Re: [-empyre-] Bare Life, Ghost Detainees, Exclusion and Performance

[Susana Mendes Silva <arslonga@netcabo.pt>]

Thank you for your answers!
Specially this last one, because I got a bit confused when you said  
"schizoid" which can be seen just as personality disorder that  
relates to "lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency  
towards a solitary lifestyle, and emotional coldness": http:// 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid
Now, it all makes sense - i find the way you constructed the work it  
quite interesting.

Regarding the other question, I don't see the question in the same  
way as you do. Just because terrorists use the internet to convey  
messages, and you use it for your work, it doesn't mean that you are  
doing the same thing or using the same strategy just because your are  
using the same space. They use it to convey a specific message that  
has a specific target, you use it with very different implications  
and meanings - you are positioning yourself critically and opening  
your work to several interpretations.

One thing that you have in common is that both have access to the  
Internet and skills to use it.

As you have read from the posts of those who are living the war in  
Lebanon is that they are concerned because don't know for how long  
they will be connected (to the net and to life too).

susana








On Jul 18, 2006, at 12:37 PM, G.H. Hovagimyan wrote:

> Hi Susana,
> To answer to your questions. Perhaps I should have said Schizotypal  
> personality disorder to describe the character. Here's the  
> definition from wikipedia;
>
> "Schizotypal personality disorder, or simply schizotypal disorder,  
> is a personality disorder that is characterized by a need for  
> social isolation, odd behaviour and thinking, and often  
> unconventional beliefs such as being convinced of having extra  
> sensory abilities. Some people believe that schizotypal personality  
> disorder is a mild form of schizophrenia."There is a high rate of  
> comorbidity with other personality disorders. McGlashan et al.  
> (2000) stated that this may be due to overlapping criteria with  
> other personality disorders, such as avoidant personality disorder  
> and paranoid personality disorder[1]."
> -from wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
> Schizotypal_personality_disorder>
>
> In America this is the common understanding of borderline schizo.  
> There is also a sort of underlying archetype which I can loosely  
> define. It is the loner who may also be an assassin, such as  
> Theodore Bikel in the movie Taxi Driver. There is also Ted Kozinski  
> the Una-bomber, and any number of people who don't engage in the  
> normal political society. These people believe they have been  
> abducted by aliens or aliens are controlling their mind. They hear  
> voices commanding them to kill such as the 44 Caliber Killer. In  
> the 1970's in Soho, New York there was a homeless man who used to  
> walk around and shout about the news reports. I'm sure that  
> everyone has encountered this type of street person in their own  
> country. The person speaks the truth but it is mixed up with his  
> own mental disease.
> I was on a bus in Paris a couple of years ago and a man started to  
> rant to the people on the bus about Chirac and Sacrosi. Everyone  
> was listening and the man was expressing what the society felt.
>
> On Jul 17, 2006, at 5:38 AM, Susana Mendes Silva wrote:
>
> > Hi G.H.,
> >
> > I am quite curious about the way that you built your character for  
> > this specific performance project.
> > Why did you choose a "borderline schizoid personality type"?
> >
> >
> > > For our next collaborative piece we did a performance work  
> > > called, Rant/ Rant Back/ Back Rant;
> > > “Peter Sinclair created a special interface to sample voice  
> > > input, manipulate it and send it back into the general audio mix  
> > > in real time. GH projects the ramblings of a borderline schizoid  
> > > personality type who can't tell the difference between media news  
> > > information, gossip and paranoid rumors. The piece is a techno  
> > > driven word or poetry jam that resembles the ranting of a  
> > > delusional street person. GH prepared the content by clipping  
> > > news articles and posting them on a web in a blog called rantblog  
> > > PTP (power to the people).”
> > > http://nujus.net/gh_04/gallery9.html
>
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