Tiny thoughts, trying to connect.

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.

-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.