Re: text from Miami University (Ohio) performance tonight:

[mIEKAL aND]

Alan,           —————sometime if you can figure out how to be bilocational, you should put yourself in the audience to observe the effect of what you do.              ——————You are anything but in the background in my take...  & if an audience is reading along with the live performance, the text in relation to the performed screen & the environment are quite a bit different than reading the text much later.                  ——————There's nothing linear in the performance version, & despite my best efforts I still usually read emails in a wholy linear way. ~mIEKAL On Dec 2, 2005, at 6:08 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: I think to some extent it's happenstance; I place myself in the background (I'm visible but just typing), so any dialog is really interior, and its record becomes a residue or punctum... - Alan On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Kamen Nedev wrote: This is brilliant. I've always been intrigued by the relationship between 'live' art or performance and performative text. Unfortunately, I never found a decent way to tackle it. I remember trying to introduce a conflict between performance documentation and the live act itself, but both strata just kept pulling things apart. Come to think of it, maybe I should have just accepted the 'pulling apart' and tried to let it find its own way. OK, I'm just babbling. Best, Kamen A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they will never sit —Greek proverb