When we were young we were told that Modernism should not be confused with Modernity or Modernization, that it is its own thing -- discrete, autonomous.
But whether it be Modernism or Post-Modernism, one
thing is clear: both are unsustainable. And if this planet is to be spared, something
has to give.
Around that time visiting artist Fahreen HaQ, whose exhibition
opened at the Alternator, invited visitors to lie on a long white linen
tablecloth on the pavement outside the gallery and commune with her before she
served us dinner. Like the Syilx puberty ritual, information entered us at
ground level, but in ways that made the familiar seem fresh.
Together, these three events provided the sensoria I
need to re-orient myself. But how to proceed from theseplaces -- this place? By
what method could I engage in this world towards making more -- and less -- of
it?
With eyes and ears refreshed, I am now in the midst of
a world whose reds carry a temperature, whose notes enter not only my ears but my
sternum, whose words I can taste and whose gestures I can smell.
Call me Geppetto, but it is hoped that my exploration
of this world of images and gestures, of injuries and celebrations, of fear and
love will manifest in a book designed as much to be a puppet guidebook as a
human companion. A book to walk with that includes the work of others. A
collaborative book that, through blank pages like the one that follows this
one, carries room for the reader-as-writer.
15. Carlo Chiostri “Le avventure di Pinocchio, storia di un burattino”, 1902
Sources
1. Marcel Duchamp Fountain
(1917) Alfred Stieglitz photo
2. Shi Xinning Duchamp Retrospective Exhibition in China (2000-2001) Oil on canvas 100cm x
100cm
http://www.westkowloon.hk/en/siggcollection/highlights-1384/duchamp-retrospective-exhibition-in-china-shi-xinning-born-1969-liaoning-province-2000-2001-1
3. Hiroshima Atomic Bomb explosion, Hiroshima Memorial Peace Museum
4. Shigeko Kubota Vagina
Painting (Fluxus performance document) (1965)
5. Douglas Coupland Penguins and Slogans series (2014)
6. Susana Duffy Earth
Tattoo https://www.pinterest.com/explore/earth-tattoo/
7. Duchamp Fountain Tattoo http://blog.sartle.com/post/139922247880/think-before-you-ink-fountain
8. A Ghandi https://www.pinterest.com/pin/332703491192634674/ 8.B Ghandi http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-mahatma-gandhi-s-blood-to-be-auctioned-in-london-on-tuesday-1837481
9. Richard Armstrong http://www.going-gypsy.com/207284993
10. Fahreen HaQ performance outside Alternator,
Kelowna, Summer 2016 photo: Megan Bowers
11. Carmen Papalia Blind
Field Shuttle document (2012) photo: Jordan Reznick
12. Luce Irigaray http://archiviofoto.unita.it/index.php?&codset=BIO&pagina=763
13. Horizon with ladder https://www.photocase.com/photos/218150-human-being-white-blue-black-work-and-employment-freedom-photocase-stock-photo
14. Meg Yamamoto Fictive
Tree Rings II (2016) photo: Michael Turner
15. Carlo Chiostri “Le avventure di Pinocchio, storia di un burattino”, 1902
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