[Nettime-bold] INFORMATION FOR THE OTHER SIDES OF HERE

["mint77" <mint77@restlessculture.net>]

INFORMATION FOR THE OTHER SIDES OF HERE : EXPOSURE #0001

SYNOPSIS:
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8-12 participants stand on a blue plastic canvas in a semi-darkened room.
Floodlights turn on, bright as hell and synchronous with Techno-music
generated from an Apple I-Book. The participants dance, kick balloons around
and swig beer. The music stops intermittently along with a return to
semi-darkness whereupon the participants "fix" themselves perfectly still,
caught in mid-motion. A photographer then engages the participants with a
Polaroid camera and meticulously documents the situation as if it is a crime
scene. Polaroids fall out of the camera and onto the floor whereupon the
whole sequence of events repeats itself. Participants dance upon the
increasing accumulation of their own images.

On every third completion of the above sequence a selected participant is
given instructions via a CD-Walkman that must be followed outside the
boundaries of the blue plastic canvas.


NOTES:
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1 Blue Plastic Canvas
The sky is sometimes blue and so is this particular canvas.  If we are to
dream the sky and canvas as analogous then this must also be a dream of
conflict because the canvas is waterproof and the sky is not... or possibly
nature is a limitless expression and technology is fixed precision. The
canvas like the sky serves as a frontier for energy focus.  A shallow depth
of field or "decreased sky" provides increased "active-energy" space e.g.,
the island of Manhattan as compared to Cedartown, Georgia.

10 Cases of Warm Budweiser
My father was a automobile mechanic and his favorite beer was Budweiser.  It
is unpleasant to drink warm Budweiser.  It is arguably more unpleasant to
drink Budweiser after securing an elevated class station.  Maybe in this
exposure the Budweiser acts as agent to accelerate group empathy and
increase intimacy. This exposure employs many commercially available items
because of the fine "exacting" qualities of mass production.  In this regard
EXPOSURE #0001 could be considered the "etiquette of transgression" easily
re-produced and employed by a large "cross-section" of the working and
middle class.

200 Birthday Party Balloons
Everyday is a birthday.  Every birthday is a beclouding of origin and
guarantor of death.  So then everyday is an event because of yesterday's
suspect remnants.   Everyday is an event because of  tomorrow's fickle
promise.

200 Polaroids
It is dangerous for images to fix too fast.  Maybe this "fast-fix" causes us
to forget more than the residual image allows us to remember.  So here we
dance upon former selves who look up at us like the dead asking us to
remember; a dystopian prompt to encourage re-collection as active resistance
to capital engendered movement and "progress".

8 Halogen Flood-Lights with Dimmer Switch
The primal stimulus of light and dark.  I think of the floodlights here as
the mass proliferation of all texts in the service of capital; an
"over-exposure".  With each cycle of this work darkness engenders the light
as temporal thus dynamic.  EXPOSURE #0001 re-issues the light with
"creative-vision".  A protocol to dream in the waking hours.  This retinal
play could cause us to notice in precise detail just where the edges where
the blue canvas becomes concrete floor.

1 Portable Walkman with Instructional Audio CD
This is a schizophrenia simulation for 2-3 selected participants.  The
participants hear voices in their heads prompting them into actions outside
the boundaries of the blue tarp.  Maybe this is a simple and direct
reference to faith.  Compelled into multiple actions without rational to
continue yet, we continue... then again maybe this is just S&M.

1 Apple I-Book Computer For Generating Techno Music
I'm into techno these days.  Techno is the audio expression of the machine.
Dancing = physical body and techno is good for dancing although technology
is usually not very good for the continuity of the physical body... back to
the blue canvas.


HOW TO PARTICIPATE / EXPOSURE DETAILS:
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*USE* EBAY.COM FOR PHYSICAL AS WELL AS PSYCHIC ADMISSION TO
A PARTICIPATORY EXPOSURE #0001:
"INFORMATION FOR THE OTHER SIDES OF HERE"

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=357792708

BID FOR 1 OF 12 PASSWORDS THAT WILL ALLOW ACCESS TO A SPECIFIED WEBPAGE
WHERE YOU WILL FIND A POSTCARD TO BE PRINTED OUT AND USED FOR ENTRANCE TO
THIS
EXPOSURE.

*USE* MP3.COM AS SERVER TO HEAR AUDIO FROM EXPOSURE #0001:
http://www.mp3.com/hvc


LOCATION:
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HARLEM VISION CENTER - NYC
JUNE 24, 2000 7-10PM
DIRECTIONS GIVEN TO 12 LUCKY BIDDERS

MORE INFO:
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http://www.restlessculture.net/hvc
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