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Making Kin

by ELKA BONG

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Ant Drop Oh Scene 27:35
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Plantation Scene 26:38
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Capital Obscene 29:20
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“There is no question that anthropocene processes have had planetary effects, in inter/intra-action with other process and species, for as long as our species can be identified (a few tens of thousands of years); and agriculture has been huge (a few thousand years). Of course, from the start the greatest planetary transformers (and reformer) of all have been and still are bacteria and their kin, also in inter/intra-action of myriad kinds (including people and their practices, technological and otherwise). The spread of seed-dispersing plants millions of years before human agriculture was a planet-changing development, and so were many other revolutionary ecological developmental historical events.

“People joined the bumptious fray early and dynamically, even before they/we were critters who later named Homo Sapiens. But I think the issues about naming relevant to the Anthropocene, Plantationcene, or Capitalocene have to do with scale, rate/speed, synchronicity, and complexity. The constant question when considering systemic phenomena have to be, When do changes in degree become changes in kind? and What are the effects of bioculturally, biotechnically, biopolitically, historically situated people (not Man) relative to, and combined with, the effects of other species assemblages and other biotic/abiotic forces? No species, not even our own arrogant one pretending to be good individuals to so-called Western scripts, acts alone; assemblages of organic species and of abiotic actors make history, the revolutionary kind and the other kinds too.”

~ Donna Harroway, Making Kin in the Chthulucene

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released August 5, 2022

Al Margolis - violin, objects, contact mics
Walter Wright - Board Weevil, objects , contact mic [1,2]; drums, percussion [3]

Recorded in the basement July 29, 2022, mixed by Walter in Audacity.

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ELKA BONG Chester, New York

AL MARGOLIS
“... is some sort of evil genius working with sources radically altered up to an utterly unrecognizable state, anarchic manifestations moving in compact determination.”
~ Massimo Ricci

WALTER WRIGHT
is an interdisciplinary artist, his practice includes computer programming, music, and video performance. His focus is on “improvisation as a way of being present in the world.” ... more

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