Work

Work is posted on these pages subsequent to each xs collective show

Art as Experimentation and Live Performance
The xs collective’s experimental and live performance practice enables theory to be put into practice, where work is not programmed, where any order evolves immanently and immediately from the activity itself and is not beholden to any ulterior motive other than creativity and difference, i.e. the production of a specifically collective subjectivity.

The challenges to the collective will be, firstly, answering Michel Foucault’s question in his Preface to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: ‘How does one keep from being fascist, even (especially) when one believes oneself to be a revolutionary militant?’ ‘How do we ferret out the fascism that is ingrained in our behaviour?’ And secondly, Simon O’Sullivan suggests the challenge will be in ‘attending to the creative and affirmative aspects of a politically engaged practice, or at least these two as accompaniments to those more dissenting and critical aspects.’

By using new media to switch temporality and spatiality, we can take on an aesthetic deterritorialising function and turn ourselves into a Deleuze and Guattarian ‘body without organs’ as a strategy for accessing that which is normally ‘outside’ ourselves; our experimental milieu, which always accompanies our sense of self.