I'm preparing for a series of performances and an installation of drawings for CAVE Art Fair. I'm writing something that I can't necessarily talk about yet (until the press all gets sent out), but the more abstract, meta-theme is about subjects and objects, so here are some notes and ideas in no particular order of importance.
-Subjects are internal and objects are external.
-Our digestive system processes objects, but does so via a semi-permeable membrane. Our digestive system, like our skin is an
external organ.
-We are a tube, and the external part of that tube is an object.
-Our skin is a visible object.
-Our digestive system is an invisible object, a hidden object.
-Objects are beyond us, as subjects.
-We are subjects, but only to ourselves.
-We are objects to other people.
-Objects are more real than us (me).
-Only other people are objects to other people, for us.
-Objects
are. We (I)
do.
OR
-Objects act, we (I) react.
-The anus is a producer of objects.
-Art is a subject-object.
-A subject-object is an object whose existence or meaning is related to or predicated on (the existence or processes of) a subject.
-Shit is a subject-object.
-We process objects
externally via our digestive system.
-We (subjects)
wrap ourselves around objects, but we do not transcend our subjectivity.
-We
carve at the joints of reality (objects).
-We are unreal.
-We are less real than objects.
-
We are less real than other people.
-I am less real than other people.
-Nostalgia is a yearning for a time that never was.
-Nostalgia is a yearning for authenticity (that never was).
-Nostalgia is a yearning for the transcendence of our subjectivity; our subjecthood.
-Nostalgia is a longing to
be an object for yourself.
-(Subjectivity is the only possibility for knowledge [of objects], and also the impossibility of that knowledge [of objects])
-Subjects are false. Objects are true.
-To look into the digestive system is to look into an object, an externality.
-Subjectivity can only hug at objectivity.
-The reason for a subject is to hug at objects. Enclose them. Rub at them. Shape around them as closely as possible.
-Third person narratives allow the narrator to know subjects
as if they could know subjects.
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Viewing (images, moving images) allows the viewer to identify with objects as subjects.
-Viewing allows the viewer to identify with
subjects as objects.
THEREFORE (?)
-Viewing allows the viewer to identify
with objects.
-To look into the digestive system is to peer into our closest relationship with objects, but the relationship is false. We are peering into a hidden object, but still an object
.
-To look into the digestive system is to look for a transcendence that we cannot have.
-Subjects can carve to the joints of reality (objects), as close as they can carve, but never closer.
