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machine. man. breather. spectus.
Welcome to Natural History.
"We Go Round and Round in the Night" is an exhibition at the
Feldman Gallery Portland Oregon. Inside of the space, one would first
encounter a man, he is an evolved yet primal technological being. He sits
on a floatation device he himself probably constructed of board and foam
(some barnacles and fake plants have organically began to make it their
home also) that melds into a tubular extension of a wearable home, it
seems as if this lone soul has made this cave-like extension of his floatation
device, this man’s home.
A wearable home offers protection to the wearer, protection from the environment
and its harms, from other people, and is a place to live in. He constructs
this out of a universal fabric, muslin. The Styrofoam and cardboard are
also universal materials, and it is likely he found these materials in
many different locations before they temporarily became his. With this
structure, we wonder, are we in a navigator’s head? Inside his body?
His home? This home, a precursor or alternative to the purely wearable
home, allow for functionality in a society that is too mobile for roots.
The wearable homes have tubular reachers and receivers, that become extensions
of the body and interact with the world around them, so the person’s
actual body is at all times protected, unharmed. In the installation,
the cave is made from the same material as the wearable
home, but engulfs the naked person. It appears that the reacher is
coming out of the gallery window. It is a primal future. People are constantly
traveling the existential travel, living on water in habitats they have
designed, living underground in fear, or inside of these protective organic
spaces. The borders are invisible. The corporations rule. The display
case houses a (clectus map, a Newtime piece, a breather, a celcerform,
a string computer. On the opposite wall we can see a window into the space.
The time is undefined. We recognize it as a photograph or a video or somewhere
in between. His machine is a friend, a service, a water purifier, a recorder.
When we open The New Way, we are viewing the machine's translation. Through
this window we view what we view. A chapter of The New Way is caught in
the installation in an instance. The book is translating the story that
the man is telling to his machine, as well as the machine's response.
This book is a bible, redefined.  It
is written in a universal language. He sits there and interacts with a
machine. On himself he has a water-purification system made by the global-mother
of all companies, Bechtel. He also has on him many signifiers that he
is recording/or being recorded. Inside this structure he has made for
himself also live some animals. They are not alive but rather fake, but
he may think they are real. He is tricked by real vs illusion constantly.
On the walls of the space there is metallic snakelike tubing - recording
devices singling out parts of the space with the help of monofilament.
I Die Daily Beneath the Ruins - GNS Directive Center.
i
die daily
(a
tale in esperanto and spatialexicon)
Here machine.
Me arrepiento, mais j’avoir interrompre today’s lesson.
I’m losing these thoughts as I lose d’image. Which do
I initially forget, la fantaisie or l’image d’es presence?
When I first enrôlé in tu commodités, you were just
an embryo, in your producers mind. Maintenant look at tu, tu sont vrai,
just like me, and we traverse this tundra together, like comrades. I,
diariamente, no te muevas and repetir der same motion until der ÒÓÎ̈Â
dies behind der horizon, mientras, ogni qualvolta io desideri, tu raccontare
una storia ou a life-lesson, or let me raccontare una storia for tu. You
are what we would call a friend. I will tell you this storia si
te portas then give me un consejo…
la escena tiene lugar ena une floatown, avec un pueblo of free-floating
subdivisions. Recounte that old metropolis Dubai. Malls, casinos,
parks, homes, luxury travelspaces. La humanidad had just eaten his usual
dish of pastalliadas at Bechtel Garden (BG) and went from islas to islas
in World Island, until he had seen 87 homes identical to his. Aproximadamente
every four islas he noticed der BG - was it a different one? Was he floating
al punto de partida? Circulos? He sought signs and clues of his
existence on a certain island - his olor, his doggie's sound? It did not
help echar un vistazo, he told himself, everything is identical.
The world is no longer separated geographically or metaphorically by North
and South, but rather into speeds; Absolute or Relative. He lived
in the 3-D world, everything else is multi-dimensional by now, he meditar.
Der matériaux were plástico, foam, and pas connu. He essere
distinto himself by crystal he hung in der dash of his floatorcade. ¿qué
le pasa? Il pensamiente about his meal. La même chose. Même
brogue derrière le bar, comida rápida spicy enough... brilla
el sol. His GPS was solar powered, he thought. These things
rarely funcionamiento aprés ils Perceived Time Usage expires, and
it was not their third quarter holiday yet. He thought of the trick
he read about Onair (and implemented) years ago regarding rigging your
electronic ∏⁄—, ∏⁄—⁄≥‹
so they will excédes PTU. Was that a hoax? Were they tracing
those popolo? Maybe breaking the International Trade Law condannared
tu. He was coming up with outlandish scenarios toujours, he told
himself.
This was how it began, la última du familia en une traditionnel
sense. A Decoalesco society. The great, great abuelo to l’
homme was the son of a Survivor. Ils porte flags. They were still
territoriales. While Survivant was ‘◊—‹
physical objetos, a survivor cousin, whom man was fond of, viven al otro
lado Old Kuwait, by the title of ingeniero, et (intelligently - man might
add) retraité on Island Dubai.
Il emprunte un Motorfloat sans alarme and began to speedily cover causeway
after causeway, calling for his pup. Il covert peut-être 18
zones aprés nightfall, aprés the Motorfloat halted.
Its télécommande took over and began homing. Il saute
par the first lot and started to bricoler avec il ave computer.
He was ordering a new GPS. Trying to find his house Onair.
Spectquest V located it within seconds. Now where was he? He looked
for lots, he looked for the top of his head at the corner of a lot.
Man détermine un emplacement d’il sa chien. Il reserves
to ÌË ‡ÁÛ do things the hard way again,
but he has so many degrees of free time, he musto sometimes fill it by
entra/sali como si tal cosa, he reassured himself. Il typos in his
destino and floats to his block. Il cruzamos other floaters
casing in on their casas. La murmullo silenciosa causaron pour la balanceo
d’il chaqueta, ballooned out, aparcó el mente. His
legs are wet; l’agua has seeped into his boots around the edges.
It feels to him like crawling lines of moist sweat. Il’na
pas feel molesta ello il tranquility. However, that was the day
that he lost his mind, like all of the other navigators who left World
Island to find peace or to run from it. He returned to his home
and fed yapping doggie. The walls were transparent. Man paid
attention to the bivotrans movements outside, inside, outside, inside.
He saw them all in wearable homes from the comfort of his translucent
house, he was being watched, and his will was being recorded. The
Ú. ÀÕ≈Ë‘Δ€ was armed.
The Õ›≈, ÿ√€Õ⁄œ were
at ∏Ê≥◊. The doggie nuzzled his legs.
He remembered the memories. Il mouille them, sucked them, and compressed
them into une ruban balle, hasta ils se ha convertido lentamente la consistency
de maraschino. He moved them to the vile on shelf trois. Il
vigila cada vez más navigators float by; no person communicated
with another. Do they sleep in these floating homes? Where
do they go? What is out there that makes them crave this life?
Sometimes he would hear language – shouts directed at no one.
Man basically is like them. Their sound was swift and slow, their
look was like everything else. How was it that he even noticed them,
he wondered? Man has a keen sense about him. His commissioned
occupiers ceased to keep his continuous interest. His 45 and 90-degree
dreams were a reflection of the fiction around him. He went down
a level to Storage. He took in the memory of ‡ÌÂÌËÂ.
The old machine with which to make leinen deckes. Man could bilden
a useful ÔÎ‡Ì to navigate on his own with, this
current structure was his torment, his bivotrans encasement and the window
for escape was narrower by the second. Eternal day. Man stared
at the exterior, the crystal blue of salty wet outside. The world
colors in the sky, the hazy fog of the distant horizon. Reds, the
deepest reds and sexiest golds'. Man was seduced by it. What
did this inside have to offer him anymore? A trap. Man understood.
What was out there? There were no metal noises. He knew it only
from the Infranet and the foamlands.
Sometimes man questions even the treu hund. The doggie n’
enamorarse pas il, porquoi did he get it? The mobile pound was an
exciting temptation that day, like a porn hollowgram, se joked to miró.
(Methods for the augmentation of maximum sensory awareness.) L’homme
does n’passe pas more than ten degrees at a time with chien, how
can he amour le chien, and vice versa? He spent more time with titillating
occupiers than this storybook sentiment.
Friend: “Is
boredom a figment of the imagination along with its cousin eternity?
Was there une fois when things did not seem to change? What did
we do before machines? We used to think that the diversity of breeds
was imperative for a cultural and world-wide survie.” Friend
pulls up the thought. This pulling up of a thought is really unlike
anything else, the sound is hot and raw, the smell is Reoility:
“When tu are done with your story, I would like to schwätzen
today about le cœur. I would like to discutes avec tu it’s
affective sphere. I would like to come to comprendre, avec tu, the
stellung of emotions and realize that they have a certain type of rationality,
when they en bonne forme la situation. Have tu ever durchlebened a sense
of a lack of contrôle quand tu enamorarses? If realidad es
un regalo then emotions and all that goes with them could be regalos,
too.”
Man: You and I, we go round and round in the night, and every day that
we wake up is a reaffirmation or our life. A single flotorcade appeared
on the horizon and walked slowly forth. Large sails propelled it forward.
A complejo mechanism allowed its legs to lift and twist. It was a memoria
that had slipped from its container. A person aboard looked at him,
tormented him with a sound. He peered from behind the bar, looked
over but would not go. That was the parecerse entre nosotros sobre
la World Islands. There was something ancien holding them back.
Something lingered from the television era, a regularity. Things
had to be planned out because they weren’t always acceptable.
Funniest home videos, reality TV, half-life, Panoptic Panatomic Panergenic’s
- turn it on and watch your neighbor…
Man agreed to connect himself to the satellites with the others; man began
to roam the globe. The secret is to respect the air-wave rhythms.
The hope is that these voices will speak. Han descubierto un olvidaste
terrain, they will find Atlantis, they will tengos un idea. They
will be one with water and discover its deep laws. They will create winds.
Discovering the Á‡ÍÓÌs of time, of comunicación,
of the electromagnetic flux, of the navigation of other creatures; whales,
birds and other man. They will maßeinheit et calcula le dynamischs
de meteor trueno et cells. They will equate and understand. They will
sail lejos. They will travel in circles. What do you think,
ami?
Life in World Islands at some point became subversivo living. Today, my
friend, tu are either a sedentario man for whom subject and object prevail,
and follow a movimiento para con el inerte, characterizing sedentary
sub-urban civilians or a warrior-nomad. To outsiders, World Islands are
an old comunidad. They no los feel bad or responsable de l’imbalance
de their comrades across the still-existing borders. As global secularization,
aided de la religión of the product, completely sustituie old-style
religión in the 2030’s, conflicts subsided. They realized
that it did not matter, as man moved around so often and infiltrarse bolsillos
de la resistencia naturally, the methods softened, the polarized groups
dissolved. Man concentrated more on felicidad of the individual
than he forced his beliefs onto another. The entire world had access
and opted exclusively for the present instant, the real instant of instantaneous
telecommunications.
I could not keep up, so you let me go. I remember this, it was acceptable.
I did not love you less. Often times, la máquina don de motivar
a sus supera humano, even though man has set an expiration date on machine.
This date can be renewed of course, while man has no expiration date.
We are insular, but it is our nature to continuously explore. This
is one lesson man doesn’t take for granted, and has only began to
comprehend its depth. We have, in der past, built giant cities to
inhabit communally. This was a provisional objective in the scope
of history. El presente día triumphs en histórico éxito
du triad – the trois compañías that prospered during
the peak of world’s capitalist state – Disney, Bechtel, et.al,
the current result taking the state of Globality. As the world became
automated, we thought that we had less and less work to do. Fictional
enterprises began to form so the richest could do the ̇ËÏÂÌ.
They became the laziest, with the poorest catering to the richest in austausch
for a meager sustenance. The disparity increased. Populus
followed an escritura protocolo set in place by such mechanismus as advertising,
organized religion, discrimination, minimum wages, school systems, organized
crime, money laundering, world bank, credit, debt on scales encompassing
many borders, from mismo zu der welt zu continentes.
Waan the triad finally won, waan humano went bankrupt from buying the
latest in bivotrans, the fullest in wearable home, the safest in celcerform,
rendre nul. Waan geschlecht changed von begehr to frightening zu
unnecessary, waan attraction was replaced by safety of the self, waan
companies slowly merged together, waan finally it was one product sold
in many slight variations, waan our garbages' became just swapping spaces,
waan the need for the newest tore people apart from one another, waan
personal soundtracks became our mediators…
We go round and round in the night. Round and round in the night.
The following is an excerpt from the updated lexiconical free press
(Old English Version):
1.
Utilize working communication systems, like the infranet, as well as systems
that are not working - the letter, written words, face to face communication.
2.
Language should be an environment of tidal accessibility. There
are two main lists - past and present.
3.
The author is a word of the past. Book, to author, to authoritative
text, to book market, to library - all became something else. Configurations
of communication change this apparatus over from distribution to communication.
4.
Foreseeable results - post language - no need for witness or explanation
- Internalness. New Words:
Aegitecture – (eng. root; architecture. prefix; aegis) (ee-ji-tek-tur)
n. elements worn to protect humans from their inability to discern one
space from the next. These elements recall generic architectural formations
in order to comfort the wearer through the idea that he is home. He wore
all types of aegitecture, as he planned to spend the day in the airport.
Bivotrans - (eng. root; bivouac) (bI-vO-trAns) adj. A living being’s
relation, reaction, and interaction with glass or mirrored/laminant-film
architectural structures. Forty birds died each day at the World Trade
Center in Manhattan because of the obvious conflictual bivotrans relationship
carried out between the birds and the reflectant sky-like surface of the
building.
Cealamony – (eng. root; ceremony. prefix; conceal) (seel-a-mOnee)
v. A ritualistic veiling of one’s identity. In Kobo Abe’s
novelette, "The Box Man", the characters participate in the
cealamony of the cardboard city.
Celcerform - (root; cellular) n. Device used to shrink cancerous growths.
His celcerform is above his right ear, blocking his cell-phones cancerous
rays.
Decoalesco – (lat. root; coalesco) (dee-kO-les-kO) adj. 1. A rootless
background. 2. A plastic sensibility. Their untraditional activities are
the result of a whole culture of decoalesco thought.
Inform – n. A wearable object that reminds of internal bliss so
as to distract from external confusion. Informs bring the wearer to the
eye of flux-storm.
Muself – n. People who carry incidents of past and present along
with ideas of future, in a physical or mental state. As signified in the
popular story, Fahrenheit 451, muselfs roamed the forests as living documents
to culture.
Museum – n. A place of enlightenment where the viewer regards overall
self in the form of other places and memories. The museum houses ideas
and notions that are recognized from a distance.
Plastic Gardens – n. Generic sculpture parks set up usually at four
points in sub/urban planned spaces. They tend to represent a preservation
of the past and an accepted growth towards the future.
Resimulo - (latin. root; res; real, adsimulo; simulate) (rE-sim-U-lO)
adj. The experience that takes place when altered nature skews perception
of reality. "1984", by George Orwell, alluded to resimulo conditions
through the theory of "doublespeak".
Spectime – (lat. root; spectum) adj. Unable to discern time. He
has a spectime relationship with his grandfather and their past.
Spectumform – (lat. root; spectum) n. Sense-expansion device. The
navigator bought new ear spectumforms so as to increase his hearing and
make up for a loss of spatial perception.
Spectus – (lat. root; spectum) (spek-tus) n. 1. Map designed to
discern similar space. 2. Map that can be used anywhere in the world as
one place invariably invokes the next. The spectus has revolutionized
the map, now only one is needed.
Specolumn – (lat. prefix; spectum, eng. root; column) n Locators
placed throughout structures to be used as reference for passers-by. They
regard the specolumn when it was obvious that they were lost.
Survivor – Exerpt from story on survivors: Survivor #2 takes
the bag from #1 and places it inside a sack. The three Survivors exit
the subway and are met with #4, who guards the four shopping carts –
for the mall we call Main Street - attached to the backs of the four hybrid
bikes. The contents of the carts much outsize the carts themselves, and
are contained by ropes, netting, and cloth. Inside these new museums,
objects are housed from decades passed. These warriors for the salvation
of nostalgia take with them the singularly most beautiful, trite and forgotten
objects, discarded by the dozens onto the streets from Manhattan apartments.
These are the warriors against a crippling collective memory, the creators
of a collective soul, of a unified history. They re-fuel with the Vitamin-D
provided by the Sun Chips and begin their journey south from 90th Street
in the Upper East Side to The Survivor Museum in the lower third quadrant.
Time – n . When the word time is uttered it refers to a space relative
to the subject in a horizontal manner. Time can be the space between one
moment and another, or that moment. We call this conversion Time, time
is no longer of essence as decoalesco societies use space as a determinate
for change. Time refers to a visual space change. Place relates more clearly
to a station – an avoidance or a wander.
Uniscape – (eng. Root; landscape, prefix; uni) (unE-skApe) n. Mimicry
landscaping. The cell triad pattern was the inspiration for the uniscape
of bushes.
Universal oxiform – n . Breathing device. Universal oxiforms have
become a commodity second only to water.
The rest
of this page outlines the philosophy behind We Go Round and Round:
Neoliberalism
refers to the policies and processes whereby a relative handful of private
interests are permitted to control as much as possible of social life
in order to maximize their persona profit. Associated initially with Regan
and Thatcher, neoliberalism has for the past two decades been the dominant
global political economic trend adopted by political parties of the center.
The policies enacted represent the immediate interests of extremely wealthy
investors and corporations. Neoliberalism as expressed by much of America's
media, is a term invoked to rationalize anything from lowering taxes on
the wealthy and scrapping environmental regulations to dismantling public
education and social welfare programs. Indeed, any activity that might
interfere with corporate domination of society is automatically suspect
because it would impeed the workings of "free market". The economic
consequences of these policies have been the same just about everywhere,
and exactly what one would expect: a massive increase in social and economic
inequality, a marked increase in severe deprivation for the poorest nations
and peoples of the world, a disastrous global environment, an unstable
global economy, and an unprecedented bonanza for large and powerful corporations.
Democracy is permissible as long as the control of business is off-limits
to popular deliberation or change - so long as it isn't democracy.
A golden theory in
Progress
(WHAT IS CELEBRATION??......)
It is the first planned community developed by The
Walt Disney Company. While EPCOT Center was originally planned as an "Experimental
Prototype Community of Tomorrow", we all know that financial as well
as other considerations dictated that the dream of Walt Disney be changed
from a city to a new gated attraction. Celebration will be a true planned
community including a downtown, health center, school, post office, town
hall, golf course, single-family homes, townhouses and apartments. Disney
used the services of top-name architects in developing the plans for Celebration.
The master plan architects were Cooper, Robertson & Partners and Robert
A.M. Stern Architects.
LEVITTOWN AS A PRECURSOR
town
William Levitt, America's biggest house builder,
dreamed of instant suburbia.
Here, a ranch house. There, a Cape Cod. As far as his mind's eye could
see, a sprawl of boxlike, two-bedroom houses — a city named Levittown.
Pieces of the American Dream were a hot commodity in post-World War II
America, and nobody could sell them like Levitt. When he marketed his
mass-produced homes in beautiful color brochures, thousands of young families
wanted to buy. They came to escape crowded cities like Trenton, eight
miles northeast, or Philadelphia, 20 miles south. "Bill Levitt didn't
just build a community here — he built a world," But was Levittown
truly the fulfillment of American Dream? From the day the first concrete
foundation was poured, critics derided Levittown houses as shabby and
look-alike and attacked the Levittown lifestyle as antlike in its conformity.
Disney
- The global media system is now dominated by a first tier of nine giant
firms. The five largest are Time Warner (1997 sales: $24 billion), Disney
($22 billion), Bertelsmann ($15 billion), Viacom ($13 billion), and Rupert
Murdoch's News Corporation ($11 billion). Get bigger so you dominate markets
and your competition can't buy you out. Disney has almost tripled in size
last decade.
BECHTEL and other such massive water companies,
particularly Suez:
Water Control
Other natural resources – Bechtel has a giant
say in hydrogen, oil, and lumber (wind power?)
The way in which Bechtel got the largest contract
for Iraq's reconstruction (no competition) is a glaring example of how
corporate rule is established. The famous tale of Bechtel's corporate
rule is over Bolivia. In the semi-desert region, water is scarce
and precious. In 1999, the World Bank recommended privatization of Cochabamba's
municipal water supply company (SEMAPA) through a subsidiary of Bechtel.
On October 1999, the Drinking Water and Sanitation Law was passed, ending
government subsidies and allowing privatization in a city where the minimum
wage is less than $100 a month water bills reached $20 a month, nearly
the cost of feeding a family of five for two weeks. Neoliberalism, of
which a direct result is this idea of 3 main corporate rulers, has an
important and necessary byproduct - a depoliticized citizenry marked by
apathy and cynicism.. Large corporations have resources to influence media
and overwhelm the political process, and do so accordingly. Under neoliberalism
this all makes sense; elections then reflect market principles, with contributions
being equated with investments. As a result, it reinforces the irrelevance
of electoral politics to most people and assures the maintenance of unquestioned
corporate rule.
We
go round and round in the night
I wanted to explore installation within a concept including
but not limited to:
The cyclicality
of history and future
The conditioning of Humans+ the human condition
Masking the truth with fake elements - literally the CellPhoneTowerTree,
fake plants, fake animals, fake man
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