Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 06:24:21 -0500 From: NZ <pretzelworld-AT-gmail.com> To: deleuze-guattari-AT-lists.driftline.org Subject: Re: [D-G] coucou NZ!! a letter from Europe ----------------------------------- conceptual landscape art like at the dia beacon or the kind robert smithson is known for, spiral jetty and such, these are essentially just banks, all material assets such as art will loose value at a slower rate then a real bank would charge you to keep it, I must have a problem cuz I get really worked up about this, I do not intend to be so disagreeable but just don't agreee, I see it differently. I mean the fact that spiral jetty is finally being destroyed by nature is such a great event for me. I cannot understand why people want to save it, why so much money must be amassed and used to preserve this monument's stance against nature, why play that role? as a banker, sure, but as an artist it seems like a compromising situation. the machine keeping that "collective unconscious" agenda alive. that machine is a very real thing, yet so much bigger than consciousness, I must admit. So it becomes unconscious again, yes again, because during the first step empirical (observable) territory is destroyed by the reterritorialization, but in the second step reterritorialization not only destroys terr. but also ruins the empirical moment (like its raw data) by grafting upon it an experimental approach towards knowlege which at this point becomes a limiting factor. I will have clarify myself better... ...like two people who speak different languages arguing over the correct color of a chicken egg... is it blanc, white, or weiB. it doesn't matter if empirical evidence of the egg itself is not the subject of debate, but rather the subject is the spelling of the word used to describe it. Then that is the point where we become unconscious again. A pataphysical moment that positively expands our internal experimental landscape and inversely dismantles an observable exterior reality. YOu see that quality of incomprehensible vastness? Well, the experimental system quickly becomes/assumes a false empirical reality through the chaos. like a satanic eucharist experience.... computer programming technology... DVDs. It is a different thing entirely to confront the very real AND conceptual landscape of times square nyc, as you have just suggested, yet it is not a return to an empirical zone, no no no. However there is this notion of simulation, one of PV's favorite topics, that helps us believe in these false narratives. In 1907, just by flashing monochromatic lights one might reterritorialize a space, but just imagine how much better the reterritorialization process would work with POLY-chomatic lights! hell, why not invent another dimension to this experimental system and add fantastic stereo sound fx too, now that would be something fit for a king. so in 1911 indeed this emerging technology's greatest triumph was then the Kinemacolor film of the Delhi Durbar, the spectacular ceremony held to commemorate the coronation of UK's King George V and Queen Mary in Delhi in December. the event was filmed by several film companies, and their black-and-white records had already been seen in Britain by the time the Kinemacolor film returned from India. The film opened at the Scala on 2 February 1912, and many felt that the filmgoing public would now be tired of the Durbar. Kinemacolor proved them very wrong. Offering the public an unprecedented two and and a half hours of film. the film was presented with a stage setting that represented the Taj Mahal, and accompanied it with a 48 piece orchestra, a chorus of 24, a fife and drum corps of 20, and three bagpipes. Its success was phenomenal. Patriotic London flocked to see it. continue reading at: http://website.lineone.net/~luke.mckernan/Color.htm That our 7 senses can fulfill experience for our minds is quiet a feat, but it is ultimately just an illusion (plato's cave was for prisoners, bottom line), complete reterritorialization of experience itself. The fact that kinemacolor was behind this great media stunt ought to trigger a few alarms, cuz kinemacolor is also known to be the company behind DWGriffith's "Birth of a Nation" Completed 2 years after the "Delhi Dunbar" DWGriffith's action-packed melodrama was all about the founding of that most hated and divisive american institution, the klu klux klan... and he had the balls to call it "birth of a nation." having balls is a great quality for a fellow, but if that fellow is a sycophant for a globo-political-racist agenda then that spells major trouble. That trouble has been perfectly integrated into the psyche of 21st century schizoid-man in only 2 generations. for an artist to tune into such a collective unconsciousness with the intent to create art seems very crucial today. but the artist who keeps it hidden is really doing nothing at all - that is a "de-tentional pov". I have no doubt that christo and co. are capable of such a sensitive reading of the current psyche, but what it is that christo does is "institutional art." (its as if he flies around like mary poppins with her umbrella defusing highly political moments for the benefit of the institution) sure, he's got the balls but he does very little for the public except tickle the unconscious strata, to what ends? I find such an attitude annoying, especially in a time when skilled artists ought use their techniques to re-clarify those original empirical zones that have been unconsciously lost. Identifying those spaces is key, but so is connecting those spaces, binding them like a raft. I think its also key to just detach certain of those spaces, many of them are fully functioning autonomous zones that only need protection. central park is special for new yorkers, its a place to forget all about the institutional capitalist landscape, hundreds of homeless people live there, they dont want to see christo's police 24-7, it sucks. but if christo has the balls to join up with you on your incredible project to completely cover times square with an audio-video-quilt, then thats different, times square is different, its already been taken over by the grid and turned into a chessboard that plays the endgame till eternity. poetically enough, the first fictional story ever filmed in color was kinemacolor's "Checkmated" (1909)! _______________________________________________ List address: deleuze-guattari-AT-driftline.org Info: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/deleuze-guattari-driftline.org Archives: www.driftline.org
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