Hanoi - London

to be continued

Space/ Text: Context/ Place: Some (more) approaches to theorising interactive/ new media:

Ergodic (Aarseth)

Tmesis ('tmetic anxiety - Aarseth/ Peacock)

Cursality (Aarseth/ Peacock)

Database (Manovich)

Readerly/ Writerly texts (Barthes/ Landow)

Affordance (high/ low) and related terms: Deliberate/ Inadvertant Action

Redundancy/ Entropy (or hot/ cool) (Shannon & Weaver/ McLuhan)

my time on earth

Khi ta ở chỉ là nơi đất ở
Khi ta đi đất bỗng hóa tâm hồn
('Tiếng hát con tàu' - Chế Lan Viên)

When I stayed the place was just a space
When I leave it grows into a soul
(Singing Ship - Che Lan Vien)

how long does it take me to feel belonged to Hanoi

21 years 11 months

how long have i been in London
5 months 1 day

--
i have been calling the place that should be home 'house'
in the late years
still i feel the most comfortable with its bathroom
its floor
that i sleep on
- when there's no fight between the people that live in the house -
because i'm used to it

it takes time to feel
close
comfortable
belonged

it takes time
for a space
to become
a place

it takes history
and
stories

it takes time
for someone like me
to have feeling for
a place
as i almost never move before
...

2b cont'd

space - history - place

Tracy Emin
Francesca Woodman
Jo Spence
Natalie Latham

--
Louise Bourgeois & Tracey Emin
Do not abadon me
Hauser & Wirth London, Old Bond Street
18/2 - 12/3