For a prettier version of this call see h.aard.work/call
*The Burrow* is an online show part of the Very Large Works pavilion in The
Wrong Biennale (Nov 2019 - Mar 2020): Inspired by the Aardvark; who digs to
escape when attacked and will leave its home for others to use when
relocating. The
grammar wasn't invented (except of course for computer and other artificial
languages like Esperanto); it might have been codified after the fact
(Panini's Sanskrit being my favorite example, since his grammar is actually
a form of computer programming at least two thousand years old). And
London ICA talk materials on "Somatic Ghosting"
http://www.alansondheim.org/wherewasi.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/P1030770.JPG
The */scattered matrix of/* the texts/theory so far -
http://www.alansondheim.org/ica.txt
Comments welcome, thanks -
love this, only wanted to say that there was always already grammar,
always already structure to being in the world, not " Early folk creating
grammar on the fly, far from learning it or being taught it. "
we were never, none of us in the world, nor animals, nor any, creating
grammar that
Good point!
Maybe, "being, unfolding, making explicate
Grammar on the fly, with no thought yet
Of learning, teaching, or being taught
All kin, earliest folk, all groups greater than one
Since the first cell and first particle"?
It's a hardscrabble gleaning sometimes;
More when my leaves are
Again , great. Incredibly idiosyncratic ( thee & thou, for example ) and none
the worse for that . I always enjoy reading things you write Max but there’s
something about the discipline of verse that injects a huge amount of
confidence and grace... it’s feels a bit like literary tight rope
Take a pebble for instance, an item,
One of the few and many that can be picked up by hand.
Some are like this.
Some can also be instruments, sticks or stones, alongside the immovable
base-grounds.
Hence thou hast compositions, counting, forms, names, phrases, and such.
Early folk creating
