dear all
your reply is full if interesting and thought suggestions, Menotti, and
I am enjoying the discussion -
having in fact benefitted quite substantially from Zielinski's research when
our ensemble adopted
for rehearsal (on a recent choreographic work) some images and motifs
("ogypts")
> To call anarchaeology a 'boat' would imply that he was expecting it to take
> him somewhere, and it would seem it has. [Baruch Gottlieb]
Hahah, I was using the metaphor quite loosely, but your remark evokes
the story (told by Zielinski in DTotM) of how a detour/delay in a ship
voyage led Athana
> Much contemporary computer based art work has a
> cargo-cult like quality due to such illiteracy. This can be interesting but
> usually in spite of itself. [Simon Biggs]
I normally tend to appreciate the poetics of cargo-cult (or the work
of script kids), but I feel that Simon’s remark is extrem
Having worked in a field of criticism where a lot of the theory originates
with artists/programmers, I'd have to say that there is some value in being
committed to a sort of naive pluralism. I agree with Simon that literacy
requires more than a mere superficial grasp of language, I would also like
