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June 18, 2005
Wounded for our transgressions
According to this flyeróqouting the Bible on the other sideóJesus, son of God, "was wounded for our transgressions" (Isaiah 53 verse 5). While I have previously discussed monsters in terms of transgression that's not really what I want to talk about here. What I was interested in, when this A4 flyer showed up in our letterbox today, was the language it employed. There's two points of connection here I think . . . manifestoes, and my seminar monster-movie. It had kind of occurred to me already I think that my performance (actually in the movie and in the band) was tinged with something like some kind of 'religious zeal' . . . God only knows why!?
We've been getting quite a bit of this kind of 'mail' lately. I always read it from start to finish because I find it quite amusingóactually engaging. Not for the right reasons though! And I think it's the language that engages me? While I always find it offensive initially, I always end up really enjoying it's over-the-top-ness for chuckle value at least.
When I was in Melbourne Neal gave me a magazine that has some great images of William Burroughs shooting guns. It's with a text written by him which is basically a how-to guide to terrorism! Again I was engaged by the language.
Fanatacism and fear . . . ? I'm not really sure what I want to say about this or how I think it relates to design, but I've been thinking about this in relation to my writing a manifesto. Exaggeration. . . Cameron commented on 'bigness' in relation to my topic, in relation to monstrosity I guess? I don't know how to tie all this up right now, but I feel quite excited about the potential to explore this 'vibe' through making work. Is this yet another tangent? A departure from or modification to the topic? It seems there's already much of this in my practice (esp. band posters ó eg. "With our reverb we will raise the dead"). . . which I hadn't really noticed. I guess that's important? Observing my practice . . .
Posted by Luke Wood at June 18, 2005 04:14 PM