performative publishing, postgraduate program, research center

MAGIC NIGHT

24 July 2015

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This is the time to come together.

To celebrate what we worked on.

To transform our preconceptions

of rituals, of magic, of transformation itself.

A pilgrimage of the self into the common

and back again.

This is a transformational journey

that displaces our relation to our bodies, to nature, to objects

by recognising the recuperation and commodification

of these relations by capitalism.

We come together

To inspire different ways for counteracting

oppressive operative systems

of knowledge, love, work, and metaphysics.

We come together

To create a counter-spell for colonising forces

that suppress, limit, undermine our natural virtual powers

to resist, to perform, to be part of the world.

To create a shared awareness of the recuperation of magic,

of ritual commodification, of the reduction of everyday life

by machines of correction,

perverting our desires,

crushing our potential selves.

The world is full of magic unaccounted for

We need to acknowledge its power

and share it with others to empower their lives and dreams.

We invite you as helpers, as energetic vessels

to play with, to discover new ways of being together

The artist can be the poetic warrior

fighting for power and courage

awakening the sense of self

to write his alternative myths on the surface of reality

Tonight we have the opportunity to experience and experiment the no-difference

between the I that performs, and the you that undergoes

Not as a closure but as a beginning

A nudge to push us over the edge

to allow us to spill over, grow wings

and launch into transformation.

We celebrate our schizophrenic adaptations

of foregone cultural debris

of ritual rumours and phantasies

into operative practices for today’s crises.

No exotic imitation

but inventive re-draftings

of what it is to be:

a hybrid magic body

that reinvents itself and all there is

every day anew.

We are virtual bodies,

filled to the brim with knowledge

we can not grasp through lack of words,

we can not operate through lack of awareness

we can not read through lack of skill.

We are virtual bodies

that have the power to overcome

the limits of fear, guilt and physicality.

We are beings on the edge of awakening

generous souls that want to share their transgression

expanding it over the edges of the precious circle

into the heart of the matter

into the matter that matters.