I realised what you were talking about, Trevor, in terms of Syzygy: a
coherent deformation of your lyric procedures and voice, what I have
called "Unwritings" in my own work (two of them in Daylight Robbbery)
and "Remodes" (none in print). I am curious by your word "elegant" to
describe such disruption.
But principally I was responding to your comments about your "mobile"
text yet to be written, and your sideways glance at John Cayley and his
everchangning hypertext excursions (and Jim Rosenberg, and others)
AND the valorisation of continual process in parts of what cris cheek
was saying about the Cobbing and Upton DANs (and I've heard said
about perfromance, and was said about Carlyle Reedy). DANs as I've
said elsewhere threaten to out process Cobbing's own Processual. But
in both works, through transformation and repetition, the work is a series
of snapshot products of process. It seems that Allen Fisher's word
process-showing is showing a serial product.
Having worked in performance with the dancer Jo Blowers I know what
it is like to rehearse something to buggery until through "process" the
thing has disappeared, and is endlessly deferred like a parody of
Derridean procedure (oops another word!!), and there's no produced
moment of performance.
It seems usefy=ul to pressurise process until it yields a product. And
pump the product until it becomes process.
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