[-empyre-] theautre art research

[Simon]

Dear <<empyreans>>,

We seem to be between two weather systems tonight on the island of 
Waiheke in the Hauraki Gulf. The American contender for the America's 
Cup (aka the Prada) under the helm of Dean Barker (don't ask me why) has 
just decided to attempt a mid-air somersault and ended up capsizing. 
(Both interesting words.)

Hoping for a summer thunderstorm with those huge drops of rain. The heat 
settling and the high air in rapid movement between two walls of black 
cloud.

I find myself an independent art | theatre researcher. Involuntary. I 
would rather be working for an affiliation. But from what I hear about 
the level of digital autoveillance required by teaching institutions, 
and self-management, performance assessments, perhaps I should count 
myself lucky.

These past several years I have been working on an extended essay 
addressing art research, artistic research--artistic practice as 
academic research, and it is in view of this work that I answer the open 
call: what has been influencing my research and production?

-- Raymond Ruyer's neoformalism
-- Bernard Stiegler's technological protention(ism)
-- Alphonso Lingis's elemental imperative
-- Gilles Deleuze's problem of the formulation of the problem, as an 
edge to navigate--somersault, capsize, often.
--Félix Guattari's ecological thinking after 
psycho-social-eco-individuation of Gilbert Simondon
-- (Blanchot, Bataille, Levinas, these friends of the outside)

... and novelists from Curzio Malaparte, Virginie Despentes to Julianna 
Baggott and Samantha Schweblin, Vila-Matas, Barba, Gamboa...

for their navigation of the /novel/ problem: Kundera writes: to forge 
new existential knowledge. (His argument in /Testaments Betrayed/ about 
why we cannot afford to censor readinglists is exemplary considering 
what we will lose from this existential knowledge which comes out of the 
historical experience of the individual: we need neither judge nor 
suspend judgement on Céline, neither apologise nor excuse him, to learn 
from him. The danger is /if we do not/.)

I have also been trying to reconcile through the experiment of writing 
the communication of the medical with the political and the loss of 
distinct languages in favour of data.

In 2021 I will be reading Edward Whittemore's Jerusalem Quartet.

Best,
Simon

http://squarewhiteworld.com

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