Re: [-empyre-] Artwork #16: Hans Diernberger - Hundstein

2018-07-30 Thread Robert R
--empyre- soft-skinned space--A lone woman climbing a mountain. She stops occasionally (e.g. at 1:11) to rest and drink. Through the wash of thumbnails that Vimeo picks, we get a timeline of her walk. Why this walk? This red poncho? The performance belongs first to

Re: [-empyre-] Artwork #14: Ian Giles - On The Way To Language

2018-07-30 Thread Sergio Basbaum
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Dan, Thank you for your reply. I'm glad Gilles confirmed that relation. I'll have a closer look at the video and will try to send the list some comments about. best from Brazil s On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 10:34 PM, Daniel Lichtman

[-empyre-] Invitation to respond

2018-07-30 Thread Daniel Lichtman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Empyre list, As we’re in the last days of this month’s program, I wanted to invite anyone from the list to respond to any of the posted artworks. As you can see, responses can be quick and intuitive if you like—take the bullet point

Re: [-empyre-] Artwork #14: Ian Giles - On The Way To Language

2018-07-30 Thread Shu Lea Cheang
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Daniel thanks for this month's listing of art works... it does provide an interesting format of reviewing artworks online. i cannot help to come in and ask some simple questions... what is your criteria in the artists you

Re: [-empyre-] Invitation to respond

2018-07-30 Thread Aviva Rahmani
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I am awkwardly responding because I didn't look carefully at most of the works. But I did respond strongly to the question about curating in this context. It seems to me that framing is a critical question in any curating, and in this

Re: [-empyre-] Artwork #15: Liat Berdugo and Emily Martinez - Making You, Making Others

2018-07-30 Thread Lee Tusman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Yes! I am stressed! Yes I am overwhelmed! Yes I could use more 'me time!' On first viewing, my brain flags behind my ability to comprehend what's going on. I thought the script was written with machine learning possibly, to be performed or

Re: [-empyre-] Artwork #14: Ian Giles - On The Way To Language

2018-07-30 Thread Daniel Lichtman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Sergio, At risk of influencing (contaminating) your response to Ian's work, Ian wrote the following to me when I followed up with him: "I borrowed the title alone - the book was in an airb that we rented when we first moved to nyc in