/// art / exchange / events / writing / re-enactment ///
twilight hours
two green fishermen check their watches and
nod in agreement
as young thugs on bikes
scoot about nosing
for action
and an aeroplane passes
slowly over
i can see my brown
sweater, black jeans and
crossed legs stretched out
on the grassy bank of
the canal
I’m locked out and
have nothing to do
[May 31st, 2000 on the banks of the canal, Bethnal Green, London, near Rohan Stanley and Bec Neill's STUFF Gallery warehouse]
3. Arbitration makes great sense
9. Mending the parts of holes that leave nothing till the end
10. To send the food to friends
11. A van unbeknown
13. And enter in the swim of things
16. The nature of the rock
19. Film is shot at angles
20. And speaking all the time
21. United let us fly
22. The key is in the trees where books are concerned
25. Dissolves her lips against the glass
27. Nothing higher nothing lower
29. Forms four times exactly what they are
31. They bathe and leave the trees undressed
32. The animal is criminal
35. A broken zodiac
37. To mediate to mediate
39. In time the memory of a child returns
40. The egyptian is a bird
43. The book is nong
46. The sting is kunt
48. Because of greed the worker is condemned
49. Flick flack swings song tools the cause of motion
50. Deep ends of oil smooths out phenomena
51. In comfort and distress
1. Arbitration makes slim pickings
2. The best parts are mostly left to last
3. Stodge belittles starchy foods
4. A van below the motorway wears you down
5. To swim around
6. One, two, three, four, five, six are convincing cracks between the rocks
7. Angular sightings deliver films
8. A female of the species
9. Your letter to bananas
10a. Trees conceal small books
10b. Her extended lips against the glass
11. A pedant nut is formed by fourths
12. Well dressed and bathed he leaves the house
13. Excited like an animal
14a. The wicked smashing of the trees
14b. To mediate against philosophers
14c. Is the source of stories
15a. Nong
15b. Kunt
15c. Without the tools of negotiation the workers are condemned
16. The nature of the swing has caused the motion
17. A phenomena is massaged by oil
18. Is a comfort in distress
19. The principle of universities is formed with money
20. The left hand and the dumb
21. He has nous for rooms
22. She had nous for knitting
23. United in the union of the students
24. A crossing of the floor is no longer possible
These links I compiled for my own reading while preparing a small lecture on relational aesthetics for Barb Bolt's class at Melbourne Uni:
Dan Graham: Video/Architecture/Television: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (Hg.), Writ-ings on Video and Video Works 1970–1978, Halifax: The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, New York University Press, New York 1979), S. 62–76.
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/source-text/46/
Work Ethic by Helen Molesworth
http://www.psupress.org/Justataste/samplechapters/justatasteMolesworth.html
some Rirkrit Tiravanija links:
http://www.artnet.com/artist/423879132/Rirkrit_Tiravanija_and_SUPERFLEX.html
http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/tiravanija/
http://www.portikus.de/ArchiveA0106.html#
http://www.vnvisualart.com/article.php?story=376&page=1
marc horowitz's errand feasability study:
http://www.ineedtostopsoon.com/errands/errands_main.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/06/25/WBG4J77C0G1.DTL
relational aesthetics glossary:
http://www.gairspace.org.uk/htm/bourr.htm
blog comments etiquette
With all the argy bargy going on over at the situation blog, i've been thinking a bit about the issue of blog etiquette: some folks have been calling for the banning of some other folks, simply because they're long winded or dogmatic. but that doesn't seem like a good enough reason to ban someone. Spam of course would be shitty, but luckily the Wordpress software seems to be resisting spam so far.
It would be interesting to see if there was a plug-in we could use for rating comment posts. That way anyone could post anything, but they would be rated by users, and then you could simply choose to filter out all comments with ratings of lower than 4 out of five, for instance. Or, if you wanted, you could choose to read em all…
Here's a fairly clear post about blog etiquette I found by googling "blog comment etiquette":
http://www.cafemama.com/etiquette.html