[-empyre-] Landmarks, there are none.

["Adam Nash" <adam@yamanakanash.net>]

Landmarks, there are none.
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 17:42:50 +1000
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Jumping right in...

My work 'Scorched Happiness' is concerned with place and space, but takes place in virtual space. 
Ironically, with this exhibition it is presented as a physically sited piece, which offers a host of 
challenges. One becomes concerned with projectors, seats,  printing and computers, instead of the 
emotional geography of multi-user cyberspace as a non-physical territory in which to explore the 
pyschological environment of the immigrant, as expressed by Kristeva in her "Toccata and Fugue for 
the Foreigner", an environment that is itself the result of the clash of the physical ("country") and the 
virtual ("culture").

My greatest fear in presenting Scorched Happiness via projectors to an audience with whom I am 
physically sharing a room is that their final impression will be "would be better on a computer 
screen", which would be ironic because it is designed for individual net-connected computer screen 
consumption. The performers are logged-in "live" but not physically present in the space with the 
audience, so what is the point of the audience being physically present at all? It is an inconvenient 
but interesting irony!

Regards,
Adam


On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:51:46 +1000, Melinda Rackham wrote
> -empyre- is pleased to welcome our guest facilitator Alexie Glass 
> for the second week of forums. This weeks theme is "in situ" :
> 
> As place dissolves in an increasingly connected world what becomes of
> situated practice? Artists and curators from multiple disciplines on 
> and offline discuss site aesthetics the transportability and 
> specificities of installation. With: Chris Caines at 
> http://www.madeupstuff.com/go , Zina Kaye at http://thelineahead.net 
> , nat&ali, and qnoors at  http://fluidtransmissions.va.com.au
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