This column has some complex problems but the overwhelming message is about narratives re. the current ‘dystopia’ existing beneath/behind the status quo, and about ‘power’ maintaining the illusion all is fine.
All is most certainly not fine. And my own work does not go remotely far enough to explore / express this. At the moment, it feels like bumps of growth beneath the surface that have yet to break through. I have work to do/make and will try to keep this energy focused on that rather than say more here. (i.e. Show, don’t tell) but the article posted here certainly encapsulates something pertinent – although anyone mistakenly thinking it’s just about the film industry rather than a more widely applicable general blindness (refusal to see) amongst white middle-class people is mistaken.
No idea what I’m doing in Adobe Dimension but this was all I managed… It’s a background worth thinking about I guess…
Literally no idea what’s going on with this one – but am keen to have something included that denotes this constructed /simulated aspect of narrative-making. Will need to really figure this out – far from it right now. Asked an artist on Ig to point me in the right direction but was categorically ignored! Will do best to find time to figure something out in the next few weeks. Would like to have a sequence of deconstructing so-called real
Following is not a review (see Guardian for that) or a precis but rather some notes jotted down on my phone detailing thoughts that came to me during and following the visit:
Eleanor Antin, Judgment of Paris (after Rubens)—Light Helen, 2007, color photograph, 62 x 118“. From the series ”Helen’s Odyssey.” (ArtForum.com – accessed 3/2/2020)
Clytemnestra
The final piece may mention gods from other cultures ??
Clay
Motivated perception
1:
Entity – emergent entity, not formed, a glitchy moment, never developed fully, so no material, no mass but information exists
leads to conversation
A: You can’t put me under a microscope and inspect me
B: What can you do? Can you do special things
A: I’m here aren’t I? But I don’t take up space. You can see me but it’s not easy, you’ve lost the knack. I live on the edge of your imagination
B: Are you a god
A: Haha, Perhaps I am
2:
A person who is a negative / ‘I never fully developed’
3:
Virgil and Tristram Shandy are planning a duel (maybe over the protagonist?). She laments, ‘One is quite dead and the other literally a figment of someone’s imagination’. Nevertheless, she tells them it’s illegal and what’s more, utterly out of fashion nowadays. And in any case, she’s not a thing, an object to be won, or to die for. But they take no notice.
Use BOW A1 in an installation on its own – leave alone now
5: Penelope the perfect wife
Tom’s first film? Perhaps – still undecided there
6: Some responses to the title cutting suggest a reading of ‘self-harm’ – while I am interested in the idea of a society doing itself enormous harm as I believe the West currently is, it seems there are connotations which don’t work for me there. I had unconsciously started referring to it in my head as ‘Script‘ for a moment… I may allow myself to follow that intention through. Letting it sit with me. The underlying idea remains ‘the cut’ but I think Script can contain that
Possible statement: an entanglement of historical and contemporary possibilities – (out of which novel relationships emerge ??)
Thought: Tautology is an insecurity (See Barthes’)
It’s a background worth thinking about I guess…
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