Table of Contents
2, Soweregnty or Bust Pragmatiom
‘eras Idea in he Quest fr Self
Deteraniom
Rom Hanson
2. SEISPORSEIS
Issue M
3. Discoursdinauguration
République Sans Tout Ca
4, Authority Through deny
Manet Berend
6. Leer from a UK Detention Contr
Noah Brehnsee
8. On Coastline, Borer Crossings and.
Natural History
Ayesha H
weed
iy de Hei
livedspace
Editorial
This publication isthe final compo:
nent ofthe projeet To Seale,
ecrpday Sovereign, which encom
ppinstl an exhibition, seeming ae
Alisenssion at rice and bean, a
latistrun centre in Dunedin, New
Hesland, The contested territorial
pe
tie gestures of taicronations formed
the background fora speculation on
notions of lernoralastonomy’ and
representation, in ration tothe
space of his arist-run centre and
ants-run centre cultures more ge:
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‘tioned as an anne to the projet in
which a network of related spaces
land strategies could be drawn. The
‘exhibition space, with its vations
Printed matter eonteibutions and &
Eereening of Gabriel White's
Anollants a vdeo following the
farts’ peregrinations through the
turban fabrie of Auckland~ acted asa
temporary embassy lounge and
spice of referents forthe notion of
stale in atonony
“The narratives supporting micro
halons Tike many national Retons
tflen trace their heginnings to pee
Formative speech acts, which by des
cribing the parameters ofan en
ty, lect the transition af this den
iy into being. They are the way by
‘which declarations Become indepen:
tence, Mieronations reveal the a
orty associated with the perfor
‘mative function of tanguage through
Satis parodies, of whieh the forms
And octasionally operatic character
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underline te material variables (og
Tocation title of speakers, te) on
whieh the weight of this
rests, But how are we to
the performative gestures cai
stonomy for space witho
arables to support thea?
tionship of language to territorial
speculation and legitimacy fas been
rough to ight agai) by va
ceupations of public space this
‘year The command to occupy itself
efies the apaphante descriptions
which de
tt space as wha fer
ther than what ong. Kt yefers to
space using the same not-apophan:
Se langage of speculation sehich
inaion-states take as immutable rear
lites in the policing of their borders.
This command uncovers the per-
ceived immutability of these tralities
longaide the instructions and ape
ulations of autonoaoue media fe
Not the Financial Fines an its
reactive faturolog, distited a
coups Londdon Stock Fachange
which parody the forms framing the
highs and lows of consumerist
every
‘The spaces brought forward in To
Sen, Borriday Sovereign exemplified
Torms of resistance =e. Sarough
‘overidentfeation, parody and
speculation-to the notion of centre
ieultaral production. The prolifer
sign of enitro-nations inthe lat
century ad their ephemerality
ofthe no.
fiom of centre ak the temporary
anifeatation af a transnational
‘alue. The mobility and ubiquity of
{he art biennial, for instance, ean be
seen a symptomatic of eapial’s
transnational reach, bul aloof the
‘sy in which Ie notion af cent
ccompanies the moneliation of
space and national tions. By
‘rue of thee power of axel
international lenis ae nant
fesatione of th eultral-econore
cone ofthe ‘centre wherever he
Crop upd wharer they show
clas Peter Otome, They are waye
of leveling out the experince of
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tone, curently, in on capital
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horton of fob socal intercon
sectedness, in the liately