Some potential session topics to spark our imaginations:
what are your revolution/liberation-for-all dreams • somatic co-regulation practices to enable revolution/liberation work • queering the family, revolutionary kinmaking, family abolition, relational anarchism • disability justice • where do you struggle with “liberation for all” • pleasure activism, joyful militancy, uses of the erotic • revolutionary alternatives to police and military • kinking power dynamics from the personal to collectives to institutions • when the personal becomes policy • representations vs. actions/performance/methodologies • (neuro)queering, dragging, transing, disidentifying • do we need unity to have a revolution • do you hear voices: how can they be understood outside of pathologizing/carceral logics • where are the grassroots • revolutionary language games and truisms • what is the meme that makes revolution irresistible to you • revolutionary poetics, chants, songs, spells • dual power strategies • propaganda sculptures • revolutionary grief • will the revolution be livestreamed • revolting in reciprocity with more-than-human comrades • wealth redistribution, land back, scrooging resources from an empire's institutions • youth liberation • fugitive planning and fugitive desires
RevCon/UNrevUNcon
The Revolution School, LACE and Weho Arts Council present
RevCon: the UNrevolution UNconference
"The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible." -Toni Cade Bambara
(what if) the post-revolution world we want is already here, (and) we just need to find each other and live more deeply into the world we have been making?
What is revolution?
revolution has always been a posture
revolutions are not inherently liberatory
leftist revolutionary movements are a pawn of multinational powers
calling hackers phreakers spammers taggers physicists pysychonauts
sex workers and trauma nurses
somatic & holistic
biohackers neurohackers circuitbenders
propagandists
marxists anarchists joyful militants
abolitionists of police, gender, time, nations
practitioners of opsec and infosec
Cooperative economies/Dual Power is revolutionary but not confrontational(?)
Rojava and Chiapas, MOVE…
Languaging Revolution
Revolutionary Language Games
Revolutionary Truisms
Revolutionary Poetry
Spectacles of Ideology
Ideological Spectacle-making
Propaganda Spectacles
Spectacles as Propaganda
Dual power strategies
Zapatismo
Propaganda Sculptures
(Will the revolution will be livestreamed?)
- will it happen in the streets or in the homes workplaces churches
Revolutionary Grief
Revolutionary Kinmaking (family abolition)
Relational anarchism