Marcel Duchamp is my homeboy.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
Marcel Duchamp





I came to know this man as a respectable fellow oddball who simply made sense to me.
I am delighted that he is considered neccisary curriculum for Cultural Studies


And I strongly identify with his brainwork.
Friend of zee

Avante-Gard

Dadaist
Impressionist
Father of Conceptual Art
Ready-mades

Chess master
Pun player
Punny examples:

His cross-dressing pseudonom:

Rrose Sélavy ("Eros, c'est la vie,")

LHOOQ "Elle a chaud au cul", which translates to "She has a hot ass"

And he just made my brain think.

They say this is the singularly most influencial work of modern art:


My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see"
— Marcel Duchamp


""I don't believe in art. I believe in artists."
— Marcel Duchamp

"I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria."
— Marcel Duchamp

By 1918, the lovely man became a famous chess player.



"I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position. (On giving up art to play chess)"
— Marcel Duchamp






"Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it."
— Marcel Duchamp




Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
— Marcel Duchamp
 
Here is a chess computer game designed to play like Marcel Duchamp.  

"To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing."
— Marcel Duchamp



All you need to know about he and I
Is that he changed the way I think about art
about being a conduit for art
about what art I already made
and he perpetually wanted to change
And I am a fiend for change.

So thanks, Fountain.
You changed my life.

Liz Coleman is my Homeboy.

Once, the president of Bennington College made a speach which greatly improved my life.

Her name is Liz Coleman.

Meet a creation of her instition: The Centre for the Advancement of Public Action

The Box

An Introduction to an Interconnectivist.

I was dubious about choosing a name. But to introduce: I want to say I self-identify as a loving & absurdly social nerd. Though, lots of my nerd qualifiers don't wholly consume me because of of my obscene addiction to people:
I love History, Economics, Biology, Religion, Star Trek, Video games, Cosmology, Inventions, Myths & Legends, Quantum Physics, Art and trying to know everything about everything. I even like to footnote my journals. And the nerdier I try to get about things the more I know I don't know. And also, the more analogous and serendipitous things get. The more life seems to speak in Legends & the morals of those tales.


I don't like the idea of being single-minded or slotted neatly into a box: So I tried to make up my own box of Interconectivism.

I have an aversion to being bad at things, or even disliking things. Though, sometimes pathologically I refuse to think things are gross or to say I am too weak for something. This is especially prominent feature of mine, when it comes to people. When I come across the rare human being that I don't like, can't read or am irritated by I consider it a sassy challenge and try to find their glory. Everyone has meaning, everything (especially those things which you are adverse to) is a teacher.

Since you know not the dimensions of this Interconnectivist box, I shall make it up as I go along and try to decipher the Moral of my own tales and legends.

That being said, and after many requests to share my weird, interdisciplinary nerdiness, digressions & Haligonian happenings: I consider this a social experiment to exercise my (often elusive) coherence & conciseness, and a chance to practice my passionate perspectives and get feedback on the mechanics of my mind. The prominent reason to blog is to use you all as my fact checkers and teachers since I live in my own story. None of us are free from our own delusions, and I am proud to be an imaginative oddball, but I would be of no social use or merit if I didn't get criticized, called out or knew when I captivated once n' awhile. I am not exactly trying to tell a story, I am more trying to make a case for why it feels amazing to be me, and I need you make sure I substantiate the evidence.

This is an introduction to what it might mean to be an Interconnectivist, and what it might mean to be Julia.