[-empyre-] introducing week 3

[Alan Sondheim]

One thing I wonder, how so much cultural work occurs _after the fact,_ 
after the massacre, the use of the square, the beheading, the genocide; 
a temporality of mourning and warning seems embedded in so much 
production. It's hard to imagine art against a future massacre, without 
the looming presence of one past.

I'm not sure of this at all, but I think that time might be a form of 
diacritical mark implicit in a performance related to the events we are 
discussing here, others as well, that the work looks back, perhaps 
inhabits the horror or curtails its effects.

Related, a work which _satirizes_ the past into the present; this may or 
may not be relevant, but is worth seeing (thanks to Mike Gurstein), a form 
of healing, even joy, in the midst of everything discussed here -

Africans for Norway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5opSsAYQ3k

- Alan


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