and
i who am gently worshiping the remains of these shattered typewriters,
shadows
of symbols, wicked culture engineers in the blackness/when with the
coalescing
of a dada lilith, grotesque animisms, livewire semiosis, mixed-media
ekphrases,
the nihilism of translation attempts, the conscious misrepresentation
of
shuddering forms/i would burrow it into thee: the marrow of my
mind/livid in
their nightless delight, they are the sudden shafts of flame, ringing
heat and
swift bites against the shallow matter of gorgon praises/screaming
screaming
screaming/press my flesh against thine, cross the fingers of our souls
in a
divine catastrophe, misspelling creation, a thrice never'd theosophy/we
know we
are in flux, beginning every moment a new rupture, scraping with the
dregs of
that eternal bottomless belly, scratching the way out from empty
invisible hell/to
let the living face of words burst blood against your rigid intelligence
Most
of all I want you to be
free, to Map it yourself [Do This: take paper and pencil and Map It] -
Please
really be Always Reading [always already reading / this will sink in],
and be
attentive to the Rhizomatic-Nomadic superstructure of the event.
In
my work I am interested in the
evocation of matrices between media and theory, in mapping the play and
overlap
between genres of text. Mapping combinations and convolutions between
and
around alphabets and other semiotic libraries.
This
is to weave a shifting
mental framework between ekphrastic illustrations of abstracts,
meta-linguistic
problems, animistic puppetry, an anarchist politic, polygonous
religious
nihilisms, formulaic voodooing of types, and a denial of identity. All
of it
can be a menagerie, and menageries within menageries - an exotic
playground
(and i want to let you know, to assure you, that that kind of reverse
pornography, where you-are-the-porn, has by no means to be demeaning,
simple or
disempowering), or a single flashing hypertext.
Decontextualization
is one of the
primary guiding motives of this work: to apply post-colonial,
structuralist,
feminist etc literary theory outside of the traditional conception of
those
genres, but also to historically revise objects and position them in a
novel
web of associative play. The vast majority of these objects are
discarded,
post-consumer figures - at once automatically critical (a critique
resulting
from their social position) of the system which produced and discarded
them,
and resurrected, phoenix-like, from the refuse. The garbage is a
generative
space that severs histories and creates free tabula rasa items that are
open to
interpretation. Hands become bodies, stems become eyes, letters become
whole,
multiple people.
I
want to preserve lucidity
around the immediate metaphor of media. In film I want to Fuck With
time, not
control it. I want to make photos against photography... to be
remembering the
lineage of the line in drawing and the philosophical aspects of that
physicalized utterance... then be making analogy to sculpture, book,
script,
light and performance-slavery: respectively (at least) incarnate
doubled into
sound, person, contour, genesis, and the birth of the ego.
Every
communicative act is
translation, and as such represents the impossibility of noetic
transmission,
and the profound subjectivity and selectivity of semiosis. Surely I am
going to
need to offer a series of definitions. Please explore the references
provided
in the Bibliography [here] for more information.
How
can we think about this? A
roving horde of species, of different creatures, different members,
different
kinds of maps? The Studio as the World's backstage, touching various
spots,
Machines that Deconstruct themselves? To multiply sensorial engagement,
how do
we choose which to take, where to go? What is a Work-In-Progress, a
dynamic
work - where can it go, how many iterations can there be, what's the P?
Considering the imperative of losing-control, Speaking in (creaking)
Tongues? Let’s
be asking Questions.
Fundamentally,
I’m interested in
Ways Of Looking, in considering meaning as a cork board, from which
items can
be both taken and appended. There is of course by nature no central
thesis for
the show, but some in terms of a sounding board, I’m more
than happy to offer a
list of concepts:[addenda]
Creation as Comparison, Anarcho-Primitivism (w/ the technology problem), Linguistics, Metaphysicalisation of the Physical, Race and the Yonic, Stations of the Cross, The Nomadic Imperative, Genesis out of the Discarded, Translation/Interpretation, Combination of Genre/Synaesthesia/Interdisciplinary Sonics as metaphorical thought, Physical and Ideological Mapping, The Derivative, Nihilist [non]Narratives, Valorization of Difference and Normativity, Discursive Otherness: Exotic, Shock Value, Attention Prostitution, Machines that Deconstruct (or De-Story?) Themselves, Return/Advance to Small Gods, Permissivity of the Performative Space, Taming the Vicious to Sooth, An Afterlife of Now, Automatic Contexts and De-Contextuals, Inherent Indispensable Contradiction…