When I think about failures and breakdowns.... I think about my favorite poem:
Pablo Neruda's Ode to Broken Things: "Let's put all our treasures together -- the clocks, plates, cups cracked by the cold -- into a sack and carry them to the sea and let our possessions sink into one alarming breaker that sounds like a river. May whatever breaks be reconstructed by the sea with the long labor of its tides. So many useless things which nobody broke but which got broken anyway. " Davin On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:19 PM, { brad brace } <bbr...@eskimo.com> wrote: > > > Art Institutions and Museums both celebrate and perpetuate > (and profit from) the singular, exclusionary fate of all > Failed Artists -- there is no other kind. > > New Media Art merely encourages the demonstration of > default, marketing content and 'critical support' for new > technological products -- pernicious and pervasive curricula > follow. > > Marginal societal scraps are available only to those who > fuel/promote these institutional Ponzi schemes -- new > victims/acolytes are most welcomed. > > > /:b > > > > > "We fill the craters left by the bombs > And once again we sing > And once again we sow > Because life never surrenders." > -- anonymous Vietnamese poem > > "Nothing can be said about the sea." > -- Mr Selvam, Akkrapattai, India 2004 > > { brad brace } <<<<< bbr...@eskimo.com >>>> ~finger for pgp > > --- bbs: brad brace sound --- > --- http://69.64.229.114:8000 --- > > . > The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project >>>> posted since 1994 <<<< > > + + + serial ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/b/bbrace > + + + eccentric ftp:// (your-site-here!) > + + + continuous hotline://artlyin.ftr.va.com.au > + + + hypermodern ftp://ftp.rdrop.com/pub/users/bbrace > + + + imagery http://kunst.noemata.net/12hr/ > > News: alt.binaries.pictures.12hr alt.binaries.pictures.misc > alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc alt.12hr > > . 12hr email > subscriptions => http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/buy-into.html > > > . Other | Mirror: http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/bbrace.html > Projects | Reverse Solidus: http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/ > | http://bbrace.net > > . Blog | http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/wordpress/ > > . IM | bbr...@unstable.nl > . IRC | #bbrace > . ICQ | 109352289 > . SIP | bbr...@ekiga.net > | registered linux user #323978 > ~> > I am not a victim > I am a messenger > > /:b > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > empyre forum > empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au > http://www.subtle.net/empyre > _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre