May 7, 2014
Me and Robyn became each other whaaat madness shut the front door woah. ALSO watch Robyn's! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUZUYYKCAqs&feature=youtu.be
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Me and Robyn became each other whaaat madness shut the front door woah. ALSO watch Robyn's! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUZUYYKCAqs&feature=youtu.be
This week I did the "best" friend challenge with my "best" friend! Enjoy :)
ME AND ROBYN DID A THING It's funny, perhaps you should watch, and also watch hers that's funny too I suppose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCHLaPymqwM
SUPRISE! didnt see thatc oming did you no. http://youtu.be/Bxxyy9ycNNQ
Got into a small debate about slut shaming/victim blaming/rape culture/sexism (when are they ever small) and get this response from Dann Carroll: "You are seriously powerful in this whole debate. Like a friendly Germaine Greer." "dude i get scared when you bring it up because it's like a 90mph gale of sassy truth hurling at them" "then ends with a sandy beach of 'fuck'" He's good at words.
http://internationalvisual.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/joseph-kosuth-capc-museum-of-contemporary-art-bordeaux.jpg
'HAT' Joseph Kosuth
Kosuth is an american conceptual artist whose work is based around the use of words.
In a series of installations, he took various objects and created an installation with the object, a photograph of the object, and dictionary or thesaurus definitions of the things that denoted the object.
In this one, I particularly like the fact the definition includes translation. There a cross-cultural bridge here where the translation provides another set of understandings for this selected object, another set of semantics for another audience to receive.
CASE: KENNETH GOLDSMITH: 'DAY'
Kenneth Goldsmith is currently my favourite person. After Grace Helbig and Mamrie Hart (joint first, I can’t decide). He’s described himself as ‘the most boring writer that has ever lived’ (Goldsmith, 2004). His work is so original in the fact it’s so openly plagiarizing and unoriginal, appropriating everything into something new.
I’m going to talk about his book Day. I have not read this book, and that’s okay, because Goldsmith himself has said I do not need to, because he will tell us/me about it. Day is a complete retyping of one issue of The New York Times, that was eventually published (after about a year) as a 900 page book. He wrote a novel of someone else’s words by simply following a set of self-given rules that changed the context in which these pre-owned words were to be received.
In his essay/speech Being Boring, Goldsmith describes the process he went through:
I would take a page of the newspaper, start at the upper left hand corner and work my way through, following the articles as they were laid out on the page. If an article, for example, continued on another page, I wouldn't go there. Instead, I would finish retyping the page I was on in full before proceeding to the next one. I allowed myself no creative liberties with the text. The object of the project was to be as uncreative in the process as possible. It was one of the hardest constraints a writer can muster, particularly on a project of this scale; with every keystroke came the temptation to "fudge," "cut-and-paste," and "skew" the mundane language. But to do so would be to foil my exercise. (Goldsmith, 2004).
I can imagine this being so draining. At the same time, I want to create my own cersion of this book. I’m fascinated by how such a regimented routine and a newspaper can be such a creative process. The blurb of the book (as described on geoffreyyoung.com) even describes the processes as ‘uncreativity as a creative practice’. I love that. Why are we trying so hard?
This book is also interesting, however, in the sense that it’s taken something already given a worthiness as ‘news’ and recreates it as something with a different newsworthiness.
It takes what is to be yesterday’s news and binds it in something much more permanent than a lot of news is. The book contains both copy and adverts, disregarding the graphics of the page and the instructions to ‘turn to page x’. This extraction filters out the semantics in colour and images and allows the words to perform in new ways, to be received as a piece of art rather than a blunt news story or advert ridden with semiotics.
People might consider this to no longer be news, or newsworthy, but the book itself is newsworthy, seeing as it was so outrageously created and by someone of esteem in the literary world. The news becomes news in a new way. It itself is news, not just its contents. In a way, it is double-y newsworthy. And that’s cool.
My attempt at transcribing. It was a lot easier in A level, I guess because I knew what I was doing.