from pastelegram.org, June 2011 – April 2014
100 Titles for a Project
I had an idea for a project about a thing I had a hard time describing. It had something to do with the collective work created by the Internet, the pool of information that millions author, consume and then absorb into other projects.
Internet production is so vast and varied that it is near-impossible to characterize. My problem was to find a form for the Internet, to visually describe this information pool. If the Internet has a form that describes it, maybe it looks like these collections, of everything you've ever encountered or thought to make:
Installation view of Maurizio Cattelan: All, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, November 4, 2011 - January 22, 2012; Photo: David Heald; © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Job Koelewijn, Untitled (Lemniscate), 2006; wood, books; 125 x 780 x 240 cm; photo: Erik van den Boom; image courtesy Galerie Fons Welters.
Then I began thinking about this thing's insides. So much of my own life happens in and around the Internet that I wonder how much of myself I leave behind and how much reflects back into my own life, if anything.
A black hole.
As I continued trying to visualize my ideas for Width and Against, I discussed them with Pastelegram editors S.E. Smith and Ariel Evans. Smith suggested she write a hundred titles for this future (now present) project. They are titles with or without underlying meaning. They point to a reality; but maybe what that reality is, isn’t clear.
Here are the titles. A few titles inspired memories of images I've taken or things I've seen that I think about a lot. I think that the process is similar to my process for Artificial Emotional Spectrometer; where I began with a word—“Internet”—or description, and tried to create art out of what might lie below that description.
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100 Titles
Anxiety of Arc
A Pregnancy of Thought
Marriage Austerity
My Basketball Team Is Called Dementia Reflex
America B.C.
Universal Casket
A Gestural Comedy
Idyllic Surface
Harps with It Inside It
Grand Shocks Of
Gem Gutter
Helen Lives in an Ossuary
Blood Nude
Touch Tank
Cerebration Pigs
The Heroes Were Curious
Congratulations
Foundry Butt
Mom Life
Plastic Riddles
The In Between Two Deaths
Placate a Dog
Prairies Under Blond, Shiftless Skies
My Head Is Full of Shit
Jocular Garnish
Hyper Crystal Lake
All the People Who Want To Kiss You in a Room
Talking About Angels Re: Do They Exist?
Son Your Head Is a Bag of Snakes
Idea Anvil
Joad Called
Spring's Insensate Machinery
Glass Idiot Heads
Mutt Stuff
Indelicate Moments
Falling in Love for the First Time
Blue Maples
Matrix Case
J'accuse Tony
Woodworking Tome Left Behind
In an Avid Tone
Men Moved to Contrition
Them What That Did Die Did Die
Master of Universe
The Evilists
Embattled By No Means Cowed
A Little Closer to the Edge, My Love
Lesser Funerals of the Borgias
Frantic Bass
I Want the Thing We Have
Virgin in a Cult
The Child Archipelago
Two Blue Worlds of Roughly Equal Size
Cataleptic Sophie Is a Dragon
Vincit Omnia Veritas
Christ Is Still Talking
The Swedish Army
Duke with a Wound
A Cartesian God
Growth Spurt!
Eulogy for the Beautiful Youths
'Yes,' She Muttered Darkly
Boner Aspect
Romeo for Mayor
What Wondrous Love Is This?
Take Pills for It
Parade After Parade Ends with a Parade
Angle of Jilt
Grease Everywhere Even Inside
Gut Proof Stoner
Berries Grouped in Fours
And Thus the Abject
Sever Festival 2012
Hi Blue Eyes in Your Head
Some Blind Planet
The Evil Old
I'm Not Your Telling Horse
Girl Gets Sucked Into a Tornado While She Says,
'Oh, Wow'
Regarding Apes
Ideal Apes
The Gyre
Swum Down Then the Doubting Sailor
Asked To Swill
Black Jazz
Wind Redolent of Poppies
Farce Apparition
Autobiography of Roe
Vengeance Is Mine Saith All Assembled
Old Song Sung by Many
This article is part of “Width and Against” by Kristina Felix. Other parts of this project include:
Artificial Emotional Spectrometer by Kristina Felix
An interview with Kristina Felix
Bodies of water: a lyric circle by Anne Marie Rooney
And our editor’s statement