On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, phanero wrote:
oh yes of course, but the vehicle is a virtual automaton, implying (to me
only perhaps)
the horrific yet wondrous automatism of those vectors.. i think Bellmer's
libidinous poupee
reaches into the same manifold, the enigmatic drives of representation and
desire
and these images do seem cathartic (not personally so, per se) to me
which in some strange dreamworld of my own design
snuggles up to some possibly rogue sense of apotropaicism
though what use that sense is, is quite debatable..
The difference for me - which is fundamental I think - for me - is that
Bellmer's work is fetishistic; I certainly hope mine isn't. It's not
vectored (to use your word) that way. It's vectored externally, it's
centrifugal - the whirling is even indexical in relation to that.
the compactifaction (as a sense of effigy) of all the terrors
"went before us"
as an omen, a doll, twisting within the silent schreamata
For me, again, there's no relation between these figures and dolls;
they're corpses or objects petite a, in any case they're conflagrations.
But of course I can't argue with your interpretation, which is as true or
perhaps truer than mine.
the filmic copulation an objectification of the copula, the 'is' of mistaken
language,
that 'babel-as-desiring-machine' which 'draws' forth the 'action' of the
'plague'
as a 'praxis' within the inertia of determination..
The axis of the plague, but neither inertia nor determination - instead,
randomness, opening/tearing in any direction...
and from Wolfgang Kayser a nod to the Grotesque, which these surely are:
In spite of all the helplessness and horror inspired by the dark forces which
lurk in and behind our world and have
power to estrange it, the truly artistic portrayal effects a secret
liberation. The darkness has been sighted, the
ominous powers discovered, the incomprehensible forces challenged. And thus
we arrive at a final interpretation of the
grotesque: AN ATTEMPT TO INVOKE AND SUBDUE THE DEMONIC ASPECTS OF THE WORLD.
Hmmm... again, I think the opposite: not the demonic, but the everyday
aspects of the world (Lefebvre). Not secret liberation but liberation. Not
ominous powers bu everyday power. Not incomprehensible forces, but
comprehensible forces. These are everyday nightmares, not mysterious...
- Alan and thanks!
in praise
lq
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Sondheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: two films for large projection
Thanks, I've been working fairly small for the Web, like your image as
well.
It's not Belmer that's inspiring me, it's the violence of war and the
annihilation of space-time by desire, momentarily, nothing holds -
- Alan
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