INTERNET CLUB – REDEFINING THE WORKPLACE (2012)
Lilly and Jandek set up camp along the polygonal beach.
“So, what’s this, um, ‘a e s t h e t i c’ thing I’ve been hearing about?” he says as he unties his combat boots. Combat boots?
“Haha, you don’t have to draw the word out like that!” Lilly picks up a nautilus and rolls it around in her hand. She goes to throw it, but decides against it. She sets it down on the ground and pats it softly into the sand.
“Anyway, I feel like aesthetic involves a familiarity with referents, yet without knowing what exactly is being referred to. Like hearing a song on the radio as a kid, but without knowing who sang it, and eventually forgetting.
“But then the song comes back up again, in a haze similar to that of your own memory, and it triggers something in you. It’s the song whose name you never learned, but also the unfamiliarity too.” She pops open a soda.
“Well, in that case, where is the connection?” He is trying to bury himself in the sand, yet is having trouble figuring out how to get above his shoulders.
“I think the original idea, by the pioneers of the genre, was that this uncanniness would be the point. It would remove the listener far enough that they would be able to see the absurdity of the culture it was steeped in. They really did a lot to intellectualize their pursuit.
“But the problem is that they could not scrub out the reference of the individual’s personal experience with those vague sources. They all remind the listener of upper-class places they used to visit. Plush elevators and beach resorts. Like this one!”
and then the tide comes in i guess
情報デスクVIRTUAL – 札幌コンテンポラリー (2012)
lilly and jandek exit through the automatic doors, the scent of hotel antiseptics now mixing with the miami sun. i’ll write the rest later.