Against Immunisation: Boxing as a Technique for Commoning
Summary
A score for the exhibition: Open Scores - How to program the Commons, Panke Gallery, Berlin curated by Shusha Niederberger, Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder in the context of the research project "Creating Commons", at the Institute for Contemporary Art Research, Zurich University of the Arts.
Supported by
Swiss National Science Foundation
Description of project
The score "Against Immunisation: Boxing as a Technique for Commoning" proposes to rethink the concept of the commons in a counterintuitive fashion. If we conceived of boxing not as a concept of masculinity and violence or the survival of the fittest, but as a moment of intense negotiation of border space, contagion and border linking, then it might serve as a technique to unlearn the building blocks of possessive individualism and the figure of the “proper.” Boxing is a moment of “border swerving, border linking and border-spacing” (Ettinger), rendering permeable the borderlines of our “proper” subjects. As a nonverbal, bodily dialogue it transgresses the very borderlines that we elsewhere seek to protect. During sparring I deliberately forgo this established immunity – my contours become vulnerable through the mutuality of the touch: My fist touches and is being touched at the same time.
"Open Scores" brings together 16 practices through which artists articulate forms of (digital) commons. From online archives, to digital tools/infrastructure and educational formats, the projects envision a (post-)digital culture in which notions of collaboration, free access to knowledge, sustainable use of shared resources and data privacy are central.
Participants: Dušan Barok (monoskop.org), Marcell Mars & Tomislav Medak (memoryoftheworld.org), Sebastian Lütgert & Jan Gerber (0xdb.org), Sean Dockray (aaaaarg.fail), Ruth Catlow & Marc Garrett (furtherfield.org), Constant (Michael Murtaugh, Femke Snelting & Peter Westenberg), Laurence Rassel (erg.be), Stefanie Wuschitz (Mz* Baltazar’s Lab), Panayotis Antoniadis (nethood.org), Mario Purakthofer (www.dock18.ch), Alessandro Ludovico (neural.it), Eva Weinmayr (andpublishing.org), Kenneth Goldsmith (ubu.com), Zeljko Blace (#QUEERingNETWORKing), Sakrowski (curatingyoutube.net), Spideralex, Tactical Tech, Creating Commons.
The exhibition and research project is discussed in:
--published article
"What can we learn from the (digital) commons" in Springerin, Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, 4/2019, "Digital Unconscious"
-- in the radio broadcast
"Creating Commons: Netz-Projekte als digitale Allmende", Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich BR2: Zündfunk Generator, Sonntag, 20.10.2019, a feature by Markus Metz
Type of work
Artistic work, peer reviewed
Published in
Open Scores - How to program the Commons, exhibition at Panke Gallery, Berlin, 21 September – 12 October 2019, curated by Shusha Niederberger, Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder in the context of the research project "Creating Commons", at the Institute for Contemporary Art Research, Zurich University of the Arts, conducted in cooperation with HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel) 2017 – 2020.
Link to web site
http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/open-scores/
Date
2019-09-21Creator
Weinmayr, Eva
Keywords
Commons and Commoning
Artistic Research
Feminist and Decolonial Artistic Strategies
Boxing
Roberto Esposito
Bracha L. Ettinger
Publication type
artistic work
Language
eng