Ariel Riveros Pavez

  • Promo: Visual art show Darkest Before Dawn at Artspace Sept 2019

    My video work “Screening Process” with accompanying ekphrasis will appear at Artspace Woolloomooloo September 19 6pm-8pm. Part of the Ideas Platform series. Particular thanks go to FrontUp program, Artspace and AGNSW for facilitating my preparations.  Continue reading

  • Informal Theory: Summation and Proposed Practice

    Much of my theory work is an autoethnography of outlier interioception. Topography and phenomenology.  Signs and semiology of precipitative states surrounding the dromology of psychosis. A critical anthropology of the medical model. Skeptic of the psychopharmacogenomic industry individually and collectively.… Continue reading

  • Home Out – prose by Ariel Riveros

    I’ve wanted to burn brick, glass and aluminium. See my apartment melt in the blue heat. Someone’s place caught fire a week ago. I want to go on strike against laminated fauna of my belongings. The unopened bought, from planned… Continue reading

  • Poetry: Ekphrasis for artwork "Screening Process" – Ariel Riveros

    There are snakes everywhere organising weak processes and rainbows Our organisation, my friend. We’ve been through constraints darkness, laughter In worlds that don’t see the outside normate complaint. Punctuate clocks. the border exchanges, doorframe, cytochrome p460, polygenomic funded gasoline, hazard… Continue reading

  • Memoir on Chronosthesia

    On the 10 March 2017 I asked my registrar about stopping psychiatric medication after 20 years plus and near fatal side effects. Much like a Minkowski Space a pill is preceded by an array of states over time. Once popped,… Continue reading

  • Perigee

    Going out at midnight after listening to Khatchaturian’s Masquerade Waltz my visual field took on the grain of a uranium Europe. Sitting under halogen lights my field of vision as grain alluded me to a patrician Europe too. Doric columnar… Continue reading

  • Self-Perception: "Go basal!" – but a non cathartic dromology

    Insomnia or Circadian subset b (diverse, self-generated) Clinical disorganisation. Peripheral episodic dissociation (second voice, alter-identity) Hypersexual. Referentialism and that’s where vulnerability meets intervention. If I can negotiate these states and covariance in a multistable way extricating from medical model vectors… Continue reading

  • Poem: Harmonic Refrain to Gardel

    A mysterious ray makes home in your hair Dark blue night and sharp golden stars Needlepoint A pour ‘longside yr follicles I a transmission of moon draw I snort and spit Snooze froze Freeze shy As refrigidaire ice Minimum sabula… Continue reading

  • Rogue Hologram

    (response to apparent hologram imagedescending numerous times over my shut laptop) A continuity of sthma, circular breathing is clone cline of spiral chalec of one (pronounced own) windjackal as caravel the marine spray as shoes on hot asphalt blue egg… Continue reading

  • Poem-Clef: Momental Stack

    I just want to be loved ______________________ My body is burgundy blaze ___________________________ (Music interrupts this scribing simultaneously) _____________________________________________ Rerail: Signal on “I need cool air” _________________________________ Bed communism, the salt and thermocline ___________________________________________ Here the music starts announced partitura… Continue reading