Re: [-empyre-] Fwd: Chernobyl Project and blogging

[Alice Miceli <alicemiceli@terra.com.br>]

Hello again, Tim, and sorry for the absence the last day. I had, out  
of the blue, to reschedule my trip from Berlin to Rio, to actually  
take part in a festival in Sao Paulo (long story...), and was myself  
crossing a very wide physical space. Although crossing it by airplane  
doesn't really offer the traveler a sense of crossing a "distance",  
as sailing a boat would do, in my opinion. Maybe I will get back to  
Europe on a boat, then? It would be swell to do that.

About the "blog extension" of the Chernobyl Project:
The recording of invisible radioactivity emitted by contaminated  
matter is, as well, a "socio-political recording" of the Chernobyl  
situation.  It is a double-layer action. And since this project  
involves a huge amount of research and a whole process that stems  
from a conceptual decision, I thought it was worthwhile also to  
document this very empirical process. On the blog, I make use of  
“more traditional” images, maybe we could say more "literal" images  
(video, digital photography) to document the process, in the form of  
an online journal: as an artist notebook, which I also keep, the blog  
is the place for ongoing questions and possible ways of dealing with  
them: how do you enter a place called “exclusion zone", which, by  
definition, is a place that excludes you?
The entire project builds itself as it develops and it all happens in  
transit. This process is a leap into the unknown; the blog space  
accompanies, in its virtual form, this development, this going  
towards something unknown.

To be continued on following posts...

Best,
Alice


On Sep 18, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Timothy Murray wrote:

> Thanks so much for your account of your Chernobyl Project, Alice.   
> In addition to your ellision of the visible and the invsibile as  
> components of spatial critical practice, I'm also interested in  
> your extension of your video project into your blog.  Since Maurice  
> also maintains a blog, I'm wondering whether you both might have  
> something to say about this particular online extension of your  
> practice.
>
> > Although Renate and I didn't consider the coincidence of your  
> > bloggings  when we were discussing the pairings of guests for the  
> > month,  I'm also wondering whether or not your blogging activity  
> > has subsequently altered or complicated your assumptions about  
> > spatial practice itself.
>
> Best,
>
> Tim
>
>
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