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OUR STUDIES SHOW: collective philosophy praxis https://socialpracticecuny.org/portfolio-item/our-studies-show/ 2024-2025

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WE DON'T JUST SMOKE, WE HAVE VALUE(S) Durational performance throughout the day with co-residents at PiAR in Kumasi, Ghana, January 2025

i fear nothing but god and the self (with Awo and Nii)

laundry (with Angie and Pallatius)

shade (with all members of Parliament/council of elders)

there will be no more "art" after the global intifada, only "cultural practices" (with Tina, Pinky, Koko, Hadiza, Awo, Akpene, Fyza, and others)

tattoos (drawn by me, tattooed by Fyza)

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A tree is also a mind (I want to go back where i came from) performance during PRESENT CONTINUOUS at Glasshouse in New Paltz, NY. Photos by Eyal Perry, Wei, and myself. July 2023.

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Fish heads/masks/objects for On the Cranial Nerves of Barbarians III: A Carp Sanctuary

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Conceptual materialism? ecosocial experimental philosophy? opera? Rehearsing On the Cranial Nerves of Barbarians II: A Carp Sanctuary for performances July 12-15 during ICE FACTORY at the New Ohio

Come through

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Dyeing "cranial nerves" for opera "On the Cranial Nerves of Barbarians II: A Carp Sanctuary" July 12-15 2023 during ICE FACTORY at the New Ohio NYC #panoplylab #agitprop #diytheatre

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STUDY: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION STUDY

Through which i pervert the paradigmatic research practices of academia, especially social psychology and experimental philosophy. A series of social sciences studies with participating auto-researchers. In screenshots: Monstera, Julia Santoli.

Video report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGU1hnBJvns&feature=youtu.be

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Stenciled bag and HVAC tape smocks, bucket, audience-participant hands from Ugly Duckling Press book launch party at KGB Bar/Red Room in NYC

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Embarrassed of the (W)Hole is available! Operating manual/libretto/experimental philosophy published by Ugly Duckling Presse: https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/embarrassed-of-the-whole/

read a review: https://overexposedlit.uvic.ca/issue1/embarrassed-of-the-whole/

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Academic conference in Reykjavic The Ivory Tower and the Open Worlds site visit with Jasmeene Francois and Stephen Cedars

life art/art life

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philosophy of art/philosophy as art/art of philosophy/philosophy as art

for a CUNY course

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APOTEKA: The Shape of the Inconstruable Question A collective writing and performance of a canticle of hope, Grüntaler9, Berlin, DE, 2022

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Ark/ARC (2022) durational interactive epistemological performance and culmination as part of Barque of Desertion curated by Bret Schneider for CAESURA magazine, Kerr Foundation, St. Louis, MO

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$100 for Truth (PART I) FOR Home as Situation at the Bolivar Art Gallery, University of Kentucky PROTAGONY: $100 for Truth involves an assembled body or “jury” of 12 individual artists: Lorene Bouboushian, IV Castellanos, Christen Clifford, Shawn Escarciga, Ayana Evans, Simone Johnson, Anya Liftig, Iki Nakagawa, Sierra Ortega, Elaine Thap, Bret Schneider, and april vendetta. Each artist is offered $100 in exchange for a “statement of truth” in the form of a brief text and 3-minute video. After receiving the texts and video, Esther Neff attempts to substantiate and embody subjective interpretations of each artist’s judgements of truth in brief performances resulting in material remains (e.g. sculptural objects/wall works)  FULL PLAYLIST: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh50UcmPAYJWH89WVNBG64sMSH2ugRacp

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$100 for Truth (PART II) 

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Praxis Pathways as part of Perform Istanbul Stay at Home no. 96

Collaborative experiment with score structures for an array of zoom rooms: INSIDE/OUTSIDE, USE/FREE, MIND-DEPENDENT/MIND-INDEPENDENT, SAFE/FREE. Invited artists and public participants, 2 hours. 

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HEIDEGGER’S INDIANA: watch the whole thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYCxEtLt1WY

Or watch the 12 “episodes” individually: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKHomiSa1mMys7t9XkrVJ4hG1bwTrf5Kx

For the Exponential Festival, 2021. I also wrote a review in PAJ of this festival “Plaguetime Aesthetics,” issue 1, Vol. 44 (January 2022)