500 word critical

I didn’t go to any interesting (local) exhibitions, but i would like to share some thoughts regarding Don Ritters Vox Populi.

Everyone in the class saw the presentation, so i won’t formally describe it.I have never (directly) experienced the installation, but something about it is very familiar in an unnerving way. Actually, the more i think about the more unerving it becomes. Its spooky stuff, as you can probably see yourself amidst the cheering/rabbling people on the screen, subjects  or indicators in a game of manipulation. Don states that the piece is supposed to make you think about ’who controls who’ during a speaking performance. Its a balancing act that ideally gives both sides what they want.  I thought it was strange that Don, when asked for his explanation regarding the critical nature of the piece, quickly made his detachment clear. He leaves it up to us to decide whether or not there is a broader statement or implication being made. Among many possibilities, you could say that the piece is a critique of 1 sided performances, if you see it as a game. The objective is to win over the audiences confidence, by acting like you know what they think they want. A good speech caters to many desires. A spectacle is any one sided non-participatory performance, that absorbs your attention from immediate reality to non-reality. To some this can be seen as a violation. Assuming its safe to say that the performer knows what they are doing, they will consistently acquire peoples attention, and give them a particular acceptable/desirable alternate reality. This can be dangerous, because people frequently make decisions based on non-reality, which further complicates and distorts what is perceived as desirable, which is what performers adjust to satisfy. The artist falls within the realm of performer, some with bigger audiences than others. Illusions and artists are like peas in a pod, which makes this piece very challenging, in that it reveals an illusion, within an illusion (within an illusion). I suppose it was a smart thing for Don to not imply anything much further than what is immediately apparent to avoid this paradoxical headache.  

Don’t make any decisions based on this spectacle.

things you know

1)i like effect 23 the second best to anything i make myself that i think sounds better than effect 23.

2) the colours i see most are white, blue, grey, green, black, and tan and brown.

@) when they say what colour, and you say the sun, they think usually think yellow, but you think you know better.

c===3) the sounds i hear sometimes are either underwater while abovewater, or underwater while underwater, which isn’t too often anymore as my teeth chatter myself warm.

4) one of my lights i got for free.

5) connectivity usually depends.

6) redemption isn’t quite repayment, even when you have it in your hands, cause it usually goes back to whoever you gave it too in the first place.

:7) fight club is just a movie.

8 ) fight club is just a book.

9) under your nose is pretty big.

10)if we had a 12 digit instead of a 10 digit number system, math class would make a whole other kind of sense and would save chalk for the lack of use of decimals and places.

11) i use (scotch)tape for maintenance.

12) =is the number of the sacrifice.

well i broke the first 2 rules somewhere along the line, and i don’t need anything outside of whats already special to put more and different waves in the grinder, and neither do they,they say. the world now turns its hungry eyes to you.

13) =is the master of all below.

urban intervention mock up at the kids market

the kids market is accross from the g-ville brewery.

my map link

This is how i get home to saltspring island more or less. my quest home

where im from

Words for you!you know that persistent perspective that we all have, but can’t quite put our finger on? you know; y’our consiousness that thinks and is. you know the one. i hear its really hard to meet, and nobody can seem to get a good look at it,  cause it won’t hold still. how rude. i guess its the essence of change, the enemy of all we manifest in our own image. you know how SPeaking of creating in our own image,, IS what im doing right now. I believe that it is possible to beLIEve anything. SO for you to belive that I, quentin, Wrote this bLOg, first you have to remember who or what i am, to give consistency to your persistent perspective. memeories are compilations of e’xperience. IF how you percieve th’i'ngs is a reflection of self relative to your e’xperiences regarding the concept(s) at hand,,, then i hope youv enjoyed this dialogue with yourself. it doesn’t even matter if it makes sense, you still (maybe) saw y’our way through it and thought about it your own way. hard to isolate thought without using thought, but damgummit, if that never stopped us (me?) from trying! if theres a will theres a way! we’ll find consistency enough, and and sooner thand later and later and later and an a  …// till then we just halftwo wait till we really know whos storys being told here.

ya sometimes i like to write silly things, And i realize that i misspelled mei naim.