TYKO SAY
[ installation : This Happened Yet It Is Happening ]
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This Happened Yet It Is Happening
(June 25, 2022; Prague, Czech Republic)Tyko Say walks through Prague with his TV and a marquee text which read "This happened yet is happening".
The idea for the performance and installation was to promote language—and thus poetry—as a procedural entity, rather than a static form.
The text, when placed in separate spaces, assumed different meanings. The language happened, though the formation of its meaning is continuous--dependent on both the reader and context to provide meaning.
// / WHY IS THIS PRETENTIOUS OR IS IT / INTERPRET THIS LANGUAGE THE WAY YOU ARE DOING SO ALREADY / PRODUCER REQUIRES RECEIVER / PRODUCTION REQUIRES CONVENTION OF PRODUCT / INPUT MUST BE RECOGNIZED AS INPUT FOR INPUT TO BECOME INTAKE / PRODUCT REQUIRES VALIDATION / VALIDATION REQUIRES CONVENTION / CONVENTION IN ART CANNOT EXIST / WORDS MAKE UP THE SENTENCE , EACH ONE DIFFERENT / RECEIVERS MAKE UP THE MEANING , EACH ONE DIFFERENT / BAD WORDS ARE GOOD WORDS AS ALL ARE ( BAD WORDS ) / THE DICTIONARY IS INTERPRETATION OF THE PAST AND PREDICTION OF THE FUTURE / WHOSE INTERPRETATION ? / WHOSE PREDICTION ? / LANGUAGE HAPPENED , YET CONTINUES TO / KNOWLEDGE IS PROCEDURAL NOT STATIC / POETRY REMAINS AT LARGE / FORMALIZING CONVENTION DISREGARDS INTERPRETATION , CULTURE / IF ART DOES NOT EXIST WHAT ARE WE TAUGHT IN SCHOOL ? / WHOSE PAST ? / WHOSE FUTURE ? / WE WATCH THE TV BUT DO NOT LOOK AT IT / WE READ THE TEXT BUT DO NOT LOOK AT IT / WE GO TO THE POETRY READING BUT DO NOT LOOK AT IT / THE RIVER IS NEVER THE SAME , SO WHY DO WE STILL CALL IT A RIVER ? / ‘’THE BEST POETRY’’ REQUIRES SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF POETRY / THE ‘’BEST LANGUAGE’’ REQUIRES SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF LANGUAGE / SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF LANGUAGE REQUIRES SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF WORLD / WHOSE WORLD ? / “DEFINE : POETRY” REQUIRES STATIC INPUT OF “POETRY” / AT THE IMPLICATION ( AND INDICATION ) OF WHOSE CULTURE ( S ) IS THE PUBLIC CANON ? /
“ART” “APPEARS” “TO BE” FOR “ARTISTS” , “POETRY” FOR “POETS” / FEED THE SEED / FIRE THE CANON / THE “ARTIST” AND “POET” DOES NOT EXIST OUTSIDE OF THE EGO / LANGUAGE MAY NOT BE VALIDATED AS POETRY IF IT DOES NOT DEMONSTRATE CONVENTION , FIRE FROM CANON / OR WORSE — INPUT MAY NOT BECOME INTAKE / THE CODE PRODUCED THEN , REMAINS AT THAT / CODE / WE CAN ONLY RECEIVE ART / WE CANNOT NOT PRODUCE ART / WE KNOW THIS BECAUSE THE POEM CAN BE READ IN TWO SEPARATE SPACES AND HAVE TWO SEPARATE MEANINGS / QUANTUM SUPERPOSITION / THE PRODUCER CAN ALSO BE THE RECEIVER , THOUGH EACH ARE SEPARATE AGENTS / QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT / WHO WROTE IN YOUR DIARY 10 YEARS AGO ? / NOT YOU / BUT YOU TEN YEARS AGO / ALL PRODUCTION IS SUBJECTED TO RECEPTION / ALL RECEPTION IS SUBJECTED TO TIME , SPACE / THE WORD ‘’RIVER’’ NEVER ADDRESSES THE SAME RIVER TWICE / WHO YOU WERE YESTERDAY IS WHO YOU WERE YESTERDAY NOT TODAY / LANGUAGE IS THE SAME / PRODUCTION OF A TEXT REQUIRES RECEPTION / RECEPTION REQUIRES CONTEXT / CONTEXT IS DEPENDENT ON TIME , SPACE / CONVENTION AND THE MISREPRESENTATION OF IT IS BOTH CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE TO ITS INNOVATION / NO MORE ASKING THE PRODUCER WHAT IT MEANS / THE RECEIVER IS THE ARTIST, THE POET.
WHAT IS YOUR INSPIRATION FOR THIS PIECE ?
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YOU HAVE CREATED ITS MEANING.
︎ Seen in
November 2022 Issue (South Flordia Poetry Journal)
Terrain 13 (Terrain festival ; Spokane, Washington)
HYB4 Čítárna: Poetronika ! (Kampus Hybernska)