[-empyre-] the promise

["Tim Jaeger" <tim_in_flux@hotmail.com>]

this is the -real- last message for a bit. i'm busy packing/moving to los 
angeles (right now working at www.elproyecto.com in NYC) to work at the 
project gallery and rhizome.la. if any of you EMPYRE folk live out there 
maybe we'll run into each other at a dive bar.
jill:

> don't you remember how many hundreds and hundreds of hours it
> took
> you to learn to write with a pen? or to write fluently on a
> keyboard,
> for that matter. it seems to me artists of every kind have
> always had
> to spend a lot of time learning their medium.

yeah, but daniel buren (painter), john cage (ex-musician), and jim o'rourke 
(musician) would disagree, as would i. people have spent years learning how 
to paint "correctly" and the most exciting thing of the last century was 
some dude walking around a canvas on the floor dripping paint, or 
frizzed-out warhol shooting strangely plot-less films. half of the struggle 
is to unlearn your medium.

_*(attendent of joseph beuys' twelve-step recovery program...mon ami 
acconci...and the struggle to find time for cassavetes..).

and for my three cents auriea harvey/e8z is doing some great stuff with 
cinema and patrick lichty is super smart and making some great explorations 
and interventions (if not more focused on the theory tip than the art..) 
(and ohio looks almost as bleak as upstate nyc where i went to school!)

bye
tim.




_________________________________________________________________
MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: 
http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx