Comments on: Hyperdocumentation: Better Than the Real Thing? http://hyperallergic.com/1431/hyperdocumentation/ Sensitive to Art and its Discontents Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Suzanne Lainson http://hyperallergic.com/1431/hyperdocumentation/comment-page-1/#comment-328 Suzanne Lainson Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:14:44 +0000 http://hyperallergic.com/?p=1431#comment-328 "It’s like when you are at top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. I want to tell everyone to just soak in the view and relax. But instead, everyone is busing taking photos for their face book profile." Which would suggest that events are to many more about identity than experience. I'm not sure it's necessarily bad or good. It's just helpful in understanding what motivates people. They want to communicate that they were at the event rather than just being there. My father was a constant photo taker. He even took photos while attending my mother's funeral. I couldn't relate to it, but so many people are doing the equivalent these days. While it's easy to assume these people are missing life while being so busy documenting it, for them that is how they relate to their surroundings. “It’s like when you are at top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. I want to tell everyone to just soak in the view and relax. But instead, everyone is busing taking photos for their face book profile.”

Which would suggest that events are to many more about identity than experience.

I’m not sure it’s necessarily bad or good. It’s just helpful in understanding what motivates people. They want to communicate that they were at the event rather than just being there.

My father was a constant photo taker. He even took photos while attending my mother’s funeral. I couldn’t relate to it, but so many people are doing the equivalent these days. While it’s easy to assume these people are missing life while being so busy documenting it, for them that is how they relate to their surroundings.

]]> By: Suzanne Lainson http://hyperallergic.com/1431/hyperdocumentation/comment-page-1/#comment-2161 Suzanne Lainson Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:14:00 +0000 http://hyperallergic.com/?p=1431#comment-2161 "It’s like when you are at top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. I want to tell everyone to just soak in the view and relax. But instead, everyone is busing taking photos for their face book profile." Which would suggest that events are to many more about identity than experience. I'm not sure it's necessarily bad or good. It's just helpful in understanding what motivates people. They want to communicate that they were at the event rather than just being there. My father was a constant photo taker. He even took photos while attending my mother's funeral. I couldn't relate to it, but so many people are doing the equivalent these days. While it's easy to assume these people are missing life while being so busy documenting it, for them that is how they relate to their surroundings. “It’s like when you are at top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. I want to tell everyone to just soak in the view and relax. But instead, everyone is busing taking photos for their face book profile.”

Which would suggest that events are to many more about identity than experience.

I’m not sure it’s necessarily bad or good. It’s just helpful in understanding what motivates people. They want to communicate that they were at the event rather than just being there.

My father was a constant photo taker. He even took photos while attending my mother’s funeral. I couldn’t relate to it, but so many people are doing the equivalent these days. While it’s easy to assume these people are missing life while being so busy documenting it, for them that is how they relate to their surroundings.

]]> By: Daniel Larkin http://hyperallergic.com/1431/hyperdocumentation/comment-page-1/#comment-326 Daniel Larkin Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:39:13 +0000 http://hyperallergic.com/?p=1431#comment-326 Lyra - as usual you go right for the jugular. Love the story you opened the article with. I've always liked the saying that if you've got one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you are shitting on the present. There is something about these obsession with documenting that kills me. It's like when you are at top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. I want to tell everyone to just soak in the view and relax. But instead, everyone is busing taking photos for their face book profile. Lyra – as usual you go right for the jugular. Love the story you opened the article with.

I’ve always liked the saying that if you’ve got one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you are shitting on the present. There is something about these obsession with documenting that kills me.

It’s like when you are at top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. I want to tell everyone to just soak in the view and relax. But instead, everyone is busing taking photos for their face book profile.

]]> By: Daniel Larkin http://hyperallergic.com/1431/hyperdocumentation/comment-page-1/#comment-2160 Daniel Larkin Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:39:00 +0000 http://hyperallergic.com/?p=1431#comment-2160 Lyra - as usual you go right for the jugular. Love the story you opened the article with. I've always liked the saying that if you've got one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you are shitting on the present. There is something about these obsession with documenting that kills me. It's like when you are at top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. I want to tell everyone to just soak in the view and relax. But instead, everyone is busing taking photos for their face book profile. Lyra – as usual you go right for the jugular. Love the story you opened the article with.

I’ve always liked the saying that if you’ve got one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you are shitting on the present. There is something about these obsession with documenting that kills me.

It’s like when you are at top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. I want to tell everyone to just soak in the view and relax. But instead, everyone is busing taking photos for their face book profile.

]]> By: Veken Gueyikian http://hyperallergic.com/1431/hyperdocumentation/comment-page-1/#comment-317 Veken Gueyikian Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:52:50 +0000 http://hyperallergic.com/?p=1431#comment-317 Well Said! "The path of salvation for all performance art in this day and age is obvious: you gotta have beer, hot dogs and mosh pits." I was thinking the same thing. Well Said!

“The path of salvation for all performance art in this day and age is obvious: you gotta have beer, hot dogs and mosh pits.”

I was thinking the same thing.

]]> By: Veken Gueyikian http://hyperallergic.com/1431/hyperdocumentation/comment-page-1/#comment-2159 Veken Gueyikian Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:52:00 +0000 http://hyperallergic.com/?p=1431#comment-2159 Well Said! "The path of salvation for all performance art in this day and age is obvious: you gotta have beer, hot dogs and mosh pits." I was thinking the same thing. Well Said!

“The path of salvation for all performance art in this day and age is obvious: you gotta have beer, hot dogs and mosh pits.”

I was thinking the same thing.

]]> By: Ken http://hyperallergic.com/1431/hyperdocumentation/comment-page-1/#comment-316 Ken Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:28:25 +0000 http://hyperallergic.com/?p=1431#comment-316 Actually being there fixes you in a time and in a position relative to the event. This is what the event rendered via documentation doesn't ever offer. But if this is all that is unique about being there, then perhaps it's a mere phenomenological nuance that's far outweighed by the advantages of multi-media, multi-perspectival documentation. Add to that the human realities of your bodily discomforts, limited attention span and fading memory, then what's the point of sitting out there and seeing it live? The path of salvation for all performance art in this day and age is obvious: you gotta have beer, hot dogs and mosh pits. Actually being there fixes you in a time and in a position relative to the event. This is what the event rendered via documentation doesn’t ever offer. But if this is all that is unique about being there, then perhaps it’s a mere phenomenological nuance that’s far outweighed by the advantages of multi-media, multi-perspectival documentation. Add to that the human realities of your bodily discomforts, limited attention span and fading memory, then what’s the point of sitting out there and seeing it live? The path of salvation for all performance art in this day and age is obvious: you gotta have beer, hot dogs and mosh pits.

]]> By: Ken http://hyperallergic.com/1431/hyperdocumentation/comment-page-1/#comment-2158 Ken Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:28:00 +0000 http://hyperallergic.com/?p=1431#comment-2158 Actually being there fixes you in a time and in a position relative to the event. This is what the event rendered via documentation doesn't ever offer. But if this is all that is unique about being there, then perhaps it's a mere phenomenological nuance that's far outweighed by the advantages of multi-media, multi-perspectival documentation. Add to that the human realities of your bodily discomforts, limited attention span and fading memory, then what's the point of sitting out there and seeing it live? The path of salvation for all performance art in this day and age is obvious: you gotta have beer, hot dogs and mosh pits. Actually being there fixes you in a time and in a position relative to the event. This is what the event rendered via documentation doesn’t ever offer. But if this is all that is unique about being there, then perhaps it’s a mere phenomenological nuance that’s far outweighed by the advantages of multi-media, multi-perspectival documentation. Add to that the human realities of your bodily discomforts, limited attention span and fading memory, then what’s the point of sitting out there and seeing it live? The path of salvation for all performance art in this day and age is obvious: you gotta have beer, hot dogs and mosh pits.

]]> By: Christopher http://hyperallergic.com/1431/hyperdocumentation/comment-page-1/#comment-315 Christopher Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:01:53 +0000 http://hyperallergic.com/?p=1431#comment-315 People are just too afraid of forgetting. People are just too afraid of forgetting.

]]> By: Christopher http://hyperallergic.com/1431/hyperdocumentation/comment-page-1/#comment-2157 Christopher Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:01:00 +0000 http://hyperallergic.com/?p=1431#comment-2157 People are just too afraid of forgetting. People are just too afraid of forgetting.

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