currently under construction again
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*Material will be mostly taken from talking, a new performative 60,000 word text
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1.2
I mix things up. Take the insistence of a storyline, mixing it with passages, written after described events. It can be messy. It has something to do with time travelling digital time and what can be done with cumbersome texts. Video is homeless and platforms fall away. Something like a testimony stumbles backwards and forwards. It has something to with what I think Lacan says in seminar eleven. Looking and the work of art contends with the invasive gaze and Lacan refers to laying something down. The gaze is laid down and something is laid out. The work unfolds and contracts and separating from the work comes in here somewhere.
I thought I was some way there seven years ago collecting video material, but what happens next takes shape as a performative text. There's looking after and looking for the work implies topology and discourse.
Dreams are texts and video turns signifiers into retroactive time travelling video.
1.3
Revised notes in the last part are an incursion or excursion. I take in and rearrange what I see at any one time... working with texts, video and paintings sometimes. Some passages seem awake, others sleep.
(taken from introductory notes of talking)
*page to be continued
Christopher Sands, still, 20 January, 2020