Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Playing with language, came up with a few new words (for me, anyway) today: intextricably, textension, textended, textraordinary, prelationships. Of course I wouldn’t be surprised if other neoligists like mez have thought of and used them before (a simple google search would probably bring results). Anyway, they all apply to the work I (and others) have been doing with language…
Good news is that Alabama seems to be moving forward on my book. It is going to be a long time before it sees the light of day, I’m sure, but glad to know it is in motion. On my end, still working to get clearance from Harvard to use portions of Cage’s I-VI, and obtaining an image from André Vallias for the cover.
Spent most of the day—when not being distracted by domestic tribulations here (our nanny was robbed at knifepoint in KL) and at home (the couple who is minding our home and studio is splitting up)—working on tomorrow’s lecture. It took me all day, but managed to come up with something I liked and thought was reasonable. The challenge was not to present the same works I have shown previously, a process brought me to a few things I haven’t seen for awhile, or ever. The links are posted at http://web.njit.edu/~funkhous/mmu/7. Also learned that the lecture scheduled for Thursday (which I was told yesterday was cancelled) is on, and that I’ll be sharing the bill with an experimental filmmaker from New York named Frits Connelly. This means a lot of work tomorrow—but hey, that’s what I’m here for. On the bright side, this also means that I’ll be done with my MMU lectures this week, so I’ll be able to finish up the contents of the eBook. Next week is Stella’s school vacation, and we’ll be visiting an island (Redang) over on the east coast of Malaysia, and after that, with the exception of a few regional lectures, the rest of our time here will be mostly about continuing my research and making art.
Good news is that Alabama seems to be moving forward on my book. It is going to be a long time before it sees the light of day, I’m sure, but glad to know it is in motion. On my end, still working to get clearance from Harvard to use portions of Cage’s I-VI, and obtaining an image from André Vallias for the cover.
Spent most of the day—when not being distracted by domestic tribulations here (our nanny was robbed at knifepoint in KL) and at home (the couple who is minding our home and studio is splitting up)—working on tomorrow’s lecture. It took me all day, but managed to come up with something I liked and thought was reasonable. The challenge was not to present the same works I have shown previously, a process brought me to a few things I haven’t seen for awhile, or ever. The links are posted at http://web.njit.edu/~funkhous/mmu/7. Also learned that the lecture scheduled for Thursday (which I was told yesterday was cancelled) is on, and that I’ll be sharing the bill with an experimental filmmaker from New York named Frits Connelly. This means a lot of work tomorrow—but hey, that’s what I’m here for. On the bright side, this also means that I’ll be done with my MMU lectures this week, so I’ll be able to finish up the contents of the eBook. Next week is Stella’s school vacation, and we’ll be visiting an island (Redang) over on the east coast of Malaysia, and after that, with the exception of a few regional lectures, the rest of our time here will be mostly about continuing my research and making art.
# posted by chris funkhouser @ 6:32 AM 
