I am in a class: Celebrity Stagecraft

In this course we were given three ways to conceptualize the self:

• The self as an essential nugget of individuality

• The self as associated with institutions

• The self as a series of relationships

I am convinced that the most influential self-category is the third: the self as a series of relationships.

Without realizing, I have documented, through the past three years, new relationships with my recording device. Coincidently, I have documentation from October 2007, 2008, and 2009.

In all my footage, as I add relations, and my existing relationships change, there is a changing self (a new fold). Even if the same people appear in the recording, inevitably, our relational vibration has been modified.

I plan to take said documentation and create with it a sonic sculpture of self using the voices/music of others and myself. I will not limit my exploration to the confines of sonic arrangement, but may allow these snippets of sound to inform work through alternate mediums: all being related to this idea of the self as a series of relationships or a series of changing vibrations.

As relationships inform thoughts/ideologies/information/ways-of-doing, I change, and yet I am resistant (or so I think).