Somatic Ghosting: Having Fun Head and Starry Entrance http://www.alansondheim.org/notyet09.png http://www.alansondheim.org/havingfunhead.mp4 Havingfunhead was produced with specialized equipment about twelve years ago at West Virginia University; the recording is made with a PAL camera with a damaged sensor (laser work). The image is abject, so much so that I find it difficult to watch; it encompasses everything I fear in isolation, disembodiment, violence, death. And it does this with a minimum of "action" or control. The ghosting lies in the uncanny valley of the dialectic between voice and image, between image and image-movement, between image-movement and image-control. This is behind me and before me, this is "among" me. It's also the relative absolute of puppetry, an inert object that does nothing, expresses nothing, but the caress of deconstruction, dismantling of non-existent power. The starry entrance is the protectorate, the guardian to nothing but the future perfect of annihilation. We're all gone in these worlds of power, despair, control, acquiescence, resistance. We're all gone, anyway. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
