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a few instructions for somnambulant underground bands

2005-01-07T02:18:11Z

...The Chimerical Afros are to linger in their pre-dawn heiroglyphics, being owned and operated but never sublimated. The Green Figs will hide out in their slacks until we sing the praises of pee. Why doesn't Everyone sit down? Please lay off the blues as I haven't yet bent back The Man's fingers.
Clam Nation will reveal the logic that gives rhythm to form. In the case of The Lumps; count their daisies, bracket their knuckles with onion skin and participate in a wax museum. DJ Jeez! is the one responsible for tickling. He'll get out of the oval oven after having stolen The Lunglord's head, but for the rest of us, including Those Who Stink, let's just hop forever on the right phone. Someone will have to stick out and be counted upon to hamper something preppy.
...it's getting close to the time when The Granny will up and cuddle The Knight. Did Those Dudes take the charm out of forklifts without consulting The Resident Wart?
Going hunting for monthly scenes on trips at night will be protean chic but beware -- whatever The Church Chumps sing, remember your guided zebra yoga. We shall stratify The Boogie Like No Other in and out of range of The Diametric Photographer because they might be aping rather well. Aunt Ether should inquire after The Noble Bread's playlist.
Showing kinship between their saintly facades will be The Thermos Monsters.
The Beached Minks could shampoo quite evenly. While everyone is laughing, The Plump Brigade should sit, moist, in the trash. The Fancy Stilts will be sued until they become odorous of sensibilty and get into Jai Wipe. It would be a super-imposture on the tour for the arrangement of soft down to be made into a quartzlike foodstuff denuding Three Year Wasps for The Pink Yeast Colony. etc.

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Unpublished Manifests/ endorsed link

2004-10-16T20:40:46Z

Old Manifest on that of the Image:
The power of the image is like a dull blade that cuts only through the air. Where do we find vibrations? Angularity, chronology, phallacism: the image bites. The objet/image endowed with such subtly metaphysical qualities can be overturned, imbloated, or made subject of a series of accidents. Permanent accidents that are so permanent, sometimes their not accidents at all. Time no longer needs to be encapsulated and frozen within that of the image and its corrisponding gaze. This is the temporal condition of reified culture. Movement does not need to produce an image of time, but time iteself must produce movement. Images might be the trace of this process? Such a process may be retraced in numerous ways perhaps. The implications of this situation must be developed and explicated. I am not yet aware or comfortable with them, but this is what i'm working on.

The following, written under an unusual amount of duress and irritation, only applies to certain spaces and certain times.

Manifest on Irritation:

The BoC has come to the realization that the object of onto-aesthetico-de saturation is one of a kind in the nefarious domains of New England. The bodies that are unintentionally implicated in onto-topologics can only experience one aesthetic affect: Irritation. This my friends is the poverty of the grand arsenal of reason and conscience: these bodies are so saturated within, shall we say, durations de fascismo, that no form of bliss or thunder can enter into and redistribute the pangs of dearth and melancholy that so fastidiously wrestle their pretenses through the symbolic. This is why at this point and time irritation takes front seat to other affects that may dominate the throws of contemporary aesthetic praxis. Ring the bells Young Todd! The Battle has always already been waged and rung! You are a chipper young lad they crowed through the fields of skin and bean!

BoC highly endorsed link of the moment: http://www.ubu.com/

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honored

2004-10-16T20:30:14Z

thank you nico, i feel honored to be a part of this elite bureau. call me twobase, representing the west coast (although i see you already have a pacific rim attache in Brendan) and also the 40+ contingent. I may have trouble with some of the bigger words (you get old and it's hard to hear) but I'm definitely down with the comfort (the comfort of down?).
I notice the bureau bears the wet toothmarks of nascent Acconcianism, of which I approve, having once arranged my livingroom furniture acording to the Master's promiscuous design principles.
for my part in the quest for permanent comfort I'll be investigating the realm of radical recreation, persuing possibilities for transcendental leisure, ultimately "tackling" the "problem" of professional sports through the de-materialization of equipment and de-territorialization (leveling) of numerous playing fields. to this end I propose interested parties join me in conceptualwiffleball.tribe.net

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Onto-update: Vito Acconci and the BoC

2004-06-28T05:06:51Z

I am pleased to announce that a brief meeting took place between BoC members stephanie and nico and one of the BoC's prized onto-practitionars vito acconci on June 22 in NYC. The BoC's connection with Vito is being established through an exciting exchange of sound and image works and onto materials. look at:
www.acconci.com
click on acconci studios and then on the projects section to look at current architectural projects of vito and his studio.

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Onto-Ex-Communication Process

2004-06-27T05:12:46Z

automatic EX-communication from BoC could result from failure to recreate irrelavant situations in untimely manners. The de-EX-communication process involves any individual or object who desires to conduct a de-Ex-communication ceremony. All EX and de-EX ceremonies are honored and can in fact occur simultaneously for the subject in question.

players in a non-game:
de-objet and onto-funk

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a project to appropriate:

2004-06-02T05:43:15Z

what are some things that might fly if you attach enough rockets to them?--

http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?040607ta_talk_wilkinson

--truly radical post/non-art for electro/digital-proletarians in the new york area (or any of several other "major" cities, including mumbai).

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The BoC's Allies in Onto-Praxis

2004-06-02T00:44:54Z

Allies are very important to that of the BoC in terms of breeding its central nodes of aesthetic praxis: VIBRATIONAL CATHEXTION, ONTO-DE-TEMPORAL SCHEMA, and ONTO-IMAGE IMPLOSION (GROUPE DE OBJET)

I'm pleased to announce a new BoC ally from Barcelona: [OVNI - Observatori de V ídeo No Identificat] [UFO - Unknown Frame Observatory]

like glowlab (www.glowlab.com) i believe this ally could play a large role in international onto-praxis.

here is a description of OVNI:

The Observatory Archives are intentional in nature and organised around specific themes, bringing together
material that supports a critique of contemporary culture through different approaches such as video art,
independent documentary, media archaeology, etc ...

Although the archives include a whole constellation of very different works, they all share a commitment to
free expression, and reflect upon our `individual and collective fears and pleasures. Together, they create
a multifaceted vision, thousands of small eyes probing and exploring our world and proclaiming other possible
worlds. A discourse that values heterogeneity, plurality, contradiction and subjectivity; an antidote to the
cloning and repetition of corporate mass media.
Some of the Observatory Archives thematic areas include:

//*Identity and MassMedia.

/*Death
Culture and experience. Rituals. Audiovisual projects and found footage.

//*Trance rituals - Religion
edited videos, camera tapes or found footage that document trance rituals (dikr, haddras, Santeria, voodoo , preachers,...etc).

//*Cities - Portraits of cities
scenes from daily life, home, the workplace, memories...

//*Machine Zone
Deconstruction of technology, machine conspiracy, digital euphoria, corporate vandalism.

//*Dream Archives
Stories of dreams, the imaginary of an age, desires, conflicts, madness, pleasures...etc.

//*Inner Experience
Michel Foucault, Guy Debord, Eduard Said, Hakim Bey, George Bataille, William Burroughs, Gilles Deleuze - Works directly or
indirectly related to the work of these authors.

//*Heterodoxies and Autonomous Zones
different ways of thinking, living, communities ….other worlds far from the “there is no alternative ”single ideology.

//*The Cathode Ray
Media Guerrillas - television, media critique, intercepted information and counter information, media attacks, found
footage, media archaeology, media deconstruction, scientific archaeology …

//*Lost in Babylon
The adventures and misadventures of survivors of the Empire.

//*Colonial Tourism
the phenomenon of tourism (image plundering, hijacked territories, tele-transportation, gift of ubiquity, theme parks ….)

//*Borders
Migration, cross-cultures, deculturalisation, nomadism and globalisation. The militarisation of borders. Illegal in
paradise. Europe-Maghreb, USA-Latin America.

//*Work and ideology - Work and capital
politics and reality, imagery of progress, the taboo of representing workplaces.

//*Babylon Archives
media archaeology, documents that reflect some of the most aggressive and intolerant values of contemporary western culture
and its sources: educational and business documentaries, early television advertising, TV-evangelists, marketing, promotional
travel videos, castings for advertising, etc.

.....

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