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‘Heads will roll’ is the executioner’s grisly promise. The executioner’s house in Venice portrays a disembodied head – a catalyst for an image of a head rolling across the ground. But a rolling head still has some momentum. And a body with a head can also roll. Rolling is a form of travel that confuses …

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couldn’t upload audio here so have done on another blog… See this link, it also has the didactic description posted in the room on the day:

arte in corso

1. Rolling 2. Falling 3. Claiming/clinging/clutching

Dario and I had our first day trying to make something. We walked to Calle De La Testa (close to Pallazo Bembo) and checked out the street. It’s a local neighbourhood…not tourist territory. In the small plaza in front of the head on the wall, we filmed some material – my head turning along the …

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“Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

The executioner’s blade/the editor’s cut Film as thin coating of something (a skin) – a film of dust or dried up silt after the water is gone. The meaning of ‘film’ “to make a movie of” is from 1899 – what happened in Venice (a death? And execution?) that corresponds? no prizes for paintings were …

Continue reading “Venetian Blind – response to provocation – Rose”

The city requires sacrifice. — “She says it’s like a city in aspic . . . left over from a dinner party, and all the guests are dead and gone. It frightens her. Too many shadows.” Heather, the blind psychic

Blind psychic from Don’t Look Now, seen on bus home from Venice today