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

[Cristiano Bianchi <cristianobianchi@yahoo.com>]

The body is a book? To me the body is a strawberry.
But this is becoming sterile.

Cristiano

 --- Lachlan Brown <lachlan@london.com> wrote: >
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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