Re: [-empyre-] original form
Hi David,
"Would it be dangerous to say that you might possibly be influenced by east
asian brush written poems?"
No, that's not dangerous. In fact, it's flattering. Thank you.
Would it be dangerous to say that YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES has been
influenced by The Gates of Paradise?
http://www.yhchang.com/GATES_OF_HELL.html
Young-hae and Marc
On 5/14/05 2:59 AM, "David Daniels" <owidnazo@thegatesofparadise.com> wrote:
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> http://www.thegatesofparadise.com
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> Dear Young-hae and Marc
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> Would it be dangerous to say that you might possibly be influenced by east
> asian brush written poems?
>
> The words in your work jump out on the screen much like words in Chinese and
> Korean and Japanese brush written poems jump out on the paper when you
> see/read them and one after the other they bang into kaleidoscopic
> meanings -
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> GONG GONG GONG GONG
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> BIRDS CHIRP YING YING
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> DEAR CHIRP YO YO
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> LAST TIME I SAW TU FU
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> WAS ON MOUNTAIN OF BOILED RICE
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> BANG BANG BANG BANG
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> Your friend,
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> David Daniels
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> http://www.thegatesofparadise.com
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES" <tfa@chollian.net>
> To: "soft_skinned_space" <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 9:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] original form
>
>
>> Hi Russell,
>>
>> Thanks for the compliment. Sam Beckett was a good friend:
>>
>> http://www.yhchang.com/BECKETTS_BOUNCE.html
>>
>> "I'm sure you won't answer if you don't want to, but would you care to
>> comment on literary influences?"
>>
>> Ever since we made
>>
>> http://www.yhchang.com/DAKOTA.html
>>
>> we have told anyone who will listen that the piece is based on a close
>> reading of Ezra Pound's Canto I and first part of Canto II. To no avail.
>> No
>> one in literary criticism seems ready and willing to take a look at the
>> other literary influences in our work. To us, the influences are pretty
>> easy
>> to spot -- and fun, or so we thought. But maybe fun isn't what interests
>> today's critical theorists. Maybe fun disqualifies us.
>>
>> No matter. We're happy to wait for that special someone to come along.
>>
>> Young-hae and Marc
>>
>> On 5/13/05 8:51 AM, "Russell Smith" <Russell.Smith@anu.edu.au> wrote:
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>>> Yes, lots of love from me too.
>>>
>>> I was captivated by Young-hae and Marc's work the first time I came
>>> across
>>> "The Struggle Continues" about a year ago. For me the strength of the
>>> work
>>> is above all in the writing: I always show this work to students who ask
>>> me
>>> who I think are the most interesting contemporary writers around. And I
>>> guess the other thing I like about it is it's not interactive in any dumb
>>> 'new media' sense; if people can't stop fidgeting with their mouses for
>>> five minutes to take in a bit of art then I guess that's their loss.
>>>
>>> With the pounding repetition, lyrical aggression, and general
>>> hilariousness, the texts remind me above all of Thomas Bernhard and
>>> Samuel
>>> Beckett (about the highest compliment I can make!). Young-hae and Marc -
>>> I'm sure you won't answer if you don't want to, but would you care to
>>> comment on literary influences?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Russell Smith
>>> --
>>> At 04:09 PM 5/12/2005 +1000, you wrote:
>>>> I experienced Young-hae and Marc's 'engaged work' as a form of dialogue,
>>>> true communication (I am still contemplating that the basis of it was
>>>> possibly 'unconditional love'). The fact that it was art as well was
>>>> kind
>>>> of secondary to me (although I was very much aware of it). I saw it as
>>>> a
>>>> way to escape narrow-mindedness/stupidity/rigidness/etc. (mine own as
>>>> well
>>>> as the one of 'other') through dialogue, exchange - you do need to kind
>>>> of
>>>> 'train' yourself in selflessness for that. I personally love 'true'
>>>> 'stupidity', I see it as one of the basic elements of life - and when it
>>>> is put in relevant context it becomes really beautiful. Therefore, my
>>>> personal response to their work was related to the 'moment' in time, or
>>>> rather quite accidental on one level, but one could also argue that all
>>>> art (or awareness of art) is in a way an 'accidental event'.
>>>>
>>>> - and, yes, lots of love from me
>>>>
>>>> Victoria
>>>>
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