Thalia and Reproduction: July 2012

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Time Machine

What is beautiful about the time machine is the way that it is a myth buster. It allows one to have firsthand knowledge about the events of our past or future. It takes one of the basic ways that we are trapped, in time, and allows us access to the true accounts of history or the inevitable. One of the last times I saw my friend Y. we got into debate over the nature of time, is it something that can be accessed forwards and backwards, his statement being that all time exists now, accessed only as a perception of causation. I thought that his point was fascinating but felt that he was wrong.

Monday, July 23, 2012

Things that a lot of people would be moved by

L'amore domina senza regole.
English translation: Love rules without rules.

Love is the beauty of the soul
Saint Augustine

Love is stronger than death

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
~Les Brown

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius

Dreams are free, so free your dreams. ~Astrid Alauda

“If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.”
Sohpia Loren

All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream." -Edgar Allan Poe

Hope is the dream of a soul awake. -French proverb

Ad astra
"to the stars"

Alis volat propiis - she flies with her own wings

La vita è un sogno.
Italian to English Translation: Life is but a dream.

L'amore vince sempre
Italian to English Translation: Love Conquers All

Vita - Amore - Riso
Italian to English Translation: Life - Love - Laughter

La Vita e Bella
Italian to English Translation: Life is Beautiful

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Each table has a jar of pickles, a plate of peaches. Water for the guests? Are there plastic bottles of water? Or we could put glass bottles of water, old wine bottles that get filled with tap water by the table setters that we hire. The plates are disposable, or vintage rental. Food, taco bar, made by friends. On the table there are bottles of hot sauce, a couple of choices. little vases, or jars for the flowers that people collect on their hike in the woods. The table cloths are rented and set up with the tables by the guys who do that in Madison.

Bouquets

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rad stamps

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lantern lightstrings

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lantern bulbs

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Light String with 25 sockets with bulbs spaced 12" apart on white cord. The included clear bulbs are 1-1/2" diameter glass spheres with a 1/2" diameter screw in base.

color ball lanterns

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We are are probably not using these, but they are really awesome, Balloon Lights

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Candles

Fuel Cell lamps

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Candles

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pure bees wax votive candles

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Guestbook?

What do we want to do about a guest book? Something that people sign, or some video thing where they record? Or a sound recorder where they say something lovely to us?

Sign

Random Idea: What if we got some of this wire and made cray and joel -> signs for the entrances for night time guests trying to find the entrance? I just think the wire is really fun.

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paint names on signs, do we have the chalkboards?

Tags

tags made of wood

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Tie on your tag to your jar

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Put booze in this

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pins for the corsages etc.

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Birch Bark thingys that we don't need but wanted to note in case we do in the future

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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Ad-Orpheus

I was looking at the subway platform posters two days ago thinking about marketing in relationship to my work. To what degree can I learn from the excitement of entertainment? To what degree could one promote Kafka in an ad? ‘Something’s Off!’ I thought about replacing each of the posters with images of my latest piece, Monologues for Orpheus, using the current catchphrases. The Whitney poster for Yayoi Kusama, a giant photo of her, personality cult, artist persona. What if that was me up there, presented to my neighbors, without the veil of distance and institution. It would be much braver to flaunt in a small pond. Maybe they would see me buying groceries, who is that? Person or giant? Average or exceptional? Material or ideal? Personality devotion. Who worships? Do we admire her products, inclusive environments, insanity. How about her report, expansion of image via advertising, momentous in thanks to institution, audience, acclaim. When do we stop asking if something is or is not art, when the poster tells us that the people agree? It usually is a good clue, utopia of art. So I should post a giant photo of myself as Orpheus in the center of the work, environmental. ‘May the best loser win’ was one poster slogan, another, ‘Did you feel it?’. Can one liners draw us towards complicated subjects? I think Orpheus is a rock star who says ‘don’t look back’.

Monday, July 16, 2012

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Friday, July 13, 2012

STEREOLAB CYBELE'S REVERIE

Robert Kelly in relation to Orpheus

FIRST NOETIC HYMN
to Nous

Let them love me
for what you make me say.
For I was Orpheus
and you are.

There is a mind
beyond my mind
and all I do is shape
what it comes

through me to become.
Or I became.

The Greeks said autos,
allos, self and other—
I am (you make me be)
the opposite of autistic,

I am allistic,
your voice in my mouth.

all I care for
is what you feel
(you make me feel).

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Orpheus ideas

Orpheus Ideas
The screen projects in the background, lights like the ones around the eye up there swirl around the room that the audience sits in, they are all given chocolate to suck on that is in the shape of a penis or a vagina, they are required to eat it during the show.