Phil, Truro, 31
posted by murmurists at 11:50 pm
Thursday, July 27, 2006
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Anthony Donovan is an artist, musician, composer, improviser and writer based in England. He works solo, either as Murmurists or under his own name, and is associated with projects such as Destroyevsky, Ou_pi Golgotha.undead, Spidey Agutter and the.clinamen. An ardent collaborator, he has worked with the likes of John Zorn, Jochen Arbeit, Geoff Leigh, PAS, Steve Beresford and Damo Suzuki. Donovan co-curates the respected labels Classwar Karaoke and suRRism-Phonoethics with Jaan Patterson. His interests are all either obscure or opaque, but morally authentic.
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Here Abouts
- Paulette, Poole, 51, willing to relocate, seeks li...
- Chris & Monica, Wrexham
- little stand
- Julia, Watford, 27
- headbagger
- Jonathan, Braintree, 31
- pissmop
- trots
- Alison, Sunderland, 26
- teabagger
4 Comments:
It's another case of erotic blur - how it works is a mystery to me, but there's definitely a process bubbling away. Wof the focus sharpened and it really was a Phil?
Well, as Joe E. Brown says in 'Some Like It Hot' - nobody's perfect.
It's the leg stance again - I've been saying it for years, leg stance is of maximum importance.
I think - perhaps - the blur works to affect a vouyeristic feel... All looking is essentially vouyeristic, I would say. Though males are charged with a peculiarly preditory gaze (that Barbara Kruger image: 'Your Gaze Hits the Side of my Face' and all...), it affects and burdens us all, I believe. Vouyerism, as opposed to simple looking, suggests a set of intentions and is uncritically assumed to be malign in some way: a peeping tom, etc. The blur is a net-curtain, too; some old lady, peeping similarly. These are sterotypes. The gender of the gazer doesn't change the object peeped upon, however; yet the way in which each type of peeping is unpacked culturally is different, genderised. This difference indicates things and is loaded with meaning. It needs some refuting, I think! As a male, I might be thinking about sex every 6 seconds, or whatever it is! But one can just look at beautiful objects for beauty's sake.
That is to say, one can look at objects with an assumption of their beauty. As you say, Anthony, one wipes one's eyes - the image sharpens - one was expecting and reacting to Phillipa but, when the fog, lifts, it's Phil, 31, from Truro! Like a version of that cliched fumbling encounter on the back seat of some car in the dark, between a man and a ladyman: man reaches down toward the money, fumbles on something he hadn't bargained for.
Yes, there's the assumption the male gaze has to be one of violence, which may not be the case.
I am fully aware of a large voyeuristic streak in my character ... probably why I took up film studies.
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