Janet Cardiff's work seems to be so much about structure. It is really interesting, the way in which she talks about shifting structures, using and subverting them in different ways. I particularly enjoyed her audio tour involving sounds from a theater (Ghost Machine, 2005) previous and during a performance. I started mixing the excerpts at my own will and observing how she was creating a meta-performance from the one she attended. The structure involved in going to a theater is one that has become subconscious at this point, but it is a tradition that has its origin somewhere, like any other tradition. I suppose it is impossible for anyone to address all of these things in a work, every piece needs some structure to support itself. It seems a very interesting and complex problem to work through and has to do with the ways in which we as audience members remember what happened in the ephemeral moment of the performance and what happens with performance art; where does it go after it is done; does it go in the mind of the viewer, or does it dissappear? Or does it become just ghosts?
I also wanted to share pictures taken at the location I selected...the parking lot:
MArcelo
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