File spoon-archives/surrealist.archive/surrealist_1996/96-06-28.151, message 123


Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 21:52:42 +0000
From: Michael Vandelaar <hq06-AT-dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Gestural programming


Stuart wrote: 
> >In the case of my poems, it is a matter of listening and beinga good
> >secretary to the "mouth of shadows", which also demands an
> >apreciation of the role of the editor.
> to which Luke added :

> Yes, I agree that the role of the editor is important, but I believe that
> "the editor" doesn't NECESSARILY need to be a function of the conscious mind.
> 
> My idea behind gestural programming is that by "tracing" reality, by
> "tracing" a scene, we can move these subjective and creative gestural
> elements into the unconscious mind. The idea is simply to EXPAND the
> gestural vocabulary of the unconscious mind, for the benefit of classical
> automatism - that is all.

I don't understand the role of the editor, at all. Could either of you 
explain it to me.

Cheers,
Michael



   

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