Carelessness (almost) Causes Fire

BLOG POST posted on October 27, 2012 by d.

Carelessness (almost) Causes Fire:

We broke into that gallery that sits in the ruins of the woodsquat (now a lame SFU artschool funded by genocidal GoldCorp.). It was our first time there. The door was easy enough to jimmy-open and when we left, we left it wide open. We took Precautionary Tactical Entry instructions from the digital prints framed as art on the wall. Deciding on the subtlety of the rolli-ball pen over the vulgarity of the jiffy marker- we tossed-up: 'HUMAN STRIKE AGAINST SHITTY ART'.

In the dark gallery we read the little leaflet that comes free with the show, and comrade Claire Fontaine we are saddened that you despair so much. But having read it and seeing the art, we thank you for showing us with such shitty art the extent of your HUMAN STRIKE. We categorically reject your sharing of a 'political reinvestment of what (you) are producing' so long as it is made in your political strike, which only leads to the re-re-re-reproduction of society. Ourselves, we delight in 'miming the gestures of social self-destruction' that you have turned away from; we see such gestures and other secret rituals as pure means of the insurrection for the abolition of civilisation. So many ways of the proletarian general strike; you have turned away from so much you must be dizzy, cause look! you ended up back at work!

There is more stuff we wanted to say about what we thought of your stuff and what you wrote; so maybe you'd let us get a few rounds of drinks (and/or our kids can play together at the park). Thanks also for the chance to keep training with weapons, We were gonna swipe'em, but hope others use them (and/or take them). As for that horrible gallery space- it can not be decolonised but must be destroyed; like our friends who during the spring intifada, in HUMAN STRIKE they 'fired' the institutions of the city Alexandria-- so wont we even piss on it the next time when we burn it.

in Make Total Destroy!
 

{{{{Claire Fontaine are artists who were part of Tiqquin, the collective that among other projects wrote 'The Coming Insurrection'. from their website:

Claire Fontaine is a Paris-based collective artist, founded in 2004. After lifting her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire Fontaine declared herself a "readymade artist" and began to elaborate a version of neo-conceptual art that often looks like other people's work. Working in neon, video, sculpture, painting and text, her practice can be described as an ongoing interrogation of the political impotence and the crisis of singularity that seem to define contemporary art today. But if the artist herself is the subjective equivalent of a urinal or a Brillo box - as displaced, deprived of its use value, and exchangeable as the products she makes - there is always the possibility of what she calls the "human strike." Claire Fontaine uses her freshness and youth to make herself a whatever-singularity and an existential terrorist in search of subjective emancipation. She grows up among the ruins of the notion of authorship, experimenting with collective protocols of production, détournements, and the production of various devices for the sharing of intellectual and private property.