Don Handelman writes:
> I think on and off on how valuable it would be to have a journal
> publishing articles in which the author does his or her analysis until
> it falls apart, and then tries to analyze why it falls apart, and, so,
> what the analysis is good for and what it isn't. Not a post-modern
> deconstruction, but rather a construction leading to self-destruction
> which leads to re-organization. Thereby, getting away from the
> beautifully polished papers that thoroughly and neatly self-enclose
> themselves, the loose ends neatly sliced away.
>
This is sort of the opposite from the intellectual lebensraum scenario that
Bill Harris described.
In the mid sixties I started making films as a way of producing "language
experiments" that would give me parallax on the kinds of questions Witt was
asking in the PI. They were experiments and almost all of them were the kinds of
failures from which I learned a lot, and from which others could also learn,
so I showed them to colleagues - but never really "released" them. So this
would be the equivalent of Don's idea. It worked just fine because then the
world was very very small. There was no Film-Philo and there were only a couple
of other people that I considered to be doing something like what I was
doing...Hollis Frampton, Peter Greenaway, Michael Snow, AK Dewdney, Saul Levine.
but in order for the works to have any impact I had to achieve a level of
success in my own eyes that justified "releasing" the films and having them shown
to a wider audience.
The world has evolved to where visual language experiments can easily be
floated in a public space. Unjuried like Utoob, but within a corral like this
salon.
My own predisposition is toward the unjuried, but I can see the other point
of view. However, while I usually at least breeze through the posts on this
salon, and curse the out of office bots and undeleated antecedents, looking for
live meat. I pay far less attention to the journal, in which the writing is
much more considered, dense and often obtuse.
My own lightheadedness I suppose...I'm often looking for environments in
which prose can live and breathe, and in the jostle of academic jurymandering, a
kind of self-censorship seems to stifle.
dan
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