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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: grapheme i for track16 gallery exhibition
5/06
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:59:27 -0500 (EST)
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