# Supercommunity

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'''SUPERCOMMUNITY''' is an editorial project by [e-flux](/source/e-flux) journal commissioned for the 56th [Venice Biennale](/source/Venice_Biennale) and supported by Wuhan Art Terminus (WH.A.T.), [Remai Modern Art Gallery of Saskatchewan](/source/Remai_Modern_Art_Gallery_of_Saskatchewan), and Microclima.<ref>{{cite press release |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Addendum -Okwui Enwezor |url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/exhibition/enwezor-addendum/ |location=Italy |publisher=La Biennale di Venezia |access-date=2015-06-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508182245/http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/exhibition/enwezor-addendum |archive-date=2015-05-08 }}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=e-flux journal at the 56th Venice Biennale|url=http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/e-flux-journal-at-the-56th-venice-biennale/ |location=New York |publisher=e-flux |date=April 23, 2015 |access-date=2015-06-04}}</ref> Since launching on May 5, 2015, texts are published Tuesday–Sunday at the Biennale and on the supercommunity online platform.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://supercommunity.e-flux.com/giardini/ |title=SUPERCOMMUNITY Giardini |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=supercommunity.e-flux.com |publisher=e-flux journal |access-date=2015-06-04 }}</ref> ''All the World's Futures'', the 2015 Venice Biennale was curated by [Okwui Enwezor](/source/Okwui_Enwezor).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/7069/e-flux-offers-ongoing-online-engagement-with-their-inventive-project-super-commu|title=e-flux offers ongoing online engagement with their inventive project SUPER COMMUNITY Authors |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2015-05-15 |website=dutchartinstitute.eu |publisher=DAI journal |access-date=2015-06-04 }}</ref>

==Profile and events==
 
On May 8 [Julieta Aranda](/source/Julieta_Aranda), Natasha Ginwala, Brian Kuan Wood, and [Anton Vidokle](/source/Anton_Vidokle) presented the opening event for the supercommunity at the Arena in the Central Pavilion in the Giardini in Venice.<ref>{{cite journal |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=venice biennale 2015, may 9 – nov 22 |url=http://www.aqnb.com/2015/05/05/venice-biennale-2015/ |journal=atractivoquenobello |date=2015-05-05 |access-date=2015-06-04 }}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=SVA Faculty and Alumni at the 2015 Venice Biennale|url=http://blog.sva.edu/2015/03/sva-faculty-and-alumni-at-the-2015-venice-biennale/ |location=New York |publisher=SVA |date=March 17, 2015 |access-date=2015-06-04}}
</ref> In the first text and editorial the supercommunity is defined:

<blockquote>Having no body and no name is a small price to pay for being wild, for being free to move across (some) countries, (some) political boundaries, (some) historical ideologies, and (some) economies. I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angry crowds in public squares; others compare me to wind and atmosphere, or to software. Some say they have seen me moving through jet-lagged artists and curators, or migrant laborers, or a lost cargo ship that left a trail of rubber ducks that will wash up on the shores of the planet over the next 200 years. I convert care to cruelty, and cruelty back to care. I convert political desires to economic flows and data, and then I convert them back again. I convert revolutions to revelations. I don’t want security, I want to leave, and then disperse myself everywhere and all the time.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://supercommunity.e-flux.com/texts/supercommunity |title=SUPERCOMMUNITY (Editorial) |last1=Aranda |first1=Julieta |last2=Kuan Wood |first2=Brian |last3=Vidokle |first3=Anton |date=2015-05-06 |website=supercommunity.e-flux.com |publisher=e-flux journal |access-date=2015-06-04 }}</ref></blockquote>

Every Tuesday through Saturday, one text from the project is presented in abbreviated form on a billboard located near the entrance to the main exhibition. The supercommunity kiosk in the Serra Dei Giardini also provides back issues of e-flux journal for visitors at the Biennale.<ref>{{cite press release |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Microclima |url=http://www.microclima-venezia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Micr_Fabio_Mauri_ENG_03_VETTORIALE.pdf |location=Venice |publisher=Microclima |date=May 6, 2015 |access-date=2015-06-04}}
</ref> Contributions include "poetry, short fiction, plays and screenplays, as well as other epistolary forms."<ref>{{cite press release |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Microclima's exhibition and events during the 56th Venice Biennale|url=http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/exhibition-and-events-during-the-56th-venice-biennale/ |location=New York |publisher=e-flux |date=2015-05-03 |access-date=2015-06-04}}</ref> The full version of each supercommunity text is published on the project website designed by Remco van Bladel. Texts are organized according to the following thematics: SUPERCOMMUNITY, CORRUPTION ... EVERYBODY KNOWS, COSMOS, PLANETARY COMPUTING, APOCALYPSIS, POLITICS OF SHINE, THE ART OF WORK, “ART,” THE SOCIAL COMMONS: CITIZENS IN THE SHADE, ALIENS IN THE SUN, and CUBA: THE FADING OF A SUBCONTINENTAL DREAM.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://supercommunity.e-flux.com/about/|title=SUPERCOMMUNITY About |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2015-05-06 |website=supercommunity.e-flux.com |publisher=e-flux journal |access-date=2015-06-04 }}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=e-flux journal at the 56th Venice Biennale|url=http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/e-flux-journal-at-the-56th-venice-biennale/ |location=New York |publisher=e-flux |date=April 23, 2015 |access-date=2015-06-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://heyevent.com/event/575156625921329/e-flux-journal-at-the-56th-venice-biennale |title=E-flux journal at the 56th Venice Biennale |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2015-05-08 |website=heyevent.com |publisher=Heyevent.com journal |access-date=2015-06-04 }}</ref>

With every text published by the supercommunity, e-flux conversations hosts responses, moderated discussions, and debate by [Mohammad Salemy](/source/Mohammad_Salemy), Jason Adams, Tony Yanick, and other members of the New Centre for Research and Practice. This response, moderated discussion, and debate is hosted on e-flux conversations.<ref>{{cite press release |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=The New Centre & e-flux collaborate to engage in Superconversations|url=http://tripleampersand.org/the-new-centre-e-flux-collaboare-to-engage-in-superconversations/ |location=Grand Rapids, Michigan |publisher=e-flux |date=April 23, 2015 |access-date=2015-06-04}}
</ref> In addition Wuhan Art Terminus (WH.A.T.) publishes selected, translated texts in Chinese on the WH.A.T. TEXT online platform and Remai Modern, Saskatchewan posts supercommunity texts on a portion of their gallery's website dedicated to the project.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.what-online.org/en/index.php/home/index/artcle/id/160|title=Introduction to "Cosmic Anxiety: The Russian Case" |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2015-05-09 |website=www.what-online.org/en/ |publisher=WH.A.T. |access-date=2015-06-04 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=News in Brief: Scotiabank Photo Award Win, Bau-Xi Turns 50, Remai Partners with e-flux |url=http://canadianart.ca/news/2015/05/08/news-in-brief-scotiabank-photo-award-win-bau-xi-turns-50-remai-partners-with-e-flux/ |journal=Canadian Art |location=Toronto, Ontario |date=2015-05-08 |access-date=2015-06-04}}</ref>

==Notable contributors==
Many notable anthropologists, artists, philosophers, poets, theorists, writers contribute to the supercommunity platform. In addition to those already noted these include: [Allora & Calzadilla](/source/Allora_%26_Calzadilla), [Benjamin Bratton](/source/Benjamin_Bratton), [Luis Camnitzer](/source/Luis_Camnitzer), [Ted Chiang](/source/Ted_Chiang), [Douglas Coupland](/source/Douglas_Coupland), [Jimmie Durham](/source/Jimmie_Durham), [Harun Farocki](/source/Harun_Farocki), [Coco Fusco](/source/Coco_Fusco), [Boris Groys](/source/Boris_Groys), Tom Holert, [Karl Holmqvist](/source/Karl_Holmqvist), Adrian Lahoud, Pedro Neves Marques, [Ahmet Ögüt](/source/Ahmet_%C3%96g%C3%BCt), Ana Teixeira Pinto, [Elizabeth A. Povinelli](/source/Elizabeth_A._Povinelli), {{Interlanguage link|Raqs Media Collective|de|Raqs Media Collective}} [Martha Rosler](/source/Martha_Rosler), Jan Verwoert, [Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.)](/source/Working_Artists_and_the_Greater_Economy_(W.A.G.E.)), [Ala Younis](/source/Ala_Younis) and [Arseny Zhilyaev](/source/Arseny_Zhilyaev).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://supercommunity.e-flux.com/authors/a/|title=SUPERCOMMUNITY Authors |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2015-06-04 |website=supercommunity.e-flux.com |publisher=e-flux journal |access-date=2015-06-04 }}</ref>

==See also==
*[Venice Biennale](/source/Venice_Biennale)
*[e-flux](/source/e-flux)
*[e-flux publications](/source/e-flux_publications)
*[Accelerationism](/source/Accelerationism)
*[Julieta Aranda](/source/Julieta_Aranda)
*[Anton Vidokle](/source/Anton_Vidokle)

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://supercommunity.e-flux.com Supercommunity]
* [http://remaimodern.org Remai Modern]
* [http://thenewcentre.org The New Centre for Research & Practice]
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