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Process Park focuses on reinserting ourselves into the act of production, to interrupt the paradigm of contemporary alienation.
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Third Cycle: Smithson and Time #2

Open norankhan opened 6 years ago

norankhan commented 6 years ago

Supplemental reading from AGAINST THE DAY (DIARIES), Yann Chateigné, which opens, “After having produced several fragments that I never had the possibility to assemble a form that would satisfy me, from aborted essays to book projects that never happened …”

The Third Cycle opens with a reflection by Yann on Robert Smithson and Spiral Jetty. The prompt is to get us thinking about process over time, thinking through time, art as a manifestation of thinking process, and the present or future audiences one might make work for.

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processpark commented 6 years ago

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A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.

-Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History http://cscs.res.in/dataarchive/textfiles/textfile.2010-11-02.7672177498/file

santinaamato commented 6 years ago

Not sure if here is appropriate but this is an interview with mika rottenburg about her video that's making me romantazise our upcoming visit to the 5 milk ladies farm.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X05ty0dgmuo

norankhan commented 6 years ago

Thanks, @santinaamato! Fantastic vision of these women, sleeping, waiting, in hold, in a non-place or non-time. And the hair! Body material as time markers, like rings in a tree.

Here are some essential ephemera I had to add to "Time" as a theme, which I mentioned and hope might be useful:

  1. On making for Future Audiences: this is a very compelling idea from an interview with director and actor Fernando Fernán Gómez, on future audiences and future film. He is reflecting on Victor Erice's Spirit of the Beehive, in which he played a role. Check out this progression of statements: http://mashatupitsyn.tumblr.com/post/153988702458/the-actor-fernando-fern%C3%A1n-g%C3%B3mez-on-the-spirit-of

I love this, the "virtue of those who dare to create," their "profound sincerity" being that they don't necessarily make for anyone around. They make for the possibility of a viewer, an imagined viewer, who will meet them in the space they imagined, the heart of the piece.

What audiences, what ways of seeing, do you make for? During conversation, @ursend talked about the drone offering a future perspective, a needed perspective, over her imagined field. Sometimes we are making a work for no one in mind, for an idea of a person, yes, but also an idea of seeing, one more expansive, at wider scale, with more flexibility, than we are capable. Projecting myself forward into the future to meet this viewer is a profoundly hopeful and sincere act, in my mind.

This quote from Gary Indiana's Depraved Indifference, from the open of MacArthur Park by Andrew Durbin:

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