Notes on Frugal Future MANIFESTO
- WARNING___violence
This are the notes for possible queer F(r)ICTION
Notes for the Frugal Future Manifesto!
As FormerWest was getting enthusiastic over Fridays4Future, maybe believing in the promise of hyper-sensitive but sane youth, one that can FailBetter at where they failedUS (and then failed to admit that this is a failure) or even dare to Do what needed to be Done... ...the future slipped out of focus and queer past somehow became the NewN0rm. The losses in systemic failures, futurity, fertility.
The one thing I am envious of QueerWest was that queer history. For us ‘queer’ entered only (sub)liminally through pop imports, for those further East it was even less so... ...we basically missed the real stuff: the tension, the traumatic, the catharsic and the catalytic - AIDS crisis. The Queer pandemic, the losses that were ignored.
We missed being free, promiscuous and then sad and close, building communal resistance out of tragedy out of loss. Not that it was easy here… We had our issues, ours traumas, our systems that failed us. We entered late. We lost US as we connected to @ll(?), but in the process became just #meMyselfAndI (minus the beat, minus the sax, minus the sex...+ the ex-).
Where we ever even able to join? 2 become 1 seng 4 or 5 What about the 'Other(s)'? No. Not the #3... More like √2. Less obvious, irrational. Invisible. Indivisible. Unaccountable. Unattainable. Complex. Complicated. Correlated.
How can one think progress now when there is so much left behind. So much unaddressed, incomputable and ...behind. How can we think growth, when so much was left to die. Discarded. Discounted? De-Counted??
Maybe the future is poor. Maybe just poor enough for us. For US to re-emerge again. To be and learn together. Re-learn solidarity in survival and empathy, re-conditioning frugality while counting on poverty. What if frugality is the precious. Desirable. Is this what QueerEast can bring to the table? Unlearning consumerism. Unlearning privilege. DeGrowth as DeColonial. Frugals4Future.
Politics of Location: Eastern European queer leftist dark (?) humor
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References and background: http://queeranarchive.blogspot.com/
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this project is: Active ▼
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description: Artist ▼
mood: Outsider ▼
associations: Non-Normative ▼ , Political ▼
location: Balkans ▼
type of space: other ▼
languages involved: English ▼ , Mixed ▼
addressing: Queerdos ▼ , 18+ ▼ , activists ▼
institutional: No ▼
sustainability: not funded mainly ▼
approx. number of people involved: 1
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