so, i've been watching this seven part history of rock, and what i've mostly taken from it is that there need to be more rock and roll dance crazes, because if you want to embrace pop, faddishness and the beat/body, what better way? i think that i'm going to make up a dance for the new !!! album, bc it's so damn weird and good that it deserves a dance craze.
went to see the culimnation of the Brown University Elm Project, pt.1, which my roommate and a few other friends have been working on for some time. The project is to use this old elm tree in its entirety to make objects, furniture, art, etc. Yesterday I went to the final show/bbq and saw a few really beautiful projects. One was a video done with parts of the tree, kind of like jan svankmajer stop animation, where leaves and other objects, including a dress, meet in a bathtub. projected on a sheet held by a log, quite lovely...and in proximity to a huge tent made of limbs, with industrial latex ballons tethered down, a worn striped blanket below -very lovely and inviting, magical? with the film maybe.
pt. two was a 5.1 ss installation on the main green, with many students' projects played through limb/speakers mounted in a large, central tree. the sound wasn't as clear as it could have been, and the spectacle made for difficult listening, but it was also well-executed and had potential to be a really cool, beautiful project. i envisioned the speakers being like those big bulbs in the square in Philly, just so loved by the community that they stay up year round - become something people remember fondly if not first about their sensual experience of a place.
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