"the ideas john cage spoke of about randomness and sound...  they connect me to the beauty of field recordings.  what is the visual equivalent of a field recording? is it looking at a thousand photos of art / design related things via tumblrs and blogs every day?  and then turning the memory based residue back into something? 

sometimes it seems like a sort of pseudo-appropriation, like using a quote by someone else in an essay. 

i think often about something jo-ey tang said to me:  "a ventriloquism of form" which leads me to "sitting as seeing" and "writing as sculpture" and "making as thinking" the critic jeff kelley writes  “(allan) kaprow downplayed the significance of formal structure and social commentary in favor of direct experience … if you don't do the work, he seems to be saying, you can't reflect upon its meaning.” "
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"she knows that the content of her thoughts consists entirely of what she's read, heard, spoken, dreamt, and thought about what she's read, heard, spoken, and dreamt.  she knows that thought is not something privileged, autonomous, originative, and that the formulation "cogito ergo sum" is, to say the least, inaccurate.  she knows too that her notion of "concrete experience" is an idealized, fictional site where contradictions can be resolved, "personhood" demonstrated and desire fulfilled forever.  yet all the same the magical, seductive, narrative properties of "yes i was talking..." draw her with an inevitability that makes her slightly dizzy.  she stands trembling between fascination and skepticism.  she moves obstinately between the two."  - from "looking myself in the mouth" by yvonne rainer

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