Re: <documenta X><blast> public disasters

Viktor A.Mazin (ppkab@dux.ru)
Wed, 9 Jul 1997 01:23:52 +0400

Greg Ulmer wrote 7.07.97. 22:16:
>The public reaction to the event is a measure of how different our
> understanding of destiny is from that of the Greek tragedies. Where
should
> we look now for an equivalent for our own moment? What name do we have
> for defining our relationship to blindness and calamity? These are
> questions for the emerAgency.

One guy came back home after the military service. He got married, had
children.
But after 5 years he was suddenly lost by his family and discovered very
far away from his native city. He did not know his name. He kept in his
memory only one image -- the schoolgirl dressed in white dress from the
last school ball. He followed everybody who reminds him the girl.
Voices controled him and gave him orders where to go. After several
monthes of the travelling he was discovered and placed in psychiatric
hospital. He was sure he lives in the year of his last school ball. He did
not
identify his wife and children. This case of multypersonality, one from
the most 'popular' contemporary disaster, was described by Dr.Samochvalov
who treated the patient.

So, could we search for one destiny or in a time of total multiplication
our destiny is suddenly to be found in other places with/out familes,
names, ruled by fantasmic images, lost in ourselves, became others?

Olessia Tourkina