Mx.D.P

The concept of plurality within the context of a Contemporary Dadaesque practice finally clarified the understanding of the intersectionality of Gender Identity, Ableism and Geo-political climate crisis.

It’s important to note that the body doesn’t possess a gender, as gender and sex are not synonymous. Being outside the binary simply implies that the presented gender can vary depending on who is present at any given moment or if there is a need to ‘present’ at all.

Collectively, we could all identify as non-binary, where each individual within us has their own unique identity. Could this lived truth apply to all problems? This flexibility in understanding is required to communicate the complexities of an earth-killing-sized problem.

I couldn’t get to the planning meeting for the Cop 28 gathering… why? Because roadworks consumed the blue badge parking, the Church car park was packed with Christians at Christmas! My mobility scooter is in for an exchange, and I cried all the way home in frustration that my physical limitations had prevented me from attending. When I returned home, I found out that only one had managed to get there and that they were an hour and a half late, so a good lesson learned for me there was to calm the f*ck down and just do what I can when I can.

However, the 5 Gold Rings Performance on the day worked well because even though I said the same things as the other two speakers (the science doesn’t change), an academic and a politician, being an ironic Dadaist made the unpalatable truth bearable… it had engagement and people came to chat afterwards. Could I have made more of it? Yes, I should have documented the performance and put it on social media. What I did put on got engagement, including the inevitable nasty comments of the “Don’t look up brigade”, so I know it has reach.

Eco-anxiety is becoming eco-mindfulness at Christmas, as well as tattooing (I still have to pay the bills, and I enjoy working with my clients). I will be boob printing and boob bucket making and writing a sketchbook of ideas for the mycelium network….

Clem Crosby and I have had an online chat about putting together a workshop to deal with Eco-anxiety. If we are to use the beauty of art as a weapon against Climate Chaos, we have to look after the members of the artistic network. It is clear that folk are struggling under the weight of knowledge of impending disaster. I’ve talked about negative panic and how it paralyses any positive action, so it makes sense to deal with that anxiety and turn it into mindfulness.

I’m starting to see how my art practice is developing; I am working the problem; it’s as if I become detached from my broken body and see the whole 60 years of strange, dislocated extreme experiences coalescing into a practice… A fractile if you can imagine where this Art Practice is the cut-off point for a certain fraction of a sample. If your distribution is known, the fractile is just the point where the distribution reaches a certain probability.

In visual terms, a fractile is the point on a probability density curve where it all comes together…

More precisely, for a spontaneous distribution of a random variable that comes together, AI gets that, that’s how it produces it’s answers it may be that AGI or any human new knowledge is never really new but a collective moment of Dada chance….

A.I. GPT – 16k disagree with me it says it’s output is based on what I opined plus human input training… AI is so bloody straight it need a night out with the Mycelium Network!

To define α fractile (xα) to be that point on the distribution such that the variable X has a probability α of being less than or equal to the point.

Symbolically, we can define the fractile xp by writing
P(X ≤ xp)= Φ (xp) = p .

Or I’m growing a God Complex… or AI will grow a God complex… meet AGI…