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| fig.32.098) on becoming this chicken |
"I think we'd like it to be happier, to turn around and see it settle in. We've had enough of our news made for us today," the Senators sing along. "So let's winnow off into smaller and smaller groups, let's talk about things that break quietly. Let's talk about making ourselves known to one another before we leave here, then we'll talk about sweet rolls and coffee and all of the services they have yet to lend."
The drama, is cold under the stark lights I've stepped into. "Nope, there's nothing in the easy seats I can see tonight!"
"Numerology is like food for the poor, it's just another language of consumption but it only tags those who are in need." Here where the Kringle stays, this is our own tongue. "Now you can say anything you like, we're not done in here. Because the same old numerology informs and shapes us too. It's like wet that we've been bathed in, it's the stuff of it. The end!"
I'm standing in my room surrounded by all of the tote bags that have been left behind by the other. While I know how many are here and they're entered into the computer, they still haven't been tagged or labeled. They're just laying around here in their small boxes waiting as the storm continues to rumble outside. It's how inventory works and it's already started here. So until the following Tuesday, most of the work down here has to cease. But this morning when I arrived, a water delivery that's had me out at the warehouse for two days was still screwed up and is sitting on our dock until next week at least.
A friend of mine recently asked some of us, "I know many of us have experienced this but, explain to me why people get upset when they have to think about art. I have my own theories but, would like to hear others that don’t involve trauma or displaced anger as a basis for the discomfort."
"I think your question might be a bit reductionist," I answered her. "The frustration you're describing isn't unique to art alone. Some here among us have already pointed out, math and ice cream can both produce similar feelings of helplessness or exasperation depending on the person. Making this less likely a problem with your question, rather that the question you've asked is more likely to be a reflection of how confused we get when vouchsafing what art is or what is art."
Institution (the thing that does stuff over leisurely periods of time and quite often there's a conservative or melancholy foreboding seeping out from behind it's science goggles - inextricably you are connected to the thread of history's conceit. Roll twice, then divide by three)
Markets (They cloak objects of little worth in their epistemological snuggy until they're warm agents capable of emulating something that's like validity - from outside others, sometimes named Stevie or Chadlet might prescribe a longer book or a more narrow chute)
So it is that the two of them are conspiring to release their catalog on Tuesday, this will immediately bury us under hundreds of orders needing to be packaged and processed. While I will likely need to be attending to thousands of other items of merchandise simultaneously, this will be happening and I'm going to be bitter about it.
They have yet to account for most of these thousands of pieces of merchandise that will need to be received and stored somewhere by June 5th. So our storage complications result largely from the decision to order our inventory at the front of the show, in theory this is going to reduce our reorders and other complications throughout the summer, it also insures that the vendors are paid out immediately. As a result, many of the complications that are currently developing, they're of a magnitude that's exponentially greater than anyone here has ever experienced before.
Afterwards I'm thinking, "if you're about to build us some benches that in equal measure, rebuke the homeless or the comfort of any idle to suppress their being repurposed by skateboarders, then don't. Let's recognize that where the institution of government accounts for culture, it's often done so as a tool whose only purpose is to obfuscate how the people's finances are to be well and truly purloined. Here in Chicago, at the edge of our own fashion there's a type of program that runs as free as gazelle out on the veldt. These are non profits or 501c3's and they are sometimes able to rummage through coin purse while simultaneously doing some form of mediocre bureaucratic exchange for an interested official. So that if enough of these organizations are linked end to end, they'll start shitting green, like money that is."
I have my doubts about whether anyone here is capable of moving through this, let alone our staff. We're divisive and largely in our positions waiting to fail further upwards. While there are exceptions, it seems to me that too few of us have been hired to do the work we're doing right now. Most of us are seen as temporary permanent, we haven't been encouraged to excel in our positions and certainly not for periods beyond a few years. It's expected that we'll flip to another gig or a better business. So the UmperKunst hasn't invested in additional training or job incentivization because it simply doesn't recognize the importance of horizontal development. Development is too often strategized in terms of bulk people power, we're a UmperKunst in the arts, this strategy almost certainly translates to more interns or low level student workers and part timers. This ultimately leads to bottlenecks when resources or management are not adequately mapped out. The bottlenecks create fiefdoms and the UmperKunst becomes overwhelmed by a bureaucracy that doesn't function to the benefit of the institution or the majority of its staff.
"But I think we want to see something actually happening to the old house. It's not just a curtain, not that you can always just pull it back. You'll need some time to get there instead."
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