reading “the gift” by lewis hyde
posted 05/28
“There are times we want to be aliens and strangers, to feel how the shape of our lives is not the only shape, to drift before a catalog of possible lives, staring at the glass arcades of shoes that are sensible and shoes for taking a chance, buses for leaving town and the gray stream railway depot where men and women hurry by with their bags…
…Sometimes we go to the market to taste estrangement, if only to fantasize what our next attachment will be.” (88)
overheredarkhorse.com
posted 05/27
…is finally done. thanks to some help from the badass mike anderson. check it out: overheredarkhorse.com
overhere at the gershwin hotel
posted 05/19
I’m working on a project in collaboration with a canary torsi. Two dancers perform in a bathroom. A writer has created twitter feeds further developing these two characters. I am creating an audio installation for the lobby of the performance (overhere), as well as a website which displays and maps twitters sent from participants in bathrooms (overheredarkhorse.com).
On Monday I visited the Gershwin Hotel (the site of the performance and installation) and took some pictures of the site.
So yeh, a weirdo space. I’m supposed to make some objects and shove some speakers inside. I was worried about the thing I make not fitting into the environment but clearly that shouldn’t be too much of a problem. Soo if you have any great ideas…
starting point
posted 05/19
This will be (hopefully) a frequently updated collection of thoughts, experiments, ideas, questions… related to projects I am working on, thinking about, beginning, reworking….
The point is to have a public (though semi-private) documentation of work in motion. Obviously a focus on process here, though I don’t discount product. It’s like…the THING, you know?
This will also be good because then when Jeff asks what I have been thinking about or working on, I can just direct him here and we don’t have to talk.