Thoughts after the DIWO at The Dark Mountain opening last night... Firstly - A warm thanks to all who contributed and shared in what was sometimes, a frenzied experience. Of course, I cannot speak for anyone else, but I have learnt much through the process of 'Doing it With Others', and am still evaluating some of the nuances in respect of the exchanges here on the list and its paradigm shifting, dynamics that occur when engaging in this kind of project. I am currently writing up some notes about the whole experience, not sure when they will be ready, but may ask a few questions from people on the list regarding DIWO and the Dark Mountain soon, but still recovering and can just about walk at the moment due to feeling a bit tired.
The show opens officially tomorrow - Friday, click here for the opening times and invite more people to come along. http://www.http.uk.net How to get to HTTP Gallery: http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml Getting back to the story at hand - Even though the rain was pouring down outside, a steady influx of curious, imaginative and interested minds, still attended filling the space. What I find immensely re-assuring is that even though we have a hard-core of regulars, at each event or show a completely new crowd of people visit the space every time. I think we should all feel encouraged by this, because even though we are continiously hearing noises by various, distant from certain academics or traditional art hegemons that net art and media art, and related practices are in trouble, from our own very 'real' experience, this truly is not the case - perhaps they need to get out more. At 8pm there was a performance held as part of the evening's experience, organised, compiled and edited by Dougald Hine. Featuring extracts from the dialogue, that had immediately evolved on the Netbehaviour list, very soon after the call out for artists to join the DIWO at The Dark Mountain. We have a video currently being edited of the performance that will 'hopefully' be put up for all to view soon, probably next week. It was fascinating to be part of this curious performance, as texts of the debate was read out aloud. It was illuminating to hear it all as speech. Also, interesting to hear people such as Michael Szpakowski read Dougald's words, whilst Dougald read Michaels words, and I read Edward Picot's words. There were 10 readers, reading from 10 different individual's original comments from Netbehaviour. It would be interesting to hear what others thought about it who were present at the performance, either from those who took part or those who watched and listened. The other thing regarding the performance was how different it is hearing the text, everything changes. The meaning and language, and understanding of the actual experience of such a dialogue becomes something else. What that is, is up for re-evaluation really... Many heard the contexts of the dicussion for the first time, and mentioned how the issues of what was discussed on the list was also relative to other situations in their own lives, in respect of how we all deal with climate change personally and with others, as it seeps into every aspect of our lives and its activities. The work in the show went down very well. And it is an exhibition that I am glad to be part of. The DIWO so far... More later... wishing all well. marc _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
