Re: [-empyre-] Bare Life Is Not About Art



I think the point here is how much "bare life" is to feel yourself
constrained, privated of your right to dissent, lacking your
"citizenship". We gathered a lot of anger and a lot of passion, it's a
bit difficult for me today to wake up the passion of a 19 years old
girl in a woman of 53, but that's the challenge, to moce yourself
between your own memory, the collective memory and the fiction and the
narrative.
Sarat Maharat wrote something wonderful about Memory and we met and
discuss my project, to write about the prison in Aganbem terms, seeing
it as a testimony finding it's place between the documentary and the
literary.
Ana

On 7/7/06, G.H. Hovagimyan <ghh@thing.net> wrote:

On Jul 7, 2006, at 8:12 AM, Ana Valdes wrote:

> the fields, move around stones to  place and move them again, the
> Sysiphous work, I did it.

In your snippet I can see a whole art work.

Richard Serra the sculptor tells a story of how, when he was a
rambunctious young man, his father would punish him by making him
move a huge pile of dirt by hand from one location of their back lot
to another location. When he was done, he and his father had an
aesthetic discussion about it's location. If they agreed the pile was
in the right place he was finished his task. If not he would move the
pile to the agreed properly aesthetic position.


G.H. Hovagimyan http://nujus.net/gh/ http://post.thing.net/gh/





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