Wednesday, April 8, 2009

HI!

Hello, I think it would nice to see everybody's project description, do yous? Well, here's what were doing

would WE like to try this?
For the Performing Economies exhibition, we will implement revisions of the English language inside the FOCA gallery space There we will converse with visitors utilizing the restructured language, explaing the project and inviting attendees to participate. The first basic revisions are the deletion of verb command forms ( "(You) Go to the store" becomes "Will you go to the store?"), all possessives ("His art piece" becomes "the art piece"), and all pronouns except for the first person plural and "it" ("Will you go to the store" becomes "Will we go to the store?"). The newly applied rules promote a mindset continually considerate of the gathering as a whole, a singular individual as a part of a united group. The deletion of command forms forces the demands of the speaker to be resolved within the immediate community ("Grab me a beer" becomes the more sensitive, imploring "Could we get another beer?"). Every moment of speech thereby becomes influential on the group as a whole, creating, if only for a moment, a language mandating more awareness of one's position and its impositions on the surrounding community