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A woman asked us to give her one word. Of course I said COMMITMENT.
a gun in her vagina
Why Does MOMA Hate My Body by the lovely Josephine Decker for the New York Press. 
Very Last Things
The New Yorker posted this article. “By the time the museum opened on the frenzied final day, people had been camping out on West 53rd Street, some all night. Once inside the atrium, and seated, a female spectator—a filmmaker—decided to take off her clothes. Another woman arrived wearing a skeleton costume…”
ARTINFO photos
more here
When Marina Abramovic Ends: The Line
ARTINFO posted this article about our MOMA camp out.
excerpt:
“I got here 6 a.m. yesterday, and when it became clear at 5 p.m. that I wouldn’t make it in I left the line inside and started the line outside and fell asleep,” says Drew Denny, an energetic, blond 26-year-old grad student who had made the trip from Los Angeles just to sit with Abramovic. “I fell asleep, and someone must have called an ambulance because I woke up to this huge paramedic saying, ‘You OK?’ He gave us these blankets, and a hotel gave us a couple towels.” Denny had canceled her flight back to L.A. the night before when she hadn’t gotten to sit yet.
I wish I could find out who that paramedic was!! Sure did appreciate those blankets…
Go To MOMA Get Arrested
I think this blogger really GOT IT.
WILDNESS doesn’t exist
I didn’t write this.
I was asked to write it.
Then I was asked not to write it.
I wrote something I liked.
I was told to edit that.
I wrote something I didn’t like that much.
That was edited.
Now I don’t know what to think.
I guess I’m glad I didn’t pass the assignment off to that asshole from LA Weekly who wrote about trannies licking their lips at him (he wishes). I guess I hope people know I would never write a tag line like that. And I guess I hope those who wished not to be covered one day forgive/forget cause Wildness (RIP) did mean the world to me. Met my last girlfriend there and a best friend, too. Discovered new music I now can’t live without and finally got over my fear of dancing in public. Thanks Wildness. Sorry.
Photos from Ritual/Music 3: Some Kind of Family
Brain House on Viralnet!
The oh-so-amazing Norman Klein created a collection of aphorisms for my Brain House:
Inside David, language circled like unclaimed luggage.
On a diet of jello, microwaved burritos, and buttered toast, David fended for himself. After six weeks, his stomach lining sorely needed help. He was given two doses of antibiotics and new crayons.
On the memo pad, David left twenty five sentences in crayon (rather ornately illustrated by another patient). Each aphorism was numbered afterward by a nurse, who proudly filed them, whereupon they were almost immediately lost.
XXII
The most dramatic change in how stories are told probably involves the reader, who is now comfortable acting as part of the production team before the story is told. In that sense, the story is the making of first, before the first act.
X
Exceptionalism in the US is also long gone. Most Americans assume that the next century will not belong to them. We are perhaps the only country left in the world where this can be called shocking.
VIV
The blur between fact and fiction in our civilization has grown into a reality large enough to be called a third version of making story. In other words, the positivist impulse, as bizarre as it was, is essentially gone. That provides the five hundredth clue that what we used to call the Enlightenment– in politics, in journalism, even in the social sciences– is no longer self-evident. No proof satisfies the evidence, if it ever did.
XVI
Clearly, new modes of storytelling are needed to capture all these inversions, these character reversals. But global distribution of culture is astonishingly conservative about experimental culture.
Mapping is not about locational aesthetics at its core. It is about mapping the unfindable, about what is hidden within the map.
XXI
All experiences are narrative, even a still life. There is no non-linear alternative to narrative, no plot genie that is not pre-programmed, a scripted space. We know this for certain, because if a program truly achieves the non-linear, it crashes.
XIV
So we imagine a gothic (dialectical) revival that would slow down our vision.
XI
As media historians have long observed, public life is mostly experienced at home, not on the street. In fact, we carry “home” with us at all times. Increasingly, we socialize in relative isolation, even when we are sitting in public.
XV
We obsess about the loss of the tactile. We seek out a neo-Victorian sense of erogenous space. Presumably, that was more intimate; anything to slow down our detached, mechanical, over-privatized eroticism.
Thus, two of the newest modes of storytelling today are clearly pre-analog: labyrinths and mapping.
XX
Mapping is not about locational aesthetics at its core. It is about mapping the unfindable, about what is hidden within the map.
