Artist - Urich Lau
Title - Disaster In The City: Dissolution Illusion Version 1.0
Medium - Digital video
Length - 03:17 min
Year - 2007
A video work inspired by the L.A. riot events, with images appropriated from Google Earth, YouTube, and a bit of Japanese anime.
Artist - Urich Lau
Title - Video File: Conversation Tester [Exquisite Crisis] Version 1.0
Medium - Digital video
Length - 01:55 min
Year - 2007
An experimental video that uses pieces of conversation and images from the Skype video conference, which shows the participants of Exquisite Crisis.
translation: Very interesting 24 hours crisis album.
I like very much your pictures on diffrent aspects of a crisis.
I was thinking the expression “managing” a crisis is no-sense
because when a crisis came up, it’s already too late..
it’s not manageable anymore… it’s not controlled …
maybe by violence or silence… or patience… but not by communication… i believe…
or after the crisis happened… you see what i mean…
“tres interessant l’album des 24h de crise.
J’ai beaucoup aime tes photos sur les differents aspects d’une crise…
Je pensais a l’expression “gerer une crise”, it’s nonsense car une
crise quand elle survient, c’est trop tard… elle n’est plus gerable…
elle n’est plus maitrisable… peut-etre par la violence ou le silence…
ou la patience… mais pas par la communication… je crois…
ou apres le passage de la crise… Tu vois ce que je veux dire…”
A Tattoo of batons on the bruising flesh
A Under-rhythm of the American dream
B dreamt elsewhere, those shy, twitching settlements
B jut beyond these kempt measures of commemoration
C like a broke anniverse, a migrant shore, an interstate
C of stragglers and involuntary volunteers. they got shot
A and it don’t stop and it won’t stop, that beat goes on
A like it’s the wrong song laid down too long
B what might have been chant or rhyme fades
B into a murmur of polite passing, a graze, jostling
C and some rough driving by to hop out quick
C for tickets and loose smoke and delicate bags
A imploding under the force of the fist, exhaling
A face this, face this, the true is the unfit, phrase
B afeard or febrile, all those hurtling to from atop
B here pitch, come press in on, having been where
C having been there, having been air, having been
C flore, flare, police passing, our delicate underground
A flashing in flight and and crying out, fuck no
A to the dry see saw of go along to get along
B would and should all pegged to which we
B wedge, then tamp down nestling until then
C which is far off in a never township. come tussle
C with me through the fade, play through the argument
A as if he were lying there, as if he were lying there
A with that dumb look of a corpse, all ash and
B bauble and filling, even through dusted rubble
B past torch and kiln, a remnant sheen keeps
C of a burnt circle but maybe it will be a birthday
C I want to call him kiril and I wonder what he will
A turn to, in the dark days with rainclouds over Simi
A and his colors all blazoned, holding the blue line
B above is a swarm that might rev up to something
B below the hands stutter in vivid but desolate halls
C like the broken video in the first place, the cramped
C frame into an open boulevard, new bebop in reply
A blazing up against that white song that I live
A surrounded by, white noise on the skyline
B is just that, a glitch, a scribble against sky
B swooping sea, whose edges blur and throb
C on sand and concrete inlet and broken rock
C reflecting the city above and the city underneath
A as if they were two maps clapping slowly together
B hesitantly unfolding or trickling to some polite hush
C the frenzy of other intervals
–posted for Laura Kang, David Lloyd, and Fred Moten–
NATH - 24 hours Exquisite - 6pm (1st hour) start from mtrl
snow storm - bus cancelled and stocked in montreal…
- http://www.myspcace.com/nathalie_cho
We face technical problem .. a crisis of its own…
nyc, amsterdam, beijing, copenhagen, malmo, montreal…
http://.myspace.com/nathalie_cho
“EVERYDAY I WAKE UP ON THE WRONG SIDE OF CAPITALISM”
Quote from graffiti piece in South America
