My fellow Fuck-ups,
Many of your SKETCHES, although not entirely ineffectual, have demonstrated an awareness of a pluralist overlay of forms. Marc’s examples on the blog, Heath Bunting’s BorderXings, e-Xplo’s Found Wanting, and Krystof Wodiczko’s mouth pieces, have embodied these pluralist spaces. Before anyone starts talking about the liminal, don’t, liminality as a concept has the same sentiments of a feminine hygiene commercial. How can we reoccupy ideas like ART/LIFE which sit vacant of meaning? By the crossing borders which define space.
Red rover…. Red rover….
The effort by which Heath Bunting moved his body over borders without interruptions from customs, immigration, and police challenge how borders restrict movement but are also there to be crossed. Its like when you are walking on the other side of the street and see a hot person holding hands with a boyfriend/girlfriend and your pants are calling ‘red-rover, red-rover, come on over’.
Breaking down the division between art and everyday life versus “Breaking down the division between art and everyday life”
Bunting has intentionally crossed borders, physically and ideologically… he has what is called, agency;
Definitions of agency on the Web: http://www.google.ca/search?q=define%3Aagency&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
BorderXing asks you to map your own agency, become aware of the borders, and outsmart or cross them.
Ways of operating, strata, and the interweave
How are you in-between? What are you going to do about it? Listen to some MP3s or mine your belly-button for some lint?
e-Xplo’s Found Wanting turned a trip on a coach into a cinematic experience, recorded and layered fragments of audio, and interrogated the narraitives which constitute the transitions of space in the city….
Lemme axe you a question… how did e-Xplo’s idea find its way onto a website, to Marc’s eyes, and onto the Tactical Media blog? What were the distances it traveled and how are you going to give your Tactical Media ideas some momentum?
Voice and Speech; Mouthpieces
Krsyzstof Wodiczko’s Mouthpieces give speech to the voices which go unheard. Immigrants are given mouthpieces made out of the same technology used to silence them; representation. The project seeks the voices of those we cannot hear, voice is the bare possibility of speech. Wodiczko’s intervention is a model of breaking borders, democraticizing the process of frame setting.
From Barthes’ ‘Quand je jouais aux barres… ~ When I used to play prisoner’s base…’
“ When I used to play prisoner’s base in Luxembourg, what I liked best was not provoking the other team and boldly exposing myself to their right to take me prisoner; what I liked best was to free the prisoners – the effect of which was to put both teams back into circulation: the game started over again at zero.
In the great game of the powers of speech, we also play prisoner’s base; one language has only temporary rights oer another; all it takes is for a third language to appear from the ranks for the assailant to be forced to retreat: in the conflict of rhetoric’s, the victory never goes to any but the third language. The task of this language is to release the prisoners: to scatter the signifieds, the catechisms. As in prisoner’s base, language upone language, to infinity, such is the law which goerns logosphere. Whence other images: that of choosing up hand over hand (the third hand returns, it is no longer the first one), the of scissors, paper, stone, that of the onion in its layers of skin without a core. The difference should not be paid for by any subjection: no last word.”
(Marina Abramovic - the onion)
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