(An attempt to move away from bodies.)
1. Light a house on fire. Use some tinder and the crumpled up evacuation route from the house for the first spark.
2. Become a psychrotropic bacterium. Seek states in milk where you will be kept at exactly 7 degrees Celsius. Seek to become ingested. Discover if you have been effectively pasteurized.
3. Tell somebody you love but rarely see that you want to see them in a public place, and you might be running a little late. Don't show up. Use google.maps to watch the location for any sign of them. Spend whole days waiting for the image to change.
4. Leave a large bowl of water on top of a radiator for one year. Do not refill it. Leave it through the changing seasons and through the heater being turned on and then off again.
5. Write source code geared not for the understanding computer programers, but for the understanding of computers. Develop a language that only the computers would understand. Distribute widely.
6. Wrap a chair in strips of fabric into long strips. Cover the chair so that it becomes cocooned with a small protected internal space. Light it from the inside. Realize this space is not for you.
While trying to get bodies out of the way, I find myself instinctively gravitating toward systems that need bodies to operate. Bodies are still implicit in all of these examples. The interest fulcrum then becomes to examine what happens in the absence of a body, in the crumbling of these systems. In many ways, this feels kind of reactionary- maybe I am not allowing myself to relax into a new place and examine the potentials, and am just making work about the lack of what was. More to the point: I think I am just hiding the body in the moment before or after the situations I am describing, not really removing them. I'd like to push/explore this a little further with more time.
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