I would like this blog to be a shared space where I and others can post some responses to Hirschhorn's work 'The Incommensurable Banner' and to everything that happens around that.
Tomorrow I'm meeting Liz and Matthew at Fabrica to go over preparations for the residency, talk about text panels and so on.
I think I am supposed to have a plan.
I've got ideas.
But not a plan as such.
I keep coming back to the phrase: I am at a loss.
It seems like the most appropriate one to use.
I'm sure it must be dangerous to publish one's thoughts like this as they happen. I am deeply suspicious of blogs and of people's motives for having them.
But as a shared space I can contemplate the use of one.
At a loss. That sounds so financial in these credit crunching days. Perhaps that is appropriate. We'll be thinking about weights and measures in relation to the idea of incommensurability. I'd like your help with that one, using Ranciere's 'The Future of the Image' as a point of reference.
No plan, just ideas. At a loss. The work leaves me at a loss. And I haven't even seen it yet. But I've been thinking about it since April. And thinking about Hirschhorn's work for several years.
I will have to ask permission of certain friends if I can share their thoughts with you too. If they mind or not if I talk to you (whoever you are) about conversations we have had. I think that would be helpful.
