[NetBehaviour] Breaking New Ground

[Alan Sondheim]

Breaking New Ground

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emended text written around the time Foofwa, Azure, and I were
performing in the Involuntaries. applicable well to my current
work.

all circumstances are extenuating.

"if you want to understand what they're about, perhaps these
works will open up the vast chasm of comprehension on the edge
of falling apart - I can't think of any better pieces in this
regard, and, for that matter, in the sheer beauty of fractured
movement"

works based on choreia, return, withdrawal from broken edges
(before one is cut) (before the sound loses its grasp) (before
one is cut out (of the world) (of your acquaintance) (your
grasp) (your body) (of your body my own)).

how does one write or circumscribe the body of movement within
horizons defined by mappings of hyperbolic geometry in the
circle? the edge isn't just asymptotic; from the outside, it's a
bad pill. what looks like chance is a battlefield; what looks
determined is incandescent birth.

"the battlefield is your last chance of being-alive, just as
your birth is your first-chance of dying."

there are so many things these movements and sounds are not:
listing narrows sublimity: just look, it's almost drained away.
think of dance as a draining, symptom as style,
medication-technique, how to get out of the hospital.

don't follow or recognize avatars, don't follow or recognize
symptoms. they start with dim memories of body, with landscapes
that accompany us, we're hounded.

we're hounded by death, but we're also hounded by disease,
troubles, fevers, forgetfulness, wrath, rage, ecstasy, visions,
poverty, money, obligations, lovers, ennui, hallucinations,
speed, crime, frustration, cataclysm, heat, cold, hunger,
thirst, nightmares, mutilations, panic, neuroses, economies of
attention, economies of the body, excretions, garbage, wounds,
scars, allergic reactions, insect bites, age, bad eyesight, bad
hearing, shudderings, shiverings, fear, belongings, jealousy,
loathing, disgust, addictions, genocides.

the playing-field of hounding, playing-field of the hounded. one
hounds, is hounded; the hounded hounds, hounding is hounded.

or like this: playing-field of haunting, of the haunted. one
haunts, is haunted; the haunted haunts, haunting is haunted.
"these texts, they are haunted."

if i write this sentence, thus; if i write this sentence beneath
or within the sign of fever, migraine, incipient diabetes,
tumors malign-benign. if i write this sentence beneath the
symbolic of medication, bandaging, radiation treatment,
dialysis. if i write this sentence gagged and splayed. if this
sentence is written without volition. if this sentence writes
itself.

if i write this sentence to control you, if i write this
sentence under your control. the order to work: persevere.

to persevere, endure, maenad-dance of self-devouring, maenad-
music of self-control. how can that be, except to ensure that
the beat is periodic, that repetition lunges.

the maenad feeds, hungers for repetition, desecrates it (the
repeat-ing). it's passed on so far down the line that gender-
sex and sex-gender change. they passed it down farther.

who were they? who's haunting us? why the fissures?


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Re: [NetBehaviour] Apple performance Brighton

[Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour]

Hey thanks Max, I’m really glad you got something from this, and how it has 
sparked your own thoughts.
I’d like to guess the secret name of the can, but will only do so in my head - 
unless our paths cross - who knows.
Maybe the secret is in the Genius 2000 video - which I watched a fair chunk of! 
And enjoyed - it was interesting to me, the sort
of louch form it took ha ha! It certainly had me harking back to what and who I 
was in the 90s - how we morph and change, what
concerned me, us.

How come time went past? I didn’t see it. 

All the best,

Simon


 

On 3 Oct 2019, at 15:57, Max Herman  wrote:

> 
> I like this artwork Simon!  I'm a bit of a hoarder so would probably have 
> asked someone for a core, or given myself an apple and then the core, and 
> planted a couple of seeds in a pot, not to make a tree but just to see if 
> they would sprout, and then if they sprouted kept them as a houseplant or on 
> the porch.  I suppose this would be a form of artwork-sprawl and certainly 
> not needed to actually happen, but I like how your artwork is indeterminate 
> about such possible eventualities.  I also like the paper tags, and the 
> relation of paper in general to the age of computerized networks.
> 
> One artwork I have kept is an empty aluminum can of apple-flavored mineral 
> water which I drank five or ten years ago.  It has a six-word secret name 
> which I have never written down but have asked people to guess, which is of 
> course absurd.  If someone guesses it, I will tell them they were correct 
> only if they promise to never tell anyone else the name or record it in any 
> way.  So only in-person spoken guesses are allowed.
> 
> Of possible tangential relation, back in 1996 I was in an internet art video 
> call and held up a postcard of Durer's Adam and Eve (engraving version) and 
> talked about "the first material act of communication" in a short essay I had 
> written for the occasion.  That isn't the name of the can though.  🙂  
> 
> Best regards and thanks for sharing the artwork,
> 
> Max
> 
> From: NetBehaviour  on behalf of 
> Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour 
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2019 10:48 AM
> To: NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org 
> Cc: Simon Mclennan 
> Subject: [NetBehaviour] Apple performance Brighton
>  
> ‘Apple’ performance. Monday 30th September 2019. Simon Mclennan
> 
> Apples were handed out inviting people to take part in a performance. 
> They were also given a choice to either eat the apple or keep it in the hope 
> of it gaining value on the international art market. 
> Each apple with its own signed and numbered tag were one of an edition of 
> twenty. 
> The apples are growing wild in Brighton and are free to pick. 
> 
> The link to background and explanation of the work
> 
>   https://simonmclennan.blogspot.com/p/apples.html?m=1

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Re: [NetBehaviour] The Cake Maker of Transylvania - out now

[Edward Picot via NetBehaviour]

Thanks, Michael!

Target age range - er, I'm never really sure about that kind of thing. 
Eight and up? Ten and up? Early teens with goth tendencies? The truth is 
that Mollie and I came up with it to amuse ourselves. I'm always falling 
into that trap - creating something for my own amusement first, and 
wondering whether there might be an audience for it afterwards. Usually 
there isn't, but I still prefer it as a working method.


An audience of 62 year old artists in their gardens in the early October 
sun will do me just fine.


Edward


On 02/10/2019 14:59, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
I just read it - it’s very good :) Elegantly and satisfyingly plotted 
and without a trace of condescension to its potential audience. Dances 
once the edge of darkness but has a warm, and this seems an 
appropriate word, heart. The illustrations are lovely too. I’d be 
interested to know what you see as the target age range Edward ( apart 
from 62 year old artists  sitting reading it in their gardens in the 
early October sun)



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On Sunday, September 29, 2019, 7:53 pm, Edward Picot via NetBehaviour 
 wrote:


It's not in any bookstores, Alan. But if I manage to get along to
your
presentation at the ICA, which I'm hoping to do, I can bring a
copy with me.

On 29/09/2019 19:40, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>
>
> Looking forward as well! - Is it possible to get one somewhere when
> we're in London?
>
> Thanks, Alan
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Apple performance Brighton

[Max Herman via NetBehaviour]

I like this artwork Simon!  I'm a bit of a hoarder so would probably have asked 
someone for a core, or given myself an apple and then the core, and planted a 
couple of seeds in a pot, not to make a tree but just to see if they would 
sprout, and then if they sprouted kept them as a houseplant or on the porch.  I 
suppose this would be a form of artwork-sprawl and certainly not needed to 
actually happen, but I like how your artwork is indeterminate about such 
possible eventualities.  I also like the paper tags, and the relation of paper 
in general to the age of computerized networks.

One artwork I have kept is an empty aluminum can of apple-flavored mineral 
water which I drank five or ten years ago.  It has a six-word secret name which 
I have never written down but have asked people to guess, which is of course 
absurd.  If someone guesses it, I will tell them they were correct only if they 
promise to never tell anyone else the name or record it in any way.  So only 
in-person spoken guesses are allowed.

Of possible tangential relation, back in 1996 I was in an internet art video 
call and held up a postcard of Durer's Adam and Eve (engraving version) and 
talked about "the first material act of communication" in a short essay I had 
written for the occasion.  That isn't the name of the can though.  🙂

Best regards and thanks for sharing the artwork,

Max


From: NetBehaviour  on behalf of 
Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour 
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2019 10:48 AM
To: NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org 
Cc: Simon Mclennan 
Subject: [NetBehaviour] Apple performance Brighton

‘Apple’ performance. Monday 30th September 2019. Simon Mclennan

Apples were handed out inviting people to take part in a performance.
They were also given a choice to either eat the apple or keep it in the hope of 
it gaining value on the international art market.
Each apple with its own signed and numbered tag were one of an edition of 
twenty.
The apples are growing wild in Brighton and are free to pick.

The link to background and explanation of the work

  
https://simonmclennan.blogspot.com/p/apples.html?m=1
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[NetBehaviour] Curators' Professional Development 1-week course, London Feb 2020

[marc.garrett via NetBehaviour]

Curators' Professional Development 1-week course, London Feb 2020

CURATING ART AFTER NEW MEDIA - PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSE
http://www.macurating.net/shortcourse.htm

23-29 February 2020, Central London

*I would recommend it to anyone who wants to expand their network and broaden 
their understanding of how curators do what they do.*
Course participant from USA

In 2020 this course will run for the 7th year. Past course attendees have 
included curators and researchers from Hong Kong, Bahrain, India, USA, Canada, 
Austria, The Netherlands, Greece, Ireland, France and the UK.

This intensive week-long course in London is aimed at curators, exhibition 
organisers, educators and others working with contemporary art. The course will 
critically examine how contemporary curating can best match contemporary art 
practices, including practices that might be collaborative, or participatory. 
Since new media including social networking and open source have changed 
thinking on how art works in time and space, this course aims to update 
professional knowledge in the field.

Visits to discuss with curators at organisations will include:
TATE
VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY
SOMERSET HOUSE
WELLCOME COLLECTION
SERPENTINE
and previous years have also included:
ODI (OPEN DATA INSTITUTE)
FURTHERFIELD
TENDERPIXEL
MACHINES ROOM

Some participants have received Professional Development grants from their 
local arts councils or PhD funders to attend this course

For further details see: http://www.macurating.net/shortcourse.htm  OR
https://onlinestore.sunderland.ac.uk/product-catalogue/conferences-and-events/events/curating-art-after-new-media-professional-development-short-course



Beryl Graham, Professor of New Media Art
CRUMB web resource for new media art curators http://www.crumbweb.org
Research Student Manager, Art and Design
MA Curating Course Leader http://www.macurating.net

Faculty of Arts, Design, and Media, University of Sunderland
The David Puttnam Media Centre, St Peter's Way, Sunderland, SR6 0DD  Tel: +44 
191 515 2896

New Collecting: Exhibiting and Audiences, Routledge. 
https://www.routledge.com/New-Collecting-Exhibiting-and-Audiences-after-New-Media-Art-1st-Edition/Graham/p/book/9781409448945
Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media, MIT Press. 
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