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Friday, December 14
Dada Manifesto by Hugo Ball, 1914
Dada is a new tendency in art. One can tell this from the fact that until now nobody knew anything about it, and tomorrow everyone in Zurich will be talking about it. Dada comes from the dictionary. it is terribly simple. In French it means "hobby horse." In German it means "good-by," "Get off my back," "Be seeing you sometime." In Romanian: "Yes, indeed, you are right, that's it. But of course, yes, definitely, right." And so forth.
An international word. Just a word, and the word a movement. Very easy to understand. Quite terribly simple. To make of it an artistic tendency must mean that one is anticipating complications.
Monday, December 10
The I love you Questionnaire Show
I have an idea for a simple performance art spoken word piece.
As far as the stage goes, I need a stage back lit with blue light so that you see people’s silhouettes. Two mics on stage with loud enough volume that face each other. (Or maybe they face the audience.)
There may or may not be a sound track behind them. But might be cooler to have a sound track.
The performers could either be real actors or hopefully people from the audience or a mix of both. We need 10 of them. Two people at the mics at one time. So in 5 separate pairs.
The pair read to each other from a page they’ve just been given. The exchange is in the form of “question-answer”. One page is marked questioner, one page is marked answerer. Questioner starts first—asking question 1, then waiting for the answerer to respond.
People read basically what’s on the page. But they can feel free to read it however they like.
The questions and answers are made out of questionnaires we’ve distributed possibly through Mia’s mail art projects or other ways. And hopefully we get some really good/honest/touching/funny responses.
So it would be interesting to see how people:
-Say the words
-React to the words
-Maybe internalize it
The questions are things like:
What do you love?
Why do you love it?
When did you start loving it? Why then?
Did you ever stop loving it? Why?
How do you tell it I love you?
(I hate using ‘it’ here but who knows what they’ll say, so it’ll be reworded appropriately)
It would be cool if we could do a couple of short things like this for a little show next year.
Marky
P.S. I always have questions about how people feel about sharing this kind of stuff, especially if it’s gonna be used in a show or on the web. Anyone got any experience with the privacy/anonymity aspect of outside participation?
Self-Portrait with Chin Acne
Me "Self-Portrait with Chin Acne (and Tibetan art postcard)"
9x6in | 2007
Sunday, December 9
"I love you too"
Inspired by this sculpture and simply by the words themselves, I wrote some music and had Mia record herself saying "I love you" in different ways. There are some really great matter-of-fact i love yous, which I think is so great about loving things, someone else and yourself--when it is matter-of-fact.
"'I love you day' Air Races"
I would like to find a clip where someone says "I love you" to someone else. Right at the point where they realize it for the first time, like a subdued epiphany and the words just come out.
Friday, December 7
Thursday, December 6
Tuesday, December 4
Sunday, December 2
Friday, November 30
Mail Art
I mailed friends two subtle shades of color swatches attached to cards and asked for their input. Here's what I got back:
2006 Holiday Card Project
Last holiday season i decided to try to create an online holiday card people can watch and listen to.
I asked people via email to leave voice mail messages on my home phone. Since the messages come to my email as a wav attachment, I was easily able to use them in my music composition program.
I asked people to think about what they really wanted for the new year and to call in and leave their answer on my voicemail.
I then sliced up their words and made a message out of it all--maybe a meta-message.
This is the result.
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