Re: <documenta X><blast> home
Morgan Garwood (mgarwood@inch.com)
Tue, 08 Jul 1997 12:42:49 -0400
the old cosmologies and cosmogenies (the stories of universe-creation)
appear to have an element within them of coming to terms with good and
evil, and a third force that could be divine capriciousness, fate... On
some level do the beauties and uglinesses we creat have a moral dimension
to them. Say you are driving through the Utah canyons, some of the most
beautiful and mysterios places on earth, and you come upon the once sleepy
town of Moab that has transformed into a garish neon, plastic, and
fluorescent jumble of cheapness ans commercial screaming-for-attention
around the all important issues of cheeseburgers, motels with waterbeds,
and balls of fried horseshit dipped in cherry colored glaze... yet this
spectacle, meta-spectacle actually it is so self conscious of
spectacle-consciousness it says see here hungry people in a car driving
south I am all your childhood memories fed back through themselves like
oroborous swallowing its tail and giving birth to a nest of memory-eggs
where you can buy fries and sixty four ounce coke in a bucket like you died
and went to heaven for some people and like you took bad acid for other
people then you stay in *motel degree zero* like a capuchin monk's cell and
watch a thirty year old color teevee that is so funky you are closer to
channeling elizabeth claire profit than being at one with the minds of
great decision makers and god-children du jour on letterman and its back to
bad acid until you speed off across the navajo reservation thru tuba city
and other middle of nowhere and once again viva las vegas riverrun down
past eve and adam's yes I will yes maybe not.