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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