Return-Path: Received: from [10.0.1.2] (host62-6-122-81.host.btclick.com [62.6.122.81]) by moot.vx-labs.org (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA29611 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:47:43 GMT User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:48:16 +0000 Subject: www.ordure.org From: Stuart Brisley To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="MS_Mac_OE_3067861696_278082_MIME_Part" X-GreenFlg: 00000240 > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --MS_Mac_OE_3067861696_278082_MIME_Part Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi Ade I hope the following is clear to you. Let me know. Stuart This is what I think should happen to www.ordure.org apart from anything else. As we agreed on the18th of March all new materials should go straight into the dump. They could then be used in www. ordure.org, if and when. There needs to be a re-insertion of the introduction headed above by the dual image of dust, as a semi-permanent statement. It might be modified from time to time but should offer a view of what the website is concerned with, so the two images should be followed by: OrdureAbfall Curation R Y Sirb The Chamber Twentieth Century Dictionary defines ordure as: '.....n. dirt: dung: excrement: anything unclean (fig).--adj. ordurous. (Fr.,--O. ord, foul--L. horridus, rough.) Other definitions follow. There are categories of ordure which are common, shit for example. The subject proliferates: What are the parameters of ordure? And what is virtual ordure? What is a virtual pile of rubbish? Anything unclean Beginning with the most basic human endeavours we come quickly to the point of excrement; as all that which is regularly voided from the body. Survival is dependent on the ingestion of material sustenance, food, (although there are claims that it is possible to live on air), and it's intimately connected discharge of waste materials. Shit has been relegated, and tabooed. Since Thomas Crapper's invention of the water closet in the nineteenth century we deposit stools into water which are then immediately flushed away. We hardly glimpse at or have any contact with what we produce, and are conditioned to regard it as extraneous and noxious. It tends to smell offensively because the management of the human body is often perfunctory and casual. This in itself is a subject for consideration. To what extent is the body knowingly polluted? And why? Is the body polluted also by fetishised engagements with mental and physical hygiene? Can the 'body politic' ever be anything other than a polluted body? Is art a form of pollution? Ordure is an ever present shadow signifying to all that is deemed unworthy. Unwanted, discarded debris induces choking urbanisations, smearing land and urban scapes alike. It thrives in the sway of the brutalising exploitation of natural materials and processes usually dealt with elsewhere, (where labour markets are cheap). The interchange is filled with abrasions, natural disasters, and human sacrifices. The world as a rubbish dump. Aesthetics profits from such profilgacy. The toxicity of innumerable amplified voices inhabits the ether (aether). Bad breath. Rosse Yael Sirb Cassell's German - English Dictionary Abfall (apfal), m. (--s, pl. -e) scrap, remnant; secession, (pl.) waste, refuse. Rubbish ('rabish), s. der Abfall, Mist; (fig) der Schund (book), der Unsinn (nonsense) Mist (mist), m. (--es, no pl.) dung, manure, muck; (fig.) rubbiSchund (shunt), m. (--(e)s, no pl.) trash. For the purposes of Ordure Abfall the word secession does not appear to be relevant and has been designated as ordure. (I regard the above as a first statement of the subject ordure to head the website.) The term secession should be put in the dump. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ Under the category to be made entitled R Y Sirb I should like to have the biographical texts laid out in chronological order as follows:- Notes on Rosse yael Sirb Sept 2000 by Stuart Brisley The viable world of R Y Sirb Sept 14 - 25th 2000 Stuart Brisley Talking hygiene Dresden Dec 2000 Stuart Brisley In The Viable world of R Y Sirb it would be better to retain the photos but to have them without the selected art works taken out, as this belongs to image::copy.cqi. I have got the originals somewhere and will hunt them out. And also to have the snap shot from Munchberg at the end as you have done it. That image now under image:: rys.ipq should go to the dump ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- Under a new category Curations by R Y Sirb and under the subtititle: Stuart Brisley in association with Ade Ward Dust,html....................Ade Ward Image:copy adrian@ordure.org Ade Ward These two pieces should be in the new curated section ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ The imags from Gallery 291 + text Talking Hygiene Dresden Dec 2000 Stuart Brisley, should go into the dump , and needs a short explanation. It could come into Sirb`s section when we have a relevant category. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ --MS_Mac_OE_3067861696_278082_MIME_Part Content-type: application/applefile; name="Insert Text File..." 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