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towards day 16 @ sf: the dancer’s role in RJF project, pt. 1

So. If in each section or piece, Ida has an ideal object, which is the picture carried in the mind, and she rehearses the steps to reach it and from these steps come phrases of movement; the phrases either head off into unknown territory or already suggest the ideal object
Simon Taylor 01 Aug 2007

the other is annihilated, the object is hopeless and the subject in his presence is erect: cherchez la femme. Douglas Glover’s Elle.

– www.mexartes-berlin.de/deu/film/arsenal.html Reminds one of Cabeza de Vaca (1991, Nicolás Echevarría, dir.). Shamanism meets European rationalism. something warm washes through me like a tide of blood, bringing a sensation of peace. I think, I give up. Which is strange. I don’t know what
Simon Taylor 01 Aug 2007

days 14 & 15 @ sf

The actor occupies the instant, while the character portrayed hopes or fears in the future and remembers or repents in the past: it is in this sense that the actor “represents.” … This is how the Stoic sage not only comprehends and wills the event, but also represents it, by this,
Simon Taylor 01 Aug 2007

day 13 @ sf/surface/soapface

When is a pulse a rhythm? And a rhythm a pulse? Where is the stage a square, a yard, a stockyard, a human stockyard and the stockyard a painting? Paul called me up on the metophoricity of these concrete generalities, where everything consorts and difference cannot obtain. The point is
Simon Taylor 20 Jul 2007

2 day 13 @ sf

so there’s this pulse, right? and you might say it’s a vivifying pulse and you can’t hear it but it unites the work. And when I say you can’t hear it, when you give up on waiting to hear it, you do hear it. It comes
Simon Taylor 09 Jul 2007

day 12 @ sf:

The event is sense itself … Over states of affairs and their depth, their mixtures and their actions and passions, psychoanalysis casts the most intense light in order to reach the point of emergence of that which results, that is, the event of another type, as a surface effect. Therefore, whatever
Simon Taylor 07 Jul 2007

which is worse, this snobbery or the inverted snobbery of what Paul Virilio calls a ‘pitiless art’? (“Art can rest on sinister foundations,” says Diaghilev in Chinchilla.)

I said, ‘Marco Polo, the hero of the Christian west. This man travelled freely [because of Genghis Khan, its villain] because of the Mongols. He went from outpost to outpost along roads they made safe, where before he would not have gone ten miles without a knife at his throat,
Simon Taylor 07 Jul 2007

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