[spectre] Re: [artnchat] the performativity of uk as a thief?

[if]

Hey!!

Fab to hear!

Thanks for feedback. Any info re your shop adventures..?

What kind of stuff/objects(??) did you take off shops? What did you bring in?
I think Sal Randolph did some project re books placements in shops.
Might be interesting to switch places between people and shelving units,
perhaps..

Anyhow:
Coincidentally - just bumped into this data re NSA supposedly looking out
for stuff like:
People looking down.
Yawning.
Throat clearing.
more:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/27/revealed-tsas-closely-held-behavior-checklist-spot-terrorists/

It made me think about your entrainment ideas. (despite the fact em
uncomfortable with the term, or maybe because of it?)

See, the the who entrain who and how has an obvious power thing going on,
I think. This, in a sense, comes out from the shop scarcity keeper
interaction. He thought that am challenging His domain of power, or sensed
it. Hence it was important for him to let me know what his performative
parameters are. What he is looking for in people's movements. The idea is
that once I know his perceptual conception curational process, it becomes
the context by which my corresponding performative movements in the shop
are entrained by. (Whether I follow the keeper's gaze, or not - he set the
rules. And since its not a negotiative process, the entrainment is
instantly ruled by the jungle's whims.)

Hence, am currently considering that maybe a cross-time and locale
performance of entrainment could be made into a practice?

Perhaps begin with questions of negotiations regarding what people look in
one another?
e.g.
Say am telling a person that shoulders, how they are being handled by
one's body are very important to me.. I bet some people, at least for a
short while, will begin cultivating an awareness for their shoulders -
even if they have not done that before..

Same can be said to times, shoes, etc..

However, in this practice, the idea could be to exchange on equality
seeking sequences. ie, one can say - Don't freaking dare check my shoes
like that!! (..or at all)
That kind of stuff is not uttered when equality is skewed towards the
"more equal". Hence in certain cultures, people do not find it "strange"
when people whistle, or look at each-others' shoes.. ie, once an
individual feels prevented by the sense of an element's prevalence and
cultivation within a given group, to question - we get an indicator of
equality lost...(??)

Perhaps its a practice of keeping entrainment not just negotiative but
questioned. Entrainment among equal goes all directions..

eg going back to the scarcity keeper - perhaps he didn't like the fact
that my activities demanded an entrainment from him. An entrainment of his
performance curation. That there might be activities that Look like X but
are actually Z..(?)


Will be fab to chat about it.. ;)

Cheers and all the best beasts!!

aharon
xx


> aha, this is an amazing story for it shows property explicitly as a
> liturgy. It makes clear how property-keeping is a set of articulated
> performances. The keeper's discourse is very good: he took his time to
> explain the rules of his job, how he expect people to act one way or
> another etc. the bit on england and nederlands/germany is also revealing.
> few years back i was caught shop-lifting what i had previously shop-put.
> shop-putting reveals also another interesting element about property
> keeping: try to buy a shop-put item and, in my experience, you soon reach
>  the blindspot of the property-keeping performance. The keeper has to get
>  paid, but doesn't know how much (neither who where this money would
> ultimately belong...) great stuff. loads of love, hilan
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:10 AM, if <aha at aharonic.net> wrote:
>
>
>> Hiyas,
>>
>>
>> Hope summertime movement adjustments go well..
>>
>>
>> This post is linked to the practice of exchanging
>> xdomains/xcountries/xstates giftcards in bus stops.
>>
>> (
>> eg:
>> http://aharonic.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/gift-cards-question.jpg
>> )
>>
>>
>> On Saturday night, while picking some stuff in the local coop – the
>> property keeper accused me of nicking stuff a few days earlier, and
>> “asked” me to get get out of the shop.
>>
>> I was like: “WHAT??!!”
>>
>>
>> He was: LOOK, Here’s a photo of you taking Gift-Cards, and you
>> didn’t pay for them!
>>
>> That was very disturbing to hear. The practice, of x domains giftcards
>> exchanges, has an element of the objects being un-owned.
>>
>> After a fair bit of discussion with him and whoever happened to be the
>> store manager at the time – it slowly transpired that for the keeper,
>> the problem was Not the fact that no-one actually Owned the cards. The
>> problem, as far as he was concerned was one of Performance. It Looked
>> like something got out of the shop without payment involved. This
>> resemblance could reflect negatively on him when a supervisor comes to
>> review the cctv images. At least that is what the property keeper
>> claimed.
>>
>> We sorted that misunderstanding. However it seemed interesting to pop
>> in on sunday to have a reflective chat about the question of being a
>> property keeper and the x domains giftcards exchange practice.
>>
>> Here's a recording extracted from the video:
>> https://archive.org/embed/ukisathief_201503
>>
>>
>> Perhaps this might be interesting for people to listen to because there
>> is a wider link - that of the brutalisation of people. The keeper is
>> brutalised by the job - perhaps a perfect illustration of an
>> illegitimate job if one is needed - and in turn brutalises others. e.g.
>> the brutalised view of everyone around as a thief..
>>
>> Also, in my mind, there is a question of how to deal with corporate
>> public-tentacles - eg supermarket stores - in a way that might be
>> directed to the corporation's occupation of everyday life, not at the
>> people who via economic choicelessness have to spend time doing the
>> corporate whims.
>>
>> Cheers and many ciaos!!
>>
>>
>> aharonixy(?) xx
>>
>>
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