Sometimes, we get stuck. Creative ruts turn into creative ditches that are difficult to escape from.

In this half-workshop-half-divinination- half-performance, we invite you to bring your stickiest creative problem. Come on stage if you’d like. Share it with the group.

Then you’ll push the button. You know…the button. THE BIG GREEN BUTTON. You push it.

A machine whirs to life. Words and charts and computer code fill the room, thousands of calculations course through a silicon wafer.

You wonder, “What is this machine? Is this A.I.?” But it’s not. Not even close. It's a humpback swimming through an ocean of digital words. It’s a squirrel running through an infinite forest..

A printed sheet of paper appears in your hands containing one of an infinite number of strange missives:
“Imagine a strange fire”
“Cross the rubicon with destruction”
“Seriously consider hubris”

This sheet of paper you hold is a “Gluteal Strategy” - an homage to Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategy cards.

And that GluteStrat you hold, that’s yours to keep.

Each GluteStrat is a small divination—a way of getting creatively unstuck. Join us, for an hour-long dive into the absurd (yet occasionally profound) world of Gluteal Strategies.

Jeff Emtman is an American audio artist based in Berlin, Germany.
Martin Austwick is a British musician and audio producer based in Vancouver, Canada. In 2021, they created Neutrinowatch, a podcast where every episode, every day, changes itself…a little bit.
http://jeffemtman.com
http://martinzaltzaustwick.com
http://neutrinowatch.org

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