Conductor #1 March 15, 1997 PORT: Navigating Digital Culture   ------------------------------------------------------------------   kazu: where are you guys now?? Com_Dark2: yo, mttv, your sound is very sporadic...video also... MT.TV: the audio is at 10 Com_Dark2: that may be your problem mttv...are you going into the red? MT.TV: I don't know my screen on grays Com_Dark2: hey, kazu could you try transmitting some sound? Your video is very smooth Com_Dark3: hello port 1: Are you receiving any sound from PORT? MT.TV: hello conductor: hello new world.... conductor: are we ready to enage? conductor: i see lights flickering in boxes that suggest history. june: i'm ready Com_Dark3: start with chicken MT.TV: no sound from PORT conductor: i will telephone chicken now and ask the questions... port 1: answer the phone chicken.... Com_Dark3: hello Com_Dark3: hello port 1: pleaese, answer... port 1: hello MT.TV: what sort of questions conductor: chicken is not answering... Com_Dark3: thats a bad chicken conductor: what are the questions? port 1: chicken had a hot date last night, did you hear? Com_Dark2: call him again! june: why do you think he didn't answer MT.TV: hello port 1: hello Com_Dark2: why didn't the answering machine pick up? Com_Dark3: what kind of chicken doen't answere their own phone? conductor: june, i am not sure. maybe not enough energy generated via the batteries... june: maybe the chicken was afraid you would ask how she was. MT.TV: we are creating good vibe energy port 1: how is she? conductor: is "how one is" akin to "who one may perceive themselves to be? Com_Dark3: she looks a little plumb from this comdark port conductor: is the chicken's name "name" ? Com_Dark3: "plump" june: isn't that what we answer when we say how we are today? conductor: there is no response today... Com_Dark3: get the phone or else chicken kazu: anser the phone chiken june: is the answering machine not working? june: what is the chicken today? Com_Dark3: chicken dinner conductor: the chicken stays the same. the chicken never changes. the chicken is always chicken. Com_Dark2: Is the chicken busy reading the newspaper? Com_Dark3: all chicken is chicken, chicken feeds the children Com_Dark2: Which children? Com_Dark3: my children conductor: the chicken is concerned with the news and with history. the chicken embraces "sameness" in fear of forgetting... conductor: MT.TV are you the same or are you changing? Com_Dark3: one breast or two Com_Dark2: I am concerned with the same things as the chicken MT.TV: ever changing june: if the chicken fears forgetting, then why would she be concerned with history? wouldn't she be trying to stop it? MT.TV: What is chick's concerns? Com_Dark2: The chicken will soon be history conductor: chicken is concerned with the preservation of information. chicken wants a cohesive history. june: shouldn't the chicken be concerned about KFC fried chicken? if she embraces "sameness" at this point in history, that is death. MT.TV: oral history? port 1: How can chicken perserve her oral history? port 1: Is anyone trcording her? Com_Dark3: all kfc chicken tastes and looks the same, the same as chicken will june: remember that night we got so wasted?; remember that cool party? conductor: the chicken 's lot is worse than death or the mere process of cumulitive oxidation. Com_Dark3: the ckinen remembers histoy Com_Dark3: "history" MT.TV: yes we are recording chicken history conductor: remember the time i called you but you were not home? port 1: I want a tape.... Com_Dark3: yes we are re-ordering chickens history MT.TV: there by to commemorate it port 1: revisionary history.... Com_Dark3: and celebrate the gift of chicken Com_Dark2: ...making chicken history, for all chicken MT.TV: chickstory Com_Dark3: can i take you r order chicken? conductor: remember the ways in which we moved together in another one of our brief stints of illumination? conductor: remember my teeth when they clashed with your teeth? port 1: I remember... port 1: does chicken? conductor: remember the sound of the refrigerator running when everyone else had gone to bed? june: the chicken's lot is worse than death because she is living-sameness. port 1: I want to do the chicken, it is my favoraite dance. june: remember the sound of nothing when you are laying in your warm bed at sunrise? Com_Dark2: 4 weeks ago when this began, there was a chicken in the box. How do we know it is still a chicken? conductor: what do you mean by living sameness? do you remember this from childhood? do you look forward to it in old age? conductor: conductor: this is where i am calling from. Com_Dark2: Is its existance proven by its observation? port 1: Is it the same chicken, is more the question.... conductor: i am getting in touch with chicken again. port 1: how hungery are you? conductor: i am hungry but i am not sure what i am hungry for... Com_Dark3: i am hungry for the chicken port 1: I am becoming the chicken.... Com_Dark3: let us celebrate the end of chicken with the end of chicken june: "living-sameness" is a state of no growth. my childhood was untouched by this state, but it is very influential in the lives of adults. Com_Dark2: I already am the chicken port 1: The music is intocating.... Com_Dark3: i will eat com dark 2 conductor: whay do you wish to end something that is comfort and withstanding sameness? june: conductor, the TEETH Com_Dark2: you and what army Com_Dark3: the army of my chicken loving hords conductor: remember my teeth dear???? Com_Dark2: of which I am one... Com_Dark3: teeth for chicken Com_Dark2: chicken have no teeth june: yup conductor: why kill that which confirms existence? june: i'm not comfortable with death june: conductor: june tell us more about being unresolved... conductor: kazu, do you remember? kazu: remember what? june: to be resolved is to be comfortable with your history conductor: what is your history? june: to be unresolved is to be forever dynamic\ Com_Dark2: my history is the chicken's history conductor: how is dynamic? kazu: how is the chiken's history like? Com_Dark3: chickens are dynamic conductor: com dark, why do you wish to kill a history that you claim? june: comdark2, why do you keep saying things like that? what do you mean that the chicken's history is your history? can you go to that place? june: good question, conductor. port 1: Yes, go to that place.... Com_Dark3: I do not wish to kill I just wish to eat, port 1: be the chicken... port 1: We eat because we are not loved.... Com_Dark3: I said i am the chicken, not that the history is mine port 1: We kill because we are hungry.... Com_Dark3: I love to eat chicken port 1: I kill to love chicken... june: comdark2 said that. conductor: kazu, the chicken has always been chicken. there is not much in the telling of something that is sameness. the chicken has never caused any trouble and like bill burroughs says, "No trouble, no story..." port 1: No I said that... Com_Dark3: I love chickens who kill june: dynamics: crescendos and decrescendos available to the relatively privileged. port 1: Is this chicken privileged to be here? port 1: Ask him? june: perhaps the chicken is not answering today because she wishes to resist his-story. conductor: i will try and telephone chicken again... port 1: Thank you.... Com_Dark2: the chicken is special, the chicken is art conductor: what do you mean june, has the chicken changed and now wishes to resist history? port 1: The chicken is privileged.... Com_Dark2: The chicken's brothers and sisters have already been eaten port 1: Does chicken have a checking account? conductor: chicken has a chicken account. port 1: Is money a worry for chicken? port 1: Can chicken be evicted? port 1: I have so many questions for chicken. conductor: i think money distresses the chicken greatly. i think chicken wants comfort. port 1: Southern Comfort.... MT.TV: Can they be evicted? Com_Dark2: after the performance the chicken will be evicted port 1: Southern Fried Comfort. MT.TV: LOLOLOL port 1: Can chicken appeal? conductor: chicken could be evicted, if only chicken did not pay the bills on time then chicken could feel something... port 1: Is there a chicken court of appeals? MT.TV: Com-Dark 3 looks like chicken has already be had. port 1: Maybe chicken can file for bankrupcy. june: what i mean, conductor, is that perhaps chicken has always had a story but not HISstory conductor: history / herstory? Com_Dark3: herstory maybe, she layed an egg last week june: yes Com_Dark3: are we bankrupt for eating chicken MT.TV: yes we at MTTV agree- it has a CHICKstory Com_Dark3: i am banfrupt from eathinbg chicken port 1: But chicken is HERstory. conductor: only herstory is sameness just as history. predictable egg-laying, a future you can count on. june: of coure the chicken is not gonna have a story when it is defined by the history of wars and death and weapons and nation-states and the powerful port 1: Can chicken count on a future? Com_Dark3: the only future the chicken can count on is a future on my dinner table port 1: Are eggs chickens future.... conductor: chicken wants to believe in a cohesive future. port 1: Will her chicks take care of her in her old age? Com_Dark3: eggs over easy in the future chicken history june: comdark, you are sick. conductor, thanks for bringing us back to the "sameness" issue. conductor: her chicks will be just as she is and so on... definitive. port 1: Tell me about the sameness issue.... conductor: chicken told me last week. we are definitive only in our scatterings. Com_Dark3: her chicks will make high protien shakes for stereriod using muscle men conductor: i remember throwing up as a child in georgia, 1974.... conductor: i remember my mother turning on the faucet water... Com_Dark3: i remember georgia, and the army and the end conductor: i remember the comfort in hearing the sound of the faucet water running... Com_Dark2: was the chicken there? Com_Dark2: was the chicken there? Com_Dark3: is the music like the fauct Com_Dark2: are all memories associated with the chicken? conductor: i remember chicken was muted by the sound of the faucet water (this is in fact before i knew where the faucet water goes...) june: where does the water go? conductor: where do you think it goes? june: you said earlier that we are definitive only through our scatterings? is that a definition of definition? june: conductor: we are only that we are not. conductor: chicken cares only about itself. june: i am confused about this, aren't we all, including the chicken, defined by how we are defined? Com_Dark2: chicken defines us all... port 1: Chicken is concerned about how she is defined.... conductor: to say there is definition of definition is preemtive? port 1: We tell her it doesn't matter, but to no avail. conductor: june, you have unraveled th threads until you are not. conductor: what is left of you when you trace the origins of that faucet water? conductor: i know where the faucet water goes; only i will not go there until my ultimate physical demise an / or grand event of which all my other events attempt to supercede in importance. june: if i attempt to trace back to an origin, i will find nothing, but my experiences are defined by some large system i have no control over. i can't decide that i am scattered. conductor: june, then pretend you are cohesion incarnate. june: was that sarcastic conductor: no. Com_Dark3: new to game of what are we refering too june: why would you recommend something that is apparently against what you have been saying? Com_Dark3: what was recomended? conductor: i mean only to explore and learn to live as an parasitic organism within this larger oraganism. to speak of power and or pre-defined structures could render one ineffective. super structures are ideal for employing the word CIRCUMVENTION and / or SUBVERSION. Com_Dark3: are we parasitic? conductor: how can i contradict myself today when i cannot even get in touch with chicken? if only chicken would answer then i could be cohesive, clean, directed with purpose and knowing samness via eloquent conversation with my own awkward mis-givings... conductor: i am getting in touch with chicken.... Com_Dark3: i wan to get in and touch chicken Com_Dark3: the phone chicken conductor: i need to know where we are going. i feel a little dispersed... conductor: i want to know the future. conductor: 11011100110 Com_Dark3: she is subverting your coercive box for chickens, she will not talk, her future makes her sad conductor: 101101011010 conductor: 101010110 conductor: 000101010 conductor: what is it that makes a chicken sad, or beautiful, or cry, or laugh, or throw up, or remember.... june: kazu: I'm just wondering if it is an accident or a destiny to chiken to be eaten... june: conductory, it seems like no one can answer that question. conductor: there are answers? conductor: kazu, the chicken is a beautiful accident. kazu: beautiful accident? conductor: june, do you remember when we laugh? conductor: yes, car crashes, teeth bashes, and chickens are all beautiful in their contribution to our collective tradgedy. conductor: june, do you remember how we laugh? june: rape/murder/pain/hunger? june: remind me. conductor: june, can you hear us laugh? port 1: where are you conductor: i can tell you how we laugh and everyone may remember... conductor: there was this day way out in november, so far summer couldn't see it. conductor: there was this time when my head bumped your head... Com_Dark3: there is beauty in the destiny of the chicken Com_Dark3: our destiny is inexorably linked toi the chickens Com_Dark3: proteen makes me strong, and nuggets makedme fat, and chicken makes me a carnivore june: i disagree with beauty in destiny, because my mind goes to those whose destiny is completely in other's hands. conductor: we looked at one another laughing and then both of our heads spun completly around and we laughed even harder for the thrill of the fear in such a thing and the potential of our commercial exploits... june: what was there to fear? conductor: we feared via our new found supernatural powers that we might indeed live forever... conductor: the resistor has been closed out of the reflector. MT.TV: When we were gone-We feared for the chick Com_Dark2: without the chicken we are incomplete port 1: Most people are incomplete without their chicken. MT.TV: Yes we can not see chick and feel a sence of loss Com_Dark2: com_dark3 has given its life for the chicken Com_Dark2: its vitual life that is port 1: That's ok, the next show is coming up.... MT.TV: Kazu-can you see chick? kazu: yes, in my mind. documenta: tonight I will eat chicken port 1: We still fell the spirit of chicken... port 1: Chicken is Back.... port 1: chicken is back..... MT.TV: AND THIS TIME IT MEANS BUSINESS conductor: it is late in the century. it is 3:48PM in the eastern time zone of the united states of america. my mother's name is gloria. i have a long way to go. i am moving. Com_Dark2: with 10 minutes left what can we learn from the chicken? conductor: i am not sure if we got in touc