Treatise on the Current State of Painting

Musings on the Current State of NOTACHOREOGRAM by Travis Wyche

The following is a selection of recent writing/concrete poetry/rantings from Travis Wyche. More can be found at his site: www.traviswyche.com

NOTACHOREOGRAM FURTHER ARTICULATED AND REFINED

A list of artistic motivations (to be differentiated from influences or inspirations):

· To create images, objects, and experiences of an auto-referential, self-reflexive, and transparent nature, as a critical component to the process and product of art making being intrinsically integrated.

· To craft an art that generates more questions than attempts to provide answers.

· To insist upon an a priori artist-inflicted intentionality to any artistic practice. Indeterminism and chance exist outside of the artist, that is, a decision still must be made to allow for the functioning of such an idea within a work.

· To research and refine involvements in synergetic formalisms; to continue to articulate the complex interdiscursivity of ontological architectures of every epistemology.

· To perpetually propose a renewed phenomenology of consciousness via perception of pattern-phenomena (and patterns within phenomena) in all material (objects of systematic reflection and analysis in any “form,” of any substance).

· To have the research culminate into a novel design aesthetic to phenomenologically disseminate content; “media is the message,” “art is life,”  “energy is a wave,” (etc).

NOTACHOREOGRAM

· Studies the interrelations, interactions, interlacings,  interdependencies, and intrapsychic opportunities fluxing dynamic ad infinitum in the areas of sound, movement, writing, and thought (etc).

· Offers an intermedia collaborative arena.

· Exists as an experimental experiential exercise.

· Aims to conceive and enact modes of thought and physical action to further broaden and articulate the network of associations between topics of study, methodologies, materials, mediums and modes of transference.

· Envisions a compositional study of time, space, and force.

· Attempts to apply these primary principles towards the creation of novel notational formalisms and approaches to instrumentation and performative styles.

· Explores the interstices of movement (human, natural, mechanical, and otherwise) between sound, film, and other performative actions in space.

· Studies these correlations to movement of the eye over 2D visual images, in relation to written and spoken language, and other phenomena.

· Creates new languages (modes of transference) between the media/material utilized, the composer/choreographer/writer/artist/being, and the audience at large.

· Will apply and present the research and results of such experiments through myriad materials, including but not limited to: sound recordings and music on various media, books, pamphlets, zines, leaflets, broadsides, manifestos, essays on the phenomenology of sense perception and the physics of sound, novel instrumentation and styles, novel movements and corresponding notation, unique site/event specific intermedia performances of various scale, unique works of mixed-media, multimedia, and intermedia art works to exist in isolation as well as in relation to each other and other outlets, published research on studies of gestured emotion, physicalized psychology, intrapsychic mobilitiy, extrasensory perception, cognitive motion awareness, and the malleability between the human body, artistic media, and the epistemologies of time, space, and force within the universe as we have, will, and do perceive and analyze it.

A PROPOSAL FOR CONTRIBUTION

This is the original text that was sent out to 10 individuals in April of 2009 to garner interest in the project.

A PROPOSAL FOR    PARTICIPATION

YOU ARE BEING SAUGHT OUT    TO PUT IN

TO BE PUT INTO    TO PLACE YOUR     MOVEMENTS

WITHIN AN ELLIPTICAL     DIALOGUE WITH OTHER GREAT MINDS

CONCERNING THE CURRENT STATE OF CERTAIN THINGS INTRINSIC TO REALITY

SOUND

MOVEMENT

REPRESENTATION

LANGUAGE

CONTENT

FORM

LIFE

THIS IS A DOCUMENT A FORM-AL THAT SERVES MULTIFARIOUS RESOLVE

AS A FORM IT INTENDS TO BE FILLED    OUT

PLEASE APPLY A MILIEU OF IDEAS IN THE ((((SPACE)))) PROVIDED

OF THOSE ABOVE

| AS WELL AS |   THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS

A UNIFIED MUSICAL NOTATION<CHOREOGRAPHIC FORMALISM<LINGUISTIC ICONOGRAPHY<REPRESENTATION OF PRIMARY ORGANIC MOVEMENT

HOW MIGHT WE COLLABORATE UPON AN AMBITIOUS WORK OF A MULTIDISCIPLINARY NATURE: CREATE MUSIC, CORESPONDING NOTATION, LINGUISTIC METHODOLOGIES USED TO PRY WRITTEN FORM, SOUND-MOVEMENT-IMAGE ||TIME||

THIS DOCUMENT IS ACCOMPANIED BY 5 IMAGES, CREATED BY TRAVIS WYCHE ON APRIL 2ND 2009 FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF COMMUNICATING THIS PROPOSAL TO YOU AND SAID GROUP

THIS IS THE PROPOSAL

IT ALSO INCLUDES A COLLECTION OF WORDS    WRITINGS BY OTHERS   CONCERN

ING MANIFESTING    MINDS EYE IMAGE   IDEAS CIRCULATING WITHIN    THE  END

PROBABLITY CLOUD OF SUCH A PROJECT

ALL INCLUDED DOCUMENTS  RE PRESENT  THE INFLUENCES AND  AS PIRATIONS

OF TRAVIS  WYCHE  IN  CON   DUCT   ING  SUCH AN ENDEAVOR   AND DOES NOT

AMOUNT TO   A LIMIT OF  FOCUS FOR FURTHUR CONTRIBUTION

AND SHIFTING OF COURSE OFF COURSE

BY YOU OR ANY ONE ELSE

THIS PROJECT WILL BEGIN WITH THIS FIRST CONTRIBUTION BEING REVIEWED AND

RESPONDED TO   HOW   EVER   YOU   SEE   FIT

THIS PROJECT WILL CULMINATE  IN  AN  EXHIBITION PERTAINING TO THE RESULTS

UNEARTHED  IN THE COLLABO RATIVE EXPERI ENCE

THIS SERIES OF DOCUMENTS HAS BEEN SENT TO YOU YOU HAVE BEEN SELECTED

IT HAS ALSO BEEN SENT TO 10+ OTHER INDIVIDUALS

OF VARIOUS BACK GROUNDS INCLUDING   SOUND  AUDIO  PAINTING  LETTERS

WORDS   LIGHT   ELECTRONICS   FEEDBACK   SYNTHESIS  WAVES  HEAD OF HAIR

ALL CORRESPONDANCE WILL [AT FIRST] BE CARRIED OUT THROUGH DIALOGUE

MAIL EXCHANGED WITH TRAVIS WYCHE

IF   AND    WHEN    A   DIALOGUE BEGINS TO FORM    IT SHALL BE RELEASED  INTO

THE CHRYSANTHEMUM CORPUS FOR    FURTHUR CONSIDERATION AND ORCHESTRATION

OF INTEGRAL ELEMENTS GRAINS SALTS   SEAS SEIZE

CONDENSATION

ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS SHOULD BE TRANSLATED INTO WRITTEN, VISUAL, AURAL, LINGUISTIC, OR OTHER RELATED MEDIA AND SENT TO TRAVIS WYCHE FOR IMMEDIATE RECIPROCATION

ONE      LAST     THING

IF FOR ANY REASON YOU DO     NOT      WISH TO PARTICIPATE YOU HAVE PERMISSION TO RELAY PARLAY DELAY [EXTEND] THIS EXCLUSIVE INVITATION TO

ONE OTHER OR TWO OTHER INDIVIDUALS ACTING AS ONE OTHER PERSON

IF YOU BELIEVE THEY HAVE INTEREST AND CAPACITY TO RELISH IN SUCH AN ORDEAL

VINEGAR AND MUSTARD WITHSTANDING

THIS IS A PROPOSAL

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