Elaine Claire M.

Villacorta

HIGH FIVES & NEIL YOUNG FOR THE ROAD:

LYNDA BARRYS

WRITING THE UNTHINKABLE

AS ESTHETIC EXPERIENCE

HIGH FIVES AND NEIL YOUNG FOR THE ROAD

1. How the dynamic structure of Neil Youngs Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is experienced sentiently, with music as significant form. 2. How Lynda Barry situates experience in her prescribed creative process, Writing The Unthinkable, with comparisons to Deweys doing and undergoing in arriving at an esthetic experience. 3. How the work is perceived by the viewer/s.

THE MUSIC

On words being swallowed by music

song is musicThe principles of music govern its form no matter what materials it uses Susanne Langer, Feeling and Form

My annihilation of Everybody Knows

From Siops the Dog's intense liking of a murder ballad ("Down By the River") which would resound in an analogy of his fate; the grave apology from Siops in the afterlife ("Running Dry"); a merry-go-round of unhealed wounds and imagined duet of a conversation ("Round and Round"); the things we do for the love of a sick dog ("The Losing End")

THE IMAGE

HANDWRITING AS A PHYSICAL ACT

"There is a state of mind which is not accessible by thinking. It seems to require a participation with something. Something physical we move like a pen, like a pencil, something which is in motion." Barry makes a justification for a highly personalized process: "Handwriting is an image left by a living being in motion. It cannot be duplicated in time or space. Only by being in motion can you know about it."

BODY IN MOTION AS DOING OR MAKING

According to Dewey, Every art does something with physical material, the body or something outside the body, with or without the use of intervening tools, and with a view of production of something visible, audible, or tangible.

The way Dewey also describes an experience being an experience is that whatever form the art takes on, it unites the very same relation of doing and undergoing, outgoing and incoming energy

THE PROCESS

TWO QUESTIONS

1. Is this good? 2. Does this suck?

DO NOT BE HELD HOSTAGE BY THEM!