[...]rotects protection='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--> which ="trms">material discursive practices make the ="trms">ontological boundaries of “protection”='qstn'>? (specially today investigating this term is more urgent in a ="trms">world saturated with toxic ="trms">vocabularies of security.) the figure of protection transforms the subjects of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and knowability ='lgc'>--> look at how the judge was talking about art
(="trms">question of) the production of subjectivity (of the judge himself as an active knowing ="trms">agent and the dead-master as the phantasmatic place-holder of meaning)
this is related to='lgc'>: (="trms">question of) ="trms">responsibility and individuality ='lgc'>--> influences and efforts of the work. two ="trms">interesting moments of genesis occurred='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- in the court “his work” (Beuys) was mysteriously created
="lstsrd">2- also when Olga got a phone call from the ministry of culture, “her work” was mysteriously created
='lgc'>--> both the court and the phone call are mystic producers of the subjectivity of the artist dead or alive ='lgc'>[='at'>#this needs more investigation='lgc'>]
(="trms">question of) the production of significance and ="trms">difference
look at the speech-acts of the judge in the case of Beuys. which nuances of ="trms">difference are generated, estated, established, and propagated='qstn'>? we can study every syllable of the judge's speech-act. the judge goes from one ="trms">fable to another='lgc'>: ="trms">fables of significance, ="trms">fables of influence, ="trms">fables of impression, etc.
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boundary-making practices in our shared struggling ="trms">world
='thdf'>the idea that art “starts” and “stops” somewhere
zeroing the artworks eco="trms">system
when is the moment (or how the moment can be marked) that the judge becomes able to say “OK, I don't know.” or “I am opinionated about this art. Let's bring an expert.”
and beyond that, I am ="trms">wondering, like that judge, when myself standing in front of an artwork (or any work) how i am able to say “I have an opinion, or, I don't know”, “i need expertise in order to look at this”='qstn'>?
="trms">questions of='lgc'>: essence (in art), subjectivity production, protection,
with Vincent
(='qstn'>?what was the) notion of “everything is kept here” in his work
(='qstn'>?why and how) his ="trms">storytelling was all about design ='lgc'>--> his ="trms">stories of ="trms">responsibility and factuality
how and why in our artistic practices, production of ="trms">responsibility and factuality is hold in the terms and services of design and designer that is busy with building enhanced and efficient ="trms">communication ="trms">networks ="trms">historically rooted in the ="trms">geometries of ="trms">modernist project='qstn'>?
(='qstn'>?what is the artist's) busy-ness with design ='lgc'>--> related to the fathers of correction (='qstn'>?) and proper address
who (and why) wants to look at which ="trms">past with lenses and ="trms">geometries of the violent grids of the forefathers of ="trms">modernist design='qstn'>?
='lgc'>--> ="trms">ontology of document='lgc'>: an artifact with a ="trms">specific layout and design
design has to do with the proper address (='qstn'>?) which is (always) about the proper witness (='qstn'>?)
(in the case of Vincent) do you agree with the amerindian know-how that “a good designer is a dead designer”='qstn'>?
(='qstn'>?what was the) proper ="trms">affect of ="trms">history (that his work was creating)
through the ="trms">aesthetic of old and antique video projectors his colonialism belonged properly to the ="trms">past ='lgc'>--> (="trms">question of) the production of the proper witness
the architecture and flag of BOZAR plus his notion of design, are they ="trms">interesting and necessary ways of forming kinship and properly distanced ="trms">history='qstn'>?
Vincent “knew” his distance to the ="trms">past (='lgc'>--> do you smell a problem='qstn'>?)
in which clock he is looking at time='qstn'>? which time machine he is handed to or placed in='qstn'>? who/what is making his time model='qstn'>?
also, which segment of your practice is temporalized='qstn'>? this means also which part of your practice stands out of time='qstn'>?
with Olga
regards of the ="trms">question “what are an artwork's boundaries='qstn'>?” and it's ="trms">intersections with documents, ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists, and reports
for Olga='lgc'>:
document='lgc'> = evidence
research='lgc'> = mourning
(mourning as the passionate and de="trms">monstrative activity of expressing the state of loss or deprivation of a certain object for a certain subject, and ="trms">demand for its revival or ="trms">memorialization)
what is the feeling of the document='qstn'>?
='strcls'>*document is a ="trms">story that (usually) silences other ="trms">stories='strcls'>*
where our powers to provoke care (could/should) come from (if not from document/evidence)='qstn'>?
is document (in its form and feeling) the best way we have at our disposal to provoke the care of the generations='qstn'>? ...to mark each other with the mark of the care='qstn'>?
putting the ="trms">narrative into proper sleep
casting the names
="prgrph">-artist has turned herself into a mnemonic device ='lgc'>--> sug="trms">gesting “amnesia” as her context
="prgrph">-artist has become a reminder and (therefore) her audiences have become ="trms">memorizers
(="trms">question of) ="trms">memory and re="trms">membering ='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>the idea of ‘="trms">literal re="trms">membrance’ in her performance, re-="trms">membering, ="trms">literally bringing back the “="trms">members” of the Kurt Jooss company into the ="trms">present of her audiences
="prgrph">-the problem with her re="trms">membrance is that “there is something that is important to re="trms">member” regardless of the person/subject who re="trms">members
indisputability of the Green Table for Olga
the artist has chosen to protect The Green Table's meaning and message (due to her political and ethical commitments ='lgc'>[for ="trms">world peace='qstn'>?='lgc'>]) in a sense her subject of research remains unrese="trms"nttrm="search">arched, her values unevaluated, her moral settlements settled
how can she become ="trms">interested in de="trms">composing her research-bodies of The Green Table='qstn'>?
can we remain critically ethically ="trms">responsible in thinking about the “meaning and message” of our subject of study and still be able to de="trms">compose it in ="trms">interesting ="trms">serious ways='qstn'>? (yes yes)
="trms">questions of='lgc'>: thinking, reminding, remaining,
="frds scrmbld">Sofia's documentation
she asks “what is document today='qstn'>?”
="prgrph">-what was document yesterday (that is not anymore today)='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-how the ="trms">agency and meaning of docu is (or is not) mutating in time='qstn'>?='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-what is beyond the ="trms">question of documentation and preservation='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*durational ="trms">aesthetics='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-is document a limited way of asking ="trms">questions about what we do and our ="trms">relationship with time and duration='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[you never know what the ="trms">present brings into the future.='lgc'>]
what art cannot say that document can='qstn'>? “truth”='qstn'>?
when truth was invented where was document standing='qstn'>?
is document today a mere effect of ="trms">technologies of inscribing='qstn'>?
why we are not talking about “file”='qstn'>?
(='lgc'>-='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to the ="trms">ontology of evidence and files in X-Files TV series)
is ‘file’ the bedrock of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading today='qstn'>?
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document assumes, constructs and promises its own labor of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading
='qstn'>? document is that which ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads as referent, truthful, evident, economic value, , ,
="frds scrmbld">Femke, with multiple understanders of the blended, blending ="trms">world
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the ="trms">question of the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors of the body
manuality
manual understanders
for her “the point of o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin” is at stake='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--> the “ground” is at once desired and dis="trms">articulated for the sake of an idea of ="trms">situatedness ='lgc'>--> politics of ="trms">positioning
placement, ="trms">world, Dasein, fall
in ="trms">CG bodies are ="trms">articulated in ="trms">differential vectors, not “grounds” ='lgc'>--> does she want to ground the body='qstn'>?
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she was mobilizing the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors of='lgc'>: body, ground, falling
how is she falling='qstn'>? in which ="trms">historically ="trms">contingent practices of grounding is she grounded, building her discourse='qstn'>?
="trms">ontology of the variable ='lgc'>--> (="trms">question of the) figure of variation
her work with the partners of crime, getting in the front line and frontiers of ="trms">CG working and practical ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors
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="frds scrmbld">Sofia's textual machine, switching between binary values of faire contract ='lgc'>--> staying with the polar syntax of ‘you’ and ‘them’
="prgrph">-how the rotating axis of her machine is able of creating breaks in the syntax of the contract='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-(for her machine='lgc'>: “understanding='lgc'> = an act of application”) ='lgc'>--> how new forms of ='strcls'>*understanding='strcls'>* could change the ways we might achieve fair ="trms">societies='qstn'>? and not merely changing the order of sentence to visualize and objectification of unfairness and precariousness of the employment economy, in the exegesis of the ="trms">writen contract. what would it mean to install an understander (taking a risk), for ="frds scrmbld">Sofia, and not a reversal syntaxer (making aware)='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-employer and the employee as ="trms">different “="trms">species” with their ="trms">different “="trms">natural” tendencies to fuck with one another='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--> zero-sum game
="prgrph">-the ="trms">question of ="trms">symbiotic relatedne[...]