MOMENTUM is a compilation of SPEED EDITS.

MOMENTUM: The Book

$100.00

SPEED EDITS are digital collages and Dadaist poems created in one hour. Collages are made from “digital waste” – the surplus of photographs and screen captures on our phones – inside Adobe Express.

Definition: Digital waste refers to all latent data that is captured, stored and sent. Old photos, unnecessary messages, advertising emails and internet downloads, among other things. All this activity emits tonnes of CO2 that pollute the planet.

The collages are multi-layered, opaque and transparent, recolored image compilations. The processes render the originating images unrecognizable as they merge into an amorphous, textured field of visual information. Each collage is a vibe – an aura.

The associated prose responds to, contextualizes, and counters the visual information.

This book doesn’t make sense; it isn’t supposed to. It exists; it’s something to see, read, and respond to.

THE ARCHITECTURE OF A SPEED EDIT

Digital collages and poems made and written within one hour, made on my phone with simple processing tools. They are meant to be viewed small and up close with snacks of prose that are fun, feeling, and fundamental.

MOMENTUM PRESENTED

LIST OF SOURCES

GENERATING MOMENT TRANSCRIPT

HI THERE

BRIGET HERE

MY MARS IS IN LEO. I’M A MUSEUM PROFESSIONAL, NON-DISCIPINARY ARTIST, AND MY CREATIVE TENOR IS: ART IS CONCEPT IN STRUCTURAL FORM, AND FOR THE NEXT FEW MINUTES, I’LL BE TALKING WHILE RELATED INFORMATION ANIMATES FOR YOU.

DO SIT BACK, DOCUMENT WHAT YOU’D LIKE, AND ABSORB WHAT LANDS.

OK

WE’RE HERE TO TALK ABOUT MOMENTUM,

A BOOK OF SPEED EDITS

A DOPAMINE PROJECT

GONE DURATIONAL

AS WE GROW IN OUR PRAXIS, OUR SCHEMES TAKE ON A HALF-LIFE, AND DOPAMINE PROJECTS BECOME ESSENTIAL.

A DOPAMINE PROJECT IS A SIDE QUEST: AN IMPULSIVE, CREATIVE EXPLORATION VEERING AWAY FROM OUR PRIMARY METHODS AND AESTHETICS

THESE DETOURS INFORM OUR WORK, INSPIRE CONCEPTUAL EVOLUTION, AND INFUSE PRACTICE WITH PLAY.

FOR ME: SPEED EDITS GENERATED THE MOMENTUM I NEEDED TO BETA TEST PART OF A SUBSTANTIAL COLLABORATION AND CONTINUE A LONG-FORMAT PAINTING ENDEAVOR.

THE COLLABORATION: TRANSLATIONS IS AN IMMERSIVE LANDSCAPE DISRUPTING THE MUSEUM SPACE

THAT’S A CONVERSATION FOR ANOTHER TIME.

THE FIRST SPEED EDIT WAS A ONE-OFF, A DIGITAL DOODLE.

IT COMMENTS ON EXPRESS STORE’S CITY EDITS, THEIR ENTANGLEMENT WITH ASSIMILATION, IDENTITY, AND BELONGING.

SPEED EDITS HAVE AN ARCHITECTURE

WITHIN THE CONTAINER OF ONE HOUR

I CREATE ONE DIGITAL COLLAGE USING DIGITAL WASTE LIKE UNNECESSARY PHOTOGRAPHS AND SCREENSHOTS. AND WRITE A POEM

SOMETIMES THE WORDS COME FIRST, SOMETIMES THE VISUALS, NO MATTER WHAT, THEY ARE MADE QUICKLY, IMPERFECTLY

IN DADAIST FASHION

AND ART HISTORIANS, GIRD YOURSELVES

TO SUMMARIZE THE MOVEMENT:

IT IS AN ATTITUDE OF FUCK BEAUTY,

WHEN YOU CAN CREATE VISCERAL,

AWAKENING EXPERIENCES

AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT DENOUNCING ELITISM, PROCESSING THE HORRORS OF WORLD WAR ONE, AND IN GERMANY CARRYING INTO RESISTANCE AGAINST THE RISE OF THE THIRD REICH.

DADA PLACES A PREMIUM ON INDIVIDUATION, FINDING FLAW WITH IDENTITY SUPREMACY AND THE HYPER-CLASSIFICATION OF PEOPLE, OTHERING THE COMPLEXITY OF US INTO MONOLITHS.

EXACTING CONFORMITY IN SYSTEMIC

LANGUAGE

AND WE’RE WORKING THINGS OUT IN ENGLISH

PERFECT ENGLISH

THIS FOR THAT LANGUAGE

MADE FOR TRADE LANGUAGE

AND WE, DESCRIBING LIFE’S SURREALITY

HERE, WITHIN AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE

TO SAY, WHEN WRITING POETRY AND VERBALIZING THE COMPLEXITY OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE, WE ARE DOING SO WITH A LANGUAGE OPTIMIZED FOR EXCHANGE. ONE COLD BREW, NINE DOLLARS.

THE BEWILDERING PART? WE ARE DOING SO UNDER THE PRESSURE OF MORTALITY, BECOMING OURSELVES ALONGSIDE EACH OTHER, IN COLLABORATION WITH A MULTIVERSE.

THE DEFINITION OF CHAOS.

SPEED EDITS WITH THEIR FOUNDATIONS IN PLAY, CREATION UNDER PRESSURE, AND DEFIANCE OF HYMNOGONY COLLIDE HEADLONG WITH DADAIST POETICS.

INDIVIDUATION IN APPROACH LOOKS LIKE DENOUNCING RULES, TRADITIONAL STRUCTURES, MAKING SENSE, COMPLETING THOUGHTS, AND TELLING A STORY.

IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE. IT ISN’T SUPPOSED TO.

LIKE ALL THINGS THAT COLLIDE, DIVERGENCE IS INEVITABLE

AND IF I MUST BREAK RANK WITH ANY MOVEMENT, I BELIEVE THE DADAISTS WOULD BE THE FIRST TO APPLAUD MY DEPARTURE, AS LEAVING COULD BE AS MUCH A PART OF THE MOVEMENT AS REMAINING CERTAINLY WOULD BE.

MOMENTUM IS BEAUTIFUL

A MICRO COFFEE TABLE BOOK, PRINTED AT A GICLEE QUALITY AND HAND BOUND.

THE BOOK HOLDS A NUMBER OF SPEED EDITS

LAID OUT ALONG A NARROW FLAY LAY

VISUALS ON THE RIGHT, TEXT ON THE LEFT

IN THE WAY A MAMMOTH PAINTING AND ITS DIDACTICS WOULD DISPLAY IN A GALLERY.

I GUESS YOU CAN TAKE THE GIRL OUT OF THE WHITE CUBE, BUT YOU CAN’T TAKE THE WHITE CUBE OUT OF THE GIRL.

I’M OKAY WITH THIS. I ADMIT A LEVEL OF CONDITIONING IS PRESENT. I AM HUMAN.

I’M ALSO ENGAGING CHOICE, SCHOLARSHIP, AND INTERVENTION.

CREATING A HAND-HELD OBJECT HOUSING THE TRANSFORMATIVE OCCURRENCE OF RAW CREATION PRESENTING WITHIN THE CUBE SUBVERTS THE NOTION OF THE GALLERY AS AN ALTAR.

IT ALLOWS US TO SEE IT FOR ITS FUNCTION RATHER THAN ITS PRETENSION. THE FUNCTION BEING: IT CLEARS SPACE THE WAY MEDITATION CLEARS THE MIND, SO WE MIGHT SEE THINGS THAT WE WOULD HAVE OTHERWISE MISSED.

THAT WE MIGHT EXPERIENCE THE LAYERS, THE AURA-CHROMA, THE SPECIFICITY OF A WORLD BUILT BY AN ARTIST. A MIRROR TO THE COMPLEXITY OF BEING ALIVE, AND FIGURING OUT HOW TO MAINTAIN MOMENTUM ONE SIDE-QUEST AT A TIME.

IF YOU’RE NOW CONSIDERING YOUR OWN DOPAMINE PROJECT

HERE ARE A FEW THOUGHTS;

SET A CONSTRAINT
LET THE MATERIAL CHOOSE YOU, DON’T BUY ANYTHING
LET THE METHOD ARRIVE IN YOU, DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT BEING “ALIGNED”
MAKE BAD SHIT
DON’T MAKE IT MEAN ANYTHING
DOCUMENT IT/STORE IT (DEPENDING ON SCALE)
LEAVE IT ALONE
WHEN DESIRED, RETURN TO THE FILE
LOOK AT ALL THE STUFF
SEE WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR BRAIN AND BODY. YOU KNOW WHAT INSPIRATION IS. RESPOND TO THAT, PROJECT THAT, INITIATE THAT, REFLECT THAT, EMBODY THAT.

AND IF YOU HAD AN EXPERIENCE HERE TODAY, JOIN ME ONLINE TO FIND MOMENTUM, THIS PRESENTATION IN VIDEO FORMAT, RESOURCES, AND WAYS TO WORK WITH ME IN THE FUTURE.

HOPEFULLY SPEED EDITS, DADAISTS, MOMENTUM, THE CUBE, AND THE LAST FEW MINUTES HAVE ENCOURAGED YOU TO CONSIDER ADJUSTING YOUR METHOD, SHIFTING YOUR PERSPECTIVE, AND STANDING TEN DOWN LIKE HANNAH DID.

THANK YOU!