things in my life right now
- amazing conversation with amazing man/writer/teacher who knows peter lamborn wilson but picked up on the fact that i like/knew about/was in the past inspired by miranda july and sadie benning and was a riot grrrl... and i told him about the ancient future and read this thing that i wrote:
ARTIFACTS
art objects as cultural artifacts from the ancient future
if history is a fiction, then time is a fiction and
the future can be historicized.
the future can be invented by us
using objects as entry points
the alchemical tools
for inventing new culture
kind of from the wreckage,
the symbols can't be new but meaning can be renewed.
ancient-ism antithetical to the fascism of futurism.
after that, he said that i should talk to Devin Kenny which is amazing and hilarious because Devin Kenny is a longtime collaborator and total inspiration to me and made me a necklace that is a very significant part of my culture.
AND THEN THAT MADE ME THINK ABOUT THE PERSONAL AESTHETIC, which is where i diverge from beuys in a big way...i dont want to tell people what their future culture looks like, is like, what is important for them.
SO a system of trades, Devin Kenny gives me a necklace from his culture and i accept it, becoming a willing participant...and this can go all ways. so i give 10 people things that i made, or like the kinds of hats that kate and i are making...if they wear them, then they are automatically participating but are not forced to in any way and of course have their own other things that they are a part of.
so connected but totally individuals. gifts.
(BY THE WAY, MATT: i didnt get to respond to yr comment but yes! this is part of the manifesto! all of this is! and i love the idea of starting a collaborative piece of writing, like a blog that can be added to and constantly edited...i also know a way to publish this which i can tell you about later)
- and we talked about joseph beuys and shamanism and how i have been looking at joseph beuys out of the corner of my eye for a long, long time.
- he told me something about turning my whole life into art which made me think about my desire to decorate things and make them all glittery and magical...that documenting the mundane is important as well, even essential, part of the bigger magic of being here... that documenting everything is the way to do it.
- i am not feeling so well. i have a cold. combination of stress/working really hard and not sleeping enough/i did this really stupid thing where i dumpstered all this pizza with pauly and ate SO MUCH OF IT all the time, all week after not really eating wheat at all for like four months...i kind of feel like shit. i hope that i am better by thursday. i go on an airplane to portland at 6 am!
- good to remember that sometimes sexual frustration turns into anger. like any feeling that goes unexpressed/repressed
- i think that when i start to play shows i am going to call myself 'bigger princess' because of this band that colin and i tried to start called kid boobs and bigger princess. i want to make a drawing of a small princess standing next to a bigger princess.
- i go to see my love this week.
ARTIFACTS
art objects as cultural artifacts from the ancient future
if history is a fiction, then time is a fiction and
the future can be historicized.
the future can be invented by us
using objects as entry points
the alchemical tools
for inventing new culture
kind of from the wreckage,
the symbols can't be new but meaning can be renewed.
ancient-ism antithetical to the fascism of futurism.
after that, he said that i should talk to Devin Kenny which is amazing and hilarious because Devin Kenny is a longtime collaborator and total inspiration to me and made me a necklace that is a very significant part of my culture.
AND THEN THAT MADE ME THINK ABOUT THE PERSONAL AESTHETIC, which is where i diverge from beuys in a big way...i dont want to tell people what their future culture looks like, is like, what is important for them.
SO a system of trades, Devin Kenny gives me a necklace from his culture and i accept it, becoming a willing participant...and this can go all ways. so i give 10 people things that i made, or like the kinds of hats that kate and i are making...if they wear them, then they are automatically participating but are not forced to in any way and of course have their own other things that they are a part of.
so connected but totally individuals. gifts.
(BY THE WAY, MATT: i didnt get to respond to yr comment but yes! this is part of the manifesto! all of this is! and i love the idea of starting a collaborative piece of writing, like a blog that can be added to and constantly edited...i also know a way to publish this which i can tell you about later)
- and we talked about joseph beuys and shamanism and how i have been looking at joseph beuys out of the corner of my eye for a long, long time.
- he told me something about turning my whole life into art which made me think about my desire to decorate things and make them all glittery and magical...that documenting the mundane is important as well, even essential, part of the bigger magic of being here... that documenting everything is the way to do it.
- i am not feeling so well. i have a cold. combination of stress/working really hard and not sleeping enough/i did this really stupid thing where i dumpstered all this pizza with pauly and ate SO MUCH OF IT all the time, all week after not really eating wheat at all for like four months...i kind of feel like shit. i hope that i am better by thursday. i go on an airplane to portland at 6 am!
- good to remember that sometimes sexual frustration turns into anger. like any feeling that goes unexpressed/repressed
- i think that when i start to play shows i am going to call myself 'bigger princess' because of this band that colin and i tried to start called kid boobs and bigger princess. i want to make a drawing of a small princess standing next to a bigger princess.
- i go to see my love this week.