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Privilege was commissoned by and
premiered on turbulence.org
June 1 2001, and was made possible in part with funds from the Jerome Foundation. |
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Privilege,
a flash-based collaboration by Jay Murphy and Isabelle Sigal, is spun
from a larger work; these fragments seek to accrete and produce a sort
of subliminal confrontation with their ever-shifting subject matter, much
as the body is reputed to create vortexes of healing and repose in response
to traumas. A phrase from the Gnostic Gospel of Philip --"I have come
to know myself and I have collected myself from everywhere..." can serve
as a starting point here, as well as Hamlet's "in that sleep of death
what dreams may come." Multiple, intersecting planes of experience, often
mired in a sordid backstory of the American dream/empire (featured voices
include Florida death row inmates, Palestinian poets, and novelist Kathy
Acker) seek to produce new areas of resolution.
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