Hi Alan,
I so love looking at artworks posted by people on the list. It feels
more real than on Facebook for example which is a kind of throw away
experience. Mainly because those on Facebook (including myself) are in
competition with each other for attention. Which is OK really, how else
are artists going to get their work seen beyond institutional curatorial
remits. At least, on here you know what the context is regarding a more
focused, nuanced & collective intentions with related crossovers.
Getting back to your suicide piece - I watched the video and enjoyed
viewing your real-time interactions - or rather the recording of it in
macGRID, OpenSim platform. Which is a “a robust, archivable, simulation
research platform and a corresponding network of academic, industry and
community partners who wish to engage in multidisciplinary research and
creation, and resource and knowledge sharing, using avatar virtual
worlds and mixed reality systems (currently with OpenSim).”
Reading the accompanying txt is a mind-bend…
with words like…
“embryo suicide like now i think of and hillsO gnawed-blade hole
tourniquet punished by foaMDo listen to all smallthing leaping,
say AlanFear deep death do suicide.I would die. want am so
fantasy. suicide, Nikuko [someone threatens suicide: does s/he
really?] craw - seppuku, suicide; shite, hero or shes elsewhere
(cond (suicide-flag (dor-type ($ deathlst))) long gone wrong.
"commit suicide."
This particular work pulls me into something you wrote in recent your
book 'Writing Under'.
In a chapter called 'Wryting And' you say...
"Wryting is clotted inscription, that is, writing inextricably merged
with the flesh, body, organism; culture is the systemics and poetry of
wryting."
This sentence is just so - what can I say?
It's so right in there, in the crux, in the dirt, the mesh of it all...
thanks Alan...
marc
suicide - please I beg of you, watch this -
http://www.alansondheim.org/suicide.mp4
http://www.alansondheim.org/suicide.txt
http://www.alansondheim.org/suicide.png
work shot in MacGrid - please, I beg you, watch this -
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