Just received 2 emails regarding NYC Indymedia journalist Brad Will being shot by paramilitaries in Oaxaca, and been searching the international media for this breaking news, and shocked that there is so little appearing. Deep gratitude to Indymedia for covering these very tense events in Mexico so thoroughly and deep respects to Brad Will for being on the front lines to bear witness. As for the rest of the media : WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU ?!! Just a few hours earlier the BBC had a pathetic and spineless story about Vicente Fox’s need to restore order and has already been re-edited/over-written, but still the 3 deaths, one of which is a journalist, remains practically a footnote.

Last nite we went to see Matthew Barney present films for a program entitled All in the Present Must Be Transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys at the aptly named theater Babylon Mitte. Barney is in town for a new exhibition called Heal the Knive that Cuts the Wound: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys opening this weekend at the Deustche Guggenheim, which equals Deutsche Bank + Guggenheim Museum attempting to get radical and naughty with the superstar of fin de siecle cinema and “plastic shamanics” and art infiltrations, but what does it actually look like to poke oneself in The Eye of The Spectacle?

Well, i suppose we should be a little tidier in our archival trails, this is now the 3rd visible Transmigration of Cinema (TOC) remix version posted here cause we keep re-arranging the directives for our next round of touring in November… and this text for the Prague exhibition at the NOD gallery has been a challenge. And it seems useful to use the podopolog for thinking aloud, even if it hasn’t yet developed into a forum as yet. As we were trying to come up with that ursprung and backround for the XLTs … we were reminded of that strange, intense beginning, when the concept arose from a mix of deep personal changes, outrage, and despair.

[for arts and politics seminar in Prague beginning November 28 , called “Czechpoint”. will have more info in the coming weeks or feel free to contact us for more details. ] In legal language of nation-states, an alien is a person who is not a native or naturalized citizen of the land where they are found. And to stay or work within a country’s borders aliens may need special immigration documents or permits that authorize them to do so. Then at the opposite end of the vocabulary and ontological spectrum there are those regions where poetry reigns with anything from rhythmic transcendance to out-stretched tentacles of personal and crystallized meaning where our “papers” and our “i.

expect a string of short attention span versions… so we have collected a bunch of new media ecology and online diagnosis threads, but with all kinds of glitches in the air … like a laptop battery attached to a temporary I.V. - drip … yes the little apple “podmosis” brain suffered a concussion. we had a near catastrophe with short circuit - kurzschluss - at our last russen disco gig and it has knocked out some internal hardware… minor damage in the long run but while she sits in the sling … it has added to the toll of a grey week … that has wrapped itself around an autumn full moon, which makes everything appear like a hangover thru a fisheye lens … like trying to look In through the peephole to see what strangers are standing behind the door holding the key to Your office or home or future.

We have been in the lab this week trying to come up with a remix of Transmigration of Cinema to present at some venues and festivals coming up in November and beyond. One scenario in particlar is for a Czech exhibition and festival of political art which will explore “checkpoints” - those places where “an inspection or investigation is performed” - fueled by the contexts of geograhphical and political borders, points of exchange, and points of exclusion, “a selectively-permeable membrane between regimes, between economics, between beliefs”.

Dear Mr. Schlingensief, Your work would make an incredible antidote to the current cultural maladies in the USSA. Should you ever venture into That arena cloaked in your new semiotic art amidst the Broadway of wolves, ( think: Beuys NYC gallery debut ) , we have 3 working titles for you to consider: The ABCs OF DISNEYWELTSCHMERZ 2. THE ASSASSINATION OF THE TV EVANGELIST’S INTERNET PROVIDER 3. XL TERRESTRIALS, ALL U CAN EAT ! ( the XLTs are accumulating a number of anti-scripts for art upgrades , please feel free to contact us for trial downloads ) … and maybe we can get Rev.

The new Berlin theater experience from Christoph Schlingensief, the madly engaged director of electroshock cinema therapy experiments like Menu Total and The German Chainsaw Massacre, is built upon a revolving stage which beckons the audience to come for a ride into a blender of bloody good topics ranging from the overplayed and unresolved dead-end icon Lady Di to the never-made-for-Tv dramatization/hallucinations to Allan Kaprow, the american artist who gave birth to 60’s Happenings. There’s plenty more incompatible and expansive topics thrown in to ensure your personal time code and all plot lines are sufficiently scrambled so that we might each adjust our individual and uniquely human perceptions for maximum free associations.