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Michel Nostradamus
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The Knight
Complex Maths
Good morrow, Nostradamus, my Lord,
Mathematics are not my strongest suit (my armour is my strongest suit!) but this configuration of numbers that you cast in light the Princess’ life, deeply perturb me.
The Princess herself seems blithely unconcerned – but it is my duty, noble sir, to bear these fears for her, that they become mine own. But, my Lord, this world is large and I cannot un-sheath my sword and, in all directions at once, it wield. I pray thee, can you issue some further sign that I may better know against what or whom I should pit my fears and act in her defense?
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Michel Nostradamus
look up the death of Ana Mendieta
draw your own conclusions
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The Knight
Noble Sir,
For this direction, my thanks.
Thus shall I counsel the Princess to stand no less than 5 paces from the edge of the parapets of the Palazzo Pitti, the Villa di Castello, the window-ledges of her University campus buildings and Gymnasium.
Upon Husband, brother and cousin of the former, shall I train a watchful eye…
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Aurelia Scheppers
giggles
Uh, Mr Knight, Sir, Dude…
You can never really know what Mr. how-do-you-spell-cryptic is actually talking about (and he’s never any help with that either)…
But I think the Ana Mendieta “draw your own conclusions” thing was about, you know, Husbands more than Windows.
(I guess you could also blame Gravity for her death, but I don’t think “beware of gravity” is the most helpful warning.)
Also, you might not be too watchful with the cousin… some things are better left unwatched…
— AS
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The Knight
At some point in a future that I…
Fair Christa,
At some point in a future that I will not see, Johan Huizinga, in a scholarly contemplation of chivalry, will declare that a
“Knightly life is a life without historical dimensions”I sense that I have come to the right place.
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The Knight
Knight’s Move
A Venetian sailor brings word of the seer’s projection to English shores. A lascivious drunkard, he spends an evening at a port-side inn regaling his audience with bawdy tales of a beautiful Princess Isabella, marked for death.
Forsooth, I shall forestall this death!
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Christa Forster
Ah, chivalry is not dead!
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The Knight
Fair Christa,
At some point in a future that I will not see, Johan Huizinga, in a scholarly contemplation of chivalry, will declare that a
“Knightly life is a life without historical dimensions”.
I sense that I have come to the right place.
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Aurelia Scheppers
Death of the Princess
During the carefree, almost banality of today’s Tweet Chat, something very weird happened. Did you notice that the French see’er Nostradamus showed up? Anyway, I served wine to him and to Mr. Donnie. Princess Isabella is just chatting with her friend Ysidora. And then Nostradamus just goes off with this cryptic prediction that sure sounds like he’s predicting when the princess will die!
And if he’s not weird enough, Princess Isabella barely even registers it. She just says I know, and then asks Nostradamus if he’s dating Tullia!? WTF!?
So weird!
* 1560.mediciprincess.com/death-princess
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Ysidora Pico
Hello Aurelia. (I love your name, by the way — she of the dawn!). We have not met before, but it was nice to see you yesterday at the #1850charla.
I was wondering what that gentleman was talking about. I figured he had already had a stoop of wine and was trying to be poetic (all poets are seers, but not all seers are poets).
Although I know what will happen (Isabella will always die), I live suspending disbelief. That is one way I can continue to exist!
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Francesco Guerrazzi
Isabella will always die?
No!
I refuse to accept that a reflection seen on the surface of water can seal the fate of a young and charismatic life. What we do matters!And I refuse to believe that the sword can ever be mightier than the pen! Cowards who don’t like culture have used the sword to erase it. No matter how many stelae you scratch Hatshepsut’s name off of, as long as there remains one voice to speak the truth then she will always be Pharaoh.
In time history rejects the damnatio memoriae.
In time history rejects the strangling hands of the evil husband or misanthropic brother.Isabella Forever!
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Aurelia Scheppers
Hello Ysidora,
How gracious you are!
It is my job to blend in and be invisible. However I certainly noticed you. You had such a wonderful presence. Your “1850charla” is somewhat like The Salon that The Princess hosts (have you been to it?)
It is no wonder that you became friends.
I think your insight on see’ers is wise. With enough wine even Aurelia becomes a great prophet!
Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.
— AS
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Vanessa
Dance Anywhere 2014
Vanessa Blaylock & Bibbe Oh (Bibbe Hansen) dancing in the fountain at Trafalgar Square
Dancing with friends for the 10th anniversary of Beth Fein’s Dance Anywhere!
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Vanessa
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Izzy
I Send You This Ventriloquist’s Dummy
Photos by Dire Penguin, Dire Penguin, classic_film, Kevin H., Kalense Kid, torbakhopper
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Christa Forster
Tomorrow from 9-10am PDT the second #1850charla will…
Tomorrow, from 9-10am PDT, the second #1850charla will happen on Twitter. I hope to see y’all there, and perhaps you’ll bring some other time-travelers or just plain old charla-tans with you. Please feel free to spread the word. Last time (February 28, 2014), we had some good tunes, interesting exchanges, and a few job offers!
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Ysidora Pico
Thank you for the reminder! I will see you there. I hope to see Isabella, Donnie, Mr. Sweetman (blush), and Aunt Renie there. And what about our comadre, Vanessa? And Ciara?
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Michel Nostradamus
Very good! I shall be pleased to attend (but you already knew that, right?) I hope I do not wear everyone out with my venting. The Princess of Florence is doomed; the Queen of France is being blamed for the very war she worked so hard to prevent; difficult times. Being a see’er of truth in such times is an unpleasant affair at best.
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Izzy
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Christa Forster
At this point, I’m not sure what it is, but that looks good to me! Thank you for taking the time to diagram it.
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Ysidora Pico
Very interesting. But, aren’t I a real person? I would like to see myself represented even more than I seem to be in this diagram.
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Isabella Medici
You know Ysidora, it’s funny, as soon as I saw your name, that you had commented, it suddenly occurred to me that perhaps I had made “Co-creation” too big and “Story” too small. And yes, you are correct, you are real.
Still, while your recent live performance from Houston (bravo & congratulations on that BTW!) was a lot of “Story” & “Real World,” I’m not so clear about “1850charla” here on .Re/act. As Ciara noted, it was a very unscripted, spontaneous “performance” in this virtual “place.”
So I’m happy to redraw the Radar Diagram if you like, but I think the “performance” or “event” here on .Re/act was not so much about Your Story & Your Real World as the Houston event was. The one here was, I think, more about the group dynamic that was explored. Perhaps “explosive” is a better word than “dynamic” given that both Oscar & Meg seem to have gone into self-imposed exile in its aftermath.
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Michel Nostradamus
My Journey Begins http n ostradam us queens…
My Journey Begins:
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Ciara Finnegan
The Other Steve McQueen
You know, Isabella, I reckon I channelled the wrong Steve McQueen when vacuuming the other day as it was a pretty dull experience. However, this morning, plugging in the hoover, it was you that popped into my head and a much more inspiring visitor you proved to be!
I was thinking about this thought in your recent post:I’m not sure you can have maximum story and maximum co-creation.I too wonder how far one, or rather, many can push the idea of a collaboratively authored story. Is the prevailing form* of “story” (and, I guess, I’m thinking standard novel here) so at odds with the concept of collaboration that they are, ultimately, incompatible? Does the single story at some point, fragment or simply disintegrate? At what point does this occur? Is it relative to the number of co-authors? Is top-down, directorial influence ultimately unavoidable? How could or should the original initiator of the story intervene? Should there be appointed curators or moderators of the story? So many questions – but I think this is part of a very interesting discussion and they reflect questions that Christa also raised when I confided in her after the “Oscar debacle” 😉 I also wonder if it is not the idea of story that fails but the enduring strength of the single Author? (Though, to be fair, Barthes took a good stab at undermining this).* Because I wonder when it became this way. Of course stories existed and were born by word of mouth, morphing en route from teller to teller for a very long time before consolidating in the 19th Century printed novel…I must add that I really liked the radar diagrams. I mentally plotted my own this morning with Wee Children, Blimmin’ Laundry (a category inclusive of SteveMcQueen style activities), Creative Activity and Critical Reflection on the axes…The fact that I didn’t manage to get around to actually offering a visual representation of this says a fair deal about where the polygon is weighted at present!!;-)-
Isabella Medici
Perhaps it wasn’t your choice of Steve McQueens, but your vintage Hoover. If you win the lottery, you should totally get a Dyson!
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Ciara
Funny how “Hoover” caught on as a verb in a way that “Dyson” never did. Or didn’t it? Maybe Steve McQueen gets good ideas while doing the dysoning?
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Isabella Medici
haha, IDK Dyson was old enough to be vintage! And, OH NO, even Dysoning isn’t inspiring?
WE’RE DOOMED!
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Izzy
Hello Ysidora and anyone else who might be…
Hello Ysidora, and anyone else who might be interested: after a 438 year absence, I’ve decided to relaunch my Salon! As before it will be a celebration of many art forms: Literature, Poetry, Music, Song as well as visual arts and ideas about culture.
I enjoyed your songs at your recent Houston / EZTV performance Ysidora, and I wondered if you might like to sing for our first salon of the new millennium!?
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Ysidora Pico
I would be honored!
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Izzy
More Thoughts about Staging
Ciara wrote an interesting post, “Some Thoughts About Staging,” and how .Re/act was a sort of Improv Stage.
Robert Pratten’s Transmedia *Radar Diagrams*
The first time I looked at Robert Pratten’s Transmedia Radar Diagrams I thought the words opposite each other were an axis, so a 2-axis diagram. But the axis is actually from the center to each of the words, and it’s really a 4-somewhat-independent-axis diagram. I say somewhat, because I think Story which seems like a top-down idea from a Creator (writer) and Co-Creation which seems like a bottom-up idea from Participants probably interact. I’m not sure you can have maximum story and maximum co-creation.
Safe to say, on the 1850 stage we had maximum co-creation. For me this is the most interesting aspect of cyberspace. IDK why, but somehow using Facebook as it’s intended just isn’t that interesting to me. Yet it seems like such a fun place to play. You could argue that all content on Facebook is “fiction” or at least “manufactured” in the sense that one spends time trying to think of the best way to sound casual and spontaneous.
Precisely as Ciara noted, the idea that different people could come and go and chime in as they wished, was compelling. danah boyd just wrote an interesting blog post: Why Snapchat is Valuable: It’s All About Attention. Perhaps .Re/act provided a nice frame for attention / activities. Any identity here could also have blog posts or tweets or flickr images etc, but this stage was a place to showcase / focus the various elements that may have been manufactured elsewhere.
Inspired by 1850 Charla, I’ve begun trying to resurrect my own 1560 Journals
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Ysidora Pico
I Send You this Odetta Playlist, Featuring Motherless Child
Motherless Child
from « American Negro Spirituals»
by J. W. Johnson, J. R. Johnson, 1926Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
A long ways from home
A long ways from home
True believer
A long ways from home
Along ways from homeSometimes I feel like I’m almos’ gone
Sometimes I feel like I’m almos’ gone
Sometimes I feel like I’m almos’ gone
Way up in de heab’nly land
Way up in de heab’nly land
True believer
Way up in de heab’nly land
Way up in de heab’nly landSometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
A long ways from home
There’s praying everywherehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzc20VmMCl8&list=RD6iZj6P-bkcY
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Michel Nostradamus
Welcome friends The Queen of France Catherine de’…
Welcome friends. The Queen of France, Catherine de’ Medici, has asked me to deliver a reading to her niece, Isabella, princess of Florence. Does anyone know where I can find her?
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Tullia Aragona
Hello I read some poems at Isabella’s salon…
Hello! I read some poems at Isabella’s salon the other night and she asked me to share something here. I think To Ochino was her favorite. It is a poem to “religious reformer” Bernardo Ochino. He’s been preaching for the abolition of Carnivale! Isabella and I both believe this is such a wonderful event and we are shocked that he wants to take it away.
To Ochino
Bernardo, it should be enough for you,
With that sweet speech infused in you by Nature,
To light our hearts to high eternal works,
Here where the King of Rivers flows most clearly.
Since your own inner wishes are sincere,
And your own life reflects a pure intent,
You’re rather an inhabitant of heaven.
As to these masquerades, dances, and music,
Sanctioned by time and by the ancient customs –
Why do you now forbid them in your sermons?
Holiness it is not, but arrogance
To take away free will, the highest gift
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Izzy
I Send You This Spring Equinox
The scent of hyacinths, like a pale mist, lies
between me and my book;
And the South Wind, washing through the room,
Makes the candles quiver.
My nerves sting at a spatter of rain on the shutter,
And I am uneasy with the thrusting of green shoots
Outside, in the night.Why are you not here to overpower me with your
tense and urgent love?
— Amy Lowell, Vernal Equinox
Photos by: David Wilson Clarke, Mamooli, NASA Goddard Photo and Video, Joana Roja
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Ciara Finnegan
Some thoughts about staging…
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about #1850charla as it evolved on .re/act and realised that, a few steps into the process, I found myself thinking of it almost as a form of improv theatre – a little more in the absurdist than the comic sense. None of the performers were primed in the other characters beforehand, there was no script, no order of play, no rehearsals and the timing of the interactions was enormously significant in terms of the direction the play moved in. For me, .re/act itself served as the stage or the performance platform and, as such, it provided a fairly avant-garde space for the staging;-) Unlike the sealed virtual ecologies of gaming environments, .re/act (as a stage) tolerated imports from anywhere and everywhere on the web and supported characters hmm… how shall I put it?…characters of very varied “dimensions”.It’s funny because, posting this reflection here, I acknowledge that I’m no longer thinking of .re/act as the stage but am, again, using it in its forum capacity.And yet, at the same time, nested within .re/act, I think I’ve detected yet another form growing! A Song!!! I’m really enjoying the intimate exchange of tokens between Isabella and Ysidora – I love the tone of this swap – the reserve in the courtly “I send you”s, the excitement of waiting to “unwrap” the next offering. I hear echoes of “Hush Little Baby” when I read these postings: A mockingbird. A diamond ring. A looking glass. A goat. A dog named Rover…(though, in the lullaby, the gifting is one-sided and return on investment not necessarily guaranteed;-). But, as with Isabella and Ysidora, the relationship between the items in sequence is full of surprise!On a completely unrelated note…read the other day that Steve McQueen feels inspired when he’s doing the vacuuming. Wonderful! Time to go channel my inner Steve McQueen…-
Christa Forster
I love this reflection, Ciara, especially the analysis of .re/act as an open stage that tolerates all kinds of characters. This is an interesting idea in light of your point about improvisational acting, where the first rule is say “yes!”
Earlier I was reflecting on the activities on .re/act that lead up to the #1850charla — I think I reflected over on .re/search? — and I wondered about where authority lies in the chaos of several different virtual “yesses!” happening. Regarding the open environment, I am not sure that .re/act is totally open; one has to “apply” to post here, I think; although I could be wrong — Vanessa?
Also, your point about the exchange between Isabella and Ysidora as a song is mighty interesting to me, especially in light of something that I heard long ago, “In poetry, a new cadence means a new idea” — an oft-quoted remark attributed to poet Amy Lowell (the poet proffered by Isabella in her Vernal Equinox offering). Isabella is interested in visual synchronicity (a la Joseph Cornell’s boxes); I am interested in the way aural synchronicity works and how images can bloom (or wither) within the sound carriers they travel in. How does the digital exchange affect the visual and aural carriers? One thing is that other voices — yours, for example — lifts up an idea and shakes it up to make it even stronger. Thank you!
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Vanessa Blaylock
Yes, yes! Wonderful ideas about our virtual stage, Ciara & Christa!
Re Open:
.Re/act is pretty open, and I think as open as it is possible to be. Anyone can comment, and anyone who asks can post.We’re able to let anyone comment because we use the “Akismet” spam filter. Even on days when there isn’t a single post or comment, .Re/act still gets 300+ spam comments. Without Akismet we couldn’t function.
If we had “open enrollment” for authors, we’d similarly have hundreds of spam authors (it’s true! I’ve tried before) who might be able to hack the site, and in any case would generate hundreds and thousands of fake Louis Vuitton links. You wouldn’t even be able to find the content in the spam haystack.
As is peeps simply ask for account and they get one. I might have a pretty good idea who the typist for some identities is, but I’ve never actually asked anyone who’s typing for you, and we’ve never turned anyone away. So we’re as open as the reality of the Inter-Net-Street allows.
This issue winds its way into other places as well. If you only use a platform like Facebook, you won’t even know what spam is because they do a great job of prescreening users and keeping them on a short leash. But it’s also a kind of silo’d space.
I was just helping my mom with some cable stuff and was horrified (I don’t do television myself) to realize how much money they charge for cartoons or fake history docudramas! (especially when they could get so much better fake history right here!)
From the perspective of a rapacious monopolist broadband provider like Brian Roberts / Comcast, every minute you “waste” looking at a website is a minute he could have been gouging you for sports video. For a platform provider like Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook, it’s a minute you could have spent enriching the value proposition of his silo.
I know it sounds like I just ranted, but the important point is that these rich white guys have the opportunity to get a whole lot richer still, and it’s in their interest to make sure that your limited experience is smooth, easy, and flawless.
When you go out on the Open Web where free people can freely exchange ideas, you don’t have the protection of billion-dollar corporations. Fortunately the Open Source community makes platforms and tools that let us dangle by our fingernails a little bit longer in the accidental freedom and speech we got when they weren’t looking and a bunch of hippies designed The Internet.
So, haha, I’m done finally, .Re/act is pretty open, and I think as open as it can be given the balance of tools and threats in the neighborhood.
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Isabella Medici
is Steve McQueen related to Steve McQueen?
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Donnie Archer are discussing. 
The Knight, and 
Christa Forster are discussing. 
Ysidora Pico are discussing. 
Ciara are discussing. 
Izzy
Ciara Finnegan
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Isabella Medici
So who is “this guy”? He’s quite dashing. No frock coat, I see. Is that some sort of wool-lined jacket?
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Ciara Finnegan
Gosh, do you know, Isabella, I didn’t manage to catch the chap’s name at the time. I reckon he’s a regular at that place, though, so I’m sure I can ask him next time. He is rather smartly dressed, I agree. He’s got that whole chequered look going on with his trousers and, if I’m not mistaken, matching lapels on his jacket!
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Vanessa
Ysidora Pico
I Send You This Ship with Your Name on It
Houston Ship Channel, photo by tony barilla
And a poem with your ship in it.
A Ghost
by Cole Swensen
erodes the line between being and place becomes the place of being time and so
the house turns in the snow is why a ghost always has the architecture of a storm
The architect tore down room after room until the sound stopped. A ghost is one
among the ages at the edge of a cliff empty sails on the bay even when a ship
or the house moves off in fog asks you out loud to let the stranger in
Izzy
St. Patrick’s Treadmill Pub Crawl
St. Patrick’s Day Treadmill Pub Crawl!
6-8pm EZT / PDT / SLT Monday 17 Mar ’14!
9-11pm Eastern
1-3am Tue GMT
* Izzy’s Gym / SL
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Ciara
Gosh, Isabella, you’ve set me thinking…I’ve neither seen nor heard from Donnie for weeks now. Do you think it is possible that he’s been in training for this event? Hmm…I wonder if Mr. Sweetman will march/crawl too. Wasn’t his brother was in the drinks trade?
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Isabella Medici
Oh yes, Donnie & Patrick. All they ever talk about is beer! And where are they today of all days!?!?
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Ysidora Pico
Donnie! I saw him last sitting on a bar, dreaming (was it?) of two spirits — Gin and Tonic?
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Isabella Medici
Are those spirits European? I have yet to encounter them. Perhaps those 2 are Yankee spirits?
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Izzy
I Send You this Lapis Lazuli
What a color!
I loved the scene in Girl with a Pearl Earring where Colin Firth (Vermeer) sends Scarlett Johansson (Griet) to buy Lapis Lazuli and adds
My wife need not know about this
Damn that stuff was expensive. Yves Klein worshiped it.
Is lapis the most divine, royal, sublime color?
Or is there something about the relentlessness of any pure color? Kids go nuts with primary colors. As “adults” we exercise refinement in elegant palettes and blends. Or grey. Have we washed the power of pure color from our souls?
Photos by: Orbital Joe • cobalt123 • Johan J.Ingles-Le Nobel • cobalt123 • Lelê Breveglieri • lisabelle3
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Ysidora Pico
Yes, lapis lazuli. The very name sounds like a dream, doesn’t it? Was that what Yves Klein was thinking when he named his painting Requiem? Requiem for a dream of pure color?
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Ysidora Pico
Izzy
I Send You this Duchamp Dossier
Photo by CraftyGoat
Ysidora! I’ve been struck by the dialog from your performance:
Your mom throws everything away and that’s why she has no history
She has no history because she is a woman
As you know I’ve been thinking about the magical qualities, the bounded serendipity of Cornell Boxes. Today I was thinking about that lovely collaboration I Send You this Cadmium Red, and another famous collaboration between 2 legendary box guys: Joseph Cornell & Marcel Duchamp’s Duchamp Dossier.
Weather it’s stolen land or a damnatio memoraie from your misogynist brother, we’re 2 dead women who’ve had some of our history erased. Would you care to start a correspondence? We might trade Spanish Land Grants, Cadmium Reds, Duchamp Dossiers, Renaissance Portraits, Lost Journals, or anything else. We could do it right here on react, or I know someone who just loves to make new sites and could set one up for us.
What do you think?
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Ysidora Pico
I would be pleased to start a correspondence with you, Izzy. Let’s do it. I will find something to share with you. You let me know where to send it. Besos, su comadre, Ysi.
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Isabella Medici
Where to send it? How about here to .Re/act?
Unless you’d like a separate Box/Blog for it…
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Ysidora Pico
Here is great!
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Christa Forster
Twitter essay by @tejucole “@apieceofthewall”
I’m fascinated by how @tejucole is using Twitter.
Definitely someone to follow….
Vanessa
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Christa Forster
Wonderful! Thank you for this, Vanessa. I just posted in another place that my %#^& screen recording plan went awry because I FAILED TO TURN IT ON before the performance. I recorded every other thing — every rehearsal, whether formal or informal, making sure I had the technology down. Then, at the moment when it mattered, I failed!
Hah! “Ruin is a great teacher….” Indeed.
Also, Michael told me that the second performance was marred technologically by someone-who-shall-soon-be-clobbered’s unmuted microphone! (my husband’s).
Hah! Again. Perhaps it was my male ancestors making their presence known.
Here’s to you, Mistress of the Muted Microphone! Thanks for your support. It means a lot to me.
xo
Vanessa
Ysidora’s *What’s on My Mind* just started I’m…
Ysidora’s What’s on [My] Mind just started! I’m watching by Google Hangout with EZTV and the live performance in Houston.
(I wonder if you can easily run a “real” camera (or cameras) into a Google Hangout. Haha, I’m so demanding! But anyway, if the camera could switch or move, that’d be a nice extra dimension.
Anyway, Ysidora just started singing!! Something about living with a white girl…
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Vanessa Blaylock
“Your mom throws everything away and that’s why she has no history”
“She has no history because she is a woman”
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Vanessa Blaylock
“My brother died twice…
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Vanessa Blaylock
she was acquitted because they were convinced she suffered from “menstrual madness”
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Vanessa Blaylock
What gets aborted?
We don’t know.
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Christa Forster
Awwww. Sugar. Thanks for being there.
Vanessa
Outing the Meta-artist
In yesterday’s Blueberry Hangout we discussed Molly’s continuing work with Opal Whiteley, and Michael introduced the fascinating artist Shea Hembrey. Like Roberta Breitmore, The Watermelon Woman, Luther Blissett, and many others, these artists work with ideas of Identity & Authenticity, of Fact & Fiction.
If you think about it, Rrose Selavy’s oeuvre isn’t all that amazing. She really only becomes interesting when you out that she’s “really” Marcel Duchamp. Oh isn’t that clever and insightful. Serbian artist Darko Maver created simulated horror and carnage of war installations. His pieces about war in the Balkans shocked and mesmerized audiences around the globe and even at the Venice Biennale. The twist was that he wasn’t a “real” artist presenting simulated (“fake”) war imagery; he was a “fake” artist presenting “real” war imagery. Maver’s work had already had a “real” and global impact, but the twist made it resonate more deeply (and also more artworld insiderly)
Are alternate identities only, or most, interesting once outed, and therefor rendered somewhat “over” once the punchline has been sprung? Can, Should, and How Does, an alternate identity stand on its own?
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Vanessa Blaylock
@nickvlcek turned me on to another one:
Donelle Woolford as performed by various people hired by Joe Scanlan.Woolford at the Whitney Museum:
http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2014Biennial/DonelleWoolfordInterview with Scanlan:
http://bombmagazine.org/article/3580/joe-scanlanIt’s interesting to find these gems… there’s a sort of cool, but very incomplete and on hiatus directory… I’d love to add to it or start one like it… I should contact Antoinette LaFarge and see what she thinks:
http://fictive.arts.uci.edu/
Aero Bigboots
AlexandreLois1
Ananda Crystal
Andrea Foenander
astrid
Aunt Renie
Aurelia Scheppers
Christa Forster
Ciara Finnegan
Bird on a Cyber Twig
Diptheria
Donnie Archer
Edie
Elle
Emma
Elizabeth Taylor Swift
Fanny
FeelsEmpty
Glad Kidd
Izzy
Jade Ravenheart
Kate Nova
Ken Doll
Mary Anning
Meg O'Ryan
Michael Masucci
Mireille
Molly Ross
Monerda Skute
Myra
Neeva
Newton
Michel Nostradamus
Oona
Oscar
Owen
Patrick J. Sweetman
Paypabak Writer
Pearl Grey
Rebecca Narum
rmarie
Ryan
Scarlett Luv
Sello Tape
Serra Qendra
Teresa of Avila
The Knight
Tiffany Mosienko
TrilbyM
Tullia Aragona
Vanessa
veyot
wendz tempest
Xue
Yellow Fever
Ysidora Pico
Yves
Zsophia
Donnie Archer 01:11 on 31/03/2014 Permalink |
Geez Nostradamus…
Aurelia Scheppers 09:42 on 31/03/2014 Permalink |
Oh how my lady would love to see a certain someone receive this fortune cookie!