2. JUNE 2

from signal to decay, volume 4 [Mathison] (Argos Center for Art + Media)

Upstairs open video (big room) > How did the video proceed? What was its narrative arc? (contrast between still marble representations and actual banana leaves and objects) synecdoche: part for the whole

Why no people in the video?

Was the video pretty? Why? Was it disturbing? How? (slow motion / ghosts)

What did you feel?

How was the video related to our walk over here? (we passed some of the types of statues in the video) How did you feel abut the statues when we passed? (I thought the aligator fountain was cool. Wasn't really thinking about signs of empire.)

Who tells the story of history? (victors)
How do they usually tell it?

How was the upstairs audio working in conjunction with the entire installation piece? Was there a main audio? Why multiple audios? Why the chairs in multiple locations? (a shifting central perspective) Was the audio synched with the video loop? Why not?

Why black and white? Why slow motion? Why high resolution?

Why wasn't his crituqie of empire more direct?

What is art good for? ("all the things words can't say" - aurelia harvey)

Why the beanbags upstairs? How long were we meant to stay?

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Downstairs banana plant sculpture: How did your body feel? What were your favorite aspects?

Describe the way in which the speakers touched the leaves? Why wasn't there more contact?

Why the tape loops? (physical instantiations of invisible things.)

What are more useful questions to ask than "What does it mean?"

Where did you spend most of your time?

What was the pace of the entire show?

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echoes of dissent vol. 1: Listening session (Beursschouwburg)

What did you think about British intellectuals theorizing seriously about Wu-Tang Clan?

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echoes of dissent vol. 1 [Eshun talk] (Beursschouwburg)

"I'm not trying to say something. I'm trying to feel something" (Mathison).