#superflex

[cometcrystal]

I was reminded of that video essay about DHMIS and autism and how it introduced me to this shit.

And i CANNOT believe. That this shit exists. It's just villains for different traits of autism. It's teaching you to think of your autism as a supervillain you have to defeat.

Obv. there's some negative parts about being autistic and there IS some stuff to overcome but my god. This is insanely harmful

[radiosquad]

Superflex AU where the Unthinkables kill him and then form an autistic polycule

[retrocgads]

UK 1982

[secretfiles99]

if anyone is curious here's the superflex album website containing links to apple music, amazon music, and CD purchase (not reccomend) for this album. Also provided is a PDF lyric sheet

This feels like lost media to me, and there are no scrobbles on last.fm or listings on soulseek. I would like to share. DM me for a rip from apple music (or do it yourself using doubledouble.top or similar services)

^ favorite unthinkable, and seems to be a favorite among many. you are not supposed to feel sympathy for glassman. disobey by feeling sympathy for glassman

[zell86]

ok, hear me out-

sources: https://twitter.com/Lisspeedvs/status/1618276303081467906/photo/1

Ornstein

https://twitter.com/mikerophxne/status/165242723317104640

𝐹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓀𝓎 𝒞𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇 (foe)

[d4rksplash]

was going thru archived Superflex books for prospectus research and!!! THEY

bonus bc these guys are so supportive omg

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #462:

Back in 2007, a campaign to bring Palestine into the Eurovision Song Contest was launched by Palestinian musical group Sabreen, the Palestinian broadcaster, and Danish music collective Superflex.

They wanted to use the contest as a way to showcase the "rich culture [of Palestine], which no one talks about." They added that this was not a mission to put Palestine on the map, but rather a way to keep their culture alive.

However, people also boycotted this effort as it was seen as a way to place Palestine and Israel on an equal playing field, and saw the true solution as "a full, institutional boycott of Israel."

[Source]

"Palestinians seek Eurovision entry," thenationalnews.com.

[confetti-casual]

I am Glassman’s biggest fan

I love Glassman :)

[lightning-and-lavender-fire]

The existence of Superflex and the Unthinkables generally makes me angry, but it does strike me as extremely funny that whoever made it must have thought that telling children that their default behaviors are actually the result of a host of villains mind-controlling them would make those children more normal.

[dynastytrades]

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[suzannetownsend]

GENERATOR: USFCAM presents inaugural exhibition SUPERFLEX

Inside the GENERATOR gallery doors is the first piece of the exhibition which also bears its title.

The University of South Florida’s College of the Arts Contemporary Art Museum now straddles Tampa Bay. Since 1989 the USF Tampa campus has filled its Contemporary Art Museum with both visiting artist and student exhibitions, and now on the other side of the bay USF St. Petersburg hosts an extension of the museum in Harbor Hall called GENERATOR. The goal for this branch is to function as an incubator of ideas and a place for expanded artistic experimentation. 

The inaugural exhibition at GENERATOR is “SUPERFLEX: This Is The Tip Of The Iceberg”, curated by Sarah Howard and on loan from the Danish artist group SUPERFLEX and Galería OMR in Mexico City. This immersive installation is made up of large-scale mixed-media designs aimed to prompt reflection on the reality and consequences of climate change. Issues like these are particularly relevant to residents here in South Florida, many of whom live mere feet above sea level. 

Gallery assistant Neha Mitra explained that it is a two-piece exhibition. Upon entering the gallery doors viewers find themselves facing a glowing neon blue sign bearing the title of the exhibition. Through the curtains just beyond visitors stand in a dark room where a video plays. “As you enter the space you see an animation of a thing that not many people know what it is. It’s a siphonophore, this kind of jellyfish-like creature and essentially what it does is it comes up to the surface at night and cleans up all the carbon in the atmosphere. It's bioluminescent so sometimes if you go out in the harbor you can see it if you’re lucky,” Mitra said. Excess atmospheric carbon levels are one of the main driving forces behind global warming. This is why the siphonophore’s role of removing CO2 from the atmosphere is vital not only for oceanic but global ecosystems alike. “They are super crucial for our survival,” said SUPERFLEX co-founder Bjørn Christiansen during a lecture delivered at Harbor Hall last month.

The video, titled “Vertical Migration,” was originally projected 500 feet high onto the United Nations Secretariat Building in New York City during the 76th United Nations General Assembly in 2021 in order to highlight the critical nature of biodiversity and more generally the importance of recognizing and acting upon the issue of climate change. “The topic (of the UN meeting) was biodiversity. Humans cannot just sit there alone and discuss biodiversity. So we took one of those creatures that we met…We went down and filmed at night and decided we wanted to create an animation based on real footage,” Christiansen said.

‘Vertical Migration” and the Tip Of The Iceberg exhibition are truly at the intersection of art and activism. To experience the installation yourself head over to Harbor Hall before the exhibition leaves on November 22.

[longlistshort]

The images above are from SUPERFLEX: This Is The Tip Of The Iceberg, GENERATOR: USF Contemporary Art Museum’s inaugural exhibition. The two part exhibition includes a sculptural installation and the mesmerizing interactive animation Vertical Migration, in which viewers encounter a siphonophore that reacts to their movements.

From the gallery about the exhibition-

This Is The Tip Of The Iceberg emerges from SUPERFLEX’s in-depth research into the deep sea, biodiversity, and the climate. The exhibition immerses viewers in two parallel and interconnected realms, separated by a curtain which acts as an imaginary filter between land and sea. Passing through the curtain brings visitors from a terrestrial space unsettled by rising water to the ocean’s dark depths, to meet one of the most important cleaners of the ocean, the siphonophore. Relatives of the jellyfish, siphonophores bring between two and six billion tons of carbon a year from the surface down to the seabed, where it is stored. This Is The Tip Of The Iceberg offers an opportunity to encounter this unfamiliar species, prompting reflection on the impacts and consequences of climate change, especially relevant to Florida and its coastal communities, and encouraging humans to imagine a future defined by interspecies living and ecological coexistence.

For a more detailed discussion of the work, the gallery has created an exhibition catalogue that can be viewed online or downloaded as a pdf.

Vertical Migration was originally created in 2021 by SUPERFLEX for ART 2030  and was projected on the United Nations Secretariat Building in NYC during the 76th United Nations General Assembly.

SUPERFLEX’s statement on the project-

The sea is not an abyss. It teems with an almost unimaginable array of life. Every night, the largest biological migration on Earth takes place, as trillions of creatures travel closer to the surface to feed. Some of these animals, like shrimp, are well-known. Others, like siphonophores—relatives of jellyfish—are unfamiliar: varying wildly in size, from the slightness of a fingernail to the length of a whale, they look like nothing that we find on land.

How does it feel to be one of these creatures? To explore this question, SUPERFLEX designed a computer-generated siphonophore and created an animated film, Vertical Migration, depicting its ascent. At first, the film mechanically circles the creature, getting closer and closer while giving the audience a view of it from all angles. But eventually the perspective shifts, the camera’s movements become more fluid, and the viewer sees the world from the perspective of the siphonophore.

Unsettling our perceptions of scale and otherness, Vertical Migration is an intimate encounter with a life form that bears no resemblance to human beings, though we share a planet, an ecosystem, and a future. Because of sea-level rise, humans will also be migrating vertically in the coming centuries, to higher elevations and raised buildings. The siphonophore’s story is our story. Though we can never experience its journey through the pitch-black ocean depths, we can shift our perspective to recognize that we’re connected, that our actions affect each other, and that we share a common fate.

For a look at the work in motion, below is the trailer from ART 2030.

About SUPERFLEX from their website-

SUPERFLEX was founded in 1993 by Jakob Fenger, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen, and Rasmus Rosengren Nielsen. Conceived as an expanded collective, SUPERFLEX has consistently worked with a wide variety of collaborators, from gardeners to engineers to audience members. Engaging with alternative models for the creation of social and economic organisation, works have taken the form of energy systems, beverages, sculptures, copies, hypnosis sessions, infrastructure, paintings, plant nurseries, contracts, and public spaces.

Working in and outside the physical location of the exhibition space, SUPERFLEX has been engaged in major public space projects since their award-winning Superkilen opened in 2011. These projects often involve participation, involving the input of local communities, specialists, and children. Taking the idea of collaboration even further, recent works have involved soliciting the participation of other species. SUPERFLEX has been developing a new kind of urbanism that includes the perspectives of plants and animals, aiming to move society towards interspecies living. For SUPERFLEX, the best idea might come from a fish.

This exhibition closes 11/22/23.

[chez-mimich]

Venezia, maggio 2024 “Foreigners Everywhere”, Biennale d’Arte. “Superflex” è un collettivo artistico danese fondato nel 1993 da Bjornstjerne Christiansen, Jakob Fenger e Rasmus Nielsen. Oggetto del suo operare è semplicemente la sfida alle ideologie reazionarie. Messaggio chiaro e diretto. In particolare in “Foreigners Please Don't Leave Us Alone With The Danes!” del 2002, una serie di poster con la battuta, appaiono in rapida sequenza in diverse realtà. Nota a margine: l’accoppiata di ferro Berlusconi-Gheddafi che appare all’inizio del video, sembra non stonare affatto nel contesto di ideologie reazionarie …

[zell86]

Ok, I'm adding new lore. https://www.tumblr.com/auroraborealis43210/742159342750597120/yippieeeee

[patricia-taxxon]

the thing with superflex that really enrages me is that it would have been so easy to fix. like, provided that we're sticking with casting autistic behaviors as being the unholy influence of a baddie somewhere, just have it be so the demon needs to be understood and nurtured rather than defeated through force of will. like in the real world that's literally the kid, that's them doing a behavior, why are you telling the kid to revile their behavior as one would a saturday morning cartoon villain

[d4rksplash]

been Thinking about Superflex so have some doodles!! i understand why it’s so common but i’m kinda surprised how most deconstructions show Aiden/Superflex as an outright villain rather than a victim of a system he’s forced to perpetuate— kind of a “this is brilliant but I like THIS” thing lol. in my thing he’s the childhood friend of the UnthinkaBots and son of the original Superflex (more on him later), who’s eventually forced into his father’s role and desperately tries to convince himself he’s happy as he pushes away his former friends.