We're having a lot of discussion here; we have to archive/document our performance/s at Interrupt in and out of the Cave, and I find that close to an impossibility; I turned over all the materials I shot, which are about 8 gigabytes, and they, the director, want it narrowed down, understandably, but I'm not sure how to narrow down a residency which was in the form of a continuous opera in real and virtual spaces. I must comply or nothing, I'll pick out a random video clip, random soundpiece, random image or two and try to tie things together.
As far as the body is concerned, I keep going back precistely to Rwanda (a teacher/playwright at Brown has taken students every year to Rwanda to record, witness, in fact) and other bodies, and what a luxury it must be, to think of abandoning the body! Certainly this isn't true, for example, for prisons in the U.S. and the majority of people here and elsewhere suffer from hunger, violence, etc. So I see the issue as one paralleling cryogenics or some such - sooner or later the rich will think they live forever, have access to all knowledge, public and private, incredible life extensions and prostheses; and they certainly won't live in the West Side of Providence! It's obscene to me; on G+ I am getting even more the latest new tech ads, passing as significant advances in human civilization and thought.
I'm not a curmudgeon by the way, I've just witnessed far too much suffering in the world.
I enumerated objects only in relation to the .5m files mentioned; generally I don't think of things that way, but as blocks of thought in a way, periods to pass through.
And Bishop, do any of us intend to keep our bodies? What will we do with them after we're dead?
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