking a way, a form, a complete practice in which to exercise actions and thoughts that coincide with larger actions and thoughts that would allow behavioral growth. Understanding the mechanics and behaviors of this growth was also of interest. I seek a way to understand while I am actively changing the space in a way single to me, but part of a universal whole in which I am trying to understand. Causing shifts which rearrange enough to comprehend anew, but not losing the string that pulls me to the center. This is my present lesson. That seems the most human to me or the human I seek to be. A searcher of unknowable truths. A believer in forgotten mistakes.<br />
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Destruction is just a small aspect of rebuilding. When rebuilding, my mind thinks, this is when drive must be channeled. Fire does not need direction, everywhere is its path. <br />
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The most literal understanding of what I mean when I say all those vague concepts I chirp all the time, my only straight forward and simple representation and lesson is my work bench. Beauty do to function and simplicity. Growth enabled by necessity and a giants fall. <br />
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I needed a bench to work on. I had the wood. The know how I fumbled through. Each mistake reset with the only skill I did have, the only one we all have, to ride the wave on which we travel skirting on the right angle just enough to continue forward, finding aesthetics in falling upward a spiral step. To move is chaos. To have continuous movement seems to be the harder drive, the more deliberate tendency. <br />
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This work bench maybe a certain kind of perpetual. Either perpetually in my life time or the Sun Bears.<br />
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<i>To catch up on the previous post:</i><br />
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<i>post 3<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://dbrp.blogspot.ru/2015/06/the-sun-bear-lifes-future.html" target="_blank"> http://dbrp.blogspot.ru/2015/06/the-sun-bear-lifes-future.html </a></span></i><br />
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My Bench is up to working condition but let me show you how I re-arrived there. The last I spoke of the Sun Bear I was speaking of the maple plug planed and ready for the next lamination. Since I cut off the old tenons of the third leg I was left with less material for the tail of the sliding dovetail. The dovetail that would replace the failed fox joint that originally held the third leg in place. The walnut addition allow me to have the material to make the socket and tail of the sliding dovetail and hit my target height. It's an ad-hoc aesthetic that I found both silly and harshly contrasting. Which I enjoy.<br />
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Figuring the height was a bit forgiving. If my measurements of this moving bench were off I would simply have to flatten out the top to correct the angle that would be off. Of course even though this top has moved drastically it at one point started true. This is still prevalent in the left side of the bench. The area between the two twin dovetails of the first two legs were pretty square, some movement. Those were the strongest of the joints in the work bench. From there it went from bad to worse...but more about that in the next post. Saving me a noodle ache when flatting the top I made sure my estimates were true. <br />
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When all the smoothing was done the beauty of the walnut really revealed itself. It has a gorgeous curl in the grain. Can't remember where this walnut came from. Possibly arts school. My feet have a great view of it when I work. That's if they look up.<br />
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Most often the table saw is a highly accurate tool, only if your reference for the cut starts from a square point.<br />
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The portions of the third leg that were once square were: the foot, the potion of the slab (slab dims 2 x 16 3/8 x 27 1/4h in.) that enters the foot (foot dims 23 x 3.5x 3.5h in.), the portion of the slab that enters the top of the bench. As I did when I first built the bench I picked a squarish side, made it more square, then made everything in the general proximity of the parts that would be riding on the table saw square. Square from there, opposite side as well.<br />
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I did a survey of all the planes and angles of the legs and top and figured which way to fudge and how much. A very intuitive approach. Once I made sure the sides of the leg were parallel I finished removing the remaining buds that were the failed fox joint tenons. The narrow side remained with the natural edge. Setting the saw to an angle I decided...I just went on how much I needed to angle based on the density and brittleness of the wood (to much of an angle I risk failure on the pointy parts of the dovetail), then I went ahead and made the first pair of cuts down the length riding on the narrow side at the top. <br />
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At certain points in my general making, I still seem to hit mental blockade. A now too uncomfortably familiar paralyzing unwelcomed friend. I sometimes think it is a natural instinct to protect the self. Or maybe it's a crossed wire on a feedback loop. <br />
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<span id="goog_527958120"><span id="goog_162218646"> For me, my personal experience, my demise waits patiently behind hesitation.</span></span> The only problem in knowing this is knowing how to temper my willingness to jump. This willingness has pushed my psyche, my flesh self, my general growth. I realize this has also cause unwanted effect. One example is this next step. <br />
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I thoroughly measured this next cut. The groove for the sliding dovetail. I decided to use a circular saw to help me make the recess. My first cut went perfect. down the center. Stopping short of going through the whole of the newly replaced underside of the bench (I thought it would look neat if the third leg looked like it got shot out and embedded into the top). The second one was just as well, angle true.<br />
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The other side of the angled groove, this cut is where I saw myself going out of the marked line. I had a chance to stop. I just continued. I'm not sure if I continued out of impatience or just for the challenge to fix another mistake. Even though the whole time it felt purposeful, I regretted the cut as soon as I ended it. <br />
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I remember when I last thought of retrofitting this failed fox joint. A blue moon ago I started the work. Because of lack of equipment, interest in other arts, and the influence of corporate work that lots of artist feel must me done to be feed, this project had been in slumber. In need of making is the catalyst that revived it.<br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On The Cruelty Of Indifference</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">An anti-gentrification philosophical tantrum</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, 2015</span></span></div>
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his most recent philosophical tantrum, performance artist and poet
Gómez-Peña reflects on the dangers of the ultimate “creative city,” and
what it means to become a foreigner in his own neighborhood, waiting for
the much touted eviction notice.)
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Ex-local artist, writer, activist, bohemian, street eccentric, and/or protector of difference... </span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagine a city, your city and your </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">former “hip” neighborhood,</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> being handed over by greedy politicians and re/developers to the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">crème de la crème</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
of the tech industry. This includes the 7 most powerful tech companies
in the world. I don’t need to list them: their names have become verbs
in </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">lingua franca;</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> their sandbox is the city you used to call your own. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Their
Faustian iDeal involves radically transforming your city within a few
years into an unprecedented “creative city,” a bohemian theme park for
the young techies and “hipsters” who constitute their Darwinian work
force. It comes with dormitories, food courts with catchy theme bars and
entertainment centers. Sounds like science fiction, que no?</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagine that during the reconstruction process,</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
the rent - your rent - increases by two or three hundred percent
overnight. The artists and the working class at large can no longer pay
it. You are being forced to leave, at best to a nearby city, at worst
back to your original hometown. The more intimate history you have with
the old city, the more painful it is to accept this displacement. You
have no choice. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">While you hang on by a thread waiting for the eviction notice,</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
every day you continue to lose old friends and colleagues you might
never see again. They were less lucky than you and got evicted earlier.
Heartbroken and exhausted, you spend a large part of your civic time
attending anti-gentrification demonstrations and collaborating with
other artists and activists in anti-eviction actions and techno-artivist
projects, but still it only gets worse by the day. The number of
dramatic eviction cases increases constantly and both the diminished
politicized citizenry and the progressive media begin to experience
compassion fatigue. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As
your community rapidly shrinks, so does your sense of belonging to a
city that no longer seems to like you. You begin to feel like a
foreigner and internal exile: freaky Alice in techno-Wonderlandia; the
Alien Caterpillar who inhaled. Unless you own your home and studio, as a
renter, your hours “here” are numbered and you carry this feeling of
imminent orphanhood like a very tight and stylish noose around your
neck. After all, you perceive yourself as a dandy.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagine that all the classic and familiar places in your hood</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
including funky, decades-old Latino restaurants and immigrant bars full
of memories and ghosts, barber, specialty shops, bohemian sex
clubs, experimental art galleries, indie theaters and bookstores –yes,
shops where bound books are sold, -- the emotional spaces which have
been your main source of inspiration, creativity and community -- are
also forced to close because the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">pinche</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
greedy landlord tripled the rent overnight or some millionaire bought
the building or the entire block to rent out micro-units to airbnb. And
all the new laws and acts protect him. Your imagination becomes a
painful exercise in forced tolerance and providential acceptance. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In
a few months, these wonderful places that for decades provided the city
with a strong cultural identity are destroyed and reopened as (get
ready) homogeneous “live/work/play” spaces, “micro-condominium”
buildings and tech plazas in the works. Coño! The new city begins to
look like a generic global metropolis imagined by Italo Calvino. To make
the lives of the transient work force somewhat pleasant, hundreds of
similar smart cafes, trendoid restaurants, overpriced “eateries” and
“celebrity bars” open up in each neighborhood. Even the last standing
old-school dive bars are being “discovered” (a euphemism for taken over)
by the transplants via their Yelp or Foursquare mobile app. But you, no
matter how long you lived here or how much you have paid in rent – even
if it is enough to own your hipster remodeled Victorian upper unit -
You are not welcome. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You
hit the streets again: What you used to call an average priced dinner
is way above your price range now. Your sacred $4 night cocktail, now
served by an aloof “celebrity bartender,” costs $15 and your daily </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">jugos</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">licuados</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">,
now called “cold pressed gluten-free organic cleansing juices,” go for
$12 in a “recyclable sustainable” bottle. But don’t worry: Remember that
this is just a perverse exercise of radical imagination, or rather, a
psychomagic challenge to deliver your daily dose of survival humor. </span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Imagine that your own building, a legendary (ex) artist building</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
is now just another revolving airb miniunit for zombie techies
who make well over $200 grand a year, but behave not unlike obnoxious
teenage frat boys. If you are the only one of 3 Mexican tenants left,
when you open the front door for a new neighbor, they either perceive
you as the building's janitor or report you to the manager as a
“suspicious character.” And yes, in Technotopia: your new identity is
that of “suspicious character.”</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The
nightmare unfolds: Full of Maseratis, Ferraris, Porsches and Mercedes
Benzes, the private parking lot is now protected with barbed wire fences
and a digital display keypad encoded by microchips; and so are the
“vintage bike” racks and trash containers. Video surveillance cameras
are omnipresent. The new management wishes to keep the homeless, the day
laborers and the “scary” young “people of color” at a distance…that is,
before the cops get them. They are unpleasant memories of the old city
of sin and compassion; kids from former distasteful and economically
disadvantaged, at-risk neighborhoods. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The newly empowered cops drive around the hood looking for (criminal) “difference.”</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
The homeless and the “gang bangers” aren’t the only ones being removed
from the streets to make them safe for the new dot.com cadre. With them
go the poets, the performance artists, the experimental musicians, the
frail transvestites, the politicized sex workers, the gallant mariachis,
the cool low-riders, the urban primitives, the angry punks, the defiant
radical feminists and the very activists who used to protect us all
from the greedy landlords and politicians who conceived of this macabre
project. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s
the latest American version of ethnic and cultural cleansing. It’s
invisible to the newcomers, and highly visible to those of us who knew
the old city. The press labels it “the post-gentrification era.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Prehistory is only 7 years old and nostalgia is pure style, a bad selfie of a fictional memory.”—</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Anonymous tweet.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are suspicious fires happening constantly,</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
in apartment buildings and homes inhabited by mostly Latino and black
working class families. And you cannot help but to wonder if landlords
and redevelopers are setting these fires? </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Is there a secret garden of violence in the heart of techno-bohemian paradise?”-Anonymous tweet.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You also begin to wonder, who are these random people and newly evasive neighbors taking over your neighborhood?</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
Metaphysically speaking, where did they really come from? And how long
will they stay? Are they merely browsing in the mythological backyard of
Technotopia? Will they return to the suburbs when the Chicano intifada
begins?</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Day
after day, allured by the new digital bonanza, hundreds, thousands of
new people arrive, unfamiliar people, without manners or style, social
or historical consciousness; mostly middle and upper class white people
from the suburbs and small cities from throughout the country, along
with some wealthy foreign entrepreneurs and programmers from similarly
upwardly mobile techno cultures. Undistinguishable from tourists, so
many of them look like they were just dropped here by a UFO straight out
of a Minneapolis or a Houston suburb, complete with their yoga mat,
mobile gym and tech gear bearing the logo of the company they work for;
their designer dogwear and strollers, all glued to their smartphones to
the point where they can’t even acknowledge your presence as you pass
them on the street. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Soon,
these normative looking humans will destroy their very object of
bohemian desire; the multicultural fetishes which attracted them “here”
in the first place. And they will one day wake up to an ocean of
unbearable sameness. The good thing is, they don’t know it yet, and they
probably wouldn’t notice anyway. And if a few of them know it, let’s
face it, they don’t give a shit. They’re all “comfortable” and exalted.
The whole city is catering to their desires. Besides, they’ve got 25
posts per day on their digital agenda and hundreds of superficial tweets
to write.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What
these cyber-adventurers have in common is that they are in a hurry,
determined to make lots of money…mañana! Their neo-colonial dreams must
be attained instantly. It’s the latest San Francisco Gold Rush, the 2</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">nd</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
digital bonanza, a true new Wild West. It’s definitely the last chapter
in savage capitalism, and they wish to be cast in the biggest, hippest
reality show ever!</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">…But
dear reader/audience member, don’t take it personally, you are always
an exception to the rule. You are somewhat different. –Tweet.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Upon
their arrival they are willing to take any job on their way to a better
one, displacing the working class, which made the city function for
decades. They are even willing to be waiters, gardeners (as long as they
are referred to as ‘landscape designers’), house cleaners (or rather
‘facilities personnel’) and even nannies, dog walkers to the rich
and famous. The difference between then and now is they charge 3 times
as much, and have no sense of labor ethics or a culture of service.
After all, it’s just a temporary job on their way to Utopia 5.0.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Their
dream begins to come true as they ascend in the instant socio-economic
pyramid of the new city. They hit the jackpot. They get their official
membership card to the bohemian theme park on an app and they begin to
share in a post human culture.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“In
this imaginary city, we no longer have citizens: we have self-involved
‘consumers’ with the latest gadgets in hand.” --Tweet.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s
a virtual mob, not an informed citizenry, and they are slowly taking
over every square inch of space and oxygen. Their navigation and
communication devices are installed in their iPhone or iPad. And so are
their identities, hollow dreams, “real” experiences; their
nuvo-families, and all of their fictional memories. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You have seen these strangers: they seem to belong to micro-communities of 2 to 5 people.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
When they are not at work, they go to smart cafes…to work more. They
rarely make eye contact with anyone. They walk staring at their mobile
communication devices in search for an anxious, “spontaneous” human
connection by following a GPS map to their next appointment. They also
stare at the screen while having dinner with colleagues because they’re
“checking in”, messaging someone on Facebook, or taking a selfie with a
famous person they will never see again. They even do this while
listening to live music at a club. When driving, they have no etiquette.
They get easily irritated by the unbearable traffic they themselves
created and behave like the bad drivers they imagine reside in the Third
World. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They
rarely attend artistic activities. They’d rather go to exciting themed
events and parties sponsored by companies. And they go to network, not
to make friends, flirt, or find a lover. With the exception of sporadic
online speed dating on Tindr or Ok Cupid, their sexual life is “frugal”
for the lack of a meaner word</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">…</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
On their wildest nights, nothing ever happens out of the ordinary.
Their most exciting days are Pride, Dia de los Muertos and Burning Man,
where they get to be extreme tourists. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">”But dear reader/audience member, don’t take it personally, you are always an exception to the rule.” – Tweet</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For
the poetic record: They are mostly “white,” (meaning gender or race
illiterate). 70% are male and have absolutely no sense of the history of
the streets they are beginning to walk on. In the way they behave, they
make you wonder if they know, geographically and culturally speaking,
where they are located and if they are even aware of the profound impact
of their presence in the lives of the older inhabitants? Last night at a
bar one of them felt compelled to confess to me he was angered by a
“racist poster” he saw outside: The photo of a handsome mariachi with a
gun: </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Gringas si; gringos no.”</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I felt sorry for his lack of humor. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“In
the way these vatos behave you begin to wonder if they exist in the
same city you are or in a parallel quantum reality you are making up?”-</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tweet </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In fact, they are easily annoyed by “difference” and have no problem letting you know or confessing it online. Verbigratia: </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Don’t
believe the hype: This neighborhood is not a safe place! There’s still
way too many Mexicans, hookers, lesbians & street freaks. Don’t come
to live here!” </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> In the “creative city”, racism, sexism, homophobia and classism are passé…</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I continue citing my poetic field notes:</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> “</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">These
techno-vatos have no sense of philanthropy. Their savings are to be
spent in gourmet food, gadgets, clubbing, fancy apartments and very
expensive puppies, like French bull dogs, Italian Greyhounds, and
Pomeranians … It’s a solipsistic frontier economy. And if you are mildly
politicized you cannot help but to wonder, If each one of them
prosperous locos would donate 5 % of their income to a social cause, we
could improve housing, social services and schools for the poor, and the
yearly art budget for the Arts Commission…but in this Darwinian age,
that would be considered old-school communism, not venture capitalism…</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">”Here”,
the future will come in a few days and the money they make must be
spent in the immediate process of getting there. But ‘there’ is actually
nowhere”—</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tweet.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Besides,
the mandate of the city fathers, in cahoots with the developers and new
entrepreneurs is to create by any means necessary a city for the white
rich. Our ex-major Willie Brown, paradoxically a black “progressive
democrat” put it succinctly once: “we want to create the Monaco of the
U.S., and if you can’t afford it, you can leave!” Thanks, Brother
Willie!</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Well,
it already happened…and yes we, the holders and perpetrators of
cultural difference, “can’t afford it” but here’s the thing: We are
doing everything possible to stay and remain a nuisance to the new
urbanites and the greedy landlords and politicians who invited them. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By now,</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am clearly experiencing philosophical vertigo and political despair.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The symptoms are devastating questions in my diary: </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Are
we the artists and activists left, merely stubborn? Are we delusional
and engaged in a losing battle? Are we waiting for the San Andreas Fault
to open up or for the Mission shamans to conjure up the collapse of the
new economy? But what if all the Mission shamans have already been
evicted? Will the city get so unbearably expensive that the leaders of
the tech industry themselves will decide to relocate to another place?
If only we stick around a little longer… Is it too late to talk about
this? Is someone somewhere online reading my words?... Hello?</span></span></div>
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pages later my questions continue: “Should I attend tomorrow’s
anti-gentrification march or is it time to finally pack up and go back
to Mexico City? I wonder what is worse, overt organized crime or the
gentler forms of organized crime in Technotopia? What is more violent:
the menacing gaze of a homeboy or the absolute indifference of a techie?
Dangerous difference or dangerous sameness?”</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">During the revision of the final draft, I become fully aware of my poetic subjectivity. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I
know that my words are somewhat careless, partially unfair and
devastating but I can’t help them. I am not a journalist. I am a
performance artist and a poet, and my city has been taken away from me.
It really hurts to walk the new streets of my refurbished ex-bohemian
city. What can I say? I am deeply affected by the cruelty of
indifference of its new population and I get sad when I stare at this
unbearable ocean of cultural sameness and boring techno-normativity. I
miss the grit, the funk, the unexpected, my dozens of close friends who
have left for good. Am I repeating myself? Do I need to add a
dictionary?</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dictionary (in progress): </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Creative: A euphemism for successful</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here: Nothingness</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hipster: No one really knows. You just think you know. If you think you know, you most definitely are not one. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Local: Someone who used to live “here” when here was a place</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Eviction: A euphemism for the eradication of difference</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google bus: A travelling gas-guzzling half-full office with chairs and no cubicles</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Networking: A safe alternative to making actual conversation</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Radical: An adjective for a franchise</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Technotopia: San Francisco sans difference//A-critical techno-utopia</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Underground: Another franchise</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vintage: 2</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">nd</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> hand object or a previously worn item of clothing sold for over $100</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">White: A bizarre state of mind that makes you attribute race to others with darker skin</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(I
wish to thank Balitronica, Emma Tramposch and Anastasia Herold for
helping me to prepare the first version of this manuscript)</span></span></div>
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