[-empyre-] tesserae hot pink cali aqueduct

[naxsmash]

well my partner just saw this clip from my new video montage work on  
vimeo and over polenta and salad had this to say on the fly:


http://www.vimeo.com/5303813


about Tesserae Hot Pink Cali Aqueduct


quote

it's not going to stop the production of carbon
same as Piss Christ didn't stop the Church
nonetheless Piss Christ was terribly important to do
treating the carbon production with lipstick
vamping it, it makes the production of carbon more precious by  
glamourizing it speciously
it points to the cultural valorization of carbon, its production
it takes a fetishized form and invisible product and one which results  
from an imaginary even unimaginable source
and that source is what provides the substance of this project

the source is formalized rather than being allowed to remain a process
it's formalized as a fetishisation
much as the culture is apt to enact or to worship what it cannot  
access, ie the reality of carbon accumulation
  akin to the event-productions of traditions of queer performance

it's attempting to paint the process via its producers much like las  
vegas paints its ladies, as if they were producers of pleasure

The intention is to explore the disagreeable through the  
superimposition of the conditions of the fetish.

The project comes from a queer tradition wherein the artist is at the  
margins. It is an incredibly non-conforming
position because the world view of the artist insists on integrating a  
sexual fetizisation with political moves. it's over the topness
that makes it arresting, it is not trying to be part of the tradition  
of Spiral Jetty, it is not part of a meditative or contemplative
tradition.  This is much more connected to a queer relational  
aesthetic.  The hot pink is a circus act, a cirque de Venus
in the midst of the hypermasculine power plants.

Something magical is happening, the water is turning into dyed chrome,  
so postnatural.  The rage against the rape of the earth
turns everything hot pink, so sexy.


unquote   (Terry Hargrave 070109)



http://www.vimeo.com/5303813





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