[-empyre-] Shhh, Montreal in the house.

["Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>]

Montreal [where it All began] in the House.

  Lachlan




Lachlan

Don't assume that all artists and curators in the gene pool hold the same
ideological or political positions! 
We all hate each other you know....

David O'Halloran
(Curator)

;;I know

Lachlan,

first things first. You being a curator and/or artist
(or a combination of the two) should pay more
attention to details. Do not let your preconceptions
overwhelm you. You spelt my name wrong :-)

;;I apologise for that.


I was referring to your initial comment:

> What does this mean in the empires of narrative,
> drama, and ways of understanding the consumption of
> images and texts in hypermedia?

And I can only answer with another question. What does
the Beeothoven 9th mean? What do Antonello da Messina
painting mean? What do Canova's statues mean? Meaning
(the one you can narrate in an email/text message) is
not the point. I do not have to tell you that art is a
synthesis of idea and form (this is elementary school
in my country). Separate the one from the other and
they both MEAN absolutely nothing. You cannot say that
Emily Dickinson talk about solitude. She does it in a
unique form. If I or you do it, it'll be different
(and can it possibly MEAN the same?)

As for body as text, oh come on. What is that? What
does THAT mean? Possibly some 'post-something'
'avant-apeshit' secret code?

;;the body is a book

FInally, I was not introducing any matter and memory
theme. Just replying to a message titled Samba and
scopophilia, wathever that means. Living in London, I
sometimes come to terms with a couple of things I most
of the time can take, but in some moments I have to
fight. One is the universal apologising without really
meaning it or being sorry. Another one are places full
of intellectuals. "Into what?" a friend of mine used
to joke...

But I'm probably too think for this?

Again, nothing personal :-) It's meaning that matters
here.

Ciao, Cristiano

Hi Cristiano,

I seem to have a wider sense for meaning.
Many artpieces do mean "something" for me even when I am not able to express
this meaning in word in an adequate form.

NO MEANING - NO CONTENT messages are therefore somehow boring for me.

Why talking, communicating, creating when there is no meaning or content?

Even an empty box has content. ;) (in the sound of silence)

Tanti saluti

Reiner



RE: Lachlan:
>I'd like to query the assumption that Benjamin's 'aura' is not
>found in digital media and communication (it most certainly is);

Could you elaborate on this?


also

>RE: Christano:
>How about 'nothing at all'. It means 'nothing'. Body
>is not text. Meaning is totally unimportant.

This incomprehensible to me.
On multiple levels the body speaks, is written, erased,
and read.

K




How about 'nothing at all'. It means 'nothing'.
> Body
> >is not text. Meaning is totally unimportant.
> 
> This incomprehensible to me.
> On multiple levels the body speaks, is written,
> erased,
> and read.

"To speak" and "Text" are quite different things,
aren't they? Body can speak I agree, but I should be
convinced that body is text. Unless we want to
redefine the entire english language.

BTW... Body is written? Body is 'erased'? What is that
supposed to mean? It sounds like jargon to me.

Cristiano






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