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"It sounds stupid, but you see that woman sitting over there, eating? There's something sad about that. You look a little closer, and you see the way she's cutting her meat. And the way she puts the fork into the food and takes a bite. And the way she's chewing.. You know? Normal, everyday things. But I see that...and I could cry my eyes out. (...) Some kind of loneliness. She could have a hundred people waiting for her in the car. And it can destroy me. Just the honesty. The need for it. "
(Johnny Depp)
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Saturday, January 9, 2010
This is under my skin
THE DYING SWAN IS DYING Performance, 25 min., KX.kampnagel, Hamburg, October 2000 and Gallery Tommy Lund, Copenhagen 2001
Now he picks up a saw and tries to cut of his beak, but because of the metal wires in the he also needs a metal cutter before he is able to cut it of and nail it on the picture. He takes of the last piece of fur from his head and nails that on as well. The last thing he adds to the picture is his big feet, which he places on the floor under the picture as an extension of the drawing of his legs. I take of the "inner costume" made of foam as well as my papier maché head, and leave it on the floor as I leave the room through the opposite door as I entered. The performance deals with different aspects of self reflection and divisions between ideals and reality. The Dying Swan is ready to sacrifice himself in order to create the perfect image. This could be a comment on the myth of the self sacrificing artist, but to me it just as much has to do with split personalities and the experience of the gab between reality and image in general.
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Friday, January 8, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
· radio: how about this arienette, how does she fit in to all of this?
· conor: i'd prefer not talk about it, in case she's listening.
· radio: oh, i'm sorry, i didn't realize she was a real person.
· conor: she's not, i made her up.
· radio: oh, so she's not real?
· conor: just as real as you or i.
· radio: i don't think i understand.
· conor: neither do i, but after i grow up i will. i mean, you know what, a lot of things are really unclear for me right now.
...Listen,
the globe's meridians bore me,
and I deplore time zones and the lone heart's
metronome without your broad chest
thumping close counterpoint. No breath I draw
will properly fill my lungs till your fine spirit
again issues into me. No eyes will level pierce
this heart's core till your gaze again
sends the deep arrows flying. Darling,
remember: our faces in proximity make
a pure small space -- a vessel or goblet
that could hold the whole