#rhymes with jolonization

[piosplayhouse]

The test prep curriculum I have to teach tomorrow is just straight us propaganda with a passage that's like "many experts are lamenting American cultural colonization in foreign countries, BUT it causes a lot of economic development and makes the countries modernized so :)". Would love to shake the article writer and ask them to say with their whole chest WHY countries in south america and southeast asia are economically suffering and how us culture specifically having a stronghold there is connected and significant .. would love to know...

#the us will fuck up a perfectly good country's development with imperialism and then swoop back in 20 yrs later when they're completely #destitute like wow look at us helping the poor people : ) #sorry i am passionate about this #I KNOW its just practice standardized testing its all bullshit but this got me so mad because the first paragraph goes into this stuff #about 'tourists will be shocked to see indonesian street vendors selling american clothes! haha!!“ like wow . #i wonder why the us has a cultural foothold in asia. couldnt be because of something that happened in ww2 that starts with a c ends with n #rhymes with jolonization

[vinyldinosaur]

Current/Draught

From the Kiez-schaft project. Check out the whole time-line: https://www.kiez-schafft.com/projekt

Following on from Cruz Proxy is Jolon Dixon’s Current / Draught is a work of poetic anthropology meeting a music video. Jolon intended it to be a denouement for the Kiez.Schafft project. Denouement means to untie in French, but he thinks he’s tangled and mangled all the threads that run through the series so in truth it’s a nouement.

The videos explore the themes of modularity, the industrialisation of knowledge and personal reflections upon the works that comprise the Kiez.Schafft series. He react to the robot in Atlasbackflip.com with empathy, recognising the feeling of flipping and failing to flip in a portfolio career life, jumping between day jobs, making art and attempts at being an impressario, between the post-industrial world we walk and commute within and the virtualised realm of the internet. All that demands a sense of weightlessness when we are most definitely tied to the earth.

So Jolon folded the spirit of the robot becoming human and the human being robot into this mix of veiled allusions and visual, sonic and poetic rhymes and references to the whole series.

Check out the full project here: https://www.kiez-schafft.com/

#portfoliage #portfolio #videoart #videoopera #spokenword #poetry #poeticanthropology #robot #cybernetics #opera