Been thinking alot lately about drag and the applied (with a trowel) 'subjectivity of the feminine' by male drag queens.. gs its because I've been watching Ru Pauls Drag show on foxtell instead of doing phd.
good article here
DRAG ARTISTS & PERFORMERS CREATIVITY THRU TRANSGENDERIS
Female Drag Queens by Frederike De Jonge
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Excerpt from the DVD "Expanded Celluloid, Extended Phonograph" (Balloon and Needle, 2008)
by Lee Hangjun (Experimental Filmmaker) and Hong Chulki (Noise Improviser) from South Korea
Advance Praise for ECEP
It is in the spirit of an experience and experiment that Hang Jun Lee's "The Cracked Share" must be viewed. Seized in moments of visual detachment during periods of emotional contact, these images are oxidized residues of fixed light and chemical elements of transformed from living organisms. No plastic expression can ever be more than a residue of the experience and yet, the residue is the recognition of the experience, loss permeates the work and yet somehow the experience endures, recalling the event more or less clearly, like the undisturbed ashes of an object consumed by flames. The recognition of this object, so little representative and so fragile, speaks to us of this artist's isolation. "The Cracked Share" is quite wonderfully dense and visceral in nature ... it looks as though the work has been doubly manipulated organically and digitally, yet the work still retain its organic nature through its alchemical orientation...the sense of visual rhythm is well paced and the appropriated footage of the Astronauts / Pornographic actor /Horse in "The Cracked Share" is wonderfully imaginative and fluid...an ocular alkahest"
Carl E. Brown
I have been waiting for more than 20 years for those who create music and video just like Lee Hangjun and Hong Chulki. Sound and video are eventually mere data. It is impossible for me to believe in the piece of music or the visual work if it doesn't start from this harsh reality because the problem lies in its start. Accordingly, Lee Hangjun and Hong Chulki's work exposes this starting point as it is. They confront and challenge the problem at this point of departure in audio and video.
Otomo Yoshihide
Great blog Professor What If... finally good questions Click Here
"The purpose of theory...is not to provide a pat set of answers about what to do, but to guide us in sorting out options, and to keep us out of the 'any action/no action' bind. Theory...keeps us aware of the questions that need to be asked." --Charlotte Bunch
How many soundies does it take to change a light bulb?
1..2..3..1..2..3
I just joined She Writes ... and their Funny Woman 'room' and theres a link there to Rumpus.net and an article 'Women writing on McSweeny's site ... its a good list click here to read the whole lot ... the idea is to encouraging women to submit more humor to publishers!! do it gals
heres an extract...
“Why are men, taken on average and as a whole, funnier than women?” inquired Christopher Hitchens in “Why Women Aren’t Funny,” Vanity Fair, January 2007.
That’s a good question. And by that I mean, fuck you.
Since women are so hilarious all the time/everywhere (see: Margaret Cho, Janeane Garofalo, Starlee Kine, Katie Crouch, Kristen Schaal, etc.), I’d like to feature the women of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, who are reliably hysterical, clever, and concise. Below is what I consider the best of what women have written for the site since the beginning of 2008.
My measures of judgment:
- A vagina. It’s not that I’m sexist, but sometimes it’s important to fight sexism with sexism.
- Timelessness. I can’t read another joke about the econolypse; everyone being poor and homeless just isn’t funny anymore, and it won’t be funny (or ironic in a good way) in ten years when everyone is rich and arrogant again. Further, I don’t care for faux math.
- Utilization of nontraditional narrative and syntactical deviations.
- Universal applicability. You were crapped on [in some way]? I was crapped on [in same way]!
- Discussion of men being emotionally AWOL.
- References to literature’s antiquity, David Lynch, The Wire, and sex phobias.
Other criteria:
- I laughed aloud.
- I was in some way offended.
- The term “manorexic” was used.
The list (out of hundreds and in no particular order):
extract ...'Outer-side the curled lip of reason, where the strait line of order slips, and falters, lisps and
stutters, and where causes pause, there exists multitudes of un-reasons muttering … twitching,
switching, bitching, forming foaming fallows as reason-ettes unformed meanings tunnelled as
off the more slight. These facet the sights of might bright assets deport’n themselves in infinite
play...'
a good read ... click here for more published at Bukker Tillibul
Bukker Tillibul Online Journal of Writing and Practice-led Research click here
Artist-as-Mother/Mother-as-Artist: A Metaphorical Resurrection
'When we talk about art now, especially radical or experimental art, we talk about war. The artwork achieves, or fails to achieve. It is revolutionary and breaks through barriers, or it falls flat. Postmodern art (of all genres) is valued for its ability to move us forward—to shock, to produce awe. Our zeitgeist is blitzkrieg. Notably, the term avant garde is a military one, and it is precisely this term that makes it difficult to imagine communication with the artist. Either you position yourself behind the vanguard, reaping the benefits of their sacrifice, or you stand opposing them, attempting to cut them down as they hurl their weapons into your culture. The soldiers (the artists) in these metaphors are necessarily silent—and their purpose violent.
Walter Benjamin, in his essay, “The Task of the Translator,” writes:
The basic error of the translator is that he preserves the state in which his own language happens to be instead of allowing his language to be powerfully affected by the foreign tongue. Particularly when translating from a language very remote from his own he must go back to the primal elements of language itself and penetrate to the point where work, image, and tone converge. He must expand and deepen his language by means of the foreign language. It is not generally realized to what extent this is possible… (Benjamin 81)''
The most disturbing interloper in the field of reason is sound, - sounding within the language itself that delivers it ... it is the 'unsound'.
Not merely 'other 'it is so refused as to not even be ... It has no validity in terms of meaning or affect. In working with Gertrude Stein's text Two: Gertrude Stein and her Brother I am increasingly impressed by how multi-dimensional her project was and still is ... very worth a rethink in terms of She seems to have been able to critique the frames of reason through language itself ... but more than that through notions of relationship between words and notions. These are so'unexpected' that throw new possibilities into the mind- new arrangements for thinking and for being then in relatio to ones thinking and hearing thinking.
I 'm starting to read object-orientated philosophy and I like this notion ... 'Larvae are creatures in a process of becoming or development that have not yet actualized themselves in a specific form. And the notion of a physical space for the incubation of philosophical larvae that are yet without determinate positions or commitments but which are in a process of unfolding'... especially in relation to how I'm trying to shape an understanding of sound in Steins work .
See Laval Subjects for more on object-orientated philosophy. To say its good stuff is understating it.
Also Object-orientated Philosophy here
This is brilliant too on a.aaaarg
"Guerrilla Metaphysics: Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things"
by Graham Harman.Its a follow up on his previous book Heidegger's Tools
http://a.aaaarg.org/text/11078/guerrilla-metaphysics-phenomenology-and-carpentry-things
The PhD's going well, slippery as all get out, but thats the nature of the untamed beast grrrrr.
The Art of Noise or The Art of Noises here
... "we want to score and regulate harmonically and rhythmically these most varied noises" (war noises). War was Russolo's original inspiration.
‘Sound is coming out of her. Sound has been coming out of her. Sound can come out of her.
Sound coming out of her is coming out of her and she has not been hearing not been hearing the sound that has been coming out of her. Sound has come out of her and she is listening and sound can come out of her.
Sound comes out of her. Sound coming out of her is expressing that thing, is saying something. Sound coming out of her is expressing something, is saying anything. Sound coming out of her is expressing everything, is saying everything. Sound is coming out of her. Sound has been coming out of her. Some sound comes out of her. Sound comes out of her.
If sound comes out of her it is a sound that expresses that thing expresses sound coming out of her. Sound does come out of her. Sound coming out of her does express this thing does express sound coming out of her.
Sound coming out of her comes out of her and is expressing sound coming out of her. Expressing sound coming out of her is something sound coming out of her is doing. Sound coming out of her is something. Sound is coming out of her. from Two: Gertrude Stein and her Brother
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