com[motion]: a movement made jointly, together, with
a note from the editor
When last checked, the movement of the gaze implicated the viewer, this according to Todd McGowan, a handsome professor who is as keen as I on David Lynch films.
The allegation that the viewer cannot be wholly unambiguous, transparently divorced from that upon which le regard falls, is one that can make the skin crawl, the conscience pinge. Irony leads to heartache.
When did a glance become so burdened? At the moment of understanding, that time when it all comes together and we can no longer claim blamelessness, virtuousness, freedom from guilt. The burden is lightened, however, by play and by choice and by the mad, mad, mad gruesomeness of it all. (insane laughter followed by a dabbing of drool, fine-looking elders dancing.)
Following the movement made jointly, where gazing and being gazed upon are united in an awkward foxtrot of commingled pain, ardor, awareness, the ensuing things are possible:
• a delicious lunch for two of “prize winning pickles” and tentatively oozing Camembert and a hint of peppered rectangular rice cakes, dry as dust;
• a cross-pollination effort that results in a new breed of extrapolation, criminality, and eye-irritant, OK?
• a chit-chat over and above what is required for basic communication efforts, in other words, a[detailed]consideration[or]examination of a[topic] without cease;
• a free-fall out into nothing, a leaving of this world for a while, floating over the void until morning and you won’t even know you were gone;
• an impossibility of returning to the formerly known knowns when only the unknown and unknowable is of any interest;
• a glimpse of the aleph.
We hope you enjoy this fall.
Com[motion] issue 1, January 2008 is an online curatorial space organized by April Durham, Executive Director Small Wonder Foundation with production assistance from Bryan Gorrie. Curators will change with each quarterly issue. Please contact us for more information.