Alan Sondheim on Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:25:45 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> Blue Moose performance, Morgantown W. Virginia, Feb. 4, 2004endofempire |
Blue Moose performance, Morgantown W. Virginia, Feb. 4, 2004 */multi-stream audio-video accompaniment/* tao and nonce nonce tao tao it's dark in here can you hear me can you hear me i'm not at all comfortable at the moment i'm not sure what 'im going to do but there are there are errors at work here you can see the errors for those for those who are who are taking offf to baghdad i've got to keep you here i've got to give you something to look at i've got to give you a memory of weapons of mass destruction if you're going if you're going there you've got to be prepared for weapons of mass destruction - without preparation who really knows what will happen what will happen to you you might you might be killed you'll be on the tv every american who is killed is onj the tv every single one image after image we all lose people the iraqis aren't there you don't know do you how many are killed, there are always a mess of them, there are always a group of them or a pile by the side of the road after the world trade center 9/11 after that everyone had a story it was madness friends were threatening suicide people couldn't function at all everyone remembered where they were that day what they saw what they brought with them for the rest of their lives it's like that and it continues - they'd tell you their stories they'd remember and tell yo and their stories would go on for a long time, a second expanded into a narrative that went and went as they tried to come to grips with what happened to them they couldn't they never could and we'd hear the stories and which was the worst and which was even worst than that and there was nothing we cna do with them. narrative is a way that the american empire organizes itself and there's very little room very little room in the vestibue in the vestibule or GENKAN for understand what might be the other or the OTHER that appears from behind the tree and fires or behind the house and fires away and then collapses there's no memory aftger that there's i'm losing my trace here my track here i want to talk about something else there's trash by the side of the road there's trash there by the side of the road it's floating away and i'm losing you you're wondering where this is going or how much of this you might have to endure i'm fragile and i can hear voices behind me they're talking away losing interst this isn't the most important thing in their lives this isn't in their lives at all things will collapse and whole worlds will turn to nanotechnological dust and there will only be a fleeting glimpse a fleeting glimpse of frozen tracks of a bear or a deer that's all that will remain and nothing else there's a fury in that, a FURY! that nothing else will remain, just those tracks - and the heaps of bodies by the sides of the world by the sides of the road by the sides of the word sometimes the technology fails for example the flash file didn't work through the projector this happens and then there's a blank and a sound and nothing else you might be wondering where this is going at this point - seeing that so many things are collapsing - even the sound seems a bit troublesome - what's happening, why is it stopping and starting like this. i feel people are staring at my back TURN AWAY! LOOK SOMEWHERE ELSE! can't you see - they can't see - I'm typing in the dark - there's almost nothing visible.... so I'll try something else, we'll see what the projector does... that's better - but there goes the image! we'll try again.... the world dissolves in god in plasma - and this is a short film called 'murmur' and it's the turning of the world on itself and the turning and wait - there's got to be more there's always the movie of the end of empire or the last empire, i forget the title - you know the one - the no video NO VIDEO one - you can see - what else can I show you here? on the left - the end of Empire on the right - Europe 1915 just befrore the war you know which war these are some Europeans they're down by the beach - they're down there - there's waiting for something - in silence they're waiting for something where are their families their children what ever whatever happened to... how much of this can go on - I'm feeling my age here - I notice there's a blank screen just below the piano one whatever went on it? where's it going? why did the ocean image stop? why is the NO VIDEO still going on? Why does it say no video really NO VIDEA? is this - not really - I was going to say - wait, I'll find out! that's it - ok, more entertainment - well, that's a drag - just a blank screen and then it jumped... ah well, hold on a minuite - this is getting entirely out of control - you almost forgot just for a moment - the war - what this started off with - remember the empire and everything else associated with it?something is opening - something closing - there's too many things happening here - look - I'm riding the machine maybe shutting down? - no it's continuing - hee hee - just hold on - something will make sense in a bi t- oh my god entertainment for the masses - now you're really going to forget things - this is a cheap short - cheap shot = I better retire for this - how many were killed today - I can't remember a thing - things seem to be moving way out of control - I just can't remember anything at this point - where are we - so far the usa has lost around 500 soldiers - this is what i wanted to talk about - i can't remember how many were lost - on that other side - with the world trade center - i remember - it was around 2700 - but it was first supposed to be - reported as - 5400 - then it went down - they were americans - some afghani died a while later - some of the - some of the iraqi too - or iraqis - or iraki or irakis - some of them - i don't know - this is more or less of a collapse - who would want to watch this over and over anyway - there's a nova - I'll show that - a real fast nova - it won't get away - there's that thing - there's that nova - there's that thing - there's that nova - thank you # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net