Manila Radio Bandits Episode 1

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A short news talk on suppression of dissent in Japan. Antonio Negri- the Autonomia thinker, barred entry in Japan. Anti-G8 Activists from Germany and South Korea was also refused entry in Japan prior to G8 summit on July.

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Disconnected Joints on March 20

NU+MAN presents
"Disconnected Joints"
featuring
Dada Docot and Jong Pairez
video, photo, installations

OPENING 5PM until 11PM, March 20, 2008 (Thursday)
this is a one-day-only FREE! exhibition

A multi-site project that features works by Filipino artists in international mobility launches on March 20 in Tokyo. This is the beginning of a continuous project that invites Filipino artists to hold exhibitions in their respective country of residence. Works are to discuss issues that comprise, surround and penetrate mobility, and that translate the experiences of the Filipino artist as a migrant.

Called "Disconnected Joints," this first self-curated exhibition presents multimedia installations by Dada Docot and Jong Pairez.

Dada Docot, a masters graduate of the University of Tokyo, who has combined random concepts about gender with the visual, is showing a video documentation of a performance staged at Shinagawa train station. In her work, she provides a critique of the general attitude of Japanese society towards foreigners in the country, highlighting an instance of racial profiling on a particularly "normal" day in Tokyo.

Meanwhile, in reference to psychogeography and unitary urbanism, Jong Pairez, a migrant and dropout of the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, will present photographs of detourned postal boxes around Tokyo. In his work, the idea is to utilize the urban landscape's existing signs and symbols as an expression of resisting control and surveillance that targets mostly migrants and refugees.

The exhibit is presented by Nu+man Collective.

To get to Poetry in the Kitchen, take the JR Chuo Line, get off at Iidabashi Station, East Exit. Climb the footbridge to cross the street and walk along the left side of the expressway. Keep on walking, follow this map and find the following address:

http://disconnectedjoints.kulturavolunteers.org/index.php

Tuttle Bldg. 2F, 1-2-6
Suido, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo, Japan
Tel: 03-3812-6434

Jean Makisig on Postal Boxes

A SNIPPET OF AN ONGOING PROJECT: POSTAL BOX POSTIES

in reference to Psychogeography and Unitary Urbanism, playing words on Postal Boxes around Tokyo became an attempt for me to re-define space. the idea is to detourn the urban landscape by playing with the existing signs and symbols that defines symmetrical power to a particular space.

Postal Boxes or postbox also serves as an index of urban space aside of its function for collecting outgoing mails. in other words, if we compare this to a plot from a narrative, Postal Boxes is an index that guides us through the smooth journey of space as a grand narrative. it tells us our location by suggesting us on how do we get there from here in case we get lost or deviate.
JeanMakisig

Fig.3TRAFFIC CIRCULATION, SUPREME STAGE OF CITY PLANNING
Traffic circulation is the organization of universal isolation. As such, it constitutes the major problem of modern cities. It is the opposite of encounter: it absorbs the energies that could otherwise be devoted to encounters or to any sort of participation. Spectacles compensate for the participation that is no longer possible. Within this spectacular society one’s status is determined by one’s residence and mobility (personal vehicles). You don’t live somewhere in the city, you live somewhere in the hierarchy. At the summit of this hierarchy the ranks can be ascertained by the degree of mobility. Power is objectively expressed in the necessity of being present each day at more and more places (business dinners, etc.) further and further removed from each other. A VIP could be defined as someone who has appeared in three different capitals in the course of a single day.
Basic Program of the Bureau of Unitary Urbanism (1961)