Our performative poster and BAZ manifesto flyer map out the possibilities of this project. subRosa created the BAZ poster out of the Dupont manufactured building material, Tyvek. Printed on the flexible, waterproof surface were diagrams and drawings that suggested a variety of possible uses for the poster itself. The intention was to encourage appropriation or adaptation of the material and mutation of its corporate identity. 

BAZ poster picnic cloth

subRosa believes that Becoming Autonomous means acquiring and practicing (embodying) skills, knowledge and consciousness. Becoming autonomous is the practice of the social relations of difference. It is a powerful antidote to domination, exclusive expertise, and ruthless competition. Becoming autonomous agents in Real Life means building coalitions between groups with different backgrounds, skills, resources, and knowledge. Becoming autonomous is a political position for it thwarts the exclusions of proprietary knowledge and jealous hoarding of resources, and circumvents the economic hierarchies on which these depend.

By sharing her knowledge with others the becoming autonomous agent creates a common wealth of knowledge and power that contests and circumvents dominance and hegemony. Using imagination, cunning, and wit, they must build strong, flexible, and decentralized networks of knowledgeable and skillful amateur and expert practitioners that by their actions put pressure on the authority of institutions governing everyday life.

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