Archive for December 3rd, 2011
what’s in my bowl this weekend?
and… what’s on my drop spindle this weekend?
Thinking ethnographically…. doing, relating, narrating, recounting, reading…
The other day it was:
So there’s this one word I am fixated on
going back, going into texts, looking at histories, going bck – relooking at the relationshp. unpacking, layering
temporarily, multi contextually, placing it in various relationships…
the day before that it was …
http://cyberdivalive.livejournal.com/109930.html
Yesterday, it was
and then …
today – I am back to leafing through pages in books (hardcopy and on kindle and google) searching for the “exigency” – two points in history – two totally different geographical locations that weave virtual and real in ways that pose yet again when is virtual and when real – why did these practices and focus on process (as opposed to product for sale) re- surge in this way…
and did one of these re-surgences further the binary of practice vs theory in this context
while the other blurred it in the moment – but continues the binary because of the impossibility of archiving without freezing?
yet can the practice be “re-surged” without resorting to archives – how is practice coded outside of bodily experience when intergenerational exchange and apprenticeship has been disrupted through modern modes of production and standardization?
perhaps I need to look for the relationship (sometimes hidden and barely visible and not always noted) of learning and doing intergenerationally – in spaces of so-called leisure…
