----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Well, the 'daughters of chaos' are meeting in Sweden at the Konstfack, Simon? your response and brief meditation on Uexküll and Agamben and DeleuzeGuarttari, and on the vegetal and stones, were opening out further into poetry, and the limits of thought, thanks much! and if I understand you, and also current debates on spatial justice correctly, they open into a very wide continuum, at least this is how i interpret the "inter-esse" to mean, not boundaries or self-enclosed (autopoietic) systems but a not unparadoxical continuum where there is no outside? so the stone, fly, spider, and tick, and we all, are in this together (the spider operating with more sophisticated tools than the fly? And yes, the eyeless captivated absorbed dreamy tick in the dark room, 18 years without sweat, hair-free skin and blood-warm liquid to suck... how did it manage?)
The close or intimate relations, Amanda, that you perform and write about, thanks for your clarification too – I visited your greenhouse online (per documentation-video and voice over narration), http://amandawhite.com/projects/frugivore, // and notice with considerable interest that you subtitle the FRUGIVORE as BOTANICAL ANIMAL (which is you? or also those who join your process garden and eat from the plants you seeded and grew? you invite into a cycle which is partly also gardening and harvesting cycle, yes? And your camera gently hovering in the indoor glasshouse under its yellow sunlight -- I enjoyed thinking about stuff (that you offer) that is edible /audible, a greenhouse in a gallery. Then again I wondered, in light of the larger discussion theme of this month (your work was supported by Ontario Arts Council – Media Arts Program?), how growing tomatoes, or the plant actors we heard of earlier (in Jo's work), or the stones, open out notions of media, art, readymade, extraction and colonizing, bio-politics, etc. I suppose the 'daughters of chaos' [http://daughtersofchaos.net/], Simon, are concerned with what constitutes 'a life'? how it comes to be biopolitically measured, how it is constrained and/or activated, and what forms are encouraged and valued at the expense of others? a life or a-life (artificial life?)? where does 'plant art' come in here (or repeat bio-art and some criticisms the latter suffered). regards Johannes Birringer _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
