creative practice
Notes on Practice
1. A refusal to allow your audience to typecast you is wise art strategy. Making it difficult for your audience to pin down you or your work is also resonant for longevity.
2. Our creative work, or the roles we play in it, are not defined by the stereotypes society places... See more
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“Deep Listening practice is process training.”
-Pauline Oliveros, “Deep Listening”
By analyzing the content of art rather than merely experiencing it, we “set up a shadow world of ‘meanings’”—everything necessarily pointing at something else. In order to liberate ourselves from this diminishing way of seeing, she suggests valuing transparence instead. “Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of th... See more
#180: Against Self-Analysis
These works are “arguments for concentration of present details as a way of life lived against a background of unconsciouness, lack of meaning, and nonexistence … arguing openly for concentration as a value” and embodiment as a human condition”
—Kenneth Baker, “Some Exercises in Slow Perception”
“There is no considering the labor stored in things without thinking about the social relations that brought about their production.”
-Kenneth Baker, “Some Exercises in Slow Perception”
“Prompted by experience and learning, listening takes place voluntarily. Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening.”
-Pauline Oliveros, “Deep Listening”
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