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Approximate L

Sunday, October 5, 2008

L(i/y)nds(a/e)y all let out

Approximate L: 1st chapter/1st draft
w/Lindsay Benedict, Lindsey Boldt, Lindsay Kaplan, Lindsay Kennedy, Lyndsey MacKenzie & Lindsay Powell
(Clinton Corner Cafe, Tangent Reading Series, 10/4/08)







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whom is the speaking:

Bethany Ides:
bethany[dot]ides[at]gmail

flitted fleet of:

  • ►  2009 (24)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  May (5)
    • ►  April (6)
    • ►  March (3)
    • ►  February (2)
    • ►  January (7)
  • ▼  2008 (7)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ▼  October (3)
      • but some sup before sleep
      • L(i/y)nds(a/e)y all let out
      • memory; disguise, disuse
    • ►  August (2)

consortium corroborare:

  • An Approximate L1
  • Cosa Nostra Editions
  • DIVA (Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts)
  • Festival (Lindsay Powell)
  • Gallery 1412
  • Gallery Homeland
  • HUB Collective - Lindsey Hammond
  • Jeffrey ("Lindersei") T. Baker
  • Lectures w/ Lindsay (Benedict)
  • Lindsay Benedict (work/images)
  • Lindsay C. Chamberlain
  • Lindsay De Armond
  • Lindsay Family Crest
  • Lindsay Hill
  • Lindsay Page
  • Lindsey Boldt
  • Lindsey: a planned community
  • Lyndsey MacKenzie
  • Performance Works NW
  • Regional Arts & Culture Council
  • the Tangent Reading Series
  • Worksound Gallery
 

~ Becoming What ~

Based on a sci-fi-leaning prose poem, Approximate L begins with a semi-identifiable or somewhat mundane substance (the name, Lindsay) and, through methodical examination, renders it utterly elusive, alien and non-referential.

Working with as many participants who share (variant spellings) of the name, Approx investigates the poetics of the proper name as vessel, that which invokes something larger than itself while manifesting itself as particular, autonomous form. As an obsessive gesture toward the improbably absolute, Approx seeks to configure the spectrum (& specter?) of L[indsay]-ness in the site of the gallery using media that relies on spatial alterity: text, recorded sound, video, appropriated & transitional material, and actual visual work created by professional artists named L[indsay] shipped in from other time zones.

or, as if elucidatively, begins from within:

  • from whence, formerly / is now, clearly
  • Bethany Ides