“In an ever more info-tained world, showbiz and capitalistic interests are strongly influencing the world of research and science. Our interest lies in the different performative proposals which translate and reshape scientific facts, thus enabling a reflection about the ways scientific knowledge is packaged and shared today.”                 The Loose Collective

Part I of The Loose Collective’s Feeding Fighting and Fucking – Trilogy goes back to the birth of the Earth and the origins of life on the planet, blending formats of educational science programs and popular-science TV documentaries into a rock concert and dance.

KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION is the becoming of previously non-actualized knowledge, or the emergence of the hitherto unknown into reality. It is the making of knowledge. This making, or rather becoming or emergence can not be deliberately set in motion, can not be protocolized, produced and yet it is not enough to sit down and wait for something to emerge. Knowledge production can, with a number of variations, only occur through the setting up of sequences and series of connections, obstacles, remixes, ricochets, coagulations […]

Knowledge production can not be institutionalized and/but institutions can produce space for its possible emergence. Knowledge production implies some sort of inefficiency or excessive worthlessness. It can not be measured or estimated, it has no course plan and there is no exam, yet knowledge production is precisely what the world (capitalism) demands from the individual, education and research.

Knowledge production is not satisfactory and rarely desirable as in most cases it is irritating, similar to the experience of an insect bite, or a song that gets stuck in your head. Knowledge production can easily be misused e.g. as an excuse for having no idea, being lazy, being an artist, engaging in research, etc.

Educational institutes often make mistakes such as equating knowledge production with personal work (the personal has nothing to do with production), with openness (knowledge production has more to do with restrictions than with freedom of choice), with honesty (knowledge production requires that one gives oneself up), with transparency (knowledge production is by definition blurry, opaque, and misty), with sympathy and easy going (that’s so fucked up), with the body (OMG dance people) and a lot of other ridiculous things.

Knowledge production is what keeps the whole going, for good and bad, it is the pain and fear of change, the bliss of transformation, of orgasm and death, it’s the wonders of the the world and the horrors of destruction. 

KNOWLEDGE FACILITATION is a set of known procedures and operations offering or providing existing, established and often authorized knowledge. Knowledge facilitation is common for institutions such as museums, schools, manuals, Hollywood, choreography, contemporary universities […]. 

Knowledge facilitation implies some sort of efficiency in respect of learning and reproducibility. It is often satisfactory or even desirable […]. Since knowledge facilitation is often identified with optimization, its misuse is frequently connected to making processes more complex than necessary, dragging out and so on, abuse that is often connected to economic interests. 

The Coming Boogie Woogie (2012)