[-empyre-] Thank you Melinda, Christina and October guests

[lmdk@nbnet.nb.ca (Lea Deschamps)]

Merci to Empyre facilitators Melinda and Christina
and to special guests Gair, Valerie LeBlanc, Daniel Dugas, Clemente 
Padin, Randy Knott, Saoirse Higgins, Mark Kristmanson and to all 
contributors to the October forum,

Thank you for your many insights. As I have mentioned earlier 
Proceedings of the Atlantic Cultural Space are scheduled for 
publication in the next few months.  An insert regarding the e-lounge 
new media event will focus on the problematics of relational 
aesthetics and geographies. Your input on Empyre allowed for 
interstices that challenged aesthetic normalcy and curatorial as well 
as spectatorship accountability. Your subtle unorthodox manner of 
coming aboard and of infiltrating (the) Empyre brought into question 
the reiteration of quite an array of current buzz words and 
binarisms.  Some of these operate deep at the core of self-policing 
or policing art practices, and some I think may have been suspended 
here and historicized as indexical. Regarding the latter, I will soon 
be forwarding you drafts for comments prior to the publication.

So more to come, from elsewhere to elsewhere.

Regards,

Lea Deschamps