#janebennett

[theodoredeckergf]

hehe i was tagged by reece @beaniebitch69 (hi *twirls hair* 💕🥰💕) for like 5 songs im obsessed with rn

im just gonna take the top 5 songs from my most recent spotify playlist

Smack a Bitch - Rico Nasty (youtube)

GASLIGHT! - Maggie Lindemann et al. (x)

Money Machine - 100 gecs (x)

The Bean Kicked In - Zack Fox (x)

Ábrahám éz Izáck - Csaknekedkislány et al. (x)

anyways here's the collage i made for the playlist bc i love it!

I'm tagging tendercord and my irls bc idk who else to tag @noshadeintheshadowofthecross @theyovngveins @petermonkeebff @stkendall @janebennetts @alightings @bobdylanhater1965 @rudiecantfail

[thesmileyfeminist]

I just watched pride and prejudice (2005, dir. joe wright) and it's too beautiful for my eyes. I'm really in love with the style of 19th - century England ㅎㅎ

Mary Bennett is my favorite even though she don't have much lines and you barely can see her.

The one of romantic films after which I don't have a anxiety attack abt my loneliness 😂

[inthenameofthebody]

fav book of 2021 

[only-theessentials]

Chatting with an actant

[betwixt-these-pages]

I seem to be collecting books with first names in their titles... especially books with first names of characters I adore. In this instance, #janebennett from #prideandprejudiceandzombies #prideandprejudice #pandp ... because I'm obsessed. #books #bookish #bookittome #bookishlyobsessed #bibliophile #booklover #bookstagramming #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #bookishphotography #bookaddict #bookfanatic #biblionerd #biblionatic #bookaholic #bookography #booksandfunkos #funkopops #funkos (at Avon, Indiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvP1MuBHZw_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6usgnqe5a1lz

[saintflint]

tagged by @whenstarsalign, thank you so much dear❣️❤️❤️

nickname: tori (my full name is victoria)

zodiac: scorpio sun, virgo moon, cancer rising

height: 5’10

hogwarts house: probably hufflepuff

last thing i googled: “matelotage meaning”

song stuck in my head: chinese satellite by phoebe bridgers

number of followers: 2,317

amount of sleep: it’s always somewhere around 7-8 hours except on the weekends

lucky number: 17 and 11

dream job: part-time author and poet who lives quietly somewhere in oregon or washington, who works from home and always has time to garden and read. more realistically, a high school theatre arts teacher and director who’s beloved by the students i mentor.

wearing: ripped black jeans, white converse, a forest green cropped top that has white and tan stripes, and a light denim shirt over it with the sleeves cuffed to my elbows

favorite song: i have way too many but friday i’m in love by the cure is the one i always go back to

favorite instrument: piano and cello

aesthetic: fields of sunflowers, piles of unread books, sunlight filtering through green leaves, the scent and taste of earl grey tea, an empty theatre stage

favorite author: i have way too many to ever be able to choose

favorite noise: waking up to the slightly muffled sound of a heavy rain on the roof and outside my window

tagging— some more recent mutuals i haven’t really interacted with yet: @dognose, @tsnlesbian, @janebennetts, & @trustalljoys

[othersidebyperfumegenius]

Hello! @troxk tagged me to post a picture of me and this ugly man holding my all time favorite albums (thank you!!!! <3). I want u all to know that that album in the back changed six times.

Use this website to make it!

I am going to tag @fionaappletini @tsnlesbian @janebennetts @wormuniversity and anyone else who would like to do this!

[barbie2023]

rules: tag 9 people you want to get to know better

i was tagged by @janebennetts 💗thanks clara! lady bird gang for life x

top four ships: i’m not shipping anything super hard right now but maybe amy/laurie, nancy/robin, oh um i just watched the new to all the boys and john ambrose outsold so maybe him and lara jean? also caroline calloway/me as her bi for clout girlfriend

last song: first love / late spring - mitski (we’re jo march playlisting rn)

last movie: drifted off to i, tonya last night #mar-got-robbied

reading: in the process of rereading little women and i think i’m about to start either secret history or normal people

what food are you craving right now?: falafel but i’m having it tonight so we g

i tag: @lonelystarbuckslover13  @geminiamymarch  @elsas  @summercohen @billhacer @eyesclosed @nrthland @mercuthio @familiarplace

[theyovngveins]

rules: we’re snooping on your playlist. put your entire music library on shuffle and list the first ten songs, then tag some victims.

1. Poison - Stick and Poke

2. Pay Me Back - Rare Americans

3. Yule Shoot Your Eye Out - Fall Out Boy

4. Ginger Ale - Hotel Mira

5. Pas De Cheval - Panic at the Disco

6. You Are Everything and I Am Nothing - Football Club

7. Applebee’s Bar - Spraynard

8. Lonely (but not alone) - Rob Cantor

9. Friday Night Placebo - Sydney Gish

10. Tiny Souls in My Eyelashes - Infinity Crush

Tagged by @ladybirds2017 mwah

I tag @narutobf @luckycharmr @futuristbandforming and @janebennetts and anyone else who wants to do it !

[mercuthio]

rules: we’re snooping on your playlist. put your entire music library on shuffle and list the first ten songs, then tag some victims.

i was tagged by @janebennetts​ (pls keep tagging me in stuff i love it!)

1. The Knife - Maggie Rogers

2. Back in My Body - Maggie Rogers

3. Ship to Wreck - Florence + The Machine

4. I Miss Those Days - Bleachers

5. Me & My Dog - Boy Genius

6. Don’t Kill My Vibe - Sigrid

7. I Wanna Get Better - Bleachers

8. White Teeth Teens - Lorde

9. This Will Be Our Year - The Zombies

10. Paper Rings - Taylor Swift

* i use spotify so i cant shuffle all of my songs, so i shuffled my playlist that i have been listening to on repeat recently

i tag @keithharingmural @iwillmp3 @redochrehandprint

[theodoredeckergf]

personal moodboard

tagged by @luckycharmr​ (sorry i nvr do these u guys always tag me while im at work) i tag @janebennetts​ @ladybirds2017​ @mozukumii​ and @staff​ also anyone who wants to do it

[twohauntedhouses]

rules: tag 9 people you want to get to know better

i was tagged by @janebennetts ! thank you so much sorry this so late!

top four ships: me and a theoretical emotionally available gf who likes music and writing and has a big heart and is interested in pursuing a committed relationship w me <3 das it

last song: why do you feel so down? by Declan McKenna

last movie: Harriet which was really good! Cynthia Erivo blows my mind any time she does anything.

reading: i wish i had time to read rn. technically im in the middle of devotions by mary oliver but that's like 400 something pages so im reading it slowly. I'm also rereading crush by richard siken and re-annotating it before a friend borrows it

what food are you craving right now?: peaches but it's summer and im eating them on my front porch swing

I tag @impulse-poetry @gaypyramidschemes @greylunar @peachbruiseboy @notantsnotart @harleenapolla @thotfuss @heart-dyke @fionaappletini and anyone else who would like to do it!

[criticalsuperbeast-blog]

Vibrant Fibre: WhiteFeather’s Biotextiles

Function Keys 3 Conference of New Technology and Digital Culture, Centre[3] for Print and Media Art, Hamilton, ON.

By Tara Bursey

Biotextile I, catgut sutures, cell culture media, 3T3 cells, glass petri dish, 3D printed miniature loom and tools, 2014.

For many, BioArt — an art practice where humans work with live tissues, bacteria, living organisms, and life processes — conjures a visceral discomfort fitting for a genre known to encroach into the realm of human and animal bodies and cells. BioArt auteurs Eduardo Kac (whose infamous GFP Bunny was a live rabbit whose genome was spliced with the green fluorescent protein of a jellyfish) and Stelarc (who implanted a polyethylene ear into his arm that both hears and transmits sound) embody a postmodern swagger akin to how the abstract expressionists were perhaps perceived three-quarters of a century ago. Critiques of the use of lab resources, animals and other living materials to pose questions instead of solving proven problems (in combination with the cult of celebrity around a handful of BioArt pioneers) has given the genre it’s reputation for being ethically-questionable.

Montreal-based artist WhiteFeather, a presenter at Centre[3]’s Function Keys conference last November, approaches BioArt from a background in textiles, dually grounded in feminism and affect theory and influenced by Marxism and witchcraft. Her production and long-term investigation of biotextiles — scientifically-engineered textiles designed for medical applications such as skin and organ repair — has produced a constellation of works that imbed a politic of care within their very fabric. The spirit of co-agency and co-authorship between animate and inanimate subjects are alive in work in which, in WhiteFeather’s words, empathy serves as a core lab technique.

Biotextile experiment with handwoven horsehair scaffold and 3T3 mammalian connective tissue growth, 2016.

One of WhiteFeather’s investigations, a time-lapse video called Aseptic Requiem (2014) documenting a silk fibre’s encounter with connective tissue cells is a lavender-hued frenzied dance, evoking something between a psychedelic experience and the pulsating forms we associate with educational videos showing the fertilization of a human egg. In Biotextile I (2014), a weaving using catgut sutures (thread made from collagen found in the small intestine of cows, goats and sheep) on a palm-sized 3D printed loom was labelled in a petri dish and enculturated with connective tissue cells steeped in a day-glo pink solution. Twelve weeks in the lab produced a reaction of cell growth in the negative space of the plain weave: a membrane of live tissue growth with its own material logic becoming one with the grid pattern of the woven structure.

WhiteFeather relates this catalytic meeting of inanimate and animate matter to the writings of political theorist Jane Bennett. In her 2009 book Vibrant Matter: a political ecology of things, Bennett describes “thing power” — the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Thing power is central to much of WhiteFeather’s work — the importance of both live and inanimate subjects as active agents equal to the artist in the creation of the work, as well as the role of shared space and agency in allowing exquisite, mysterious logics to unfold.

For WhiteFeather, and for those who learn about or experience her work, there are inherent tensions at play, from balancing the immediate and intuitive practices of an artist with the essential sterility of environments where live cultures are handled and tested. The clinical space of the lab, and the criticality of procedures that will ensure the safe handling of the biotextiles as well as the safety of lab technicians and the broader public are imbedded in the content of the work while rubbing up against more intuitive processes of craft production, the domain of WhiteFeather’s practice for decades. While a textile artist may use her saliva to shape the end of a thread in the same way a mother animal grooms its young, or mend a garment in the same way a doctor would stitch a wound, equivalent gestures look and feel different within WhiteFeather’s practice while still positioning acts of care at the centre of the work.

In her 2015 exhibition Biomateria, WhiteFeather performed the “aesthetics of care”— a term coined by BioArtists Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr to reflect the care of “semi-living” beings within the context of BioArt — though a biosafety lab set up at FOFA Gallery in Montreal. In performance, through costume and official and quasi-official procedure, WhiteFeather (as well as trained gallery staff) enacted care as both a way of (in the artist’s words), “reflect(ing) social norms with regards to risk perception, and social (moral) codes about the body” as well as the practical need to keep a biotextile specimen safe within its controlled space. This performance both critiqued and highlighted the methods and means through which scientific work is navigated, while giving equal weight to the safety and care of both the viewing public and the vital material situated in the gallery.

The artist performing in lab gallery installation The Ossificatorium with Incubatrix Neith and Biotextile n=x, 2015. FOFA Gallery, Montreal. Photo credit: Carlos Jabbour.

Care is a long game. During a time of rapid technological change and innovation, the dissolution of the post-war social contract and emergent 21st century civil rights movements in light of rampant social injustices, care — whether care for the self or care for those in our community and abroad — can be seen as a critical political act. WhiteFeather’s Biotextiles highlight the meeting of living and non-living subjects as both carriers of knowledge and bodies worthy of care that are, to paraphrase Catts and Zurr, creators of our bodies as much as we are theirs.

This essay has been adapted from a previous version commissioned for the Function Keys 2016 conference catalogue by Centre[3] for Print and Media Art.

Tara Bursey is an Hamilton-based artist, independent curator and arts worker. Formerly a Curatorial Assistant at the Textile Museum of Canada, she coordinates exhibitions and programs at the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre, the country’s only labour history museum and multidisciplinary art centre.

[bjamee]

“This conquest model of consumption disregards the effectivity of not only animal bodies, but also the ‘bodies’ of vegetables, minerals, and pharmaceutical, bacterial or viral agents. It presents nonhuman matter as merely the environment for the means to human action. But does there not exist, as the notion of a viral agent suggests, a form of agentic capacity not restricted to the human actor, a potentiality within materiality per se? This material agency would include the negative power to resist or obstruct human projects, but it would also entail the active power to exert forces and create effects.”

Bennett, “Edible Matter,” New Left Review no.45 (May-June 2007): 133

[othersidebyperfumegenius]

hello @fionaappletini tagged me to post my lockscreen, home screen, and the last song i listened to. thank u chloé!!! 💕 i wish i was listening to something cool but i was writing so i was listening to a 28 minute long orchestra piece fjsfidndk.

I am going to tag @thotfuss @troxk @mikeshanlon @janebennetts and anyone else who would like to do this!!! do it!!!