Yesterday I was at Wysing Arts Centre near Cambridge, giving a performance-lecture to a group of artists, curators and academics who are there as part of the Escalator Retreat Program.
I stayed for the afternoon and watched them give short presentations on their work. I made notes on each person's presentation. Some of the notes were functional: names, references, questions. Some were more like a parallel thought process, relating in only oblique ways to what was being said. I'm calling these 'Ambient Notes', and, in no particular order, here they are.
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Took apart a whole house, packed it into suitcases bit by bit and took it to Glasgow on an Easyjet flight
Academia as a genre, like detective fiction etc.
1 to 1 mapping = Objectivity or truth
Anti-production as advanced cultural commodity
Vibe/Style/Taste/Colloquialism
Big Cans of Fosters in America
"And we Don't Even Know if our System is our System Anymore"
Oneiron
Mapped Dislocation
Macs = Technology OR symbol of techno-progression
Regeneration narratives
Ghosting - Casinos on burial grounds
Real i.e. not art
Art as housekeeping
Yearning for Objecthood, to be an object
Keith Chegwin, hid bottles of vodka in bushes on the way back from off licence so that when he ran out, he could drink them on the way to buy more booze. Kind of Outside Broadcasting
Grit/Crystal Formation
My Grandpa speaks very highly of the King of Morocco
Translation as teetering language
Is politics politics when it is oblique?
Does "The King" = The King?
A British Embassy in London
Master keys w/ octagonal fobs (?)
Cowbells
Dissonance/chromaticism/tempered tuning
Gabba nihilism vs Disco
Paradise Desktop Backgrounds vs Cosmic Desktop Backgrounds
Awkward Interval
Socratic privelage
Olympics: Inherent or additive ideology?
Caption + Credit Please
The Importance of Paying Attention
What would academia be without abstraction ? (1:1 mapping)
What would good curation be?
Cultures is world and world's reflection
Verbing the noun
Ear wax
Common use as explicit/loud, compressed by use, dynamics
"Starting art"
Art is never methodology
Research as fetish
"Acetate" = Acetate
The banality of the uncanny
Hobbies = valid art = not valid
"The Gap" or like, Gap, or like gaps, or like the gaps.