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A presentation of slides accompanying the 14 minute talk - Duckwalking but No Guitar. A diversion for the audience.
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For your distraction . . .
Illustrated Bits& MORE
From
Duckwalking a Perimeter
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Congested Space by Diane DaCruz-DiDonato
Congested Space by Diane DaCruz-DiDonato
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Not
an epiphenomenon, I don’t want
to hear you
say that again, understood?
Don’t want to hear
anything that might imply
that this dragnet is acceptable
intellectually, emotionally, pedagogically
They call this art?
I came here to see faltering players killed in the midst
of their indecision, not hear random explanations
by retired fat guys drunk on power and vodka.
I can taste the subatomic particles that decay in nanoseconds
Heaving the bulging suitcase over the wall that then
crumbles when climbed
I began to cut away my unneeded giblets and to tear up my copy of the contract.
A stylized, hypnotic performance of the data is all we ever
were, right?
...
Note the tone of resignation in the electorate when they speak into mic, filmed on street.
(photo by Hairy Hippy)
Fill in this space with whatever occurs to you under torture
When they bark at you do they smell Buddha-nature?
Stay still. Let the animal relax before it attacks you
Yet time is of the nonessential, the rubbed-
together sticks outside the written history.
This toy Iraqi is going to die in an explosion
in the living room, its own fault for being so damned
Iraqi, got it with a special offer inside
the grandma’s tea, chipped a little now
as can be seen.
plastic military collection | packaged toy soldier #
Plastic Afghan Action Figure
Cars speed away
from black hole before they can be sucked in
and those of us trapped here take one last
look at each other.
The slur
of my words gave me
away
to the security guard.
In the heat of following evenings we dug deep in the basement,
threw bodies in one by one, placed lime upon
them,
then sealed whole sick mess in cement.
Ten arbutus trees – called madrone by others – define
the perimeter of the compound. They can’t just
dump us where no one will find what remains,
can’t just erase us from the record
completely,
Can they?
nature break – arbutus or madrone tree
You have taken all of the fun from statistical
analysis with your constant harping upon the feral
children of Oregon. None of this gore will satisfy the audience
nor will this goon know what’s good for it, feeding ore
unceasingly into the machine that refines it into equilateral
triangles.
...
The 2011 Progress Report: The Status of Children in Oregon, shows that Oregon has made improvements in children’s access to health services, despite seeing an increase
in child poverty.
Yet,
if one’s not mistaken, the kulaks were insufficiently suppressed.
“Let’s annihilate the Kulaks”
It looked like random litter but it spelled out a message.
Ethnic cleansing brought the state into being.
A kind of perpetual rhythmic gymnastics, seeking accreditation.
Yet the bottles that landed on heads were tactical, is all.
Eviction served as reminder and a sort of alternative biological syntax.
Better a secret drinker be
than ringleader of the jamboree.
Thus in the interstices of sociology
was a new world formed of the overrated old.
Memory break update :
Same place, in the Catskills, in March 2012 - Congested Space by Diane DaCruz-DiDonato
You will want to do good,
will want to help the world be all that it can
Be, an army of one
big onion soup mix suddenly
available through the agency of World Bank-sponsored microloans. Slim
Pickens’ ruthless
climb to the middle of the character-
actor heap – the bizarre codicils of his will.
“Nestled amid the sagebrush along the California side of the U.S./Mexico border is a small DIY drone airfield.” (Jordan Crandall, Drone Desire, Rhizome News 20.02.12)
subverted by duckwalking -- the perimeter of capitalism, militarism, heroism
iRobot Predator Drone firing a Hellfire missile
Get your hands up Hector, I ain’t foolin!
Hector’s body’s being carried back to Troy.
That place
where
when you go there
they have cast you out
... Lots of people
are in charge of timing actions and seeing
that certain schedules are followed within
a reasonable deviation, and this strikes
one as desirable work. Better than actually having
to perform the timed tasks, more managerial,
of a second or third order of relation to the
actual garbage, say
Literal détournement – a rotating billboard transformed into a merry-go-round.
(a takeover of public space)
detail, détourned ‘Memoires’ by Guy Debord
détourned ‘Memoires’ by Guy Debord
detail, détourned ‘Memoires’ by Guy Debord
...
Sat there walloping each other with the physical equivalents of analogies.
I kept trying to see my ass, and so spun till dizzy.
All named from anagrams of racial fighting words we’d sprung from.
More on this later, after the rupture, before the rapture
Sure, you sit there long enough, you’ll understand everything
if that’s what you want.
...
“Not to care.” In one ear and out onto the village common,
counting the steps it takes to arrive at the information booth.
...
A cunning series of clues
planted early in the narrative and meant to imply
a great catastrophe later on, if one keeps reading
and pays the toll
Kevin Davies – photo by Ben Friedlander
A stylized, hypnotic performance of the data is all we ever
were, right?