We are Family*, 2025
This revolutionary process of the abolition of identity,
we should keep in mind, is monstrous, violent, and traumatic.
Don't try to save yourself-in fact, your self has, to be sacrificed!
This does not mean that liberation casts us
into an indifferent sea with no objects of identification,
but rather the existing identities will no longer serve as anchors.
Many will pull back from the brink
and try to stay who they are rather than dive into
the unknown waters of a world without
race, gender, or other identity formations.
Abolition also requires the destruction of all the institutions
of the corruption of the common
we spoke of earlier,
such as the family, the corporation, and the nation.
This involves an often violent battle against the ruling powers and also,
since these institutions in part define who we now are,
an operation surely more painful than bloodshed.
Revolution is not for the faint of heart.
It is for monsters.
You have to lose who you are to discover what you can become. **
*exhibition title of Patricia Piccinini**M. Hardt & A. Negri Commonwealth, 2009 (p.339)
We are Family, 2025,
baseball bat made out of artist’s reading list, 3d printed parts, stolen book from a museum
Are they 'faces that only a mother could love', or can we too learn to recognise their formal beauty? *
*from the exhibition text of Patricia Piccinini, 2003, We are Family
...much of the work in this show is about doing the wrong things for the right reasons.*
*from the exhibition text of Patricia Piccinini, 2003, We are Family
grzyb magiczny
2025, mycelium incubation recipes
we don't have choices other than looking for life in this ruin.*
*Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, 2015
girl who tore up the Quran, Patricia Piccinini,2003
screenshot from: https://www.ahmetler.com/en/kose-yazilari/su-tasiyan-karincanin-oykusu