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dunno how to get there but wouldn start from here
Chris Mann
Thursday, February 19, 2004
Slought Foundation
Live Performance Series
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Slought Foundation, a non-profit organization rethinking contemporary art, presents "dunno how to get there but wouldn start from here," a live performance at Slought Foundation by artist Chris Mann. For more information on "The Plato Songs," the corresponding audio installation by the artist in the Slought Foundation vault, visit http://slought.org/content/11180/
Chris Mann on "The Plato Songs" Installation: "As "law" was also the word for "music," Plato's The Laws was, like the lost sixth analect of Confucius, his text on music. And as The Laws was the out-of-town tryout for The Republic, it seems timely to pry into those early models of conversation theory, the cybernetics of The Dialogues. The Plato Songs is the bookend companion piece to my earlier work "Or, Yellow" on Ludwig Wittgenstein and Cab Calloway." Chris Mann on language: "Language is the mechanism whereby you understand what I'm thinking better than I do (where "I" is defined by those changes for which I is required)."
Chris Mann is a composer and performer working in Compositional Linguistics. His work engages technology and the philosophy of speech. Mann worked with the Machine for Making Sense until moving to New York in the mid nineties. Solo performances include Paris Autumn, Ars Electronica, and the Berliner Festspiele. He has been deconstructed, interpreted and set to word and music by Herbert Brun, John Cage, David Dunn, Gary Hill, Johnny Klimek, Annea Lockwood, Larry Polansky, and Robert Rauschenberg, among others. John Cage, addressing the work of Chris Mann, wrote the following mesostic: "the surfaCe of tHis poetRy's musIc itS body's talk / a fast Mix of vulgArity aNd elegaNce." His numerous publications and releases include "Working Hypothesis" (Station Hill, 1998) and "chris mann and the use" (Lovely Music, 2001).
Organized by
Aaron Levy
MLA Style:
Chris Mann. "dunno how to get there but wouldn start from here." Slought Foundation Online Content. [19 February 2004;
Accessed 14 March 2010]. <http://slought.org/content/11181/>.
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