Plaza of Nations 1
As with automatic writing, the constraints of the task reminded me of Oulipo, or the cut-up methods explored by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin. I had fun “conjuring up ugly spirits” like some cosmic Beavis or Butt-Head, perhaps in some whimsica
To mirror the feebly ambitious qualities of corporate jargon we chanted at store rallies, I decided to set the show of words amongst the ruins of Expo ‘86 at the Plaza of Nations as a critique of Vancouver’s use of dubious ‘fairground attractions’
Plaza of Nations 2
Someone engaging/enraging/dangerous
Hits a nerve; Pigs in deep shit
Cruel stupid people
Missing middle
Violent mobs/Elite monsters; A cool dystopia; Arrest that pervert
Seen/Unseen
You poor loser; Gold mine
God
Sob story
Digital divisive
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