[-empyre-] Process as Paradigm - / cracked media

[Maria Verstappen]

Dear Johannes,
It is indeed difficult to discuss an exhibition that most people didn't see. The online catalogue gives an impression, but the processual characteristics of most works can't be reflected in a few still pictures.
Even in a video recording you loose a lot of the live experience, but it comes a bit closer to the real thing.
Here is a link to one of our works in Process as Paradigm, titled Sandbox:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/sandbox/sandbox.html
To see the video, choose "movie" at the bottom of the page. 
regards,
Maria Verstappen

Driessens & Verstappen
http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot





On May 14, 2010, at 9:33 PM, Johannes Birringer wrote:

> 
> dear all:
> 
> may i ask whether this month's discussion was meant to be in response to (inspired by)  an exhibition curated by Suzanne and Lucas ?
> .."el proceso como paradigma" ?  Laboral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial  /  Gijon, Spain ? 
> 
> thanks much for giving us the reference to the catalogue
> 
> (..>>The full catalogue of the exhibition can be found at http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/en/714-catalogue >>)
> 
> I was just able to download it and look forward to glancing at it, but am not sure I can read everything, and perhaps others faced the same dilemma, and we have not seen or experienced
> the exhibition and its processual-ness.  
> 
> Also, often catalogues of art exhibitions (a pity that tradition never quite came to happen for performances and site specific works and such like; music concerts?
> opera? machinima? why is it that only the visual arts developed this reflective or reactive or processual medium of the art book/art catalogue?),  these discursive things, this "cracked" writing on an exhibition or exhibitions -- well they  in many cases do not even reference the actual exhibition,  since the essays were commissioned beforehand so the catalogue could appear in tandem with the exhibition process or anticipate a reception or force one ....and so often the illustrations are wrong or misleading too).
> 
> am I making sense?  
> 
> how can we discuss an exhibition (or its implied thesis or paradigmatic proposition) that many will not have seen? but perhaps some of you who did experience its processual-ness , or showed work in it, can speak a bit more about what objects or performances, prototypes or processes or nonobjects and interactional strategies you set in motion there?  
> 
> thanks !
> 
> regards
> 
> Johannes Birringer
> dap lab
> http://www.brunel.ac.uk/dap
> http://www.danssansjoux.org
> 
> 
> PS.  my allusion is to Caleb Kelly, Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction, Cambridge, 2009
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