Tyko Say is a Prague-based curator interested in promoting discourse on art as deliberate miscommunication, miscommunication as innate occurrence, occurrences as opportunity, and opportunities as every day happenings.
He is the founder of the performance and poetics collective OBJECT:PARADISE which aims to promote poetry as an interdisciplinary, contextually- dependent happening.
(June 25, 2022; Prague, Czech Republic)
Tyko Say walks through Prague with his TV and a marquee text which read "This happened yet is happening".
The idea for the performance and installation was to promote language—and thus poetry—as a procedural entity, rather than a static form.
The text, when placed in separate spaces, assumed different meanings. The language happened, though the formation of its meaning is continuous--dependent on both the reader and context to provide meaning.
// / WHY IS THIS PRETENTIOUS OR IS IT / INTERPRET THIS LANGUAGE THE WAY YOU ARE DOING SO ALREADY / PRODUCER REQUIRES RECEIVER / PRODUCTION REQUIRES CONVENTION OF PRODUCT / INPUT MUST BE RECOGNIZED AS INPUT FOR INPUT TO BECOME INTAKE / PRODUCT REQUIRES VALIDATION / VALIDATION REQUIRES CONVENTION / CONVENTION IN ART CANNOT EXIST / WORDS MAKE UP
THE SENTENCE , EACH ONE DIFFERENT / RECEIVERS MAKE UP THE MEANING , EACH ONE DIFFERENT / BAD WORDS ARE GOOD WORDS AS ALL ARE ( BAD WORDS ) / THE DICTIONARY IS INTERPRETATION OF THE PAST AND PREDICTION OF THE FUTURE / WHOSE INTERPRETATION ? / WHOSE PREDICTION ? / LANGUAGE HAPPENED , YET CONTINUES TO / KNOWLEDGE IS PROCEDURAL NOT STATIC / POETRY REMAINS AT LARGE / FORMALIZING CONVENTION DISREGARDS INTERPRETATION , CULTURE / IF ART DOES NOT EXIST WHAT ARE WE TAUGHT IN SCHOOL ? / WHOSE PAST ? / WHOSE FUTURE ? / WE WATCH THE TV BUT DO NOT LOOK AT IT / WE READ THE TEXT BUT DO NOT LOOK AT IT / WE GO TO THE POETRY READING BUT DO NOT LOOK AT IT / THE RIVER IS NEVER THE SAME , SO WHY DO WE STILL CALL IT A RIVER ? / ‘’THE BEST POETRY’’ REQUIRES SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF POETRY / THE ‘’BEST LANGUAGE’’ REQUIRES SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF LANGUAGE / SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF LANGUAGE REQUIRES SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF WORLD / WHOSE WORLD ? / “DEFINE : POETRY” REQUIRES STATIC INPUT OF “POETRY” / AT THE IMPLICATION ( AND INDICATION ) OF WHOSE CULTURE ( S ) IS THE PUBLIC CANON ? /
“ART” “APPEARS” “TO BE” FOR “ARTISTS” , “POETRY” FOR “POETS” / FEED THE SEED / FIRE THE CANON / THE “ARTIST” AND “POET” DOES NOT EXIST OUTSIDE OF THE EGO / LANGUAGE MAY NOT BE VALIDATED AS POETRY IF IT DOES NOT DEMONSTRATE CONVENTION , FIRE FROM CANON / OR WORSE — INPUT MAY NOT BECOME INTAKE / THE CODE PRODUCED THEN , REMAINS AT THAT / CODE / WE CAN ONLY RECEIVE ART / WE CANNOT NOT PRODUCE ART / WE KNOW THIS BECAUSE THE POEM CAN BE READ IN TWO SEPARATE SPACES AND HAVE TWO SEPARATE MEANINGS / QUANTUM SUPERPOSITION / THE PRODUCER CAN ALSO BE THE RECEIVER , THOUGH EACH ARE SEPARATE AGENTS / QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT / WHO WROTE IN YOUR DIARY 10 YEARS AGO ? / NOT YOU / BUT YOU TEN YEARS AGO / ALL PRODUCTION IS SUBJECTED TO RECEPTION / ALL RECEPTION IS SUBJECTED TO TIME , SPACE / THE WORD ‘’RIVER’’ NEVER ADDRESSES THE SAME RIVER TWICE / WHO YOU WERE YESTERDAY IS WHO YOU WERE YESTERDAY NOT TODAY / LANGUAGE IS THE SAME / PRODUCTION OF A TEXT REQUIRES RECEPTION / RECEPTION REQUIRES CONTEXT / CONTEXT IS DEPENDENT ON TIME , SPACE / CONVENTION AND THE MISREPRESENTATION OF IT IS BOTH CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE TO ITS INNOVATION / NO MORE ASKING THE PRODUCER WHAT IT MEANS / THE RECEIVER IS THE ARTIST, THE POET.
WHAT IS YOUR INSPIRATION FOR THIS PIECE ?
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YOU HAVE CREATED ITS MEANING.
