Day Six: Tuesday 14th June 2011
Performance Broadcast
Part One:
Born-Digital Archive Reference Code: IiS_P.B.14_2011-06-14_log-day-6.1
Part Two:
Born-Digital Archive Reference Code: IiS_P.B.15_2011-06-14_log-day-6.2
Excerpts from today’s typed conversations as documented in the UStream Chat Room:
11:01 am The Loft: Good morning!!!! 11:10 am Sven G: G'morning, Cara!! Post-its are addictive! 11:12 am Sven G: Post-it me! 11:21 am Sven G: Some cl***ical! 11:21 am Sven G: Damn, that censoring is hilarious 11:22 am Sven G: adiemus! 11:23 am Sven G: relax and escape sounds good too 11:23 am Sven G: exactly 11:24 am Sven G: uhu, they did a delta airlines one too 11:24 am Sven G: with dolphins 11:28 am Sven G: adiemus is drowning your voice a bit, you can turn it down more 11:37 am Sven G: you could scan them seperately, but that's madness 11:38 am Sven G: yeah, do a pile, it's fine 11:40 am Sven G: would've never thought of re-using them like you're doing now, it's suprising 11:42 am Sven G: as remnants of what they are, but certainly scan/digitize them 11:42 am Sven G: you have that there? 11:42 am Sven G: yeah, I'm seeing that 11:42 am Sven G: it's about reperforming more 11:46 am Sven G: here on my end I'm making itemized lists of my personal possessions for a project 11:46 am Sven G: but i feel like I'm getting inspired by your re-using 11:47 am Sven G: I started with an app called iOwn 11:47 am Sven G: jup 11:47 am Sven G: it got banned from the store though because of copyright on the name; it's a kinda secret app 11:48 am Sven G: I start small now 11:48 am Sven G: first: what's in my backpack 11:48 am Sven G: yeah, house is the big project 11:49 am Sven G: I keep strict what to put in it, try to minimize what I have 11:50 am Sven G: also means throwing away, or giving away in the process 11:50 am Sven G: no, I'm known to throw away 11:52 am Sven G: yeah, I like the catholic ring to that 11:52 am Sven G: cleansing 11:52 am Sven G: I'm joking though 11:52 am Sven G: have to add smilie with that 11:53 am Sven G: but... 11:53 am The Loft: 11:53 am Sven G: haha 11:55 am Sven G: I do 11:55 am Sven G: yeah, few seconds 11:58 am Sven G: it's remarkable that you get that sort of post-it exercise as an ***ignment, couldn't imagine that happening over here at school 12:00 pm Sven G: ok, this an idea of yours! RIGHT! silly me 12:03 pm Sven G: WIND & HORSES, dear god 12:04 pm Sven G: no, but it's cool 12:04 pm Sven G: it's a bit like those brian eno cards 12:05 pm Sven G: let me look it up 12:05 pm The Loft: Competition attention 12:05 pm The Loft: Wind and horses 12:05 pm The Loft: focus becoming distracted 12:06 pm The Loft: Everybody up at once (nearly) (some) 12:06 pm The Loft: The shape of the word "insulin" 12:06 pm The Loft: V 12:06 pm Sven G: Oblique Strategies, those are his tips to artists in making an album 12:06 pm Sven G: ***********************/wiki/Oblique_Strategies 12:07 pm Sven G: haha, djezus 12:10 pm Sven G:'Try faking it', that's one for me 12:11 pm The Loft: Use an old idea State the problem in words as clearly as possible. Only one element of each kind. What would your closest friend do? What to increase? What to reduce? Are there sections? Consider transitions. Try faking it! Honour thy error as a hidden intention. Ask your body Work at a different speed 12:12 pm Sven G: and an archivist 12:18 pm Sven G: nicely written 12:22 pm Sven G: bodies only there in context recognizing it as such, trippy! 12:25 pm Sven G: ooh company! can I find your text online someplace? 12:28 pm Sven G: jup, especially that one with the 'pause' in it 12:29 pm Sven G: yeah, remember us talking about that in our skype talk too.. 12:30 pm Sven G: I don't talk as much about 'body' 12:30 pm Sven G: big fan of the kabakov text too, insanely cataloguing / do you also recognize a split between male and female? one more outside-world positivistic, the other more focused on things that are absent and body-related? that's very general though 12:31 pm Sven G: because you seem to be combining that now 12:40 pm Sven G: I remember us at home watching old betamax-videos - the media container in itself can also have a value for sure, vhs is going out too, and static is beautiful, no? 12:41 pm Sven G: we are crazy at home 12:41 pm Sven G: my dad put all of them on dvd 12:41 pm Sven G: enormous catalogue of home movies 12:42 pm Sven G: that's a big thing there, cara 12:42 pm Sven G: it's not just the keeping 12:42 pm Sven G: but experiencing through filming 12:42 pm Sven G: which I feel was important for my dad 12:42 pm Sven G: to frame reality 12:43 pm Sven G:to control what's happening also, not be overpowered by the much-ness of birthdays and holiday trips 12:44 pm Sven G: and your point in it 12:44 pm Sven G: it's almost like you're directing it 12:45 pm Sven G: I can imagine that 12:47 pm Sven G: yeah, I'll say sth: .. 12:49 pm Sven G: having those images mean something very particular is a violent thing, which is what do***entary filmmaking is about, unless you're fly-on-the-wall, fredrick wiseman-style, which I'm then more in admiration of 12:49 pm Sven G: memories of childhood-videos 12:49 pm Sven G: first one comes to mind: is those new year's letters 12:50 pm Sven G: we performed them for our families 12:50 pm Sven G: while I don't even know if we wrote them ourselves! 12:50 pm Sven G: all very shy and in hushed voices 12:51 pm Sven G: a humiliation ritual, for presents, 12:51 pm Sven G: it's like monopoly, p***ing by the bank 12:51 pm Sven G: no real presents-presents 12:52 pm Sven G: that's christmas 12:55 pm Sven G: then much later.. last holiday trip to mexico, being asked on-stage to dance with the women dancers and looking like some sort of wobbling rake - so yeah, shame-memories come first, 12:57 pm Sven G: I wouldn't dare to watch it back, but I have vivid memory 12:58 pm Sven G: haha 12:58 pm Sven G: that looks edited though 12:58 pm Sven G: is it? 12:59 pm Sven G: my dad never did that, the transitions are most humorous, fade to black in between each time 1:01 pm Sven G: and haircuts, I find it hard to imagine our haircuts will start looking that dated 1:03 pm Sven G: no, don't remember that, we got to eat part of the cake though 1:05 pm Sven G: you should maybe eat your post-its too 1:07 pm Sven G: they need some seasoning 1:07 pm Sven G: thyme, ginger 1:07 pm Sven G: when I was a kid yes 1:08 pm Sven G: I licked battery acid once, that was scary 1:09 pm Sven G: I remember looking at the ooze 1:09 pm Sven G: don't remember how old, I'm guessing 7 1:10 pm Sven G: in a car yes 1:10 pm Sven G: didn't work, popped open the lid and saw this green ooze 1:11 pm Sven G: other scary, bit boy-ish thing: 1:11 pm Sven G: when my brother and I were in a bath together, we sprayed water with shampoo cans in each other's faces, until... 1:11 pm Sven G: the cap flew off on one into my throat, and I couldn't breathe 1:11 pm Sven G: had to do the heimlich on me 1:12 pm Sven G: no, was last time 1:12 pm Sven G: what was that with heinz? 1:13 pm Sven G: ah yes, smart company move 1:14 pm Sven G:all very blonde children, reminds me of that horror film 1:15 pm Sven G: let me look it up 1:15 pm Sven G: causing, for sure 1:16 pm Sven G: Village of the Damned 1:20 pm Sven G: hahah 1:27 pm Sven G: I remember Fristi-drink 1:28 pm Sven G: it purple-ish strawberry/forest fruit yoghurt-like 1:31 pm Sven G: getting more and more intrigued by the editing 1:33 pm Sven G: these coppered shoes, first soccer-shoe and walking shoe 1:33 pm Sven G:you could copper everything! 1:33 pm Sven G: jup 1:34 pm Sven G: rusty orange, with metal layer 1:36 pm Sven G: inventing traditions is very cool, pertinent nowadays too I think 1:40 pm Sven G: you can make broadcasted loft-nosing into an annual tradition 1:42 pm Sven G: it's hypnotic most of all 1:43 pm Sven G: engaging more is 1:44 pm Sven G: it's like pure reacting, in a sense, but in a very limited way - through text 1:44 pm Sven G: chatbox here, uhu 1:46 pm Sven G: we should do one of those too 1:46 pm Sven G: jup, I saw it 1:47 pm The Loft: hello i am the loft 1:47 pm Bob: Hi guys whats going? 1:48 pm Sven G: identity theft! 1:48 pm Jim: Definitely 1:48 pm Sven G: nope 1:48 pm Sven G: ah yes, heard about this catfish 1:50 pm Sven G: yeah, but I'm less of an instigator in that way, I think, in this process of yours, I don't like stealing people's thunder 1:51 pm Sven G: but again, it's want you propose here of course 1:52 pm Sven G: yeah, it's a relief to have other people talking 1:52 pm Sven G: hehe 1:53 pm Sven G: that's one thing I can finish with today, and what I have been thinking about the difference with my possessions thing:.. 1:54 pm Sven G: almost nothing! 1:55 pm Sven G: was coming in hoping to do work, but I was pleasantly distracted all the time 1:56 pm Sven G: I come more from this heavily ironic and atonement perspective on art: these are my stuff, I bombard them to an artwork and plead guilty for having them - which you are not communicating at all, and I admire that vulnerability 1:56 pm Sven G: but also in the sense of: 1:57 pm Sven G: oh yes, and understand how they make me who I am and at the same time not define who I am 1:58 pm Sven G: you seem to be asking: do you find me and my stuff 'interesting' enough to help me make sense of this? and I do my work on my own more, which you can then witness, but not be part of 1:59 pm Sven G: that's what I mean with vulnerable also 2:00 pm Sven G: that's the spirit 2:01 pm Sven G: just saw spit being wiped off a baby's mouth 2:01 pm Sven G: aha! 2:03 pm Sven G: yes, be like that, minus the dribble perhaps 2:05 pm Sven G: oh, cara!! 2:05 pm Sven G: childlike handling of the archive, I take that with me for now 2:05 pm Sven G: is it time for you to stop? 2:06 pm Sven G: right, english time, no then I stick around 2:07 pm Sven G: nappy time? 2:10 pm Sven G: happy sweater 2:12 pm Sven G: those sofas that came before are familiar 2:13 pm Sven G: uhm fun clothes.. mostly slippers in the form of furry animals 2:15 pm Sven G: when did you say your parents got seperated? 2:16 pm Sven G: ok 2:17 pm Sven G: yes, to say something from my part: 2:18 pm Sven G: I am told that I brought my mam and dad back together, being the first child, but they broke up right before my mom realized she was pregnant 2:18 pm Sven G: the (slightly unwanted?) reunion child 2:19 pm Sven G: it's double-sided 2:19 pm Sven G: one that came after, yes 2:20 pm Sven G: but yeah, always lived in one house, which if 5 houses further from here 2:20 pm Sven G: I'm in the old grandparents' house 2:20 pm Sven G: we own the street 2:20 pm Sven G: smilie 2:21 pm Sven G: no, not like that, I was joking, but they lived practically next door 2:22 pm Sven G: which is a bit strange, my grandpa does own the garage where the bikes are kept from the entire street 2:23 pm Sven G: no, it's an enterpreneurial thing of grandpa 2:23 pm Sven G: haha 2:25 pm Sven G: not an inventor, but he was fairly creative - painting and all, and working at a printing firm 2:26 pm Sven G: grandma worked behind the counter of a cigar/sigarette store and later at a supermarket 2:27 pm Sven G: oh yes, I paint you a very romantic picture now 2:29 pm Sven G: can't see second camera no 2:29 pm Sven G: I refresh too, wait sec 2:32 pm Sven G: I'm back now 2:32 pm Sven G: I can try the cohost too, I am a member 2:34 pm Sven G: I'll try through ustream itself 2:47 pm The Loft: thank you for trying that
Challenges that arose from today’s Chat Room discussions:
Challenge 11:
To scan and digitise all of the post-it notes in the loft. [created by Sven]
Challenge 12:
To eat the post-it notes with some seasoning of thyme and ginger. [created by Sven]
Challenge 13:
Make broadcasting ‘loft-nosing’ an annual tradition. [created by Sven]
Archive Appointments
Born-Digital Archive Reference Code: IiS_A.A.9_2011-06-14_13.40_Jem_Kelly_log-day-6
Born-Digital Archive Reference Code: IiS_A.A.10_2011-06-14_16.18_Colin Woodward_log-day-6
