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Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no onger that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory - *precession of simulacra* - that engenders the territory, and if one must return to the fable, today it is the territory whose shreds slowly rot across the extent of the map. It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours. *The desert of the real itself.*
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- Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
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I HAVE TO HAVE A *HAPPY DAYS* FEEL FOR THIS SCENE, PEOPLE! SO FAR, ALL YOU'VE GIVEN ME IS *OK DAYS* OR *THE DOG PISSED ON MY LEG DAYS* OR *I WAS GONNA HAVE A HAPPY DAY, BUT THEN I GOT MY PHONE BILL DAYS*... WTF, DESIGNERS! I THOUGHT I HIRED ADULTS...
TANYA, WHAT IS THAT THING YOU'RE WEARING? YOU SERVE HAMBURGERS, SWEETHEART, NOT PUSSY! YOU ARE NOT A WHORE! WHO STUFFED HER INTO THAT HORRID, WRETCHED FROCK? FIX IT! AND PLEASE - THE SCRIPT SPECIFIES ROLLER SKATES, NOT ROLLER BLADES! THERE IS A DIFFERENCE! ALRIGHT, TAKE A BREATH, EVERYBODY. BREATHE. BREATHE. BREATH. STOP FIDDLING WITH THAT FOR A SECOND, PLEASE, JOEY! LISTEN TO ME. JOHNNY JACK WEARS LEATHER, LEVIS AND SMOKES LUCKY STRIKES, STRAIGHT. STRAIGHT. STRAIGHT. STRAIGHT! PLAY THIS MACHO! PLAY IT WEST BY GOD VIRGINIA, WE JUST KICKED HITLER'S ASS, JOHN WAYNE IS A GREAT ACTOR, JAMES DEAN *AND* JIMMY DEAN - STRAIGHT! STRAIGHT! THIS IS A ROCKABILLY WORLD, DESIGNERS. NO ONE KNOWS THAT MARILYN MONROE IS GOING TO DO JFK, AND THAT THE CIA IS GOING TO BLOW THE PRESIDENTS' HEAD OFF... PLEASE! IF YOU PEOPLE DON'T START BEHAVING LIKE YOU HAVE SOME TALENT, I WILL FIRE THE CREW AND HIRE ONE AT THE NORM'S DOWN THE STREET! PLEASE, I'M BEGGING, EXCEED MY EXPECTATIONS! GIVE ME THE REAL THING, HERE, PEOPLE! YOU ARE PROFESSIONALS! TAKE FIVE. GATHER YOURSELVES. PUT DICK DALE & THE DEL TONES. TERENCE, RUN THAT THROUGH THOSE TINNY DRIVE-IN SPEAKERS... I WANT ALL OF YOU TO IMAGINE I'M QUINTIN TARANTINO, AND THIS IS PULP FICTION. WHEN WE COME BACK, WE ARE NAILING THIS LIKE IT'S REAL LIFE. I WANT ONE TAKE. IF WE DON'T GET IT, SO HELP ME GOD, I'LL SHOOT ALL OF YOU![Rirkrit, I'm fucking losing my mind. (feebly) Help...]
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MILO: If a philosopher could make real art, that art would smell of burning synapses.
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It is important to emphasize, however, that Bourriaud does not regard rela-
tional aesthetics to be simply a theory of interactive art. He considers it to be a
means of locating contemporary practice within the culture at large: relational art
is seen as a direct response to the shift from a goods to a service-based economy.10
It is also seen as a response to the virtual relationships of the Internet and global-
ization, which on the one hand have prompted a desire for more physical and
face-to-face interaction between people, while on the other have inspired artists to
adopt a do-it-yourself (DIY) approach and model their own “possible universes”…
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- "Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics" by Claire Bishop
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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future. Instead of being made of natural materials, such as marble, granite, plastic, chrome, and electric light. They are not built for the ages, but rather against the ages. They are involved in a systematic reduction of time down to fractions of seconds, rather than in representing the long spaces of centuries. Both past and future are placed into an objective present. This kind of time has little or no space; it is stationary and without movement, it is going nowhere, it is anti-Newtonian, as well as being instant, and is against the wheels of the time-clock.
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- "Entropy And The New Monuments" by Robert Smithson
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King Tut scene [in the subterranean haunts]
I
In the subterranean haunts [beneath the ground are seams][rock]
[through those seams, man has incised][mine][hole][cut][blasted]
[black][in those mines ghosts are alive][memories][shades] beneath
the [neon] pyramid [Sol][LeWitt], fiberglass and aluminum
@King Tut Drive-in [Monday][Daily Special][BBQ sandwich, French fries
and a small drink for $4.45][Current Retail Price] Johnny Jack
orders [onion rings, a cheeseburger and a chocolate milkshake]
II
Tanya: [asks him what he would like on his burger]
JJA: [everything]
Tanya: [Fresh!]
III
Tanya: [laughing][note: she finds JJA attractive][stimulation]
[attraction][magnetism][she waves][wave][waveform][he winks]
[relational code][reciprocation][combination][chemistry][affect]
[effect][everyone loves Johnny Jack][exception][anomaly] well,
almost everyone [the set is lit like a Dan Flavin installation]
[”With nary a whimper, an era has come to an end.” - Jerry Saltz
“Remembering Dia;” I saw the Flavin installation at the W.22nd
exhibit space in 2002][”This is almost a repeat of the description
of direct current as from a battery, and this is to some extent
the aim of developing this wave form.” - Magnetic Particle Inspection:
A Practical Guide by David Lovejoy][One Doctor Lovejoy wrote
a prescription for my mother for 500 Atavan, with endless refills]
[Chris]
IV
- ‘Ere ye are, Johnny Jack! ‘At’ll bay Tew-twinny
JJA: [Service is too slow. I should not be forced to pay.]
Tanya: [Character name][pleading][modulation of vocal pitch]
[sign] JJA: [Send to me the manager of this establishment.
I wish to complain.][I mean it. Call’m over.][Confusion]
[Game play] or [Actual][Difficulty][Confrontation][War]
[Please! Don’t you get me in trouble!][Reflection][I will
consider your circumstances, your request, aware of the
control it is possible for me to exert in the situation]
[Situational Aesthetics: “an aesthetic system that juxta-
poses predetermined elements occurring within the insti-
tutional framework, that are recognizable and identifiable
to the public because they are drawn for the institutional
context itself.” - Michael Asher and the Transformation
of “Situational Aesthetics” by Claude Gintz, Translated
by Judith Aminoff] “JOHNNY JACK ARNOLD, DON’T YOU MESS
with me!”
TRANSLATIONS
SIMPLIFIED TEXT:
- OK, but only if I get a kiss.
- You dirty dog!
- Yup! [Barking] - Well?
- Alright, but just a little one.
- Mmmm. That was nice.
- Sure was.
- Maybe I should be charging you!
- Why, you…!
- Just joking! Just kidding, Tanya! Here’s a fiver - for putting up with me.
- Gosh, thanks Johnny Jack!
- Was it half worth it?
- A bargain at twice the price!
- The pleasure was all mine.
- I doubt it!
- When do you finish your shift?
- About 20 minutes from now. Why?
- I want to take you skinnydipping at 4H Lake.
- Tonight? Are you crazy?
- Certifiable.
- My parents would kill me.
- Tell them you’re sleeping over at Tammy’s.
- I don’t know.
- Come on.
- If I get in trouble with you again, they’ll never let me see the light of day.
- They’ll throw us both down a mine shaft.
- They’ll skin you alive, first.
- Your Uncle Bob will pull out my teeth and cut off my fingers
- He’ll break your neck.
- He’ll take your hide off with a switch, then give you to your daddy.
- My daddy will knock me into next week.
- Your mommy won’t forgive me.
- Are you serious, Johnny Jack?
- Yep. Twenty minutes.
- Twenty minutes.
- Alright, but I have to be at Tammy’s by midnight.
- Come Hell or high water.
- Come Hell or high water.
- I’m waiting.
- You better.
TRANSLATION: Orig. Eng.: CHINESE > IRISH > ITALIAN > GREEK > SWAHILI > HAITIAN CREOLE > ENGLISH
- Right enough, but only if you kiss.
- You dirty dog!
- Oh yes! [Port] - how much?
- Good, but not just Guy.
- To mm. And ‘well.
- If there.
- Maybe I should pay!
- Why, you …!
- Just kidding! Joke, Zhuang! Following only 5 pounds - I can tolerate.
- Ah, thank 约翰尼杰克!
- It is half too?
- Double the price is free!
- The fun is mine.
- I doubt it!
- When you make the switch?
- Now in about 20 minutes. Why?
- I want to thank you four hours skinnydipping Lake.
- Today? Are you crazy?
- 2006/03/01.
- My parents would kill me.
- Tammy Tell sleep.
- I do not know.
- Come on.
- If you harass me again, under lights in that document.
- And we want to hit me.
- Some nudity you live, the first glass.
- Uncle Bob will break your teeth, cut finger
- It will break your neck.
- He said the secret of turning, then you give your father.
- My Father, who sees me now next week.
- Your mother does not forgive me.
- Is bad, 约翰尼杰克?
- Yes, 20 minutes.
- 20 minutes.
- Make, but in Tamil night.
- How the hell or high water.
- How the hell or high water.
- Expect me.
- You would be better.
TRANSLATION: Orig. Eng.: Irish > English
- Right enough, but only if I kiss.
- You dirty dog!
- Yup! [Barking] - Well?
- Alright, but only slight.
- Mmmm. Was very nice.
- Was convinced.
- Perhaps I should cut you!
- Why, you …!
- Just joking! Just kidding, Tanya! This is a fiver - to put up with me.
- Gosh, thanks Johnny Jack!
- Was it worth it half?
- A market on the price of two!
- The pleasure was all mine.
- I doubt it!
- When you finish your change?
- About 20 minutes from now. Why?
- I want to give you skinnydipping at 4H Lake.
- Today? Are you insane?
- Certifiable.
- My parents would kill me.
- Tell them you are sleeping over at Tammy’s.
- I do not know.
- Come on.
- If I get in trouble with you again, they will not inform me of the document view of the day.
- They will throw down the meantime mine shaft.
- They will skin you alive, the first paragraph.
- Your uncle Bob will draw from my teeth and cut my fingers from
- It will break your neck.
- It will be hidden underground for a change, then you give to your dad.
- My dad will be like next week now.
- Your mom will not forgive me.
- Are you really, Johnny Jack?
- Yep. Twenty minutes.
- Twenty minutes.
- Alright, but I have Tammy on an average night.
- Come hell or high water.
- Come hell or high water.
- I’m waiting.
- You better.
