POWER PLAY
Jessica Lim
Join the artist industrial complex.
(Bend. Stretch. Reach. Repeat the exercises of your days, like this, like this, like this. Hand over fist. Relay Breath. Gesture, Letter openers probe the slit, extract our accrued lives. Bend. Stretch. Like this. Like this. That’s right. Looking good.) (1)
My mind goes all vacuous and empty.
Is this the best that we can do?
What is something you have done for money?
“By 2050 New Zealand will be one giant cybernetic prison funded by the Department of Corrections. Ecosystems may collapse, and the cities will be Reduced to Dust.”(2)
I’m afraid of the labour I have to perform to maintain this precarious status.
Imagine a future classless society.
- Gibson, Jasmine. “Fire This Time ” LIES II: A Journal Of Materialist Feminism. http://liesjournal.net/volume-ii/. 2015. 154. Accessed 17/04/2018
- Wang, Jackie. “2015 PEN World Voices Festival Opening Night: The Future is Now”. 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei_9Rldt1Es. Accessed 11/04/2018
