Gothwerk
Part I
12 AM CST
Kyle’s Survey: a playlist tracing the roots and extensions of goth music
Kyle’s Survey
Playlist Created by Kyle Ozero, with video selections by Maggie Wong.
Mississippi John Hurt – You’ve Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley
Siouxsie and The Banshees – Candyman
Sade – Haunt Me
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Suicide – Frankie Teardrop
Death Cult – Brothers Grimm
Killing Joke – Sanity
Danse society – Somewhere
Skeletal Family – Promised Land
Antiworld – Horror High
Bob Marley and The Wailers – Mr. Brown
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AFI – Malleus Maleficarum
Diamanda Galas -The Litines of Satan
Diamanda Galas – Wild Woman With Steak Knives
Virgin Prunes – Decline and Fall
The Cure – Disintegration
Velvet Acid Christ – Sex Disease
The Spooks – Things I’ve Seen
Xmal Deutschland – Morning
Gravediggaz – Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide
Tupac’s hologram – Hail Mary
Bone Thugs N Harmony – Crossroads
Timbaland & Magoo – Luv 2 Luv Ya
Janet Jackson – Discipline
Rudimentary Peni – Hearse
OutKast – Elevators
The Shangri-las – Leader of the Pack
Screamin Jay Hawkins – I put a spell on you
Rubella Ballet – 42 F
Flying Lotus – Never Catch Me
Clan of Xymox – Muscoviet Mosquito
Kommunity FK – Something In Me Has Died
The Breathing Light – Blood Oath
The Breathing Light – Holy Ghost
Noon
First, check:
Second, practice this exercise:
At this moment, the sun is highest in the sky. Even if you cannot see it, reach for it with one hand. Using your other hand, stretch in the opposite direction—breath into this space that creates a gradient of lightness and darkness. When you feel steady, move one hand to point to the horizon, keeping your arms in a straight line. Breath into this space, and you can feel the earth’s rotation.
Now you are in the movement and moment for exchange.
power lines
for Kyle
“Usually it is words that speak, while things keep silent. But when words approach the boundaries of silence, this silence of things begins to speak for itself. The greatest challenge is to find the words that will set off the thing itself as its own singular, sought-for and irreplaceable word. Only then does it become itself—a message (vest), a voice sounding in silence, in answer to all the words uttered on its behalf.”
–Mikhail Epstein, Thing and Word: On the Lyrical Museum
(vest)
For
Morris
Morris Fox Artist talk on IMVU
“Dancing On My Own”
I want to consider what it means to be present online and think through digital intimacy conceptually as lovers’ discourse. Specifically, I engage with IMVU an “online metaverse and social game where users create 3D avatars to socialize with people, create environments and rooms, and play games” as a queer platform, and to create poetry video performances using screen capturing of my virtual doubles dancing and hanging out, performances that combine virtual and real “looks”, as a sort of memento mori (or just forget-me-nots and pansies). I want to combine my practice of queer self-dance (queue “Dancing on My Own”), with my simulated dancing, as an entwinement of fantasy and captured movement, perhaps allowing for a form of resistance to death, or the limits of my queer body, disembodied from the sticky materiality of the real. I am interested in the potential to create 3D environments within IMVU that allow for queer mourning and dirge.
What does it mean to be online and waiting for someone to chat with you?
“Am I in love? –yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn’t wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments
