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Breakdown of control

jimini — Sat, 22 May 2010 12:33:59 +0000

An evening of ideas, discussions, presentations and more, on the topic of, The breakdown of control and surveillance situations – Detroit, The Netherlands and Karachi for example. From the viewpoints of technology, art and self-organising.
On Thursday June 3rd 2010, OT301, Overtoom 301, Amsterdam, at 20.00u

Rob van Kranenburg will discuss ‘The breakdown of control and surveillance situations, Police 3.0, the Facebook Generation and Garbage 3.0… What does
it mean?’
Suzanne Hogendoorn with a small presentation compiled around the mirror that the global south mega-cities hold up for us to imagine the future of our own mega-cities in terms of self-organisation.
And Jimini Hignett with a presentation, centering around the abandoned police station in Detroit, from the angle of my ongoing theme of ‘How to make art when everything is all fucked up?’
‘Click here for more details.‘

The Way It Is

jimini — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:43:41 +0000

Here’s a short clip from an ongoing project – the story of Adam and Eve, as told by my homeless collaborator, Barbara.
[See post to watch QuickTime movie]
(It takes a minute or so to load, particularly if your computer is as turgid as mine!)

You can see the complete, 6minute film on the The Way It Is page.

Thinking about ‘tools’ which I use to work with, for the (Un)Solicited Advice brief – manifestaplatform, and notice embedded in this clip a number of key elements, perhaps not tools as such that I might apply them consciously, but things such as a sense of inclusion/ exclusion, feminism, humour, story-telling/language, which feed my work through a kind of informed intuition.
For more of Barbara see GODSEND

The Guide

jimini — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:42:34 +0000

‘The Guide’ issue of Volume magazine – #22, December 2009 – has a section entitled Atlas of Love and Hate, on the Detroit Unreal Estate Agency.
There are 4 pages dedicated to my work – diary excerpts from the days leading up to the interventions on burned out houses, plus photographs.
And Lado Darakhvelidze’s ‘Future Postman’ project is in there too.