<div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:16pt">-so much attitude</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:16pt">-what is attitude? a question of whether to trust artist’s intentions? Trust the voices speaking in it? Trust: whether the intentions behind the faces and images are straightforward, communicable? why not trust the sounds and images in this work (kids singing a song, man with tongue sticking out, stylish colors, deliberately clumsy editing)? Overall: question of relationship between and definitions of ‘trust’ and ‘attitude’, and how the editing of the work generates these questions in the viewer</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:16pt">-a lot of intention in the repitition and distortion of kid’s voice</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:16pt">-chunky collage of sources—found images, music clips and animations</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:16pt">-“describes the artist’s accomplishments as… simply epic” .. “i love you” .. “i’m pathetic” .. “you’re pathetic” .. “i don’t know what a better definition of eroticism would be” — clues about what some of the voices and images are reaching for</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:16pt">-“we’re the same when it gets down to it.”— all the voices add up to a desperation. the desperation is located in.. the editor, the composer of the voices and images. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:16pt">-is the collage of voices and images erotic? what kind of erotics? is it epic? is it pathetic? </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:16pt">-face with tongue out (robert rauschenberg) linked to sketches and drawings of the face with various bodies linked to animated muscleman character linked to face of young man (who is the artist, I happen to know) — is there an erotics to these graphic connections? Does it correspond to the definition of erotics described by the man’s voice at the start of the video?</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:16pt">-Erotics of ‘attitude’?</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:".SF UI Text";color:rgb(69,69,69)"><span style="font-family:".SFUIText";font-size:16pt">-a lot of juicy issues to put together in navigating this work!</span></p></div></div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 3:32 PM Daniel Lichtman <<a href="mailto:danielp73@gmail.com" target="_blank">danielp73@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Eoghan Ryan<div>Moss Icon</div><div><br></div><div>Link to documentation (see video MOSS_ICON.mp4): <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/apwp220jn8polh1/AABwunEYjt_-rjY7hSqA8HWba?dl=0" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/sh/apwp220jn8polh1/AABwunEYjt_-rjY7hSqA8HWba?dl=0</a><br><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Eoghan Ryan lives and works in Berlin. Selected shows, performances and screenings have taken place at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; South London Gallery; Rowing, London; Serralves Museum, Porto; IFI, Dublin; Outpost, Norwich; Kem, Warsaw; Cubitt, London; Kim? Contemporary, Riga; CAC, Vilnius; Catalyst Arts, Belfast; New Shelter Plan, Copenhagen; The East End Film Festival London and FACT, Liverpool. Recent includes a two person show with Beth Collar at ROOM E1027 at Center Berlin, Nocturnal Reflections, Macao, Milan; and a group show at Spike, Berlin. Eoghan will begin the the Rijksakademie in January.</span><br></div></div></div>
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