[-empyre-] failure or mishap

[davin heckman]

A little side note:  I used to go to a museum in Minnesota called the
Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, it was a museum of failures
(radioactive elixirs, phrenology machines, anal rotors, etc.).  It got
me thinking about archiving, in general, as a record of failure...  or
at least trajectories foreclosed by their placement in a static
environment.

Thinking about this month's topic and the question of failure, I
wonder if certain types of recording which "fix" the "live" event and
commit it to memory aren't failures of a sort, in the same way that
most people get nervous about pictures of themselves ("stills"),
particularly if they lock down a perspective and moment of a dynamic
gesture.  In this case, it is not "stillness" that fails, but
distillation that fails.

On the other hand, it is important to recognize the possible of a
second aesthetic assemblage created from the distillation of the
primary event.  The failure of this artifact would have to be assessed
differently from its source.

Peace!
Davin

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Ashley Ferro-Murray
<aferromurray at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brad et al,
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> Thank you for your point. I absolutely agree. I think that the kind of
> failure that I was considering was not an institutional or theory
> based failure. Rather, a purely technical one. Still, though, your
> point is well taken. The technical occurrence is not necessarily
> separate or different from the parameters of the institution or
> theoretical inquiry. It seems that we should still address this
> circumstance with the same "viable art praxis" since technological
> parameters too are prescribed maybe not by the art world, but by the
> technical world, which is often coming even more directly from a place
> of institutionalization. For example, so much of our technology is
> created from research conducted with military funding. Another
> institutional relationship that I would be interested in exploring.
>
> Ashley
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> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:10 PM, { brad brace } <bbrace at eskimo.com> wrote:
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> Ashley Ferro-Murray
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> University of California, Berkeley
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