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2004-05-10	Birute : digest

What I brought is actually ‘low tech’… a little bit consciously, just to have some… in order to put the very contemporary practice or high tech media into some old attempts which are maybe more comfortable, or easy or to feel safer somehow…I felt a bit in the group that while talking I am always having reflection from some period of time, but not from the now and here situation. What I have brought is quite personal, I should say, though connected with the themes. They are taken from the everyday practice, quite personal though. What I have brought Claude Levi Strauss This anthropological view explains for me quite a lot, maybe it is narrow in some sense, but it gives some structure for understanding.. This helped me a lot to understand what we are doing on this table… I felt it was a sense of bricollage phenomena, still I realize it is a different experience than what we are doing.. .therefore I was happy to see this “autosummarizer” (illustrated in workshop) There are several nice excerpts about this chemistry of smells, so perhaps it is something about what I lack when talking about media, therefore I brought this in. “Front” is a selection of articles. I like the mixture of art critics, psychologists, biologists altogether. This author which is quoted in two articles, George (…….) is a figure talking on normative-pathology, what is normality what is not… Once I was interested in these cyborgs, and who is normal in the media sense, out of stable structure it is normal, in the biological sense it is the other way. The one who is able to change himself is normal there. Abnormality is included, it is the condition for change. I was interested in traumatic identity and what it is all about, a mythological construction, and that connected me with Levi Strauss, who speaks of handmade tuning and mythology, so I thought of collective identity and myth in a constructed way, and these two books seem connected in some way. The stories here are surrealist in some way, which is nt so interesting for me, but they are important in the way they speak, for example, on cyber- category… and traumatic identity, as the lack of adaptation and elasticity… such notions and such surrealistic notions appear in the face of your inability in front of some un-understandble thing, if you are not able to adapt, to be elastic enough, then you are speaking of trauma… but I am tired of all these things, so I hope to use the (word program) auto-summarize.. The last article is that I have written on Lousiana Museum, NowHere exhibition of 1996. It is about the changing relation of the object, the very classical example of me, being inside the object and not knowing how its total view is in context… here I am just describing what I see with a fascination and cant make any conclusions… it was a difficult exhibition to write on as it was quite open..I take this as a reflection on my on writing, then in 1996, and my optimism, not optimism, but … now I have gotten my conclusions and very tired of them. I think the selections are very personal, they join through my own experience, through my own narrative… for me there are of the same weight… I put such a big effort on this article, it really felt like a large exhibition and challenge for me to deal with it. I mean really big, somewhere outside. I found myself at that time at Lousiana Museum, and when I saw it, I knew this would be a very difficult task to write about, but I understood it was an event, and I wanted to take this challenge. After I realized it was so important in the history of exhibitions. I remember my attempt in writing this, I see how clumsy it is for me to be there, interested, excited, but still not free with all my instruments here… There were not very much writing of international shows in these Lithuanian newspapers then... Only afterwards came those Biennials and so on, and this was really not a populistic show, but when I was writing I was feeling very serious and I knew that it was important to do… to inform about the point where something is going on, where the debate is going on… a little bit nostalgic… It was summertime, so you can’t get a direct response from readers, no emails and internet then, like now you get immediate response from readers.. the staff of the newspaper had really no idea what it is all about….they gave you freedom but it was no joy or super positive… It is also connected to geopolitics, speaking about pathological trauma, always some abusement is included.. why do I always jump up concerning the soviet past for instance. It is a very slight border between analysis, excavation,, and abusing again. It is very similar to the crime field, when the guy.. when someone has made a crime and they think someone was unhappy in childhood… in eery “traumatic” identity there is some moment of myth.. and in the transparent sense also..