how can you use the experience of the work in the installation space to ask one question?
working towards a simple idea, finding a simple thread in a huge, all-encompassing subject
video-documented but the art is the performance or the idea/knowledge of the performance
song dong
collecting & organizing as a way of articulating,
not always making from scratch
portia munson
display – the way the objects are contained
“their complete disregard for the fact that they were littering is particularly poignant because the promenade borders the coastline of the Aegean Sea, and the litter was sure to be blown into the water. Yet the apparent amorality of the gesture is indicative of a more insidious reality – the garbage had already been gathered from the beach, and the performance simply recirculated it. There is no outside to which plastic can be relegated, only a ‘recycling’ within a closed system.
** I think this work is great for thinking about multiplying meaning by examining the origins or the material used
“by considering plastic in aesthetic terms, the artworks discussed in this chapter loosen it from the presumption that it is either a morally contemptible substance or a testament to technological prowess”
this quote is helpful to me because I often feel very bound by the ecological ethics of my material choices, but perhaps it’s worth departing from that. our world is saturated with plastics, and ‘fast time’, so it is reflected in the work, in order for us to ask questions / look at living in that state of contradiction – desiring slowness in a world of fast plastic
“the temporary span of plastic is so great that it always already radiates form the future to the present”
“plastic’s futurity is precisely its existence as a tensile mass that refuses growth and degeneration”
“it forecloses the openness of decay”
jessica stockholder talk
work — context
responsive to uses
the bleed btwn pple & the work & the context 
I want to think about haphazardness / raw edges in this work. The fire alarm & switchboard just left exposed, part of
people don’t have to know what they’re doing all the time.
it’s the process of finding thoughts / images that become conscious.
we see surfaces,
we don’t see what’s beneath surfaces,
but we often know alot about what’s under the surface.
