so that we prepare for whatever method is going to take us through the spaces...
so we ought to discuss soon a kind of calendar for testing out ideas...
and then just do it methodically and report back to each other...
need to then create some ideas to test out. make schedule. do. report back.
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otherwise, below is from our discussion and also just some things that came to my mind:
a mapping that drives us forward, that has its own logic. not quite a mapping.... but rather a self-generating determinant. this reminds me in some respects of the Object Oriented structure at work, in the piece we took first steps with in Australia. I wonder if we should re-think that here: the use of triggers to determine further movement, from one thing to the next...?
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based in specific locations - break out from there (i.e. Austin, TX, NOLA, NYC, Charleston SC, Reno Nevada)
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Times that make sense for Andrew: July, September or October
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Interested in idea of city as strange other -- as an object that extends in its own self-generating (and dieing) mapping.... question then of following/exploring lines of its own.. not treating it as human anatomy.. but rather as its own space that we are inside... and cannot fully 'see' or ever entirely determine, but rather we investigate and find out its 'shape' and attempt to in part map it out from the inside out. sorta like being inside a whale and rarely able to see the 'whole' picture, but rather trace different sections to discover its 'shape'.. becomes a matter of textures, spaces, of clues... of non-relations....for instance follow the train tracks to the point where they exit the city. what is there in that space?
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thoughts came up of
supermarkets
new constructions
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[the following three are not in our discussion but came to me later... i can explain further this]: three part structure active wherever we go-- thinking of
- 1. a quest forward to re-claim, to see, to find where a line of the city-space goes....
- 2. a conceptual mapping structure (including actions in specific places, such as supermarkets, documented, minimal and simple)
- 3. a non-narrative displaced, fragmented 'narrative' falling over itself-- a kind of road movie broken up
So, what i am thinking is almost like there are three planes or skins that are ongong. That are being developed in their own right. Step by step in their own research paths. From there it becomes perhaps possible to create a sortof three dimensional relation between them. That is, how they overlay with each other. How they form a 'house' of sorts with strange connections and other things...
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issue of asking what is of significance in this journey for the people involved?!?
why explore/in america for z?
why explore/in these american spaces for a?
careful to not neccesarily repeat the romance of american fronteir, etc (will be more bound by feelings for a vacation then, rather then a research then) ....but rather to at least conciously reflect on what is inside this desire/hope, etc.
needs to be a relation to some sense of self today
cautious to not fall into purely becoming an Other for european re-vitalization of (melancholic) spirit... or melancholic-nostalgia of Lost America for american sensibility freaked out in juggernaut of modernity
thought came up of working with images in one's head of the american space (from movies, etc.)
hence seeking out all the 'strong' images in one's imagination as a starting point. what would be done with that is another question
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hyper-formalism -- document everything, then re-process in terms of motifs repeated.
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