----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Hello all, Snow flakes have started to fall here.
I am going to leave this snowy hometown where Yuki-onna will fully enjoy her winter life, and soon move to the country of white-male gaze with a full variety of racism (reflecting Alan's post): e.g. white males (a group of school boys) threw/dropped snowballs to/on me shouting "you Chinese bitch!" from the top of a shopping mall when I was waiting for a bus. I shouted and said "I'm not a Chinese bitch but JUST-A bitch, you understand!?". They were just boys. I coped with the nasty racism and violence with my cleverest humour ever. However, after I got on the bus, my mind was drawn into enormous sadness and anguish, then, exhaustion, then, void. Herein, I do not know if it is relevant but I would try to introduce my performance I performed occupation by occupation, Occupied, 2008-: I wore a panda suite and occupied male and female toilets. http://ishiguroyoko.info/iroiro/OCCUPIED.html --------------------- The performance could have been done without any performative elements such as the panda costume. For example, I could have just used the toilets such a long period of time and got dragged out by securities (like old-day's performance art), I could have occupied a cubicle but no one could have recognised me performing at all (audience-less, non-art) or I could have been ignored for a much longer time period till I found starved to death (like a suicidal act). Still, it may have been a performance but with little/no effectivity in any cases. Anyway, the aim of this performance is not to create 'immediate efficacy' to change the world -in general, as an artist, I would like to be against 'immediate efficacy' that is the way terrorists use, not because of an ethical reason but an aesthetic reason. This may have something with the 'stilling movement' Johannes mentioned. Best wishes and good sleeps, Yoko ----- Original Message ----- >From: Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com> >To: Erik Ehn <shadowtac...@sbcglobal.net> >Cc: soft_skinned_space <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au> >Date: 2014/11/16, Sun 04:35 >Subject: Re: [-empyre-] more and the question about performance > >----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- > > >I think it was the work; there was a lot of art based on everyday activites. > >There's always what Smylie called the "work of the audience," but there is >also audience, for beheading, unfortunately. - > >- Alan > >On Sat, 15 Nov 2014, Erik Ehn wrote: > >> represented by other means in the sense that the floor didn't need to be >> swept or if it did that wasn't the point - what was being represented was >> the labor, above the activity, or specifically spectatorship... so the work >> of sweeping transferred to the work of watching sweeping? >> >> >> >> On Saturday, November 15, 2014 9:38 AM, Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi Erik, >> >> I do want to reply, briefly, to you here. >> You state (the quote didn't work): >> >> a thing, to be art, must represent a thing by other means. so, the life in >> a flower (a feature of time) is re-presented in arrangement (a feature of >> space). [barba, dictionary of theatre anthropology] >> >> - and it seems to me, that "to be art" - in order to be art - is >> problematic; certainly there has been a lot of writing on the iconic (in >> Peirce's sense) to claim otherwise - a thing can represent itself. This >> was fundamental to a lot of West Coast feminist art from the 60s and 70s - >> where sweeping a floor for example wasn't representing sweeping "by other >> means" but was exactly what it seemed - work. Chris Burden played off this >> a number of times as well. >> >> So when you state >> >> to represent killing by killing is anti-performance. >> >> >> - for me it's performance, a horrifying one, but performance nonetheless. >> >> (I'm always suspicious as well about anti-anything, such as "anti-poems," >> "anti-art" etc.; these exist within the same fold.) >> >> Thanks, Alan >> >> >> >> > >== >email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 718-813-3285 >music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >current text http://www.alansondheim.org/sw.txt >== >_______________________________________________ >empyre forum >empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au >http://empyre.library.cornell.edu > > > _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
