Re: [-empyre-] More Throws...



hI  all,

I am sorry my previous mail was an unedited text, were I am attempting to talk about the difference in mediated experience of bare life and 'bare life'. I accidentally pressed the send button and before I could jank out the ethernet cable the mail had gone, My apologies and in an attempt to save face here is in short what I was trying to bring to the discussion.

The whole world cup soccer experience has me very worried mostly because of the grand scale, realtime broadcast globally of the event, and the rhetoric imbedded in the footage, namely, individualism, and power, and the focus on the emotions not so much on the game. The capability of these images to draw you in as a viewer and give the feeling you are part of the game where, actually, as in my case I am sitting watching in a coffee-shop in Vancouver. I felt that my emotions were manipulated. The convergence in television of , reality -TV, news , and sports.
I started a research project that looks at the development and choices made in editing and kind of image since the world cup was broadcasted. The development of technology , clear, crisp, images , the capability of HDTV, makes for a different kind of experience for the viewer then say 16 years ago. ( A few dots running over a green patch, with a white dot going from one to another. The emphasize was more on the team effort and gave the viewer more room to analyze the match. The emotional involvement was not instigated as much by the technological abilities, by something else, maybe a commitment to the game , or nation?)
This might be all old news but i think when talking about 'bare life' it's important to beware of the use of the entertainment industry of this concept and how this industry wants the viewer or participant to have a 'bare life' experience.
Ok, this is a fast response to safe face.


I am a slow writer, so I hope to participate more to the discussion. Please read these ideas as notes for future discussion.

My sincere apologies for the previous mail.

Jacky


On 11-Jul-06, at 4:47 PM, jacky sawatzky wrote:

Hi Conor and all,

I don't know if I am allowed to apply not being an guest, but I am trying.
I want to respond to your insights into the relationship between 'bare live' and televised soccer. (note: i am making a big destinction between soccer and televsied soccer.)
Watching soccer on TV adds another layer of dramatic entertainment to the game. The close ups , the slow motion, the commentator. I got fascinated by the whole event of worlscup soccer and that miljions of people all ove the world were watching at he smae time. ofte ni felt I wasn't watching soccer but a reality T.V show that played on very basic emotional response. HDTV, the crisp, image that doesn't leave muc hhidden for us viewers, from tattoos to headbutting, and hte editing that has more close ups then overview shots, and the replay in slowmotion of reactions, says for me more about a possible outcome of hte developement of technology. This is a realtime, with miljions of people all over the world watching the same images! The images are ment to put you close to the game as viewer 'as if you are part of it' .
When I moved to Canada from Holland I often told people I loved watching soccer, the response was , borring it's like watching a game of pong on TV. I still recall watching
Holland arentina in 1978, I was young, it was the finals. A contreversal world cup held in Argentina during the juanta, Johan Cruiyff refused to play for holland because of human righth issues. This game had a hughs impakt on my politcal forming a s a 10 year old. Recently, in my research to





On 11-Jul-06, at 9:54 AM, Conor McGarrigle wrote:

Hi Aliette, empyreans

As I am in Paris at the moment and as Aliette has already mentioned
it's hard to escape football and of course the fortunes of les bleus.
I watched both the semi final and the final at the Stade Charléty here
in Paris and I feel I got an insight into what  Roger M. Buergel means
when he talks of the 'ecstatic dimension to it – a freedom for new and
unexpected possibilities' . The photographer Jurgen Teller made a
video a few years ago consisting of a fixed camera watching him as he
watched Germany play in the World cup. Divorced from it' s context
it's very amusing watching him lose all reason but that's what
football is all about. Watching France play surrounded by thousands of
french fans reflecting the diverse backgrounds of the team, a team it
seems that embody so much of the political issues that are important
in France today. But when the ball kicks off all that matters is the
game and you are exposed to some form of bare life where the highs are
ecstatic and the lows terrible but all that matters is the moment and
there are no differences, no class, no colour just for that moment.
Then it all comes crashing down in an instant as it did in Berlin when
Zizou walked off the pitch taking French hopes with him and we all
left to be greeted by phalanxes of riot police batons drawn and ready
for action.

But it is all worth it for those moments and those moments are what I
search for in art.

Conor
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