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

["Luigi Pagliarini" <luigi@artificialia.com>]

Ana,
 
 do you have a website were I can see/read about your work?

Luigi Pagliarini
> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: empyre-bounces@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au 
> [mailto:empyre-bounces@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au] Per conto di Ana Valdes
> Inviato: venerdì 7 luglio 2006 14.49
> A: soft_skinned_space
> Oggetto: 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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