first biography notes

Much of what could be biographical can be found in the text called talking. The rest can be the antithesis of my case against scholarship, exhibitions and post deschooling badges.

It does involve what Lacanian analysts call jouissance.

I could say something about work begun on a new text that fixes a moment between what Lacan calls lalangue and unspeakable fantasy.

Or say something about dehydration and feeling light headed sometimes after radiotherapy and surgery.

I'll add a digital still in the meantime...

(8 August 2022)

Christopher Sands, video still, 23 January 2021

There’s a book size text (called talking), notes and video, but a problem prevails. It constitutes a demand (in a psychoanalytic sense).

Having been (somehow) in the art world and I'm still in analysis, I plan moving back in the direction of imaginary worlds. And beyond trajectories that are the antithesis of deschooling notions, there is what Lacanians name the One-all-alone and there is no obvious way from one place to the other. But stripped of bodily jouissance and sometimes long dead, artists, writers, videographers etc. talk to each other.

It's surprising conversation

and I'm putting in for a transfer!

I anticipate transferring from one discourse, or the discourse of psychoanalysis, to the sometimes long distance gaze. It's what I see or hear and there's reference to something like time travel or communication less troubled by jouissance.

It may seem far fetched, but there are sets and exceptions and the discourse of psychoanalysis prompts more than talking too much.

(8.8.2022)

Christopher Sands, Ruth, 23 February 2014