[-empyre-] This drawing while turning on a computer.

christina christina at christinamcphee.net
Tue Mar 8 08:05:45 EST 2011


GH "  A computer would not understand when to stop nor where to allow  
breathing space between the lines."

xDxD.vs.xDxD    i actually guess that if it had the right friends, it  
could. :)


But what if the field has  something to do with being estranged (not  
having the 'right friends'.) Listen to Martin Glaz Serup on his   
FIELD....

Martin writes,

"In the FIELD, I take something very well known (in Denmark, but, I  
would think, worldwide, more or less), and let it become estranged.  A  
place where you can project the text—so to speak—or your reading of  
it. A place without a fixed age, a fixed sex, a fixed social situation  
or context.  And then again…one of the effects of the FIELD, I think,  
is that it sort of vibrates in the reading: in the beginning it’s  
strange, then, because of the repetition and predictability, the FIELD  
disappears, and in glimpses it breaks back into the reading and  
destabilizes it just a bit.  The FIELD simply becomes a name, but the  
name of everybody, everybody’s autobiography. I see THE FIELD as a big  
contemporary novel. Also I think ‘the field’ is a significant space  
of, and is associated with, the shift from an industrial to an  
information society in the West. Until recently agriculture was by far  
the biggest industry in Denmark and nothing is so Danish as the green  
or yellow fields in the wind etc. The FIELD is an installation and a  
book.  In the original book (and partly in the translation), there are  
many references to traditional Danish songs too (lullabies, harvest  
songs, etc.); I also think the field is a mental landscape, a general  
(and visual) metaphor for THE PEOPLE. "

The Field in English  http://www.ubu.com/contemp/serup/index.html






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