On Apr 17, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Skawennati Tricia Fragnito wrote:
> It's like you found the source inspiration for this thread (that we
> seem to like so
> much we don't want to let go of it!)
>
Must be in the air these days. I mentioned the thread to a friend of
mine this morning and it led us to talking about Kathy Acker's "Pussy,
King of the Pirates," Hakim Bey, the recent Sally Smart exhibition of
pirate imagery at Postmasters Gallery and the current Matthew Barney
extravaganza "Drawing Restraint 9" which takes place on the last
working Japanese Whaling ship. I think the reason the subject appeals
to the list is the same reason writers like Acker and Bey were so
influential in the early stages of what we think of now as new media
art: they wrote around and through the subject and made it more
exciting in a way that talk of collaboration/cooperation doesn't. After
all, even pirates had to cooperate with each other or the ship would
sink.
Arr, me hearty
Robbin Murphy
THE THING, Inc.
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