![]() ![]() Report back about the sensations in the body that seem to integrate meaning and matter, thought and deed. The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.” Having recently returned from this great wilderness, with a crumb in hand, I open my palm to you to reveal the approach I have finally landed on. In The Creative Process, James Baldwin writes: “Perhaps the primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone.” He continues: “He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. How could I map out this article, with its 800-word terrain, tracing lines that extend from years of research and practice? How could I shepherd them into an honest shape that could be relatable and familiar yet odd, wonky, queer even? ![]() I couldn’t quite land on a point of view that felt relevant and potent. ![]() Then instead, I attempted to write about all of the theoretical influences that are baked into the body of the work I do, in a sort of conversation with Cynthia Bond Perry’s recent article, but it felt forced and I couldn’t find my way with it. At first, I framed the article around a conversation I had with a colleague where we were asking ourselves questions like: Where does dance criticism show up now, in this current cultural moment? How do we as artists use performance reviews? As a mirror or currency? Can artists take up space in sectors traditionally structured to critique them, and be included? When I began writing this post-view, I changed my path a couple of times. Nguyen-Hilton grew his hair long during the pandemic.įor me, the pleasure of creating a work is following these creative carbs into the forest of the project, navigating the meaning as I go. Crumbs of phrases like “I have to remember it won’t always be this way,” “ keep going,” and “the tools are not the work ” punctuated my creative process, which includes movement, text and storytelling. In the two years that I researched, moved and built the 75-minute performance ritual this room is a body, little pieces of information flitted about in my consciousnesses, downloading into my body and leaving me breadcrumbs that I would jot down on the sticky yellow squares. As an artist, I attempt to catch them in various ways, but recently Post-its have been the simplest net in which to snag them. If you need to read lot's of documentation and other PDF's on a regular basis it's well worth the price.Ideas move like air, and as unseen forces tend to do, they spill, flow and rarely land easily. I was skeptical at first, but quickly found that I use PostView daily now and have registered. Adobe Acrobat might do some of these things, but takes forever to launch and isn't a cocoa native application, which Postview is. I certainly haven't experienced any stability issues and have made it my default PDF viewer as well. Postview can also render plain postscript files. It also handles PDF's that have landscape/portrait format pages, which I have had problems with in Preview. The only things I wish it did (which the author is working on) is to copy the PDF text to clipboard as formatted RTF (his TextLightning program does this) and that it had the option to display thumbnails in the document outline). It also displays additional information on the document, such as fonts used, creation date, etc. The search feature alone is fast and _extremely_ useful and I like how it highlights the line in yellow. Postview will display the outline for PDF's that have been created with one, which lot's of technical documentation has. It defaults to making pages fit the screen and can display 2-up as well. This is a pretty good PDF viewer, much more functional then Apple's barebones Preview. I've been using Postview for a couple of weeks (get a temporary key from the author to get rid of the big DEMO text). ![]()
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