A Call to be Subsumed

"Now the goals, as defined by activist artists, are to find innovative grassroots applications to new technologies...But to attain all this, the larger virtual community must get used to a new cultural presence-the cyber immigrant/mojado; sensibility; and many new languages spoken in the net. All this is yet to be attained." 

Guillermo Gómez-Peña


I wanted to use this opportunity to highlight the work that collective BUFU has been undertaking in actualizing some of the calls that Gomez-Pena leaves us with in his piece, "The Virtual Barrio @ The Other Frontier". More specifically, I think there is a really interesting link in the spatial metaphors being used that evade the trappings of a multicultural fetish of identity and instead foregrounds questions of sensibility, epistemology, language, authority, and legitimacy that work beyond a center- peripheral dynamic. Instead both Gomez-Pena and BUFU explore practices that disavow the center as a place of arrival, instead embracing an alterity that subsumes it.


http://www.bufubyusforus.com/wyfy-school-manifesto-info