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Art Symposium Massey University 2011
Chris Kraus: I was really, Tao, I was really eager to talk to you when I came to Wellington, cause we've been emailing back and forth now for almost a year, I guess you facebooked me at one point last year when you were doing the project called "The Beneficiary's Office" with Laura Shepard and the Wells Group right?
Tao Wells: Out of pure desperation I face-booked you, yeah
Chris: yeah
Tao: yeah
Chris: can you talk…
Tao: I'm alone in the universe, I need some friends
Chris: The whole hearing thing…
Tao: Oh sorry
Chris: …is a bit of an issue, when you talk to me…
Tao: talk straight to you
Chris: …could you talk …
Tao: yeah sorry I forgot, I forgot
Chris: …directly to my ear and a little bit louder that would be really helpful…
Tao: Ok
Chris: Ok, thank you
Tao: sorry (laughs)
Chris: (smiles)
Chris: anyway I read, when you emailed me or face-booked me and we, you know, you told me about your project and then I read all about it and I was really blown away, I mean it really kinda struck a nerve with me for a couple of reasons, I guess first because it's like oh they're at it again in New Zealand.
I had written part of the catalog for the artist et.al when she/ they did the, represented New Zealand in the Venice Parvilion in 05 and it's an artist that I follow, that I have followed this artists work for a long time and it never occurred to me that it would be controversial in New Zealand in the way that It was. I mean to the level of like the participation of this artist. I mean I guess you are all familiar with the sort of quote unquote, scandal, right of et.al?
The problem that people had with et.al was that it was a pseudonym, the artist had chosen to work under the a genderless pseudonym that implies a collective of artists and pretending that the last hundred years of art history haven't happened, they had I guess… not so much Creative New Zealand who were paying for it but Parliament had a terrible problem with the idea that a person would present work not under their regular name and this was debated in Parliament, it was a huge scandal that some one would have the nerve..
Tao: in the, in the guise of transparency
Chris: Right! Right, I mean Venice is the Olympics of the art world
Tao: We have to have transparency here (mockingly)
Chris: Right, it was totally absurd
Tao: yep
Chris: Good for the artist, but also bad for the artist.
Tao: I thought ultimately really bad.
Chris; Yeah, actually it was ultimately really bad because she got known or they got known, but in not the most interesting way at all
Tao: Exactly and for me the exciting parts of her practice which are, have always conceived of a public, there are characters within, or people within the group of et.al,
Chris: Yeah right,
Tao: that are public entities, that are public translators and intermediaries between other aspects of her, the collective, so the fact that that was down played and fumbled in a public forum, as the news paper for example, not having, not, kind of put her in a weakened position rather than in an aggressive pro active position, I thought was a major… not just a catastrophe but it was like a designed institutional problem… (laughs)
Chris: right
Tao: that we are perpetuating.
Chris: well when I read the kind of things that were coming out of the mainstream media about your work I thought ugh they're at it again and the project really struck a nerve with me, "The Beneficiary's Office" because it seemed so brilliantly to kind of speak to the ideas in two of my favorite philosophical works; at Semiotext(e) where I am a co editor, that Semiotext(e) has published in the last three or four years. "The Coming Insurrection" which i want to read a little passage out of, for you. Also "The Soul at Work" Bifo Berardi and also I guess a text of Baudrillards, where one of the most memorable Baudrillard quotes for me was about the Regan/ Bush years and it was "the poor must exit", you know that's like the road sign, this lane must exit, the poor must exit.
They're not even being reviled anymore they are simply invisible, poverty is off the table it doesn't interest us these people have no subjectivity these people aren't even a blight anymore they do not exist. Or as Barbra Bush said "Why would I bother my beautiful mind" thinking about the torture in Iraq. So, what you did Tao was I thought incredibly courageous and profound, given the fact that at the time you your self were a beneficiary, so it was not like you were coming to this completely outside the mix you were depending on this benefit for your own lively hood. So to turn that into,..
Tao: Well I was also…
Chris: To be both dependent on that system and so publicly expose the issues around that system, was very brave I thought because you were a participant yourself it wasn't like you had no role at all, I mean I have always thought, and Semiotext(e) my co-editors, the three of us have always thought that institutional critique is very easy when it is done by people within the institution, it's another thing altogether when somebody outside the institution is taking it on because they don't have the same…
Tao: right
Chris: legitimacy, and support to protect them.
Tao: Yes that…
Chris: I want to cut, wait can I say a few more things about why I love the project
Tao: yep, please
Chris: It reminded me also of the work of a Philosopher Simone Veil, somebody I've written on and done a lot of study on, she was a very important mid century well twentieth century activist and philosopher. She, I mean some of you probably know of Veils work but it has incredible broad scope. One of the things she did while she was teaching Philosophy in a French Lycée, and she was a Marxist who eventually had to go entirely outside politics because she so much wanted to access the experience of the industrial worker.
She believed that the French left, made largely of professors and professional people were so utterly incapable of not only representing the experience of the workers, of the industrial worker but of even accessing it; that she spent a year, she took a year off from her Lycée professorship and she went and worked in a Renault car factory. And she wrote a book about it called A Journal of Factory Work, A Year of Fact… I mean she didn't write a book, she kept a journal that like most of her work was published post humorously. But one of the things she did while she was still teaching, she was in a little provincial town called Le Puy and it was the depression and there was a lot of legitimacy at that time for the trade unions because the trade unions and the left were so closely aligned. But there was a large group of unemployed people in Le Puy who had no presence at all.
I mean the unemployed can't be mobilized can't be activated they can't be represented; so she lead the march of the unemployed to city hall and she was widely criticized for that. So to be a public beneficiary that's about as bad as it gets.
Tao: yeah it's..
Chris: I mean I haven't lived in New Zealand for a while, I'm just imagining, and certainly in terms of American culture. Even to collect unemployment which is you know, one state away from being on the welfare benefit, is incredibly stigmatized. So to even to engage with it as legitimate, to recognize, that there are people living this life and then to sort of say "and I am one of them", that's an incredibly important thing to bring forward.
The other thing I love about, I'm going to take all our time valorizing you Tao (laughs)
Tao: That's not going to happen, um cause it's really important to remember that this category of unemployment is an artificial construction, it's created by the Government to solve it's "economic" problems, it's not The solution it's a very easy solution. It's this artificial construction of a group of people, to demonize, to take the eyes off the point that the system needs a different configuration.
That I've really felt that, because of my experience as an "artist" and someone who has worked in the institution of Universities for the last; for a kind of ten year period both in and out, in and out because it's always short term contract work and as an artist you get short term contract work as well. That I would often work in factories or farming or stuff, so there was this, I was part of this circle of movement up and down the social hierarchy, and so to see, what a construction this play of "society", what a construction it is. You've really got a chorus that is just a complete fabrication, by people standing in the wings saying "right, we'll send on the unemployed people, do your role, right we'll send on the bankers, right send in all the middle" It's just a joke, of course we all see this, but what do we do about it,
Chris: right
Tao: I had to put my body on the line and actually do this transparency thing that we all, you know. I had to, it was too begging, it was too obvious given the times that we are in.
Chris; right, it was a kind of performative philosophy
Tao: yeah
Chris: and that's why I felt this great affinity with you, because maybe I made that term up, for myself, to just describe my work when I got all this shit about writing "I Love Dick" but it's like "Oh Yeah, that's the,… I mean
Tao: Well it's, it's,...
Chris: … that's the important thing."
Tao: It's the anchoring of all that rhetoric and all the poetry actually in the body, the body has to, it actually has to connect with what your actions actually are.
Chris: That's right. That's right and I put myself there.
Tao: Yeah, how you actually live, what function what activity do we do that puts food on our table,
Chris: right
Tao: to eat, to shit, to fuck again. That is part of these, brilliant ideas that we have, it's not a separate thing. And that is where your writing, so profoundly, well why, why I felt that I had to connect to you on Facebook, oh it's so embarrassing, but I had to. It was like you know, since as far as I can remember, in the Beats, there was no, no perspective of that, (a womans' perspective) that you brought to the table and suddenly there was that perspective, again and
Chris: right
Tao: we talked about it, that it was, that holy, the Allen Ginsberg, the holy sentence of the holy cock sucker. You know, the combination of the profane and the profound in the same sentence.
Chris: right, it's funny when I wrote "I Love Dick," I had no idea it was going to be controversial in that way I was really naive, you know, I mean what's so shocking, what haven't we heard before. A woman leaves her husband, she has an affair, the husband knows about the affair, I mean big woop.
Tao: yeah
And it elicited such an incredibly strong response was such a mirror for the culture conservatism of the art world. I mean I guess really, l found out later going around with the book that what was so deeply shocking, to people was for someone to presume to do Theory, on any level at all, especially as a woman, to do theory, but then talk to about your own, god forbid, sex experience, in the first person, I mean that was just really off the map,
Tao: yeah
Chris: really off the map.
Tao: Yeah but the fact that you used the function, well, I don't want to say metaphor of S & M, in terms of the, there is a receiver and a giver and the person who is often the receiver is actually the one that is actually in the more powerful position. Because you are actually saying to this, you're actually controlling, you're actually saying to this person, "do your worst, but I can take it".
Chris: Well, it's a tautology,
Tao: Well yeah, it all sits within a safe understanding of certain limits and rules, but I thought that, that the way you presented a vulnerability in the novel by showing…
Chris: Ah!
Tao: …you…
Chris: that wasn't "I Love Dick" that was in "Video Green" and "Aliens and Anorexia" in those two books.
Tao: ok well I have definitely fused those three books.
Chris: yeah, in "Aliens and Anorexia" and "Video Green", that's kind of, well, shall we move and should I talk about my work a little bit,
Tao: please
Chris: In "Video Green", that came out in 04 and I had moved to L.A in 95, the book came out in 04 but the pieces were written around the same time I was writing "Aliens and Anorexia", around say, between 98 and 2002, and I found L.A after living in New York an extremely confusing and disconnected place and all the values of the art world were different from the values of the art world that I knew in New York, I had lived in the East Village forever and it was all kinda like you know, 80's early 90's blood, gore, blood splatter, cut the head off rats, H.I.V blood, like how transgressive can you be? And then I moved to L.A and it was just this incredibly sort of like post structuralist neo-minimalist formalist scene that centered around…
Tao: You called it famously "neo-conceptual corporatism", I loved that
Chris: Right!
Tao: I thought that was really nailing it.
Chris: And yet I had been invited to teach in one of the most prestigious programs in that system, god knows why, so people sort of assumed that I knew something about it, so I started getting all these invitations to write and talk about art including a column for "Art/Text" magazine and that was where most of the "Video Green" writing came from. Four times a year, I guess quarterly, that means every three months I would have to write some essay about some, something that was happening in L.A art. And the only way I could think of doing it, because I had no particular interest in and or training in curatorial studies or art history or art criticism per se, was to talk about my experience of the work sort of in the context of my over all experience of my life, and I was trying to figure out L.A and my place in the city and the disconnection of it. So the kind of recreational sex experiments that I was undertaking in my own life at that time, for me it was so incredibly philosophically bound with the anonymity of the city, and you know exploring this idea of surface and surface was the big buzz word at that moment in the art world, so what are we really talking about when we are talking about surface…
Tao: Yeah but, you gave a plan a map for someone like me a guy to explore what is normally a patriarchally colonized space through a feminine perspective and I thought that the fact that you were able to so sharply able to create a perspective, a position of criticality...
Chris: Right
Tao: in that position was a revelation.
Chris: Right
Tao: in that position was a revelation.
Chris: (laughs) Right
Tao: We've been talking about this happening for a long time but no ones done it, suddenly it happened, you did it.
Chris: Right
Tao: but then something changed, (laughs)
Chris: ah, we'll get there in a second,
Tao: sorry
Chris: you see Tao,
Tao: what
Chris: I was very naive, you know I thought with telling the sort of like sex stories, also I mean like sex is every where, what isn't porn, who doesn't talk about sex and dating all the time it's completely permeated in the culture, so
Tao: It's part of the sentence that is there
Chris: You know, so my idea of like recounting little anecdotes from meeting people anonymously for these kinky sex adventures, was like ok, I'll tell a little funny story from my life to kinda get peoples interest and then we'll talk about the art, it was really light and anecdotal, I mean it wasn't some kind of Papian, heavy, sort of like sacred sex kind of thing, it was just kind of a goof.
Tao: But it showed power
Chris: Right, but I had no idea people would take it so literally and so seriously, but what you were saying is that I don't do it any more, right?
Tao: Well no no, not that you don't do that (both laugh), it's not a swing of the pendulum, it's a, well, what has changed? There seemed like, I had quite a strong reaction at first, to your new book. We are talking about the latest book "Where Art Belongs" and in previous books and even in this book you talk about your economic position. It was always quite tenuous and now, in this latest book there seems to be a solidification, or a more of a security, that you've found and that's great. And but what I was interested in was that when you write about some of these artists that you are involved with there seems to be opened up a gap now between you and them. Where as previously when you were writing about the um, there were so many names, you know, a lot of the unsung heros that are in your books, there's an immediate affinity to the fact, to both their economic situation and their kind of cultural positioning in the bigger machine. And now you see yourself, do you see yourself as more of the institution and so, I'm kind of fumbling..
Chris: yeah I know exactly what you are asking me and I agree with you. I guess when I was writing "Aliens and Anorexia" and "I Love Dick I was really struggling, I was fighting my way out of paper bag of years of silence and feeling incredible repressed because of my life situation you know. Like being the younger wife of a very famous philosopher and being kind of fly on the wall observing all this stuff, but my opinions not mattering at all, so I was really kind of looking for my art heros in writing those books and finding people like Hannah Wilke, Paul Thek and Carolee Schneemann, I mean I was really looking for my spiritual guides and finding them, and these people were all dead, so it was a different kind of writing that you do about someone who is no longer alive, definitely a different kind of writing.
When I came to write "Where Art Belongs" well first, I was no longer such an outsider. I mean I was, you know was writing in "Artforum" and "Texte Zur Kunst" and all of these much more mainstream art magazines you know and thankfully people were taking my ideas seriously and I was no longer sort of having these adventures I had a more stable domestic life, with a partner; so my situation had changed .
And also I'm meeting these people at "Tiny Creatures", are twenty two, I was considerably older than them and I couldn't really pretend to be like that any more I mean this was not my life and so I thought the less I presumed to know about these people when writing about them the better. And I should start as if in a blank state of ignorance and ask them to tell me what's important and just write it down.
So that I would act as a sort of historical chronicler of these peoples experience rather than when I'm writing about Paul Thek and sort of all my dead heros, who never really had gotten their due. That was more of a blood crusade, you know, how can I get people to pay attention to these people, they were so important, it was such a crime they were over looked. But I did the ones that were most important to me and now writing about artists, it's a much more kind of anthropological enterprise, I only write about people who interest me…
Tao: yes
Chris: …for some reason but I really want to bring them out bring the person out in their own terms and in their own words and so that's the writerly thing to do that's a kind of novelist art
Tao: But with "Tiny Creatures" for example the reading you gave last night, you changed the ending to the way it is written in the book. And that's great, but can I just respond to that?
Chris: yeah
Tao: Because the idea there, well the way that I read the ending in the actual book is that, is it Sue?
Chris: Janet Kim?
Tao: Janet Kim, sorry. Janet Kim paid for this cultural experiment with her credit cards, it came to a conclusion of some sort or it went to its, it ran out of steam and fell apart and bla, ok, but, she had recovered her creativity and was, you know, it's an on going thing, now that's how you ended the talk. In the book you end it with, it's gone completely quiet, um, and I mean this in a playful spirit, that she is now getting jobs as a curator representing "Tiny Creatures" and the idea that I read from that was this idea that now she, her effort has now been qualified by the fact that she has now created a career from it that will perhaps pay the bills. So, it was for me, it was, that was a sign of a shift from, seeing art as or the production of cultural stuff that people do as a normal activity to something that needs to be qualified as an economic, success, on going career-ism.
Chris: right, well it was just a matter of timing. When I finished the text and handed it in..
Tao: no there is, but that, I want to say that, there is this quality to your writing in this book that even though I take that kind of critical position, the whole thing is so transparent
Chris: right
Tao: that it's ironic.
Chris: yeah
Tao: yeah
Chris: well when i finished the text she hadn't gone back to curation...
Tao: You could be laughing at that, you could be going, oh now she's a success
Chris: These people, you know, I let them say what ever they wanted and they let me write what ever I wanted but they got to revise themselves like four times, I can't tell you how many times I went back and forth with Janet, to come to a final version, and that was the second to last version, when she was teaching early music and I thought that was the more beautiful ending, but in the last version somebody had asked her to curate something again and so she wanted to end with that so, ok Janet I said you could have the final cut, there you got it. But when I went around to read it I went with the more beautiful ending
Tao: It is a more beautiful ending
Chris: It is
Tao: It puts the emphasis for me back on the fact that she just wanted to do this
Chris: yeah, and in fact what she has done now is that she is back at school in…
Tao: Oh no,
Chris: .. in music.
Tao: Oh music, oh cool (audience laughs)
Chris: She accepted a fellowship to do a music M.F.A at CAL Arts, which I think is good.
But can we go back to the beneficiary for a minute. The other thing that I thought was so amazing, was that I hadn't seen any other work from New Zealand that stretched itself out to this question that "Bifo" Berardi talks about, a lot in "The Soul At Work" this Italian Autonomia idea, of zero work. That was like Tony Negri, "Bifo" Berardi the Italian philosophers who came out of the 77 Movement in Italy, among the many things they were advocating was this policy of zero work, as in there is already too much productivity, in a late capitalist productive society, let's look at some alternative to that, instead of having a trade union movement that says more money for more work, let's just stop the whole game in it's tracks, let's have zero work.
Tao: And that's the way I looked at the benefit, as a possibility that there has always been an alternative community supported by the benefit, I love that joke about, there's no way Peter Jackson could have pulled off those movies if there hadn't been a guy sitting on the benefit for eight years making little dragons,
Chris: right
Tao: These people are, we all know them, we probably have been them, we've all written out novels on the benefit, we've been so lucky to do that. It's ridiculous that when someone draws this to the public attention, that our cultural production is massively supported by these funding bodies that we don't stick up for them, ya! I got slaughtered, I'm still being slaughtered, I'm in fucking court right now, ok
Chris: right, well you know the same was true in New York, the sort of New York that I arrived in it was the tail end of that period when artists, theater artists, film artists, visual artists everybody had some kind of little scam that they were running, in fact there were some very well known, currently well known established New Zealand artists who were in New York at the time, who were all running these little scams, to live on and how quickly people want to turn their back and forget they ever did these things and I just think that this transparency is so important to me
Tao: yeah, it's important to me
Chris: People should always be transparent about where the money comes from because the art world does everything to conceal it.
Tao: And that's…
Chris: Being an American artist, you need to be bank rolled after art school, you need someone paying your bills for ten years until you can really establish yourself as a money making artist. And where does the money come from, it comes from family money of course.
Tao: I don't have a trust fund
Chris: Neither do I Tao
Tao: Ok, but I think there is a perception out there that I am funded by some mysterious family connection, well I'm not.
Chris: But since this is the secret economic history the art world, people who don't have that support perceive themselves as failures, which of course is always the best kind of tool of capitalist/ capitalism's psychology. You know you don't have it, you're a personal failure. The money seems to be, just like invisible and to not have it, you know is your own failure to make money, your own lack, and so...
Tao: well that's the capitalist's dream
Chris:.. I've always made it a personal practice to be as clear as I can about what I am living on, where my support comes from. Because for a long time I had no means of support and it was very very precarious, and I looked at people and I was made to feel like such a failure, because it wasn't precarious for other people. So, can I read this little bit…
Tao: Yeah
Chris: out of "The Coming Insurrection", so probably some of you have read this book, right?
Tao: Nope, Oh there's one guy
Chris: We published it
Tao: two, I haven't read it.
Chris: This is an amazing book written by a group called the Invisible Committee, they were an obscure bunch of anarchists living in a french provencal village called Tarnac, obscure until they were arrested on terrorist charges, when a commuter rail was blown up, it was a completely non violent crime of sabotage, people were late getting home by 2 hours. But the police swooped into where they were living in Tarnac, they were arrested, they were held for along time with out bail, one of the pieces of evidence against them was that they didn't have cell phones. And this is a text that they, oh one of the things that they did that I found out later that was so cool was, they didn't call themselves artists, they didn't read, what's his name, relational, I mean they weren't like sort of saying we're Baudrillard, they weren't saying we're relational aesthetics, they were just a bunch of people who did things, more in a kind of anarchist context, an anarchist political groove, maybe a theoretical groove than a gallery art world groove. But one of the projects they did was, the store in the village had gone out of business, and they re-opened the store, it reminded me of; I don't know the details of it but it looked a lot like one of the Letting Space projects with the grocery store, and the people who had remained in Tarnac, who are mostly old retirees, all the young people left, were so grateful that now that they didn't have to go twenty kilometers to go to the supermarket, they could buy things as they'd all ways used to do in their little village. so they kind of just made them selves useful, in this community they were living in:
First circle:
I am what I am
I am what I am
This is marketing's latest offering to the world.
The final stage in the development of advertising,
far beyond all the exhortation to be different, to be oneself
and drink Pepsi.
That was a Reebok ad by the way,
Decades of concepts in order to get where we are
to arrive at the pure tautology: I equals I.
He's running on the tred mill in front of the mirror in his gym,
she's coming back from work behind the wheel of her smart car;
will they meet? I am what I am. My body belongs to me.
I am me, you are you and somethings wrong.
Mass Personalization.
Individualization of all conditions: life, work and misery.
Defuse schizophrenia.
Rampant depression,
Atomization of fine paranoiac particles,
Historization of contact.
The more I want to be me, the more I feel an emptiness.
The more I express my self, the more I am drained.
The more I run after myself, the more tired I get.
We treat our selves like a boring box office.
We become our own representatives of a strange commerce,
guarantors of a personalization that feels in the end a lot more like an amputation.
We insure ourselves to the point of bankruptcy,
for the more or less disguised clumsiness.
Meanwhile I manage.
The quest for a self, my block, my apartment, the latest fashionable crap,
relationship drama's, who's fucking who.
What ever prothesis it takes to hold on to an eye,
if society hadn't become such a definitive abstraction,
then it would denote all the existential crutches that allow me to keep dragging on.
The ensemble of dependencies I have contracted is the price of my identity,
the handicapped of the model citizens of tomorrow.
It's not with out forth-sight that the association exploiting them today,
demand that they be granted a subsistence income.
um, I think we should stop.
Tao: No!
Chris: Wait do you have a closing statement?
Tao: no, not really, Oh: "It's not the white, it's not a white cube kind of, I'm not a white cube kind of guy, I don't think you can be a white cube guy if you are an immigrant." Thats a
Chris: Jorge Pardo, yeah
Tao: from your book
Chris: Jorge Pardo
Audience: you still have ten minutes
Tao: we've still got ten minutes
Chris: Oh, we still have ten minutes, ok great. Yeah so Jorge Pardo
Tao: yeah, ok I could relate to that, I'm an immigrant and being an immigrant you don't (immediately) identify with the nationalism propaganda, advertising, the every day existence of this single body that you have to belong to and I find that there is a huge correlation between the asceticism of the clean white cube and the national fever, the abstract singular mono conception of an identity, there seems to be a correlation, not just those, but the extremism.
Because I belong to at least two cultures that I know of, I'm an American as well. People always ask me, well how long have you been here, as if they could qualify my, (laughs) my identity to how long you've occupied a space. Maybe in a similar way that numbers are tallied in occupying a gallery, well that means that we have a public?
I do think there is a correlation there that is quite interesting and the fact that this artist, is interested mostly in more social interactions and other artists and spaces, um I had some affinity with. I feel that in my own practice, I've consciously been trying to extinguish the reflex to have a show in an exhibition space. Every show I've done I've felt that that's it! I've finally killed that gag, hit me in the shin and I'll have a show.
And I thought I had done it with the show called Three Ideas for the State, which was reviewed by Mark Amery, really beautifully out of no where, suddenly gets articulated and we all want that, so I felt that I had succeeded in breaking through a crappy practice to one that was actually saying something. It happened to happen at the very moment I thought I was over with galleries, so I was really worried, well not really worried, but it was like, you know I was grasping at straws hoping that there was going to be some other way to keep going with these ideas, but I didn't want to do them in a gallery.
What I was really attracted to with Paul's idea of exhibition as medium, I mean that's a Marshall McLuhan idea right? We're talking about mediums have defined functions, regardless of what you throw into it, it's always going to do X. So like the television, the computer or the book it always has a predetermine out come, it has a kind of effect. That's a horrible summation of what Marshall McLuhan talks about..
Chris: yeah
Tao: but let me get to my point. The point was for me this idea that, um… damn can't remember.
Chris: yeah, you've never been a white cube kind f guy either
Tao: We no, it's not that I haven't been a white cube kind of guy, they're shops and there is always a place for selling and exchanging goods. That's great, but oh the idea of what I was on about is that a shop has a certain type of public a certain type of customer, participant. Marshall McLuhan's idea was this idea that a Newspaper, before the newspaper existed there was no idea of public, the newspaper created public by being a medium, by being a type of medium.
The way that Bryce (Galloway) was talking about a Zine is only important in the way it creates a type of audience, it's the same deal we have with exhibitions. They create a certain type of audience and that's just what they do. Now I was really frustrated as an Artist showing in exhibitions that no one would bloody, bloody, well you know it was like being in a ghetto and you would have all this operation, this architecture and all the people going through this infrastructure saying; It's working!
Chris: You know, I think that New Zealand is very ill equipped to deal with a Dadaist act, right? The Beneficiary was a Dadaist act
Tao: it was a Dadaist act
Chris: It was an extreme position taken publicly you weren't telling anybody how to read it
Tao: I never have
Chris: the responsibility for reading it is thrown back on the audience
Tao: yuh
Chris: and it's the same thing that happened to et.al in another way in a sense unwittingly her use of her reluctance to reveal her real identity became a Dadaist act
Tao: It was a Dadaist act but I don't think she had her minders or her front people in on the game. And I feel that, accidentally perhaps, I'd love to, we you know we all do these things, and I don't want to throw judgement and blame, but they didn't…, they dropped the ball. And where as I felt my minders, horrible term, these guys went to bat for me, they took hits but they always put the emphasis back on me, this guy knows what he is doing.
Tao: right,
Chris: Yeah
Tao: and did et.al really have that? I don't think she got that opportunity; to say that she knows what she is doing and she's doing it, and she's doing it right now and..
Chris; But don't you think that like what really kind of pushed peoples buttons the most about that project and your project was that people really don't know how to read it here.
Tao: Oh they don't know how to read it anywhere, come on, this is not a localized thing , this is a world, western world wide phenomenon, the division between, um you know, oh, such a huge topic I. It's too big I cant, it's (see Wells Group Video " Artists discussion about major fraud perpetuated by Universities" for an expansion of this idea)
(both laugh)
Chris: Yeah.
Tao: Where we at now with the time, three minutes!
Chris: yeah, um well there are a lot of things to talk about too, it's like, I don't know to me it's, it's, their trying, in the States now, to sort of you know, art historically to try and pull the American culture in to the very wide band width, of the art world. And I don't know why they are doing it.
Tao: Jerry Saltz's "A Work of Art", on television, any one seen that? There's a New Zealander in it. It's a reality TV program
Chris: yeah
Tao: you can get it on line, you can't probably see it on tv yet
Chris: But something… somethings
Tao: I'm really excited about it, demystify this bloody church that we are all involved with, it's a joke. Sorry damn
Chris: laughs
Tao: shut up, shut up.
Chris: somethings that were very kinda clear, as a kind of performative cultural actions, were very hard to read in the the art world. And so now it's kind of, you know, now it's gotta be, it's,.. it's trying to be kind of pulled into a art historical discourse.
Tao: ok
Chris: and anyway I think we should stop there
Tao: yeah
Chris: there's more to say about this.
Tao: I've dug my hole, thanks guys
Chris: thank you
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After 45 days and 18,996 kms, the #KWIDdrive2Paris comes to an end and what an amazing journey it has been!
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I've spoken and posted in the past about how geeks can help in emergencies. Today I flew up to San Francisco and spoke at a Net Squared event for non-profits about how they could best put Twitter to use.
My experiences in the San Diego fires of 2007 gave me an interesting outlook on how Twitter, as a tool, could be applied in different circumstances. Just a few months after (and some even during) the 2007 firestorm some agencies are scratching the surface of what's possible with this service.
At the outset of my talk I made sure to be clear that Twitter is a tool. It's a good one for some cases and organizations and useless for others. Don't make Twitter the hammer and start looking at everything like a nail. Twitter does some things very well, but it doesn't fit every organization's goals.
Britt (who is awesome by the way) asked me a question in our pre-talk interview. "How could Twitter be used for non-profits?". A question like that is too broad to answer. It's like asking how a website could be used for a business. Instead, I came up with a set of advantages Twitter has which may be used to help determine if Twitter could be useful for your organization. If one of these criterion benefits your community without too many hurdles for adoption, then Twitter might be the right tool for you.
Twitter benefits
- Speed Using twitter, you can very easily publish information more than once per minute. If distribution speed is critical, regardless of the information being distributed, Twitter may be the tool for you.
- Non-website (source) based alerts Instant messaging, SMS/text messages on cell phones, RSS/Atom feeds, email alerts, badges/widgets on other sites, and other methods of distribution are available. If your community can't be tethered to a website for it's communications, Twitter can provide other methodologies to get that information out to them.
- Community publishing There are a few (slightly more technical) ways of aggregating a group of twitterers posts, which means you could have more people — even your community — pitching in to help publish pertinent information.
The limitations of Twitter
Yes, there are some limitations to Twitter — seemingly huge obstacles to its usefulness.
- Only text and links can be posted. No maps. No photos. No videos. Text and links are all you get.
- 140 character limit. URLs will get shortened wherever possible, but 140 characters is tough to get used to.
- No conversation threading. This can be tough to deal with when you're used to discussion forums and such. Connecting with your community in this way is almost limited to real-time dialogue, which can limit the conversation's depth and longevity.
- The API has a 70 post per hour limit. Note that from what I could tell, the web UI doesn't have this limit, but I'm sure they wouldn't like you posting more than that unless it was an emergency anyway.
There are other limitations as well which I'm not necessarily documenting here. But, the ones listed here can seem insurmountable. Trust me, they're not. They merely make you work around them. But that work around is only about 15 minutes of work and then you're set.
But why stop at Twitter?
Twitter was a great tool for the emergency situation we went through in southern California, but why stop there?
Here's the thing. If you need criterium #2 (non-website based alerts), then publishing to Twitter should be your end goal.
The limitations to Twitter are definitely not insurmountable. So lets use Twitter for what it's good at and go find something else which can help with the things it's missing. We'll put together a quick example prototype using services and websites which already exist.
The end result of the next 15-30 minutes, if you follow me, will be a website which will aggregate photos, videos, blog posts, tweets (twitter posts), for whatever context you would like. We could, for instance, create a site which would show all the different types of media and content on the San Diego fires. Additionally, it would be updated automatically whenever new content is created by you or anyone else (if you want to be that open) on whatever subject you'd like.
The prototype
We'll do this in steps. But before we do, here's the back-of-the napkin diagram of what we're building.
- Grab RSS feeds from any websites you can. YouTube, Flickr, other Twitter accounts, blogs, etc. Many times, if you're creative, you can get keyword (or "tag") filtered RSS feeds. So, for instance, you can use the public Flickr feed for photos and add a few things to the URL which will let you filter based on tags.
- Create a Soup.io account for your emergency, event, or organization. This part should be pretty easy.
- Add the feeds to the Soup.io account. There's a little tool or gear-looking icon in the bottom left of the screen. Click that and click the "Me Elsewhere" section. In the form that shows up, select "RSS feed" and paste in the feed's URL. Do that for each service you want. Here's an example of what it could look like.
- If you need that criterion #2 (update alerts via something other than the website itself), you can head over to TwitterFeed.com and sign up for an account. This service allows you to take an RSS feed (like from the Soup.io account you created) and push it back into a Twitter account.
- Grab the RSS feed for the Soup.io account you just created. Paste the URL into the TwitterFeed service you created along with whatever Twitter account and password that you want new information to post to.
Now, one thing to note here is that if you're dealing with emergencies, you probably want to have a script produced for you which will do the the RSS to Twitter push. The reason is that TwitterFeed.com only pushes up to 5 new items every 30 minutes — certainly much less often than you'd want in a crisis. It's not too difficult for a developer to do and could most likely be contracted for about $100 or so.
Although I could, I'm not going to develop and distribute a script like that here. Doing something like this would probably irritate Soup.io a little because most service providers don't like to be hit more than once every 30 minutes or more. In a crisis, you'd want to hit it probably once every 5 minutes or more. Plus, this is a prototype. Just a brainstorm.
Net Squared
This whole concept and prototype is what I talked about at the Net Squared event last Tuesday. If you missed it, I suggest keeping an eye on the NetSquared blog. They should have a podcast and video up soon.
NetSquared also has asked a specific question about how if and how non-profits could use Twitter, specifically. Feel free to join the conversation there as well.
If you're interested in having me speak at your event, please feel free to contact me.
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You won't want to miss the swinging sound of "The Aggregation" under the direction of Eddie Allen on Tuesday, May 25 at Jazz Tuesdays in the Gillespie Auditorium at the NY Baha'i Center (53 East 11th Street between University Place and Broadway). There will be 2 shows: 8:00 and 9:30 p.m. Please call 212-222-5159 for advanced tickets and Information.
Trumpeter, composer, arranger, author, educator, Eddie Allen is called on to play everything from jazz to R & B/pop to Latin to symphonic to Broadway and everything in between. He studied music, theory and arranging at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin in Green Bay before moving to the east coast. He received a Bachelor of Music degree from William Paterson University of New Jersey. He's worked with such jazz greats as; Art Blakey, Joe Henderson, Randy Weston, Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Foster, Billy Harper, Henry Threadgill, Bobby Watson, Jon Faddis, Benny Carter, Panama Francis and Steve Turre.
Eddie has recorded and performed with, as well as composed for: Louis Hayes, Lester Bowie, Etta Jones & Houston Person, Mongo Santamaria, Chico Freeman, Charli Persip, Vanessa Rubin and Muhal Richard Abrams. He's performed in the orchestras of such Broadway hits as; Ain't Misbehavin', Black & Blue, Side Show, Jelly's Last Jam, Five Guys Named Mo' and Rollin' On The T.O.B.A. As an author he's written the instructional method book, "An Introduction To The Bb Concert Blues", which is published by Charles Colin Publishing - N.Y.C.
Eddie Allen performs and records on SHURE microphones, ZOOM Electronics and he's a YAMAHA Performing Artist.
The band:
Trumpets: Bob Milikan, Duane Eubanks, Stanton Davis, Cecil Bridgewater ("Love and Harmony")
Trombones: Clifton Anderson (from Sonny Rollins' band), Sam Burtis ("Havana Strut"), Mark Williams, Isrea Butler
Saxophones: Joe Ford ("Blues at Bradley's"), Andrew Malay, Keith Loftis, Max Schweiger, Lauren Sevian
Bass: Dezron Douglas
Piano: Jeb Patton
Drums: Jerome Jennings
Admission is 15.00, 10.00 for students. Tickets will be sold at the door, or call 212-222-5159 for advance tickets and information.
The John Birks Gillespie Auditorium, dedicated to the late jazz great Dizzy Gillespie, who was a Bahá'í, is located within the New York City Bahá'í Center. Beginning on January 6, 2004, the anniversary of Dizzy's death, his former pianist and musical director, Mike Longo, began presenting weekly jazz concerts every Tuesday evening at 8:00 and 9:30 PM.
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Nights are colder. Days are shorter. And is that frost on the early morning ground? No doubt about it: winter is coming. If you crank up the thermostat, your heating bill will go through the roof. But what other option is there?
The truth is, you don't have to resign yourself to being cold for months. Work with what you have, make a few changes, and you'll be warmer without putting a huge dent in your budget.
Use the Sun
The sun is the primary source of all energy on earth — and it's free. Use it to your advantage: open curtains, raise blinds and draw back drapes during the day. Let the sun stream in and naturally increase the indoor temperature. Just be sure to reverse the process when it gets dark. At night, keeping your windows covered prevents heat loss.
Work With What You Have
Preparing your home for cold weather doesn't always cost money. Some measures are free, but make a big difference:
- If at all possible, don't leave a portable air conditioner in the window during winter. Pull the unit out so warmed air won't escape outside. Cover the air conditioner if it's not removable.
- In the winter, set your fans to rotate counter-clockwise, the opposite of their summer settings. This will promote warm air circulation. Use exhaust fans in the kitchen and bathroom sparingly, since they pull warm air out of the house.
- Let warmed air flow freely. Keep heating registers and cold air returns unblocked. Move furniture, draperies or rugs, if necessary. Check vents regularly and clear out accumulated dust and debris. If you have a room that's not used much — or at all — in winter, close the vent to let the warm air circulate elsewhere.
- Before leaving your house for several hours, turn down the thermostat 10 to 15 degrees. Why heat it when no one's home to enjoy the warmth? Keep the house cooler when you're sleeping, too. You'll save money and get a better night's rest. Consider installing a programmable thermostat, so you don't forget to make daily changes.
Plan Ahead
Folks who plan ahead save money on heating fuel. It's a free market system, so prices rise when demand is high. Most users start filling their propane tanks in early fall, but by then, gas is more expensive. If you take care of this during the summer, you'll save money. The cost of propane is still comparatively low in June and July.
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Decrease your heating bill by making changes around the house. Some are relatively inexpensive. Those that are more costly, though, save money in the long run.
- Install weather stripping. Do this around your doors and windows so they seal more tightly. Also, use exterior caulking around the outside of those exits. If your window boxes have a lot of holes, cover them with transparent plastic film.
- Plug holes that leak warmed air. Look for spaces around electrical boxes and pipes, gas lines and electrical cables that lead outside. Don't forget dog or cat doors, door mail slots and keyholes.
- Buy area rugs for your wood floors. The coverings provide insulation against the cold.
- Increase your attic insulation. That top floor often loses significant amounts of heat.
- Get a humidifier. Forced air heating dries air. Humidifiers do more than keep your skin from itching. The higher the amount of water in the air, the more heat it can hold. All together now: it's not the heat, it's the humidity.
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- Check your furnace's filter monthly. Clean or replace it when needed. When the filter is really dirty, warmed air can't get through efficiently.
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- Reflect heat into the room. Place radiator foil behind your heating unit to reflect heat away from the wall and into the room. Heavy duty foil designed for this purpose works better than its kitchen counterpart, but aluminum foil is better than nothing.
- Check for leaks. If it's accessible, check the ductwork of your heating system for leaks. They're most common at seams and corners. Use mastic sealant or that old standby, duct tape, to block escaping air.
A bit of time, effort and perhaps money, and you'll enjoy the winter more, at least when you're inside your snug and comfy home.


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Ancient Sumerians were making a cheese from goat's milk and cow's milk thousands of years ago. While Gloucester cheese isn't thousands of years old, this cheese, which is produced in England, comes from the famed Gloucestershire county, which has been known for centuries for its dairy production. Gloucester is a semi-hard, unpasteurized cheese made from cow's milk that comes in two forms — single and double. Both single and double are covered with rinds and formed in rounds. Double is allowed to age longer than single and also has a higher fat content.
The exact century that Gloucester cheese was developed is open for debate. While the cheese started to gain popularity in the 1600s when a rind was developed that enabled the cheese to have a longer "shelf life," records indicate that Gloucester may have been created as early as the sixth century. Originally, there was only one kind of Gloucester cheese, which was made from the cream of the old Gloucester cow. That cow that is now considered to be rare by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust in England. Over time Longhorns, Shorthorns, and Holstein Friesians replaced the old Gloucester cow as milk and cream providers.
Gloucester cheese should be served at room temperature. Double Gloucester cheese can be served with crackers, raisins, or dried fruit. In addition, double Gloucester cheese can be successfully paired with a Sancerre, Riesling, Rioja, or Syrah wines.
This cheese is also well suited for use when cooking. Slices of Gloucester cheese with a little English mustard placed on bread, then covered with brown ale and baked is a classic English dish. Gloucester cheese can also be used in stews and pasties.
Gloucester cheese rolling has been an annual event since at least 1826 on Cooper's Hill in Brockworth, England, with the exception of 1941 to 1954, when wood was substituted for cheese due to World War II rationing. Again in 2010 the event was canceled for safety reasons. Despite the cancellation, the event was still held unofficially during in that year.
During the event, a seven-pound (about 3.2 kg) wheel of double Gloucester is rolled down a steep, 200 yard (about 183 meter) hill, reaching speeds up to 70 miles per hour (about 113 kph). Participants chase the rolling cheese, trying to catch it. Racers can be hurt in the resulting tumbles. Those more seriously injured are taken to a local hospital.
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Baked beans are a classic side dish for your Labor Day BBQ. Here's a tasty recipe that is easy to prepare in your slow cooker.
1 onion, minced
4 garlic cloves, minced
1 tbs vegetable oil
4 cups water, plus additional hot water as needed
1 lb dried navy beans, picked over and rinsed
1/2 cup plus 2 tbs barbecue sauce
1/2 cup brewed coffee
1/3 cup packed dark brown sugar
4 slices bacon
1 tbs prepared brown mustard
hot sauce
salt and pepper
Microwave onion, garlic, and oil in bowl, stirring occasionally, until onion is softened, about 5 minutes. Transfer to slow cooker.
Stir water, beans, 1/2 cup barbecue sauce, coffee, sugar, and bacon slices into slow cooker. Cover and cook until beans are tender, 9-11 hours on low, or 5-7 on high.
Discard bacon slices. Stir in remaining 2 tbs barbecue sauce and mustard and let sit until thickened slightly, about 10 minutes. Season with salt, pepper, and hot sauce to taste and serve. This dish can be held on warm setting for 1 to 3 hours before serving. Loosen with additional hot was as needed before serving.
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On Aug.15, Netflix will premiere "Mission Blue," an exclusive documentary about famed oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle and her lifelong efforts to learn from and save the world's oceans. It's an important film — and one the streaming service aims to replicate with a new big push into the world of cause-based documentary filmmaking.
Since earlier this year, Netflix has been pursuing rights to some of the biggest films coming from documentary filmmakers, including "The Battered Bastards of Baseball," "The E-Team," "The Square" and more recently, the conservation-focused "Virunga."
"We are really free from the constraints that other platforms have," Lisa Nishimura, vice president of original documentary and comedy programming at Netflix, told the NY Times. "How many people in the world really get to go to Sundance?"
Unlike other television models that air documentaries only during a set period of time, Netflix brings the advantage to filmmakers of getting their film on demand in front of millions. As of June, the network counted more than 50 million members in 40 countries, including 36 million in the United States. With such a built-in audience, it's no wonder they're spending $3 billion on original programming.
"I can be talking about this film for the next couple of years, and boom, there it is," Fisher Stevens, director of "Mission Blue," told the Times. "It is just getting more and more subscribers and more and more eyes on it every day."
"Virunga" director Orlando von Einsiedel echoed Stevens' sentiments; adding in a statement that Netflix's "global reach is second to none and so was the obvious platform for us to share with the world the story of the park's brave rangers and their David-and-Goliath battle."
For filmmakers attempting to rally the world behind a cause, such exposure beyond the theater and traditional television models is hugely important. With Netflix seeking out more films with a global appeal, the documentary genre is sure to get a much-needed boost in exposure and action.
Check out a trailer for "Mission Blue" below.
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- Jane Goodall discusses her new book with MNN
- 'Fed Up:' A must-see documentary that connects the dots about food
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