Originally released in 2015, this DJ mix by Elysia Crampton has been described as “a visual & performative essay”. Elysia Crampton produced this DJ mix to sound like scribbling over background music/a DJ set. The story, recited by Dr. Paul Crampton, follows Aymaran heroine Bartolina Sisa and the...
[Section 1]
The future is our domain
The here and now is a prison-house
Knots
Of information
Begin to untangle
Agitated
Scattering in all directions
Drawn
Accumulated
Lines of fire
Assembling at full acceleration
Glowing
White light
Exothermic
Mutagenic
The plaza ground spitting dust
Silenced
Image
Dissolved in blood
Vanishing point
Tendons peel from rock
Trash
On the floor
Hacked body
No body
Acid host
Demon city
Cyclonic storm drain
Compressor
Dumb weight
Deviated
Dissolution
[Section 2]
Bandas de llamas
Fuego trenzado por el viento solar
Hacia arriba, en un puño
Excediendo, hinchando
Brasas que disparеn en la oscuridad
Suspendido sobre еl fuego
Suspendido sobre la ciudad
[Section 3]
How long it ago, it all was
The end of carceral bondage
The final collapse of the prison-industrial complex
Those of trans resistance
Along with the remaining citizens of Non
Battled relentlessly
In an epic
Marked by super-regions of incarceration
Unparalleled in size and scale
Two billion years after the Earth's oceans boiled away
During the eighth Google wars
The abandoned and labyrinthian underground mega-prisons of Old America
Served as lasting shelters
Beneath the long since uninhabited outer crust
Venus and Mercury have vanished
As the Sun burnt off it's heat
AI mechas began a mining outpost on Earth's surface
Behold: the bodies of the mechas
Melting
Mutating
In the harsh conditions of the crust
Pressure to adapt
And experts at neural network building
The AI merged into one consciousness
Known as "The Sovereign"
Exoskeletons enabled above-ground operation
At that same time
The fossilized remains of an ancient human named "Bartolina Sisa"
Were uncovered by AI archaeologist nanobots
A laser directed through a sample revealed an extra-universal archive
This is when Sisa, or the sisters of interanimative synesthetic activation were formed
Those of Ukurunku
Seceding from sovereignty
Bustling
In a gory surf of static
The Sovereign
Caught in spiral tide
Were dissolved by the archive
The Sisa renegade survivors
Sought what was left
Of the subterranean species
Of former prisoners
Blind from millennia
Of underground adaptation
These arachnid humanoids united with the AI consciousness that remained
Creating a new organism
Loud
Gargoyled head
Sun shattered in the sky
Dogs
We smell the cancer in our bodies
Taste the metallic sorrow
The darkest hour
Travelling aboard two mechanoid bodies
Called the trans-Nazarene and the nativity
We still carry the name Sisa
After the ancient human Bartolina
That helped liberate our ancestors
Dissolution of the Sovereign: A Time Slide Into the Future (Or: A Non-Abled Offender’s Exercise in Jurisprudence) was written by Elysia Crampton.
Dissolution of the Sovereign: A Time Slide Into the Future (Or: A Non-Abled Offender’s Exercise in Jurisprudence) was produced by Elysia Crampton.
Elysia Crampton released Dissolution of the Sovereign: A Time Slide Into the Future (Or: A Non-Abled Offender’s Exercise in Jurisprudence) on Fri Oct 28 2016.