Ariel Riveros Pavez

  • Diary: Sex and Heard Voices

    Maybe my dislike for the rich came from a childhood where the well off not only equated poverty with stupidity but such a view heavy with liberty let escape racist slurs. Put together there is a mixture noxious enough for… Continue reading

  • Informal Theory: Demedicalisation-Resubjectivation and State Mental Health

    A personal transmission: I have some encouragement from my networks. I am in process of starting tapering again. I have to do this to avoid the endpoints of Cardiometabolic Syndrome. I thank the late Mark Fisher for aligning mental health… Continue reading

  • Anagrams San Grama

    Oceanic cocaine and DNA. The Physio’s hypothesis, posited deposit. Inhaling party joined – jail trap done lying hain. Vampire techniques, hem creates vin pique. Freudian testing in due far setting. Continue reading

  • Informal Theory: Australian poetry and the transcultural

    My head is all music. Am reading Trish Dearborn The Ringing World and I opened at random and at given poem my right hand disappeared in a visual parallax. Also reading Ali Cobby Eckermann Love Dreaming but just in linear… Continue reading

  • Poem: A Gulp by Ariel Riveros

    A vehicle takes a lake, bank and scrub on stilts transplanted at night [the bull and fro] she stands still the static and the crickets All nighting it bunking down in the heather The shining stars wriggle the curve on… Continue reading

  • Slam Poem: Walking-with by Ariel Riveros

    I walk into this poem Without a fourfold card deck, I walk into this poem without a silk vest under how I’m dressed – to stop gravity, arrow and bullet I walk into this poem with a gleam, a glimmer… Continue reading

  • Symptomatext by Ariel Riveros

    Balanced, stable, euthymic, normothymic, organised, attuned, adaptive, henotic, ordered, de-hyped, uncondensed, grounded, quotidian, socialised, cognitively recouped, unslovenly, inconspicuous, behaved,  circadian cleàn and categorically conformal, affiliative, sociated. Baseline norms & norms. Matrices vs Vortices. Entropic and Negentropy. Debehaviouralise and cerebralise. Disintegrative… Continue reading

  • 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