is is an updated riff off The society of the spectacle by Guy Debord. Consumers become marketing data in the ebb and flow of information systems. I edited this by separating all the spoken phrases and the rearranging them. I also created groupings of rythmic patterns based on drumming and drumrolls. I can see with this piece that even though I've shuffled all the bits of the performance, the meaning still comes through. The next steps are to train myself to perform so that in the post production process the material is rich. I'm also creating a rudimentary language system of tics and patterns. All of this leads to a databased performance work that can be generated by an algorithm.
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California is a bright sun nightmare. What could be worse than a world without rest. I feel that California is an oppression. The idea of California is a demand for Utopia. The insanity that follows all the failed attempts to achieve nirvana and Utopia is what makes the world insane. One man's Utopia is another's Nazi Germany.
This is an earlier rant done in June of 2001. It's a bit creepy because 2 months later 9/11 happened. What's even stranger is how the underlying messages haven't changed that much. The piece was done for palm pilots. I had the idea for creating a series of news rants back then and shipping them to PDA's. Now this is possible with rss, iPods and cellphones.
I heard on the radio that what makes people most happy is to socialize with other people. This topic was discussed over the kitchen table with some dear friends visiting for the weekend. In America there is no third space between home and work. Or rather the third space of America is the shopping mall. This is hardly a neutral or undifferentiated space. It's not the commons or the town square. It's concentrated shopping. The structure is advertising-automobile-shopping. Perhaps that's why so many artist are trying to create relational groups and social installations. Perhaps they sense that the triumph of consumerism means the end of any free time or free place. The problem is that most artists struggle to be individuals and are different from their social group even if their group is essentially a consumer focus group.