don't read this

omg omg omg force a blog post now
ugh the writing
everyone knows we dont like this way of doing this
but we're going to have to
and i am going to
talk and type about an experience
i had while looking at something that somebody made
and it got put in a place
where lots of people made lots of things
and they all want their things to be seen
and loved
so that they can go on making more
of it


honesty
the artist has got to know the artist



paul ramirez jonas
did a piece for the venice biennale 2009

i felt
this piece
it spoke to me
i spoke to it
titled i create as i speak
i spoke the words i create, i speak
i speak, i speak. art friends speak together
create together. it was fun.
its always easier to preform with a buddy.
phil and i spoke at the biennale
we had an audience
the audience was watching and listening
it was just one art
piece that a few people
out of 900, thousand
saw that one day at the 
biennale


why?
why did it speak to me?
because it was interactive
and i'm into that
i'm into that kind of art
the kind where the audience made out of artists
become the representative or the toy
of the artist who 
initiated the artpiece.

and we play
we forget the distance between the
art piece on the white walls
and where we are
ourselves on the ground looking and just looking
because isn't that what its about sometimes?
being a part of something and activating your body in the location
the space of an exhibition.
the exhibition is made for people, an audience
so this piece recognizes the audience, activates them, and places the audience as an audience of a part of the audience who is/are the preformers


taken from Mr. Paul ramirez jonas's website: This is the version of the paper moon was made for Venice. The sentence I create as I speak is repeated over and over again, in a 374 page-long text. The sentence is written in such a way that when the pages are pinned to the wlal they form a twenty-foot image of the moon. One page, a fragment of the image, is removed from the wall and deposited on a lecter. The public is invited to read this piece of the moon (out loud or to themselves). The incantation I create as I speak is either the ultimate act of hubris, or it represents belief in our capacity to create.

when we look at the moon, its small.
it is a pretty small thing in the sky.
the moon on the wall was big. 
bigger than all the people.
the piece when taken from the moon and placed on a pedastal
becomes a monologue

the artist suggests that anybody can create
and that everybody can create