‘notes towards biography’

Christopher Sands, still, 19 May 2020

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A pile of art magazines were going nowhere in Goldsmiths library fifty years ago and the gap between magazines and iPhone texts isn’t the gap between Hornsey and Hackney drawings. But both are anytime moments, not museum or gallery moments. It’s structure without structure and steaming ice.

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Bare feet can be a signifier, loosely attached to art and psychoanalytic discourses and treading quietly passed deschooling tendencies from another time. Signifier as a signifier didn't go down well at the end of an exhibition more than twenty years ago

I was describing something, there were things to see and Ruth's broom and passages from a text written 22 years later, lent time travelling credence.

Someone asked me what he was looking at and walked off when I mentioned the word signifier. I put my foot in something, referring to Lacan inappropriately, but bare feet and a short conversation were better than nothing. It was a beginning at the end of something and providence in the shape of a word. It's a meaningless moment or a moment in a later text and signifiers are a particular reference. Other signifiers are different signifiers and this much used word makes a difference. One signifier is not like another signifier and Dora wasn't Freud.

I was looking at a group of objects, stills, texts and a little sparkle. The interlocutor didn't see sparkle and barefoot was neither one thing or the other.

(taken from concluding notes in talking)

*page to be continued

Christopher Sands, still, 20 March 2006

Christopher Sands, Ruth, 18 February 2011