working title museum | the architecture of being... virtual fog |
Alas the Bauvais tower collapsed c. 1575 after maybe 50 years of being the world's tallest. So, then the Great Pyramid was again the tallest in the world, except at some 'point' the second pryamid at Giza became taller than the Great pyramid due to the second's tip still being there, while the Great's tip having somewhat crumbled away. ...you might just be right about reenactment somehow engendering predestination. It seems that my reenacting Piranesi via redrawing his Ichnographia Campi Martii predestined me to being the first person in modern times to discover (in 1999) a heretofore unknown work by Piranesi, namely the rare printing of the Ichnograpia's first state. Berlin is a perfect 20th century example, and Baghdad is well on it way to being a perfect turn-of-the-millennium example. Even (North) Philadelphia has gone from one of the largest manufacturing (creative) centers of the world in the late 19th and early 20th century to now being a large urban area where huge factory complexes are long abandoned and 'decaying' and even 'disappearing' (ultimately destroyed) month to month. My point being that following the example of others is not an attribute that makes individuals in the first place. Beyond that, I'm honestly jealous of Matta-Clark being Duchamp's godson! There was a distinct calm grandeur being within that spontaneously moving double theater. Doing/being what is not expected is my (personal) operating system. Of course, the term "digital photography" is likely the official term of this activity, but I personally like "paperless photography" better because I like (my) digital photography to remain paperless, meaning, I like the notion of (my) digital photography being most authentic when it remains digital and not ever printed on paper. KOOLWORLD is beginning to look and taste like generic frozen food after being microwaved. All moderation, regardless of being formalized or not, has to do with setting limits. It's sad that the architecture profession is reduced to a publicity stunt to call attention to its name being taken in vain. Whatever the case, it is already being acknowledged that the new entrance of the Liberty Bell pavilion will be quite an ironic portal of liberty's symbol(ism and reality). ontology 1 a : a science or study of being; specif. : a branch of metaphysics relating to the nature and relations of being [in the same place almost all the time?] Subject: www.quondam.com/being/found I'd enjoy being a good painter, but I'll probably only rarely (if ever) know what that's like. Despite this barn's age and its probably being the only such stone structure left in Philadelphia, it nonetheless will likely sometime in the future be purposefully demolished by the Fairmount Park Commission (with the reason being its potential liability as a safety hazzard). In our time, it is hard to escape the irony of a painting's importance almost always being strictly concomitant with a high monetary value. Subject: [art] being/appositional [to architecture] Of course, this symbolism is not discussed/criticized for fear of its being seen as somehow anti-Semitic, yet the symbolism is there nonetheless. Is it correct to think of art as being largely appositional to architecture? You're right about Libeskind not necessarily being the one to ultimately "save" the Liberty Bell Pavilion. I'm not only thinking of how painting and/or sculpture and/or electronic display screens, etc. are added layers to architecture, which in turn manifest a 'new' entity, but I'm also thinking/wondering about the 'art of architecture' also being appositional to architecture itself. Despite all the many new tourist trappings including some strict security checkpoints in and around Independence National Historic Park, I still very much enjoy being there because I increasing go there with quondam as my guide. Personally, I do have faith in 'apposition' being apposite the notion of art being a successive layer to architecture. Moreover, common usage of 'apposition' does not necessarily preclude successive layers of meaning being added to the common usage. The Visitor Center of Independence National Historic Park designed and constructed for the 1976 Bicentennial is adjacent the First Bank of the US and the Merchant Exchange, and now a Park Service storage facility, being last year replaced by the new Visitors Center on Independence Mall. My point being that except for the missing roof, this stone barn manages to manifest commodity, firmness and delight. As palaces are being looted in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq, is it not ironic that the present Liberty Bell Pavilion of the USA is also likewise slated for 'looting'? Now back to being only an artist--you know, I think slapdash is probably one of the only really modern styles. Again, I'm being much more open in my actions than I'm given credit for. That a building refers to what goes on inside it, but its reason for being lies outside it just doesn't seem to make sense, even as an abstraction. Then you contradict this with the notion that buildings represent things elsewhere, which in turn is further contradicted by the building being static, which implies that a building only does whatever it does at the place that it is, and not someplace else. It is ironic too that my work is compared to 'Dungeons and Dragons' when I am the one being open about myself and my ponderings, while zip (and most others here) prefers to remain masked, if not even baroque. Subject: being/critical I was just going through some computer poetry I wrote 22 December 1984, and the first line refers to [he] being planted in front of the Petit Trianon. What I like most about being an artist is that I can do all my artwork without formal training and without a license. Kittyking, what you inferred early on about the Chapmans' work being like grafitti from the past is uncannily insightful. And money is not the reason for architecture's being, rather, it is one of the means of architecture's being. I remember the van Eyck painting being somewhat popular in the early 1970s Seeing someone shot with a bullet or seeing a movie with lots of people in a sexual orgy or reading a novel about a man and his schizophrenic brother all fall far short of (my) really being shot by a bullet or with (my) really being involved in a sexual orgy or (my) really being a man with a schizophrenic brother. Found On being Blue by William Gass at Joseph Fox Bookstore late 1982. Maybe the next work will be entitled "being great without the aspiration, i.e., being great because the work is great all by itself and not because an aspiration of greatness existed before the work existed OR isn't it interesting how some people will write anything (usually the same thing over and over again) with the underlying mistake that greatness and the aspiration of greatness are the same thing." Regarding being inspired by one's own work, it happened that the medium was the message. The first time I actually saw the very same "Silver Star" was in Summer 1963, just after being on a taxi ride through part of Luxembourg and into West Germany, after having had (fish) dinner in Iceland the night before. I see the most valuable aspect of chronosomatics being the notion that the human body, both male and female, is the entire text, the primary source you might say. One more thing, I do not want to come off as being anti any kind of thinking, especially established thinking. Recently inspired by Barney's Cremaster Cycle, chronosomatics is now being treated as sculpture, or is it relief painting? Certainly not as performance, at least not yet. Or is that really all it is? There are no boarded up houses on my block, but I don't have to walk far to start counting them, and not too many blocks away houses are being demolished within blocks and sometimes whole blocks have seemingly overnight disappeared. You were being critical of an avant garde responding to fluid boundaries, yet your own argument was itself based on responding to a fluid boundary. I'm not worried about any of my architectural work every being real simply because I'm lazy and I just get lazier whenever someone (like a client) expects something from me--my eventual death is the only dead line I care to encounter the rest of my life, thus I'm literally in no hurry. So being a virtual architect is something I believe I'm now very good at, however, being a virtual artist seems to be a whole other matter. |
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