<nettime> Art Amongst the Fried Chickens

["cary peppermint" <mint@progirl.com>]

Art(Exposures) Amongst the *Fried Chickens

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Upon Considering an Exposure

1. There is no way you can subvert a mad interlocking hegemony that is
locked in the proliferation "fried chicken."  Irony and humor won't do it. 
your graffiti tags are useless. Your protest marches and active resistance
are to no avail. In short: quit representin' yo.  Your subversion is the
test market for future dystopian commodities. 

2. Approach your work as if you are creating a flash or exposure that
could potentially and briefly illuminate the borders of what we understand
to be the limits. 

2a.There are places on the other sides of "here."  There are other systems
swirling around in which our models have no meaning.  "A car at the bottom
of the ocean... a displaced module outside of its proper system... a car
at the bottom of the ocean is quite peculiar and pretty funny." We laugh
because the car at the bottom of the ocean exposes nothing.  We laugh
because we are temporarily placed outside ourselves and find "nothing"
where we once resided.  (http://www.progirl.com/cn9/x2.ram) 

2b. Frighten yourself with the understanding what you are conjuring could
potentially destroy you.

3. Dream big but, dream in short intermittent bursts and then un-dream
again for a while (repeat)...  lest your dream cover you in continuous
light and your lifetime/work becomes over-exposed, invisible and you (the
artist) walk home each evening disenchanted and toward a cynical
unraveling. 

4.  Dreams are a fabric like memory.  Dreams serve as temporal, spectral
visitations; indicators for pathways and departures. You cannot hold
dreams.  Dreams will not listen to you.  Do not form a political party
based on a dream and never attempt to impose structure upon a dream. 

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The "Construction" of an Exposure

1. You are not constructing but instead you are culling or better yet
remembering or forecasting obscurities.

2. You are not building but instead you are encouraging psychic phenomenon.

2a  You are a medium.  You are not yourself.  You are an antennae or even a
vessel for other worlds. (http://www.progirl.com/cn9/perimeter_v1.ram)

3. The obscurities you cull must first contact you.  Never contact them. 
Only upon their contact with you should you attempt to fashion them within
your exposure or rather begin to "speak with the tongue of that "spirit." 

3a. Exposures are intuitive processes. An exercise toward this
understanding entails a visit to the grocery store with the intention of
acquiring a vegetable for cooking.  Arrive at the store with no
pre-conceived notions about your preferred vegetable of choice.  Go to the
produce section and say to yourself, "I will not choose a vegetable, a
vegetable will choose me."  Soon thereafter you will find yourself at home
amongst strange vegetable visitors. 

4. Theory forgotten becomes intuition.  "To Forget Yourself Yet, Remember
Forgetting." (http://www.progirl.com/cn9/)


-Cary Peppermint


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* Contemporary culture as Fried Chicken taken from a listserv post by
Tom Sherman titled, "NEW MEDIA/FRIED CHICKEN"


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