[spectre] anonymity workshops/performances: JP Raether, Bureau d'étude, RYBN.org, Hamburg (25/27 Oct 2018)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Announcing a *performance* by

*Johannes Paul Raether / Transformalor* [Transformella malor 4.4.6.11.]

and *workshops* by

*RYBN.org*: "Offshore Tour Operator"

*Bureau d’études*: "Chemopolitics. A collective game about endocrine 
disruptors"


in the context of "A = Anonym"
24 – 27 October 2018
Kampnagel / Jarrestr. 20 / 22303 Hamburg
http://www.reconfiguring-anonymity.net

Registration required!


"Transformalor [Transformella malor 4.4.6.11.]"
Performance by Johannes Paul Raether

Thursday, 25 October / 11:00 – 14:00
Location: not on Kampnagel – exact location will be communicated with 
registration

What does it mean for a person to know that they were conceived with 
anonymously donated eggs or sperm? In how far does identity, the feeling 
of belonging and attachment to family members, depend on direct genetic 
relations and kinship? In a time of biodigital capitalism with rapidly 
developing and normalized biotechnological innovations such as in vitro 
fertilization, cryo technologies and surrogacy, the idea of the 
traditional family nucleus might be outdated.
Transformella malor (or short: Transformalor), is one of Johannes Paul 
Raether’s many SelfSisters within the large identitecture of the 
Transformellae, “the surrogate mothers of potential futures”. She (as 
the many of her) appears and exists to explore and investigate a moment 
of global, digital and biological production chains in which humans and 
machines reproduce life itself — a moment she (as they) calls 
“Reprovolution”. When coming to existence, Transformalor infiltrates and 
investigates the most prominent corporate spaces that symbolize 
fertility, reproduction and procreation, wandering through symbolic 
territories of normality production that represent the paradox of how 
local, biological, natural reproduction as a means to procreate the 
species has become part of a global network of industrial production.
Together with Transformalor we shall build a new repro-communal tribe 
formation as a temporary potential reality, to explore with her (as 
them) the fertile grounds of our reproduction and procreation economy — 
come join the repro-communal reprovolution!

Registration required: performance at reconfiguring-anonymity.net


"Offshore Tour Operator"
Workshop with RYBN.org

Saturday, 27 October / 9:00 – 12.30h / Kampnagel Foyer

The Offshore Tour Operator is an invitation to experiment with the field 
techniques and tools that the artist collective RYBN.ORG has developed 
for their exploration of tax evasion networks and tax havens. The 
exploration will start and end at Kampnagel, but will take participants 
outside and into the city of Hamburg. A GPS-assisted psycho-geographic 
drift device, in prototype form, will direct the user through 
audio-guided directions and distance indications to the addresses of 
shadow finance offices that are referenced in the Offshore Leaks, Panama 
Papers and Bahamas Leaks database.
The walker, equipped with the technical device and a compass, sets off 
on the trail of one
address and wanders through the streets of the city until he or she 
discovers the entrances of these screen companies, ghost companies, 
empty shells and namesakes. Participants will be invited to photograph 
the entrance, describe the area, observe the letterboxes and intercom 
systems to check if the name of the offshore entity, revealed by the 
leaks, is still there, and take notes on the path taken to it, to later 
discuss the experiences and share collected images.

Registration required: workshop at reconfiguring-anonymity.net


"Chemopolitics. A collective game about endocrine disruptors"
Workshop with Bureau d’études

Saturday, 27 October / 9:00 – 12.30 / K4 / Kampnagel

What does it require for a person, or a thing, to become identifiable, 
and therefore to be taken out of a state of anonymity — at least 
partially? What structures, politics, conventions and regulations come 
together to define, name and give identity to someone or something, and 
by that embed them into a bigger context?
In their practice, the artist group Bureau d’études have become known 
for producing cartographies and particularly detailed maps and diagrams 
of political, social and economic systems; based on extensive research, 
these maps typically reveal links between various actors such as think 
tanks, financial companies, regulatory bodies, media groups, networks of 
consumer distribution, arms manufacturers, and satellite operators. Born 
from the interest to look closely at particular issues within a bigger 
picture, and by employing the same strategies of research and artistic 
practice, Bureau d’études have now for the first time developed a game. 
Through this new format, the artist not only display the collected and 
developed materials, complex connections and entanglements, but actively 
engage participants. As a starting point, the game takes the example of 
endocrine disruptors (toxic particles and molecules that have become 
known to mess with the hormonal balance of a body then entering it 
through food, or by touching the skin).
Bureau d’études invites participants to take on the roles of various 
actors involved in the processes of naming, classifying, categorizing 
social agents (such as toxic substances and molecules), to make them 
recognizable and identifiable. This undertaking often requires strategic 
actions, and is based on opposed interests: While trying to hide your 
role as a player as long as possible, what will your strategy be as a 
lobbyist, local politician, scientist, producer, environmentalist, judge 
or private person to fight for, or against, the possibility of 
establishing new policies of de-anonymization? What information do you 
need in order to establish a social existence within regimes of 
identification? Will you be able to secure or change these regimes? 
Choose your agenda, and play the others off!

Registration required: workshop at reconfiguring-anonymity.net


http://www.reconfiguring-anonymity.net

https://www.facebook.com/events/275726663056533/

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