I wanted to do a quick hat-tip (well, I don't wear hats but who gives a damn) to two of the great tigers: Paper Tiger Television and La Tigre!
Paper Tiger Television is celebrating some big-time anniversary (25 ass-kicking years)! They've just put out the documentary Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger -- a critical and celebratory documentary about all the incredible projects they've done from mainstream media critiques to slams on military recruiting! Congratulations to these tigerrrrrific media pioneers!
Le Tigre, who is apparently going out of style, is another quality tiger, a post-riotgrrrl, queer-ass, punk-electronica band with fabulous songs about everyone from the likes of Marlon Riggs to that finicky freak who put the bang in the chitty chitty bang bang. Check em out and find a revolutionary beat to dance to--even if they're already old hat!
What this movement needs are a few more tigers and a few less bores! Get dancin' and romancin'! Start making media. And for a quick change, growl like a beast!
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Thanks for posting this, Kyle. I think about Le Tigre everyday. "Hot Topic" from "Le Tigre" which is a list of feminists asking them not to stop, and their "Favorite Things" section on letigreworld.com (Mary Patten is included under Kathleen Hanna's) are examples of the shout out and how it is a way to perform solidarities.
Anyway, it provides comfort and it makes me think of the article,
The Sublime Whiff of Criticality
On the Functions of Documenta
by the Radical Culture Research Collective. It calls for a network of solidarity and support in critical art. Here are some qoutes:
"In this schema [neo-liberalism], conflict is simply counterproductive and inefficient. Its irruptions may be described as fits of immature and irrational pique, and eventually be associated with “terrorism.”
"To formulate alternatives, and build on past efforts, we need to consider questions such as: How can this desire for recognition be reconfigured in terms of solidarity, rather than fighting each other for the crumbs? How do we organize collectively, so that those who refuse to “play nice” do not do so alone? What can be learned from social movements and the histories of struggle, so that critique is not abstracted into a curatorial theme or seminar topic that leads to no actual change? In future texts, we will try to develop answers to these and related questions."
I think LeTigre does that, by acknowledging past modes of action, linking themselves to them with the shout out, and creating a space for their "feminist fury."
Wow Bonnie! Thanks for the comment!!! And thanks for introducing me to the Radical Culture Research Collective! Who are these folks! Wow!!!
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