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No Words for MORE STUDIO


Everyone has been asking me how MORE STUDIO went and I have said that I don’t want to talk about it.

These quotes sum it up quite a bit:

“I just stopped by Deena’s living installation at the Co-Lab: she had just put on Panda Attack on the boombox. PA has the Led Zep sample near the beginning, right?”-Josh Ronsen

“yeah, i went by deena’s performance while she was setting up, gave her a pear and a panda attack cd. was going to go by later, but sick instead.” -Alex Keller

making the floor

MORE STUDIO, for me, was one long painfully sacred moment: a slap in the face; a culmination of all my faults in ridiculous efforts. Yes there were moments and I would go into them but that would go against what I have learned. There was certainly something to MORE STUDIO. Nothing can be pointless when you seek meaning in everything.

The experience created an impacting realization against overexposure, premature ejaculation, and towards slowness and subtraction. Essentially, I am always trying to do too much, too fast and came to that simple minimalist conclusion of focus. I have been trying to act on that realization ever since.

In the midst of low grade anxiety I sat and typed on my typewriter.

MORE STUDIO

Here is an excerpt:

“An attitude of epic ideas casts serious spells and I become a tightly hardened unmoving body mass of cerebral over activity. And each minute is everything I’ve ever worked towards.

As more people enter the space I think to myself, why the fuck did I care to set-up my whole studio here overnight to work for 11 hours then take it all down? I am constantly in a transient state of art. Unpacking, packing, unloading, loading. Losing things, breaking things. I have never had a studio proper. I like to think of a studio as a place not just for thinking and doing, but for storing.

This performance/installation makes me wonder why creation craves a public. Why watching eyes and listening ears? I know. I know. How would we find those connections, those people to share private art lives with, unless we emerge and share.

It has taken me much pain, strain, and struggle to come to this stupid realization of the value… more than value, of the NECESSITY of slowness and subtraction. This is not profound or unusual; it is quite simple.”

November 29, 2009   1 Comment