Sex, drugs and housework

• To: maryanne-list@futuresonic.com
• Subject: Sex, drugs and housework
• From: drew <drew@futuresonic.com>
• Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 22:26:27 +0100

Maryanne wrote:
often the isolated art installation is not created as a compelling,
transformative experience! There may be a real appreciable lack of
"presence" in this world, so that people have little to respond or interact
with. Experience is abstract, synaptic modulations totally weak!

Drew replies:

Dear Maryanne,
As your work has influenced the way this project has been devised, it is
particularly interesting to hear your perspective on the relationship
between clubs and art installations. In Alan Licht's review of your work in
The Wire (March 99), you mention that you miss the way that people would
have fun and make out during your performances, while Alan describes your
work as "ecstatic and celebratory". For me, sound spaces are most
interesting when they are also social spaces, when the music is as easy to
listen to as ignore, for when it becomes a backcloth to whatever else
people are doing (sex, drugs or housework) then it can make subliminal
connections with peoples lives which are far more powerful than formal or
aesthetic appreciation.

Drew

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