May l ask Alan What was the reason for starting to produce work at a daily rate?
Best ANNIE Le mer. 5 mai 2021 à 22:23, Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com> a écrit : > > > The Eternal Exercise And A Comment > > http://www.alansondheim.org/gonedays.jpg > > What am I hearing it might be God > fearing the stallion is rearing > the forest is dead where am I > going the sky's blowing red the > people are ready the horses are > fed where have I been in this town > of grey sin in this town where the > weather's unpinned where the > horses are in where the stallion > is ready where the horses are > rearing and the forest is dead. > Sometimes there's chasm a sight of > a plasm where's the flesh isn't > messed and the samples go lie and > this sky is darkling and the > plasm's a storm that always means > harm and the cyto is psycho and > the horses are no go and the > horses are carrying bodies in > babies up to the sky up into the > sky. What am I seeing it might be > gone fleeing the stallion is > winning the forest is gone where > am I going the wind is no more the > people steady to go down to the > Weir. Where is the Weir where the > canal was flying into the sky with > the horses and chasm where is this > site have the people who light > down by the forest for the trees > are all burning and the horses are > churning in this dream by the > river in the river by brook in the > fountain in in the sea in the sea > in the ocean in the lake of the > ocean in the lake of the ocean > where the horses lies sleeping and > people are weeping at parties in > babies are up in the sky and > falling and sweeping the seeds of > the rye and the wheat that > surrounds us and the lost people > hound us where the horses are > tossed and nothing is left but a > weir way down there where the > people in steeples steeples learn > how to fear when they go down in > the forest and the ocean is messed > and the horses are blessed hands > up in the sky the lake of the > ocean is a sound of the cry from > the horses and bodies and babies > who fly. > > I've been thinking more and more about this process of creating > daily new work; I've been doing this for 27 years now in a row. > It's been a scaffolding but it's also been a source of anxiety > since it's difficult to come up with something new on a daily > basis; for all I know I may be repeating myself incessantly. The > result, combined with covid, is an out of control anxiety. Part > of this is a fundamental lack of community here in Providence, > which has been going on for almost eight years; part of it is a > real lack of funding, which in my (equal lack of a) profession > results in an inability to carry out the work I want to; as you > know - I was adding this all up today - for the first time, I > have no real adequate still or video camera for production, and > no chance of getting these (I've always worked otherwise, with > good equipment, since 1969 or so) - so there's no VR or AR work > coming from my end, no potential collaborations at this point. > The last actual grant I had was something like fifteen years ago > which gave us tools to work in West Virginia at the Virtual > Environment Lab. Since then, there's been no funding, which sends > me constantly back to things like linux, work with acoustic > instruments, text manipulation programs and the like. (Medicines > cost for example.) If anyone has any ideas at this point, please > let me know; I'm certainly not going to be getting any other > grants or faculty positions or stipends etc. I'm constantly > trying, even now, to get a book out, based on my production and > theory-work (such as it is), but I think I carry the stink of > failure around with me that undermines everything. At least we > owe no one any money, and I keep going at this absurd and > somewhat baleful task of continuous production. > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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