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De:ising is a series of absurdist aesthetic interventions. These interventions are performed in specific sites and at specific times during the year. They often include an aesthetic processing of material which relates to the site, and perhaps the time. By time I am referring to a point in a cyclical, seasonal calendar not the Gregorian. The transience of human folly, becomes apparent by placing the sites in larger [time] contexts.
The actions engage with embodiments of colonisation; objects, sites, spaces, books, literature, clothing etc. The performances act-out a decolonising of these embodiments; a virtualisation of the matter [both as actual material, and as in 'whats the matter?']. This enactment inspects the matter and points to new narratives that could emerge. The narrative is often represented by an absurdist-ironical yarn making - spinning yarns.
Most of the actions are focused about the making of yarn from printed books. These actions extract ‘narratives’ that were not written, stories that were not classified, and things that couldn’t be categorised by the colonisers. The interventions find threads of that which could not be pronounced in the language [of the coloniser] by that language.

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