Workshop on Xenism
For  <comm.act:".">  - Medi@terra 2000
Athens November 3-9, 2000

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Call for participation
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CREATE AND OFFER  NEW NEOLOGISMS
CREATE AND OFFER  NEW NEOLOGISMS
CREATE AND OFFER  NEW NEOLOGISMS
CREATE AND OFFER  NEW NEOLOGISMS
CREATE AND OFFER  NEW NEOLOGISMS
CREATE AND OFFER  NEW NEOLOGISMS
CREATE AND OFFER  NEW NEOLOGISMS




TO BE USED AS EDITING MATERIAL DURING THE

WORKSHOP ON XENISM

IN THE CONTEXT OF PARALLEL EVENTS

OF MEDIATERRA 2000 IN ATHENS, NOVEMBER 3-9.


neologism
a. The introduction of new words, or the use of old words in a new sense.
b. a meaningless word coined by a psychotic
xenism
c. strangeness, novelty,
d. injurious effect of change,
e. speak or sound strangely, use out-of-the-ways words,
f. use of foreign forms of syntax,
g. imitation of foreign manners.

SEND NEW NEOLOGISMS TO: xenism@xxxxxxxxxxx
SEND NEW NEOLOGISMS TO: xenism@xxxxxxxxxxx
SEND NEW NEOLOGISMS TO: xenism@xxxxxxxxxxx
SEND NEW NEOLOGISMS TO: xenism@xxxxxxxxxxx
SEND NEW NEOLOGISMS TO: xenism@xxxxxxxxxxx
SEND NEW NEOLOGISMS TO: xenism@xxxxxxxxxxx
SEND NEW NEOLOGISMS TO: xenism@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Call for participation to
Workshop on Xenism,
During Medi@terra 2000 in Athens, 3-9 of November,
To develop lectical Memory Theatres*
Conceived as "deranged" neologisms, or as "lectical missiles",
In-formed by negative behaviour and communication practices
Among participants,
In presence or absence,
In any material or thought form.
The aim is to experience and transcribe
states of xenism through and into behaviour and linguistic forms,
as a means to investigate limit conditions in communication
practices.

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Memory theatres
in this context:
interchangeable seven three-word phrases that function as memory system,
i.e. as mechanism of topical ordering of thought for remembering things or
ideas.
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>working with language
"Loss of speech is the loss of power to propositionize"

Participants, actual or remote, individual or in teams, use their common
life in space (in Mediaterra and the city's real and virtual public space)
as prime material, investigating forms of xenism in their daily contacts
with known and unknown aspects of themselves and others.

States of xenism are then transcribed by the participants in the form of
agrammatic, "isolated" words, which may function as "lectical missiles", or
as neologisms beyond the propositional structure of language.

Lists of three word phrases and attempted neologisms are communicated among
participants and toward a common e-mail address and internet space. Sms,
e-mail and fast analogue media may be used for the exchange and
communication of agrammatic words.