Network Atlas by Geza Perneczky - Ruud Janssen

386alienation and non-participation under the reign of capital. We will begin by studyingsituationist and other currents such as neoism, PRAXIS, and post-structuralism.Then we plan to test the efficacy of these societal critiques thru action, psychogeographicexpeditions, and the construction of „situations“. Situations entail thefreeing of various separate artistic techniques from a limited application in thetheatre, gallery, music hall, etc., to their combined application on the actual socialfield. The creative, transformative energy usually associated with art is merged withthe project of revolution. This revolution is not spurred by duty or scientific socialism,but rather, springs from the productive apparatus of the molecular unconscious.Our goal is to make possible self-realisation, communication and participation. Thismust occur thru purely non-spectacular means.»(Smile, #2, „Art Eats Life“, Statement): «If you are tired of imitating demolitions;if it seems that the work expected of you has already been tried or surpassed evenbefore you start, then contact Schiz-Flux to organize a higher level of power for thetransformation of lived experience. We are not working for the spectacle of the endof the world but for the end of the world of the spectacle.»(Who is the real Karen Eliot): «If you could be KAREN ELIOT what would youdo? 1. cum in drag to a Communist meeting 2. smash a statue of a KAREN ELIOTimposter in public 3. copyright the festival of plaguerism in Red Square 4. joina LIBERATOBOLOZONE and make it spontaneously reproduce itself all aroundthe worldIf you see KAREN ELIOT on the street what would you do? 1. flash andorgasm 2. have tea and crumpets at Lillies 3. CALL THE COPS 4. speak intongues while spazzing outWhat do you hate most about KAREN ELIOT? 1. the Fakir stance anddroopy neck while playing in the shower 2. the non identity 3. the color of the hair4. nothing in particular 5. everythingKAREN ELIOT is; 1. A Shizoversive 2. A Psychogeographic explorer3. Nomadic desiring womaniac 4. Niether don't know or care »(Leaflet in the SNARL, Smile #3, digist size, 1988)«Schiz-flux is & never was. As soon as it has become was, it is no longer schiz,but neurosis, which occurs when the partial-object flows are blocked on the bodyw/out organs. Schiz-flux practices the revolution of desire & the refusal to work,seeking to unleash a flow of madness into the social body, which reverses theaccumulated historical aggrandizment of capital, & brings into play sabotage ofthe spectacle. Wether motivated by ahimsa (love-force), spartacist-style militancy,or considerations for an art politic, Schiz-flux bases its praxis outside an interpretiveframework, in desiring machines. And, what do we desire? Surely don'tknow. If Jesus is the answer, heroin is the response...» (Contacts. In: Anti-Isolation[→ Xexoxial], #3-4, 1987. 23 p.)«This version of the ubiquitous Smile is the Madison arm of that contemporaryart movement (Neoism, Situationism) seeking to remove power from the „spectacle“and re-empower the individual through the intelligent and directed use ofartistic images. The „Spectacle“ has power over the populace through the use ofcapital and the manipulating of the peoples' desires. If power is a reality in anysociety then artists can wield the recognized power of images without needing theconventional (and difficult to obtain) power of capital. Artists are encouraged todeindividuate themselves by using the name Karen Eliot is full of dense butengrossing texts and documentations of Madison activities relating to this movement.This is really a good magazine, and the first of its kind that I know offrom the midwest. I propose that everyone start a magazine called PhotoStaticand call themselves Ll. Dunn, and then the world will really, etc.» ( Lloyd →Dunn: Mail Review. In: PhotoStatic. N° 30, March 1988, 1026 p.)