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June 21st, 2010 at 10:26 am
I will complete my task
June 23rd, 2010 at 11:03 am
The whole argument hinges on the word ‘project’, clearly this word can have as many meanings are there are poets. Poetry is a craft and an art (obviously). Waiting for god-flung words to fall from the sky is no way to exercise the powers of this art.
June 23rd, 2010 at 12:33 pm
All this bullshit creeps up on us. Children look on us with suspicion, noting our discolorations, our aura of rainbowish encrudences, our fuming at the air. Silence compiles it; there’s no hiding behind wordless boxes while it falls out of the air like petroleum bullshit. Walking around shopping in Lower Manhattan in the used-to-be Village, in the used-to-be Soho, in the used-to-be, does not scrape off the accumulate muck. We’re moving slower, we’re getting wearier of the spike of sky. Time will come. Time will come! It has. They talk about this, they talk about that, but where was the money spent?
June 25th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
What if you think of it in reverse, erasing parts of a mask means
covering parts of the masked content with whatever is in front of it.
Why not apply the mask to the object in front of the masked content,
then let the user draw the mask (rather than erase)?
June 25th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Some years ago Sol Lewitt began peaking out of formalism by stating that the most important thing about a work of art was the idea. Famously, he went on to draw up plans from which others would enact his art works. He called the plan, or project, a machine for making art. Perhaps, instead of the project being a machine, it is a fuel. A volume that can expire; a sloshing drum in the back of the Toyota Frontier. And the machine, maybe that’s a lesbian president. The fuel supply must always be amenable to replacement.
June 28th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
A projected project is precisely what is unattainable in the true effect of creating poetry.