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Sunday 10 of October
Nothing fascinates me more than those laborious occupations for wasting time. Those systems that finally subvert the culture of efficiency and productive time that seems to be the base of any possible time experience nowadays.
Continue, the link I’m proposing here, I understand it precisely as a permanent production of unproductiveness. Continue, one of the many pieces that conform the catalogue of projects for the Net realized by Claude Closky; the whole catalogue can be visited at www.sittes.net. The projects that interested from this site are stumbles inserted in the mechanic and predictable nature of our relation with the net: from our email account to Youtube, back again to our email, then to Facebook, taking first a quick look at Amazon.
The fictions introduced by Closky are small disorders that slip through our mechanic and impassive experience in front of the computer, an experience that apparently had ceased to surprise us. These fictions take on the precise image and mechanisms of several programs and net services, camouflaging as browsers and pop-up windows, they organize a rebellion of the unquestioned instrumentality and servility of these applications and of our deaf attention to our surrounding.
Como usuario de estas piezas y, como lo explica François Piron, en nuestro paso de la expectación a la emoción a la decepción a la indignación y al agotamiento, en esa deriva en el trato con un sistema tautológico y lúdico, cuando se despista uno en esa página, se crea un tiempo que ya no es el de una fabricación eficaz, sino el de una aventura posible.
As user of these pieces and, as François Piron explains, in our passage from expectation to emotion to deception to indignation and to exhaustion, in that drift of our relation with a tautological and playful system, when one gets distracted on that page; a time, which is no longer that of an efficient production but rather that of a possible adventure, is created.
► My favorite ones: continue, friendless, hands and arrows, right direction, +1, remake of ‘lecture quotidiennes’, backward rain forecast.
Victoria Pérez Royo is a performing arts researcher, living in Madrid and Berlin. Member of ARTEA, at present she coordinates the master on Práctica Escénica y Cultura Visual (Performance Practice and Visual Culture) of the University of Alcalá de Henares. Esthetics and Art theory teacher at the Europa Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), guess teacher of the Master in Choreography and the Dance Degree at the Palucca Schule (Dresden) and of the Master’s degree Solo, Dance, Authorship at the HTZ (Berlín). She has published the books Práctica e Investigación (2010) and ¡A bailar a la calle! Danza contemporánea, espacio público y arquitectura (2008).
