KUKLOS
Intention, attention and duplication
To provide a counterpoint to another's journey
is necessarily fraught with extreme difficulties,
arising from the many forms of impetus which
propel all sides of another's work. Falling into the
trap of mere 'co-existence' is an opportunity and
likelihood at all stages. To refrain from trying to
step out of the moving process in order to create
false resting places, from which it is possible to
assess and therefore limit, is well nigh impossible,
unless the continuous and constantly changing
nature of the process is admitted.
With the utilisation of media incorporated into
others, meanings are more easily read into the
material that were not there originally. Eventually
it becomes impossible to see through the dust
on the mirror. What must be done is to involve
so much consideration and cognisance of what
is involved at root of all that passes through
the hands, that perversion and irreparable damage
is made impossible, and yet this state is approachable
by others outside, yet observing the process
occurring.
Unfortunately, the current attitude to entering into
another's position necessitates a compromise of
sorts. This is to make experience repeatable so
that the recipient feels as if a safety net exists.
Risk has been so discouraged in recent experience
that it has acquired an almost totally negative
aura. But, and this is the point from which it is
possible to avoid the aforementioned pitfalls,
repetition is impossible in an absolute sense.
This presentation involves elements related to
the ideas of meaning, information and content,
its juxtaposition and presentation.
The illusion of time, like all illusions, provokes
greed, paradoxical near-sightedness, the narrowing
of options and fear. Whilst it is possible to
outline the circumstances where it may be possible
to free oneself from this external grid, the
actual "letting-go" of the system is an individual
act impossible to enforce or even to give to
another, by whichever indirect or direct means.
Therefore, the experience provided by the commercial
availability of any work is of course
always second-hand - "documentation".
The act of creating anything intended for further
use necessitates linearity. The difference here
is that the sounds used to accompany the work
of Neville Brody as it travels through various
galleries across the world are only based on
that particular modus operandi.
As it moves from place to place, an atmosphere
recording of the installed sound will be used as
the basis of a new version, so that eventually
every place will have had a separate, specific
version. The buyer of this cassette has absolutely
no way of knowing which part of the world it was
intended for, nor where its component parts are
drawn from.