On Thu, 8 May 2014, marc garrett wrote:
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.
I think I get more responses on dedicated Facebook pages than in the
general broadcasts. And Facebook itself has gotten increasingly noisy over
the years. G+ is quiet, but it's almost like a tomb - I never have
responses there and even DJ Spooky seems to get close to none. I wouldn't
be surprised if G+ is canceled soon.
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).?
MacGrid is still under development, but there are 320 servers. I think
there are a number of technical issues that are taking time to work out.
I'm going to Hamilton to meet with one of the organizers again; we're
going to collaborate on some pieces. The big advantage is that it really
feels like an empty gallery space, very supple, without the baggage of
Linden Labs. I wonder if Furtherfield would be interested in participating
- I could bring that up.
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."
Yes, filled w/ trajectories that twist and then die out, chaos theory
stuff.
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...
I'm amazed at how close the abject is to the so-called clean and proper
world we inhabit. Thinking about Nigeria, the Ukraine, the US - just
beneath the surface, things are ready to dissolve, and bodies in so many
ways are at stake.
thanks Alan...
Thanks marc!
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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