June 18  preliminary txt

From: Dimos Dimitriou [mailto:addfield@ath.forthnet.gr]
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 2:23 AM
To: Cfront List
Subject: preliminary txt

hi to all

i just arrived in athens after a long travel,
i received the recent emails sent by aleksandar saso and luka
yes, these reflective txts, as the previous emails by jane, igor, and luka, could provide another temporary field.
the reflective criticisms on the works and on the relations, can produce real infrastructures for arts practices,
so,

i would like to add some thoughts and feedback reflections as a preliminary short txt,

well,
for my point of view,
the main artistic values we used these days were
interrelations between people,
interrelations between the participants,
between our cultures and our enemy-based differences,
interrelations with the plovdiv world,
and again interrelations with other cultures, and so on.
a spiralic speed was expressed day after day, caused exactly with the opening of an exchanging field, presented by the shared ideas, propositions, works, folders and files.
the speed caused by the communication and sharing, produced thoughts and criticisms,
(
the
communication [=interrelations ]
speed [=futurism ]
)
i think is one of of the most powerfoul tools, interhuman based.
instead of brain storming, i would prefer exchange storming

the works we did, was focused to define at each moment, the interhuman communication modalities expressed by the practices of works,
while maintaining and preserving the others' autonomy of fantasy and of ideas' production, destroying its counterpart = the pyramidal form of the authoritarian principle.
interhuman communication reproductions [positive and/or negative] was the main functioning principle
[so, the interface problem was exactly the moment of trying to found out drilling paths to these self-based-only hard borders ]

in the days of syndicate meeting, i proposed that temporary communication as artistic principle, could define a powerfoul tool for geopolitical criticisms,
and two days after, [at past sunday] it was a feeling that the concept of the new geography, is no more a new land to discover, = we were just leaving in,
and [of course] is not enough as concept, we are already going towards newer works, or concepts
so, what i felt when aleksandar wrote about multiculturalism and lukas about interhuman sounds from the past days,
is exactly that new approaches and new terrritories could critically come out.
this new art form has too little to do with the art practices of the past.

two days before, at saturday [the workshop was over, everybody was gone, i remain at the mexican house - working on some tasks of the interface -],
i felt, as somebody with no more live relations with the place, a strange-land.
a feeling that could be an introduction to the apathy that the no-relations condition produces.
after that came the memory of the past days, and i felt that nostalgia is only a representation of the past and can not produce sharp and live criticisms. nostalgia arrives as always when the present condition is not enough.

in another level, it could be expressed as : the interrelations with the real conditions provide the necessary critical fields of actions

dimos