The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

December 23, 2005


grapheme i for track16 gallery exhibition 5/06


every one a murderer


original photographs of world war two battleships

stereograms of world war one trenches and bodies

original photographs of world war two pacific fighting

stereograms of world war one technology

world war one will now be abbreviated wwi

original photographs and other papers taken from world war two
japanese dead

world war two will now be abbreviated wwii

an illuminated koran from 1847 cairo slightly opened
the pages will not be damaged

a korean painting of a tiger-riding shaman several centuries old

a top secret wwii map of the iwo jima battlefield from the battlefield

projections of torn avatars over furiously moving dancers

projections of dismembered avatars over propellers and gratings

nomadic tent located on the hardened gallery floor full-sized
with video within

a small photograph of a japanese wwii fleet presumably near yokohama

murmured texts played back from scattered monitors hardly organized
or present in space of every one a murderer

sexual projections over dancers and without dancers and sexual
confrontations there is no rest in this space

with the uttermost beauty of human beings there is no rest here and
here in this space

static images of dismembered avatar imaginaries torn into uncanny
beauty and troubling poses

dark spaces of rattling building vibrations sublated to aural
frequencies of the human organism they are here

dark crackles of very low frequency radio trembling in the presence
of human bodies auroras lightning decay of particles across the
cosmos near and far

i am so ashamed i cried when i saw these images written large somewhere
in the vicinity of wwi and wwii

the 1895 telegraph receiver mounted in the antique trolley car clacking
away and electronically echoed from sourceless speakers sounds and
presence of ghosts

the this of this is you and the you in this splayed space

space of ionizations ionized air recorded space of radium decays
space of furious nighttime guitars garcia lorca spanish civil war

space of inscribing of inscriptions of the last inscriptions of soldiers
dying and all memories lost recuperations of names and translations
from foreign tongues

the evanescence of horror in the absence of horror naming horror in its
very absence

every i is murderer every i makes love

False Rhyme

You don't need Halloween
To know where I've been -
Out in the rain
And out again -

some british measures, 1844


(somewhere between the long shadow of the medieval guilds and the
dominance of local custom before the automobile and plane - every
mercantile space its customary measure. as international communication
grew, so did the need for standardization. here is britain in 1844,
near the beginning of this development.)

1 pound = 12 ounces = 240 pennyweight = 1818 diamond carets =
5760 troy grains = 7260 pearl grains = 115200 mites = 2764800 doits
= 55296000 periots = 1327104 blanks = 210 114/175 drams avoird.

1 pound = 12 ounces = 96 drams = 288 scruples = 5760 grains =
210 114/175 drams avoird.

1 ton = 20 hundreds = 80 quarters = 2240 pounds = 35840 ounces =
573440 drams = 15680000 troy grains.

1 last = 12 sacks = 18 1/5 packs = 24 weys = 156 tods = 312 stones =
624 cloves = 4368 pounds.

1 bundle = 4 1/6 spindles = 16 2/3 hasps = 20 slips = 100 heers =
200 leas, cuts, or raps = 24000 threads = 2160000 inches.

1 tun = 2 pipes or butts = 3 puncheons = 4 hogsheads = 6 tierces =
8 barrels = 14 runlets = 25 1/5 ankers = 252 imperial gallons =
1008 quarts = 2016 pints = 8064 gills = 69873.048 cubic inches.

1 lst = 2 weys or loads = 10 quarters = 20 cooms or sacks = 40
strikes = 80 bushels = 320 pecks = 640 imperial gallons = 1280
pottles = 2560 quarts - 5120 pints = 17455.360 cubic inches stricken
measure = 225238.960 cubic inches heaped measure.

1 ship load = 14 16/21 scores = 20 keels = 160 newcastle chald. =
310 london chald. = 1240 vats or strikes = 3720 sacks = 11160
bushels = 44640 pecks = 833280 pound weight avoir. = 31420834.92
cubic inches heaped measure.

1 tun = 2 butts = 3 puncheons = 4 hogsheads = 6 barrels = 12
kilderkins = 24 firkins = 216 imperial gallons = 864 quarts = 1728
pints = 59891.184 cubic inches.

1 cubic mile = 512 cubic furlongs = 32768000 cubic rods, poles or
perches = 5451776000 cubic yards = 147197952000 cubic feet =
254358061056000 cubic inches = 917352730714.022952 imperial gallons.

1 gallon = 8 pints = 160 fluid ounces = 1280 fluid drams = 76800
minims = 2560 weight iin drams avoird. = 70000 weight in grams troy
= 277.274 cubic inches.

1 mark = 13s 4d, 1 noble = 6s 8d, 1 tester = 6d, 1 groat = 4d, 1
moidore = 27s, 1 jacobus = 25s, 1 carolus = 23s, 1 angel = 10s.

1 french ell = 1 1/5 english ell = 2 flemish ell = 6 quarters = 24
nails = 54 inches.

1 spindle = 18 hanks or 560 yards = 126 skeins, leas, or raps =
10080 threads = 544320 inches.

1 hank or 560 yards = 7 leas or raps = 560 threads = 20160 inches.

1 mile = 8 furlongs = 80 gunter's chains = 320 rods, poles, or perches
= 880 fathoms = 1760 yards = 5280 feet = 8000 gunter's links = 63360
inches.

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