[revGames]
What Is the Soul of Occupy [Draft/BETA][Introduction Notes; Section II, Part 1]
By Paul McLean
Shane Kennedy [The Thomas Kinkade Experience]
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..."I know where I am, but I don't feel that I am where I am." The cognitive experience of the space in which the body moves is detached from the actual movement of the body in that space. It relates to mapping the potentially confusing transformations of a body in non-Euclidean topologies that are not as predictable as table architectures are supposed to be. What Caillois referred to here was some kind of "technology of movement" different from that of Euclidean space.
Caillois's reference to Saint Anthony reveals the "I" is dispersed into a depersonalized matter "whatsoever."
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- Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology, Jussi Parikka (p. 99)
[Ambrose Curry]
surfing postures are primal
the triggers to remind us we should be surfing
are everywhere.The real fact remains
we are interstellar beings and surfing is the link
to our primordial /molecular memory...
- Ambrose Curry
[NOTES: The chronology of the text is not linear, but dimensional. On Saturday at BRIK Gallery in Catskill, Danny Bryck performed his play, "No Room for Wishing," a moving series of documentary soliloquies derived from interviews he conducted on site at Occupy Boston. I realized that the structure I'm aspiring to in the Soul of Occupy sequence of briefs is in some ways a correlation to the relational dynamics one might find on any given day at OWS, with the interplay of elements (time, images, texts, subjects, etc.) not necessarily existing compatibly, but simultaneously existing in proximity, at least temporarily. One medium for the co-existence of disparate parts in such scenarios is personal memory, and also other kinds of memory, such as history documentation or memory, also contiguous, if not exactly mutually ratifying. The record does not necessarily reinforce the individual recollection, which is probably a function of divergent emphases. Without going further, although there is much to explore here, the construct is dimensional, and one that I have attempted to represent in art arenas and other texts, as have others. So, for the reader the suggestion is that she suspend the desire to "get it," meaning the point of the text, for the purposes of recursion, since the text, which is actually more than a progressive series, although that is the case, too, will evade that play. In this realization, I recognized a significant flaw in the society, as it is moving, towards a test-based self-education programming format, in which answers are inevitably dispensed to students prior to the test. In such a flow, the student will feel entitled to the answer, even prior to the question being asked. When confronted with situations that do not or refuse to conform to that model, the student will usually feel offended, and critical of the test-giver. But what if the exchange has nothing at all to do with the test, the Bell Curve or some other scheme for distinguishing success and failure or mediocrity? The implications for a democratic society that reduces its educational complex to a recursive test-based system - in which all students (and this is wrong anyway) will receive the solutions prior to any other exploration - is significant, and significantly negative, for a number of reasons, which I won't list here. What I will say is that I refuse to participate with a system so organized, since in my assessment, it tends to subvert free thought. Such a system of answer-before-question is conducive to pre-determinism, and a certain disability of the adventurous mind. Understandably, for those who find comfort in routinely possessing answers to problems before they arise, without having to earn those answers per se, or practice solutions as proofs to assert correctness over falsity, a dimensional narrative architecture can be frustrating. Unfortunately for them, our future will not play along with the old answers. The future is [4] dimensional.]
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Thursday, August 30, 2012 at 10:01PM 
Click the image to visit the "Voyage of the Hippo" Tumblr.The Occupational Art School Node 1 at Bat Haus is pleased to present "Voyage of the Hippo," with Shane Kennedy and Clemens Poole. Kennedy and Poole will recount an epic journey down the down the Danube aboard a 36' junk rig schooner with a crew of more than a dozen intrepid artists. The journey was documented via Tumblr, through texts, still and moving images, uploaded to the blog when the travelers came ashore or en route through handheld mobile devices. The program is a one-night only event, Friday, August 31, 2012, from 7-9PM, to be held at Bat Haus in Bushwick, located by the L train's Jefferson Street stop at 279 Starr Street.
Slovakia to Port, Hungary to Starboard