[-empyre-] self and others

[naxsmash]

Yes, Johanna, thank you.

> I  find making art pure pleasure, but it is the pleasure of bringing
> something into being, an act of making-as-knowing, that intensifies
> awareness. I'm an awareness junky.

I was really lucky to attend Trisha Brown's early works performed  
(with Trisha herself in attendance) at the DIA  Beacon in NY last  
November..

works of 'awareness junkiness' unfolded in pairs , each within a  
specific volume developed by a visual work.

  Self-not/, alone/community/ there/not there-- Trisha moves that edge  
with saturated minimalist spaces, with humor and generosity and irony.

  http://www.trishabrowncompany.org/

Falling Duet (1968), Leaning Duets (1970), Group Primary Accumulation  
(1970), Accumulation (1971), Spanish Dance (1973), and Locus (1975)

In galleries dedicated to the work of John Chamberlain, Imi Knoebel,  
Richard Serra, and Andy Warhol.




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On Jan 13, 2010, at 6:36 AM, Johanna Drucker wrote:

> Nice turn to these exchanges. I also really appreciated Gabriela's
> point and the follow-up by others.
>
> If we think of art as the act of form giving, we recognize that forms
> partake of symbolic systems. As social creatures we
> 'interpellate' (hideous theory word) shared symbolic systems (signs,
> stories, genres, dance moves, rules of the game etc.). But of course
> collectively and individually, we shift those symbol systems (for
> better and worse--think of personal choice and fashion trends).
>
> I've fallen from my pure structuralist beliefs. I no longer think we
> are only 'subjects.' Individualism may be a founding mythology of
> western culture, absorbed in the most opportunistic ways into
> contemporary consumer culture, but I think it has grounding. You are
> not me, even though, to recap all the polit-theo-talk in Pogo's terms,
> "We have met the enemy and he is us."  A great deal of cult studs
> analysis comes to that.
>
> Life is short. One of the pressing questions is what does one want to
> spend time on? The term "therapy" seems to carry a dismissive tone. I
> find making art pure pleasure, but it is the pleasure of bringing
> something into being, an act of making-as-knowing, that intensifies
> awareness. I'm an awareness junky.
>
> Johanna
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