The Soul selects her own society,
then Shuts the door.
e. dickinson

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

1987 Hamburger Helper: Eating Installation



A study on eating the past: Hairmburger Helper, lets eat this shit.

1. people invited to submit photos of loved ones from the year 1987.
2. large projection of the photos on wall of some interior space. (exterior white facade of MACBA (barcelona) would work best.
3. find about 20 boxes of Hamburger Helper mix from 1987.
4. cook the mix.
5. invite people to eat it while walking around or looking up at the photos.
6. an attempt to eat 1987.
7. match flavor with images of 1987.
8. does it taste like your idea of 1987.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Filipino Soap Opera "Sa Kamay Ni Rosinda" (the hand of rosinda) with O'Hara's "Lana Turner Has Collapsed" pome on ubu.com/sound/ohara.html



so it goes: the mom walks into the kitchen blaming her daughter about something and it ends with the daughter asking the mother if she wants some coffee. Or put on mute and play 3 times with Cage's "Waterwalk" below.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Brad Pitt reads Breton's "Freedom of Love"



For questions or complaints, please call 1-800-hell-no.

Sunday, May 20, 2007

notes on movement & intonation

1. Movement from the immediate environment working with alternate audio source.
Watching fish swim around in a fish tank while listening to Creeley reading his poem “Anger” on ubu.com/sounds.

2. Watching videos on Youtube while listening to poetry.

3. Listening to Vito Acconci read “The Bristol Project” while watching Nintendo weather channels.

3. Watching runway fashion shows while listening to poetry.

4. Watching t.v. shows on Youtube while listening to poetry.

5. Watching scenes from films, starting anywhere, while listening to poetry.

6. Sitting in a restaurant and watching people while listening to poetry.

7. Watching short footage of productive sewing machines while listening to music and poetry.

8. Music which works as background for poetry to enhance cadence.

9. Not being able to record moments of synchronicity.

10. Letting go of synchronicity to allow more room for synchronicity to occur.

11. A practice which doesn’t require attachment to its own practice.

12. Allowing for pure synchronicity to emerge; this is where beauty appears in pure form.

13. Synchronicity is controlled to the extent of allowing two or more mediums occur.

14. No control of both mediums whatsoever.

15. Staying open and attentive to incongruencies between sound & image.

16. There is no incongruency.

17. It is always unfolding another sensation.

18. Poetry serves to narrate the readymade moving image.

19. The moving image is sometimes neutral; a kind of wallpaper open to any content and intonation.

20. The poem is open too.

21. Movement (moving image) & Intonation ( poem) = Content

22. Content is not fixed, always shifting according to movement & intonation.

23. Form and content depends on synchronicity.

24. Through the juxtaposition, the poem performs on its own and unfolds for the viewer.

25. Form and content limited and expanded by time.

Watch with Michael Snow's whistling in ubu.com/sounds/snow.html

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

post-it list of neat things

pascal incorporates narrative in his design:
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/pascal-anson
ron's Concrete Stereo
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/ron-arad
assa's 501 chair:
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/assa-ashuach
martin baas asks the Chair to be a Bookshelf!
http://www.maartenbaas.com/
sam's video chair:
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/sam-buxto
their so happy:
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/fernando-humberto-campana
Halla with those lamps fam! (as yoyos would say):
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/committee
the tree trunk table & dresser drawers...da-dayaam:
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/droog
that lawn chair got ta go:
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/luis-eslava
don't quite trust this guy, tho he could probably rob an ant:
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/konstantin-grcic
what a cutie:
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/marti-guixe
2020 lampshade:
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/stuart-haygarth
projecting shadows of trees on buildings, moving wallpaper:
http://www.designmuseum.org/design/simon-heijdens
The fold up canvas deck chairs:
http://www.superegodesign.com/ecommerce/cat176_l2.php?n=1