Wanna Be a Rider (Notes on Parasite Joy)
Birrell, Ross (2018) Wanna Be a Rider (Notes on Parasite Joy). In: The Parliament of Bodies: The Strategy of Joy, 8-10 Sept 2018, Fridericianum, Friedrichsplatz 18, Kassel.
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Creators/Authors: | Birrell, Ross |
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Abstract: | Wanna Be a Rider (Notes on Parasite Joy) was a talk and screening presented at The Parliament of Bodies: The Strategy of Joy, Fridericianum, Kassel, 8-10 Sept 2018. The Parliament of Bodies: The Strategy of Joy This artist's talk consisted of an initial reflection upon rausch (intoxication) as a frame for approaching the theme of mingled bodies in the related works of The Athens-Kassel Ride: The Transit of Hermes, Criollo and the related publication, The Parasite. The presentation began with a short screening of previously unseen moving image work by Birrell, Glenn/Glenn (I) (2016). This work consists of a silent film collage of Glenn Gould performing Bach's 'Art of Fugue: Contrapunctus 1' edited from the 1959 Canadian TV documentary 'Glenn Gould On & Off the Record' (Dir. Wolf Koenig & Roman Kroitor). Gould is performing Bach's Art of Fugue: Contrapunctus 1 at his home in Uptergrove, north of Toronto, Canada. Gould's performance embodies a form of an trance-like rapture in the intoxication of music - what Nietzsche called 'Rausch' - intensified in the hallucinatory effect of a silent layering and mirroring of the edited work. This reflection on intoxication and superimposition framed a consideration of the 'mingled body' in the philosophy of Michel Serres, a key reference point in the development of the Transit of Hermes. The title of the talk is a reference to Werner Herzog's film, The Enigma of Kasper Hauser(1974) and the final chapter of Michel Serres', The Five Senses (2008). The talked concluded with a reading of the role of the parasite in Andrzej Żuławski's film, The Third Part of the Night (1971) in relation to the series of works commissioned for documenta 14, including Criollo, Fugue and the then forthcoming publication, The Parasite. |
Official URL: | https://www.documenta14.de/en/calendar/24986/the-strategy-of-joy |
Output Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture) |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | documenta 14 |
Schools and Departments: | School of Fine Art > Fine Art Critical Studies |
Date: | 10 September 2018 |
Funders: | documenta 14 |
Event Title: | The Parliament of Bodies: The Strategy of Joy |
Event Location: | Fridericianum, Friedrichsplatz 18, Kassel |
Event Dates: | 8-10 Sept 2018 |
Projects: | The Transit of Hermes, The Athens-Kassel Ride, Criollo, The Parasite |
Output ID: | 7401 |
Deposited By: | Ross Birrell |
Deposited On: | 31 Jul 2020 15:57 |
Last Modified: | 31 Jul 2020 15:57 |