Mo Nighean Donn

This is a prayer, chant, guided meditation, poem, towards our collective breathing and remembering by Alexis Pauline Gumbs. 

C(h)ant. Breathe.: Returning to Breath for Eric Garner and Many More

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"Two Of Swords," by Alice Notley

Amidst a climate of uncertainty and social distancing due to COVID-19, writer and e-flux journal contributing editor Elvia Wilk and artist Anicka Yi discuss various changing global ecologies, viral and otherwise. Their original in-person conversation was planned on the occasion of Tate Modern’s selection of Yi for the annual Hyundai / Turbine Hall commission.&nbsp; 

A symbiotic organism in its own right, Anicka Yi's work fuses multi-sensory experience with synthetic and evolutionary biology to form lush bio-fictional landscapes. Utilizing a “biopolitics of the senses,” Yi challenges traditional approaches to the human sensorium, emphasizing olfaction as well as microbial and embodied intelligence. Through her research and “techno-sensual” artistic exploration, Yi is opening new discourse in the realms of cognition, artificial intelligence and machine learning, introducing concepts of the sensorial ecology of intelligence, the machine microbiome, machine ecosystems, and “biologized” machines. Maintaining a practice focused on co-subjectivity, Yi’s projects include collaborations with engineers, robots, synthetic and microbiologists, computer scientists, perfumers, ant and bacterial colonies, algae, tempura-fried flowers, and snails.&nbsp; 

Anicka Yi lives and works in New York City. Her recent solo exhibitions include Gladstone Gallery, Brussels; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Fridericianum, Kassel; Kunsthalle Basel; List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts; The Kitchen, New York; and The Cleveland Museum of Art. Yi’s work was also featured in the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019. Yi has screened her film, The Flavor Genome, at the 2017 Whitney Biennial and the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, 2017. In 2016, she was awarded the Hugo Boss Prize for outstanding achievement in contemporary art. She is represented by Gladstone Gallery and 47 Canal, New York.&nbsp; Yi's Hyundai Commission at Tate’s Turbine Hall is scheduled to open in October 2020. It will be curated by Mark Godfrey, senior curator; Petra Schmidt, production manager; and Carly Whitefield, assistant curator.

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Anicka Yi on nonhuman ecologies and embodied machines

As the 2020 Artist in Residence at the Gropius Bau, artist and theorist Zheng Bo explores how plants practice politics. The first phase of his research is shaped by conversations with experts in anthropology, ecology and philosophy, fostering questions to be investigated in later phases. Listen to the first online conversation between Zheng Bo and Natasha Myers, which centred on plant-human solidarity.
gropiusbau.de/zheng-bo

Zheng Bo & Natasha Myers: Politics of Plants. Preliminary Questions

We invited our bredrin from New York @andrewakanbi to record a mix for our platform. Raised in Lagos, Nigeria, with limited access to internet but a huge thirst for new music, Akanbi moved to NY in 2010 and immersed himself head on into every corner of dance music, as a serious dancer and eventually a DJ. He cultivated his own style that delivers afro whipcrack bangers, insistent percussion, afro boogie, pounding breaks & slow-burning experimental descents. In 2016 he started New York’s GROOVY GROOVY parties, a judgment-free atmosphere for wild dance floors, radical politics, and a much-needed dose of fresh young talent. Enjoy these fresh summer vibes.



TRACKLIST

Aminata Wassidjé Traoré - Un Jour
Duckett - Dem Panic
Duckett - High Ceilings And No Relationship
Coco And The Fish - Karel Arbus, Eiji Takamatsu
Max D - Calvin & Hobbes
King Midas Sound - Zeros
Objekt - Theme From Q
Ikonika - Nobody
Henry Greenleaf - Tare
LOW BUDGET ALIENS - GEO-STATIONARY MONUMENT
Roza Terenzi - Elevate
Joy Orbison - GR Etiquette ('09 mix)
Midland - Tortuga
LCY - C
Fox - Imagine (ft. Trigga)
Blondes - Quality Of Life (Struction Remix)
Bryte - Ice Cream
Naira Marley - Tesumole
Cassius Select - Sicko Groove
Aleksi Perala - UK74R1721121
Buttechno - K4
Bergsonist - Fragment

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