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Local Autonomy Networks :: Milwaukee :: Healing is Our Response

Performed at the Dark Side of the Digital Conference at the Center for 21st Century Studies in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. My profound thanks go out the performers who performed with me!

Performed by micha cárdenas, Ching-In Chen, Bridget Feerick, Shawna Elizabeth, Jennifer Morales, Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi, Shelly Schauer, Trenton Francis Schoonover, William Skaleski, Ali Sperling. Photos by Wes Tank.

More about this performance here: http://www.c21uwm.com/2013/03/14/building-local-autonomy-networks/

Local Autonomy Networks :: Los Angeles with Gender Justice LA, photos

Performed at the University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts gallery and checkpoint outside of USC at Jefferson and Hoover. My deepest thanks go out to my collaborators from Gender Justice Los Angeles! Photos by Karl Baumann.

More about this performance: http://transreal.org/2013/02/27/local-autonomy-networks-los-angeles-with-gstaender-justice-la/

Poetry Reading Performance at E-Lit Under the Stars

[Trigger Warning deals with themes of sexual violence in second half of video]

E-Lit Under the Stars Micha Cárdenas from Mark Marino on Vimeo.

My first game! A SURVIVOR IS #REBORN a twine game

I am so so happy to announce this game to you all. It’s my first time making a game, and I’m so excited about the possibilities of twine. I’m posting it because I really want feedback on it, so please share it and leave a comment to let me know what you think!

Take the trigger warning seriously folks, it’s a serious game.

A SURVIVOR IS #REBORN is a meditation on violence and transformative justice, a transgender incest survivor’s response to the new Tomb Raider. Take the trigger warning seriously, but try it out if you can and let me know what you think! and pass it on!

Click here to play: A SURVIVOR IS #REBORN

Tons of gooey thanks to porpentine for the huge inspiration and technical advice.

Thank you to merritt kopas, anna anthropy, a.j. liszkiewicz and samantha gorman for inspiration, and to J for telling me about Porpentine’s Ke$ha game!

Talks, performances, exhibition in April: Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Germany, Toronto

On top of the performances with Mangos with Chili that I just posted about and I’m working on daily, I’m also doing some other very exciting things in April. Check out these great talks and exhibitions if you’re in LA, Amsterdam, Toronto or Hamburg/Luneberg!

April 19, Los Angeles
Congress on Research in Dance
April 19 – July 21, Amsterdam
Transcreen: Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival, art exhibition “Lost & Found Transgender Image Making”
April 26, Lüneburg, Germany
Post Media Lab: Don’t Forget the Archives! Symposium

Post-Media Lab | »Don´t Forget the Archive!« | Lüneburg, 25th-26th/27th April 2013
»Don´t forget: the archive!«
: Collecting Non-Archives for the Post-Media Condition (I)
// Concept Note
The possibilities as well as the challenges to engage in this constructions and projection of memory and accessible ressources for shared reference have dramatically increased with networked media, but also been shaken sometimes traumatized by the demanding model of the archive. It might be said: the post-media condition is not only characterized by a breakdown (at least: major reconfiguration) of mass media, but also of other media institutional setups like ‘the archive’. At the same time the Net (and all its grey and dark parts) may seem like the ultimate archive, one that at the same time doesn´t adhere to any of the rules of what an archivalist would or could accept. Not to mention all media devices and systems beyond the internet, creating archivable material of diﬀerent sorts, as we speak. Given the overabundance of archiving possibilities of the present, some would hold that ‘the archive’ is confronted these days with ‘problems’ of volatility, real-time mediations or fictionalization.

We are therefore collecting and assembling acteurs and projects trying to re-imagine what the function formerly performed by ‘archives’ is, was and what enlivened patterns it can take in the future present. Everything between deliberate non-archivable practices to the never achievable reconstruction of the ‘cultural archive’ is of interest.

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Also, don’t forget Mangos with Chili!

April 20-21, Toronto
Mangos with Chili

Local Autonomy Networks in this month’s Make/Shift Mag!

so thrilled to be in the new issue of Make/Shift mag! Check it out!

http://www.makeshiftmag.com/

Make/shift magazine creates and documents contemporary feminist culture and action by publishing journalism, critical analysis, and visual and text art. Made by an editorial collective committed to antiracist, transnational, and queer perspectives, make/shift embraces the multiple and shifting identities of feminist communities. We know there’s exciting work being done in various spaces and forms by people seriously and playfully resisting and creating alternatives to systematic oppression. Make/shift exists to represent, participate in, critique, provoke, and inspire more of that good work.