when i say flat, i am really talking about a kind of condensation as in:
MURDER HAS ITS SEXUAL SIDE the phrase is noticeably lacking in emotional affect, the reality that lies beneathe such a proclamation has such intense emotions and so much tragedy involved its hard to even think of what to say, so instead there is just a terse language-economical & factual statement. I always really liked her work as well, but then I also respect human polyvalency. Everything can be read alot of ways and is heard differently by different people. I think that's exactly why Holzer works were put in such public places. It's a cliche' of course, but I like to think of that kind of strange-attractor-repulser phenom. as a sort of wind of the socius blowing people this way and that.. Its not a rational thing, but it is perhaps like Zaum "trans-rational'.. and also it involves lived contexts which are all so very different.. It's really one of the wonders of the human-animal-mind, this diversity of responsivity to stimulus.. and one of the things which makes humans so totally helpless within the maelstrom of the meme. No one can agree on anything, or everyone suddenly BELIEVES something quite insane, it just goes on and on, VIRUS B-23 LIKE A TOPPING FOREST FIRE..ZIPPERHEAD EXPLOSION) RAFT OF THE MEDUSA) PART 797979777779998811288.6 GOLDEN CHILD SKELETON EARRING HANDED DOWN FROM THE EUNIC BLASPHEMERS OF MINRAUD, LIGHTNING CRACKLES AROUND HIS WHITE-HOT TEETH AND A SCORCHNG WIND RISES FROM THE GHETTOS OF EW ORK ARIS OM ERLIN ALLAS ORTLAND ONTREAL AN RANCISCO WAVES OF CORRUSCATING VIRUS BATTERING THE WORLD MIND TO PIECES TIME MONKEYS SHATTER THE CHAIN BREAK THROUGH IN GREY ROOM BREAK THROUGH IN GREY ROOM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Sondheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 8:41 PM Subject: Re: Rebus 01
Well I don't find Holzer either superficial or flat; I find her brilliant, as incisive as Karl Kraus, which is going a ways; some of her installations like the 42nd st piece or Lustmord have been absolutely amazing - Alan ( URLs/DVDs/CDroms/books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt - revised 7/05 )
