Re: <documenta X><blast> Visual Commodity/Kernel

Viktor A.Mazin (ppkab@dux.ru)
Tue, 15 Jul 1997 03:36:23 +0400

Bracha Lichtenberg - Ettinger wrote 11.07.97:

> Deleuze said that the artist invents a people who lacks, through a new
> vision, inventing a possibility of life hollowed out by a foreign
language
> within a language, which is its (the language's) becoming-other that
opens
> an outside or flipside consisting of Visions and Hearings. These visions
> are not phantasies but veritable Ideas constituted from the passage of
life
> in language. So I conceive of a screen of Vision in an analogy to the
> screen of phantasy - but diffracted between several partial subects and
> transformed through this diffraction. The screen of Vision hints at,
hides
> and invents it means of existence burnt onto a thingnified Ca-voir to be
> spoken - or not.

Several years ago in Vienna was organized the exhibition wich provided
for the viewers totaly different experience with the screen of Vision,
the experience of blindness. In the darkness of the exhibition visitors
lost their ability to be guided by eyes. They could orientate themselves
only by means of common knowlege about various sounds and tactile
experiences. They literally became membranes.
Guarded by Golems of Con-sciousness visitors nevertheless sliped
through the 'plane' projection of Ca-voir to the spiral space of the ear.

Olessia Tourkina