Pointesian Networks.
This year’s extended edition of Pointesian networks considers the relationship between aesthetics and emergency politics, manifested as experimental narratives. Encountering both domestic and institutional arrangements, cultural conditioning, and national political milieux, the ethics of artistic agency and representation are brought into question as filmmakers cross-examine their chosen subjects from many angles. Improvisation may inform both subject matter and approach, with egos incisively and humorously dismantled; the specifics of a given place or circumstance may be scrutinized.
The films, performances, and discussions that make up Pointesian Networks 2014 are by turns playful and unsettling, with monologue emerging as a strategy for preservation, and dialogue as the option to move things forward into the future.
In light of artist Sophia Lella’s call for relation-making practices to resist and reclaim, the contributions to Pointesian Networks 2014 may be read as gestures towards a considered altered listening that is sensitive to “pliabilities, whichever are virally intrinsic, but make a neutrally balanced persuasive but make the expoxculation for an inherent existence only because we don’t recognise the selfless self.” (Lella, 2011)
Participating artists include:
Huyton Villa
Therese Malconna
Terry Smitho
Katrissa Hollos
Thame Giveaway
Tracy Juste
Meemar Versailles
Harrisona Telephonica
