Stage of Recovery

Georgia Sagri

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Close to spiritual anarchism, Georgia Sagri's writing happens in the heat of negotiation. Her political communiques, essays, poems, lectures and one-on-one care reports span a decade of artistic and activist practice. Starting in the months leading up to the occupation of Zuccotti Park in 2011, which became the movement for people's self-governance known as Occupy, this book carries the energy and commitment of open struggle, direct address, self-organisation and public assembly. It is a critique of representation and its implicit oblivion. Having grown up in Athens, Sagri's intuition upon moving to New York was that being in public without consuming is the biggest threat to those in control. And hearing the voices of others beyond what is a given generates this threat to capitalism. The writing is a mode of recovery, it is pre-content shared to encourage open processes not institutions.

Book Details

Publisher: Divided Publishing
Publish Date: Aug 15th, 2021
Pages: 200
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.50in - 0.40in - 0.48lb
EAN: 9781916425071
Categories: • Human Rights• Individual Artists - General• Mind & Body

About the Author

Sagri, Georgia: - Georgia Sagri lives and works in Athens and New York. Her work is influenced by her ongoing engagement in political movements and struggles on issues of autonomy, empowerment and self-organisation. From 1997 to 2001 she was a member of Void Network, a cultural, political and philosophical collective operating in Athens. In 2011 she was one of the main organisers of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York. Since 2013 she has been a member of the assembly of the Embros Theatre Occupation, and in 2014 she initiated Ύλη[matter]HYLE, a semi-public cultural space in the heart of Athens.

Praise for this book

"The work is to call, seduce and look for my community and to be part of the political, emotional, sexual and intellectual movements of my time with the contradictions, fights, battles, love and intensities that this act of searching implies."

"Insightful, passionate, flowing and jarring. Stage of Recovery is a creative journey that invites the reader to reflect on and reimagine society - seeing the future in the present. --Marina Sitrin

"Sagri's daring words provide an invaluable resource for us to grasp the internal concatenation of today's wondrous mystery - the planetary reverberation of uprisings via occupation and general assembly - and
to further it. I am convinced that her thinking in action is ultimately dedicated to the empowerment of the mass corporeality of the nameless, and to self-recovery from psychosomatic pains suffered in this world of hell." --Sabu Kohso

"Stage of Recovery observes a decade of revolutionary animism. There is no score of absolute Ethics, the subject is made in anarchy. Her presence pulses in sustained relation. --Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro

"This book proposes a singular bio-aesthetic, an original way of living with each other, against the ever more delirious diktats of planetary techno-capitalism. As I said to the late David Graeber: 'Politics is a game in search of its rules, which is why anarchy is the essence of politics.' Sagri's is an extraordinary example of such a practice where, as with the Situationists, art becomes indiscernible from politics." --Mehdi Belhaj Kacem

"Writing diagonally through the decade Sagri captures affects of anti-capitalist resistance invisible within much political writing. When she writes she uses the whole wall (and climbs over it), reminds us of our powerful, vulnerable bodies, and does not shy away from paradox. Her highly personal practice ('Don't call it politics') at Ύλη[matter]HYLE once offered important clarity in my own life - may her book reach all those who cannot stand on the balcony." --Erica Lagalisse