AUTOMATON
Forward Automaton is pieced together from various contributors that have experienced the experimental space that is Treignac Projet. Automaton is an opportunity to bring together fragments of an evolving thought process. It is a Process that has been dispersed through locations, actions, and people. It is a thinking across geographies not yet attributed, indicating experience not yet interrogated. It is informal, shared and yet still private. It is withheld. It is impending and refuses the obligation to stand or defend ground. Automaton is for everyone because distance and separation exists between everyone, even between those who seem to be tied together. Automaton’s partial apparition of material is the residue of a growing conviction that the Human is not the sole force of creative activity. Other suprahuman levels of production and materialisation operate in the physical world. These productions may or may not be immediately apparent to us. Conceivably they manifest themselves in the world but are only obliquely presented. We speculate on the supraliminal experience of emergence as a potential foundation for living together. Automaton is an attempt to treat the things of the world differently; to be implicated in strange presences and weird behaviours; to recognize the assembled lumps of our reality and the emergent powers of animate and inanimate collectives, to try and annunciate the world beyond sense through our senses. Automaton sees a new opportunity to explore politics in tune with the rhythm of geology or the poetic prowess of cities. Not as the displaced processes of humans, but as the emergent expression of evolving structures. This exploration is revealing structures and networks that have convinced us of the ability of creative modes to adapt and annunciate our world. Automaton’s gateway to this supra-human expression is the death of the individual in the emergent consciousness of the collective. In attempting to experience this post-human death, we believe that useful ground can be claimed with literary tools, mathematical concepts and mental illnesses. All meanings are patterns that come to light via the forms we view them through. Automaton is thought through from outside, it is an invitation.
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