Static is the Spellwork is a one-hour, participatory workshop introducing KDZU’s practice of tactical mythmaking and interventionist fieldwork.

I will guide participants through an exploration of both indoor and outdoor spaces, treating our technology-infused environment as a site of collectivity and as a site of suppressed histories and autofictions waiting to be activated. Using the built environment as field prompts, we’ll generate symbolic artifacts—phrases, gestures, maps, sketches, and other fragments of belief—that imagine how our invented myths might operate as real situated systems. We'll try to figure out whether myth can serve as a tool for critical intervention and potent reclaimer of physical space as narrative space.

Over the past four years, I have been developing KDZU as a long-form artistic research project that explores how myth can be used tactically to intervene in systems of hypercapitalist authority. This work project intertwines autofictional histories, DIY/DIT collectivities, robotics, and space exploration, framed through the speculative broadcast infrastructure of an autofictional pirate radio station called KDZU.

My Goals for Our Time Together

• Introduce participants to the practice of tactical mythmaking.
• Encourage psychogeographic play in digitally augmented physical spaces.
• Invite embodied explorations of physical space as part of myth-generation processes.
• Inhabit familiar spaces and reimagining or disrupting their embedded social functions.
• Leave participants with a small artifact and a collection of ideas for incorporating interventionist studies into their own creative practices.