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for The Warhol Hijack. (A rough edit of email threads from 2 months posted on the Verbal List-Serv.) |
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+++ i'd watch my back during the weekend sucka! +++ It would be interesting to figure out just what it is Josh means by "The New Warhol" other than as a brand name sound-byte +++ Dean and DeLuca called back. They suck and the guy was mean. "We get product placements for free because of our brand". I think we should eat their food and fake vomit on camera. +++ re: why it is the Warhol hijack? I think we must really be careful about tooting our own horn as to the art history angle in direct regards to "the work itself" and Warhol. In other words, we should be tooting our own horn in regards to how what we are doing is perhaps a continuation of "conceptualism" in a very updated fashion. +++ Although it is not only a dig at josh's delusion. Some other hijack is at work here. +++ I don't know about you, but I'm bringing guns, and I don't plan to leave on Sunday! ------------ +++ break the weekend to shows +++ doing a cooking show +++ morning exercise: guided by the chatters +++ hosting oprah style in front of a live audience and brunch +++ porn at night (renting stripper services?) Isn't this what they want after all? +++ who get's the bed: "the price is right" style +++ possible private radio station +++ if you don't want to do a tv show feel free to do whatever you want +++ is there a way to control the vid feed so that we can put it on whatever we want? +++ direct the netcast? +++ i'm writing my url on my forehead, that's how they can identify me. i know we talked about the numbers thing, a la the prisoner, but it may be more interesting to watch if we allow the viewers to figure out who's who from what's going on. +++ my idea is this: once i walk into the loft i'm performing according to a private narrative i've worked out before hand: who i like, who i hate, who i'm secretly in love with which has nothing to do with reality. i will play my part without informing anyone of what this narrative is. don't be mad if i treat you coldly or yell at you, or hit on you. it's all fiction. +++ we need to get together and make decisions, i think to come to a consensus we'll need to keep everything broadly defined allowing everyone to create their own version of why and how they will create culture-like stuff over that weekend. +++ or conversely we could create broad guidelines or goals on this list and just show up on the day +++ am thinkin about sound/vid byte time in between all these show occurrences +++ maybe that's something to consider as a structure to be organized/played to accompany MCing +++ Me and my mistresses friends will be gearing up for a broadcast performance that's going to happen at the beginning of feb. for maid in cyberspace festival in canada, maybe we can do some dress rehearsals-all that gear!!!!? +++ i have some new vid mixing work i'm starting on the theme of technofetishism, techno sensation +++ Toilet Confessional Taking off on my video affirmations piece. (Faux Conceptual Art, 1994) <http://www.artnetweb.com/projects/fauxcon/toil_con.html> +++ I'd like to do an automated religious advice piece. In the manner of a tea reader or tarot card reader or casting the I-ching, I'll give advice or an affirmation to people who access my services. This can be done using an automatic text generator. I can read these out loud or I can have a synth voice do it. +++ I would like to build a few disruption in the space to create a new stage for us to work on. No, I 'm not going to trash the space (anything I am thinking of can be done without a single mark ). What I am thinking of is a way to visual and social slice up the space into units or "sets". I am thinking of a very mailable group of sets in a constant state of being built and disassembled. I think that this will be my role..."that guy building stuff over there". +++ personally i can't help thinking josh's "many camera soho loft" results in a completely dead space where actually not much if anything is even possible, an OVER-EXPOSURE. i can't quite escape the feeling of us being regulated to a warholian model where all we can do is just show up and hang out and let the tedium of 72 hours unfold. +++ My initial idea was that we could all wear big coats and steal all the equipment over the weekend. +++ the whole setup of wlip is to catch nothing or anything at all times according to the camera switching software. if we have no control of the cuts then any linear performance will be chopped to pieces. i'm not much interested in controlling the camera. +++ perhaps we can position our urls written on index cards in front of the cameras for 72 hours ;-) +++ I don't think 72 hours should be embient and all chopped up. I think it should be a combination of focused time where the people in the loft gather around one activity to draw the sensors and cameras to activate a section of the space, working the net relationship with our viewers. The main feature of this environment is the relationship with the viewers and there are many ways this relationship can be turned on. +++ I think during those focused times the rest of us should serve the performance/show that is taking place either as local audience, props, workers or whatever is needed by the artist who's leading it. +++ I would like to host a trivia game. The questions will be about the tools of our trade: hardware, software and art history. The 3 winners get the bed (I figured on a king size bed 3 can sleep comfortably). +++ the wlip site is created to carry the ordinary and everyday comings and goings of two well-to-do internet urbanites to the web public in general. i'm beginning to feel that it needs to be injected with some artificiality, some fiction, something made-up. this could take the form of fantasy or theatrics or narrative. +++ the more i think about the idea of placing our audience outside the space that we occupy the more i like it. even in regard to our immediate Upgrade audience/circle. +++ The chatters will be invited to send excersize instructions through the chat room which I and who ever wishes to join in will have to follow as best we can for a period of 75 minutes. +++I would like to do is read a bed time story at (approx) *2:00 AM* sunday when everybody is sleeping or pretending to be sleeping. The story will be told in the darkness of the bedroom in will be traced by the infrared cameras there. +++ we need to hijack the artwork. weliveinpublic is josh's art project, I don't think we just want to fit so easily into his scheme. +++ maybe we should just recreate warhol films all weekend. are we just shooting for our 15 kb/s of fame? +++ i am a little overly enthusiastic about my current state of ¥lostness¥. seriously i do look forward to scheming something along the lines of ¥how to live in a dead space¥or ¥high-jack¥or anything other than the old line-up bla bla so remember me in your next meeting and rest assured i would love to fuck-up the otherwise re-incarnation of pseudo version 2.0. +++ considering creating josh harris masks to wear the entire time we're there and saying nothing but quotes we cull from his press clippings. +++ The more and more I think about it..the 32 cameras and "wassup, girl!" chat are not doing it for me. +++ The primacy of the image is a myth accentuated here by the chillingly empty "archival" function programmed into the space. (ie, every minute a snapshot is taken from the camera that has priority at the time. most of the time it tells you nothing about what is really going on in the hyperreal-ized space. I haven't seen the archival video, it might be different.) Can we at all bring this together somehow or are we really that schizo after all? +++ I could, for example, obsessively take notes for the 72 hours the Verbal group is occupying the WeLiveInPublic loft. This could be done on my laptop or a Palm. Whether or not it would be more interesting than the chat is yet to be seen and is also part of the fun. +++ i vote for a duration matrix...a warhol hijack sans josh...if possible...or improvise on the impossiblity of it... +++ i for one will sit and get stoned...make small talk...read from stuff...do my email...watch strippers fall asleep during story time...eat jennifers left overs...wear my mask just for the fun of it when the cops come..try to catch people looking out the windows....bring some hong kong flicks.....pretend to do something and become angry an object...chat with the dead and the over_exposed...apply for a job with low pay...try not to look at the cameras...try to give the wrong answer to most questions...hold hands...whisper things to id_runners... bounce back and forth between them till i get really tired and start to complain about the entire effort...and make my get away..... +++ Send laywers, guns and money to: seasHell Lounge, St. Pete Beach Florida +++ and they all lived happily ever after...fade to black |
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