Is this you?
I don’t know how to tell you this. I’ll just come out and say it, a conversation I had has been passed out at an art show. Tonight is actually the closing night, I am going out there for the party.
The conversations were cataclysmic variables, binary star systems with one white dwarf star and one normal star, in close orbit about each other. Material from the normal star falls onto the white dwarf, creating a burst of X-rays.
I think that is the perfect description: Instant messaging and the internet, our orbit and channel, allowing material to drop on one another.
It was deeply sorrowful at times to lose connection and misunderstand each other. I couldn’t stop thinking about the exchange for weeks. How strange I acted, which self is my real self, but mostly it caused me to be still in awe at the infinite possibilities that continue to manifest themselves over and over. I truly believe in our earnest efforts to be good and in the necessity of juxtaposition.
If you want to, you should go tonight. Here’s what we will see.
The aesthetic and intellectual interests of this group are varied and expressed using video,
photography, painting, drawing, installation, sculpture and performance. The navigation of sites and space is considered in works addressing the militarized landscape, Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion map of the earth, sites of historical trauma, and the ever-changing neighborhood where LACE is located. Other artists explore the body and interpersonal relationships. Figures pose in lushly constructed paper rooms, a woman
interacts with images of deceased artists, and animated bodies engage with each other in intimate and awkward ways. Others use criticality and humor to expose Dr. Condoleezza Rice, stereotypes of Japanese femininity, and the vagaries of political speech.The exhibition’s title alludes to the various positions and dynamics at play in political, philosophical, geographic, bodily, and emotional states of being. It refers to a fluidity of perspective and the artists’ multiple attempts to upset the familiar and re-route its meaning through skillful and thoughtful manipulations of their chosen media. With equal doses of wit, analysis, poetry, and attention to craft, the work in this exhibition exemplifies the diverse influences of the institution where these artists met.
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Yeah, I know what you are saying. Sometimes in new situations or being alone I act so differently and I feel bummed about it. “…which self is my real self…” I guess it all is, right?
Also, I’ll be there for sure (of course).
Comment by Matthew — September 7, 2007 #
i’m there!…after dinner (BJ’s? C’mon) with my parents, selling records at amoeba and finding it…can’t wait, this is very exciting. i would and wouldn’t like to be in your shoes for the same reasons.
ps. i’ll be wearing sandals.
Comment by Jordan — September 7, 2007 #