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The Post Reality Show

The Post Reality Show is the ultimate autobiography, a synthesis of all the history, memories, situations, all fused together into a confessional torrent of fear and humor… I am the host of my own reality tv show, my own situational comedy: The Post Reality Show… The Post Reality Show streams danger, dreams, madness, seduction, trauma… The Post Reality Show offers up the fantasy of the artist, as a romantic struggling against the odds; a magician who accesses fantastic places; a wicked provocateur and cultural instigator; and a dreamer who gets lost in the creation of his own world… If the conceit of reality tv is authenticity, then the post reality show is to dispense with the pretense of authenticity, to situate myself squarely within the mediated experience… through the construction of a personal narrative that defies the boundaries of reality + fiction, mirroring the state of the mediated experience… The Post Reality SHOW is in the CLOUD… The Post Reality Show is a trajectory through hypoerreality + hyperspace. How do I do this?.. The Post Reality Show must poke holes or its completely useless as art. It punctures our belief in the value of our addiction and our clinging to the false notion of things… The Post Reality Show is a conversation ABOUT MEDIA ADDICTION PLEASURE… a delicate balance between humor + pathos + catharsis… a stream-of-consciousness journey through the artistic process, episodic fragments that materialize into the UNATTAINABLE SHOW: an EPIC-HYPER-NOVEL from the Bunker and impossible making sense of it all… The Post Reality Show is one LONG TESTIMONIAL concerning the Artistic Process… Moving BEYOND REALITY [beyond the suspension of disbelief] in the creation of a world, my own imaginary universe: that is the post reality. AN IMAGINARY SHOW… THE MAKING OF THE POST REALITY SHOW, with its transgression of reality conditions in the creation of a world the artist must enter into to fully come to terms with the space of VISION; the role of the artist is to bleed the edges of reality in search of meaning (BEYOND); the mechanics of reality construction. Finding the flow of the MEDIA TORRENT, reality on tap, channeled + distributed… THE POST REALITY SHOW is the display of the spectacle in a world that exists in transition between the world as it is and the world as we have imagined it: it is the SHOW, the SPECTACLE and I am the HOST, the GUIDE. The Post Reality SHOW, a Show that was never “really” completed, but happened as PROCESS + SIMULATION. It “actually” happened although its embrace of “actuality” is simulated. Figuring this out is embedded in the work itself, the figuring out is a thread throughout the work… The loss of differentiation between that which is real and that which is not is the STATE of going beyond the suspension of belief. I am there NOW… THERE IS NO END, there is only NOW.

  • Welcome to the Metaverse (8/4/2022)
  • TRUMPology as a State of Simulation in the Post Reality (8/23/2020)
  • Life in the TRUMP Zone (8/10/2020)
  • Is There Love in the Covid-19 Embrace? (5/19/2020)
  • Deep Third Space (5/6/2020)
  • The Net Artist as Auteur In Virtual Space (4/23/2020)
  • Pandemic Synchronicity (4/7/2020)
  • On Becoming an Open Source Artist (3/24/2020)
  • Collapsing Six Feet of Separation (3/20/2020)
  • Democratizing Public Dialogue in the Third Space (2/29/2020)
  • Democracy vs Authoritarianism (2/25/2020)
  • How Democracies Die (2/7/2020)
  • On Becoming the Great Dictator (2/2/2020)
  • Betrayal (1/31/2020)
  • Body Blow Against the Social Order (1/28/2020)
  • Artists Reshaping the Dominant Narrative (1/26/2020)
  • The Cinematic Spectacle of the Impeachment Saga (1/19/2020)
  • 2020 Reflections from the Bunker (1/6/2020)
  • The Divided States of America (12/10/2019)
  • Everything is on Trial in the Heart of Darkness (11/23/2019)
  • Deep in the Heart of Ukraine (11/16/2019)
  • Countering the Republican Disinformation War on Reality (11/14/2019)
  • Big Brother is Tweeting You (11/3/2019)
  • Crushed by Truth (10/31/2019)
  • A Taxonomy of Televisual Hypnosis (10/10/2019)
  • The Televisual Impeachment Spectacle (10/3/2019)
  • Deep Throat Redux (9/29/2019)
  • The Situational Comedy (8/8/2019)
  • The Deadly SHOW (8/6/2019)
  • Willful Ignorance (7/30/2019)
  • Reportage (7/23/2019)
  • Two Minutes Hate (7/21/2019)
  • Why I Have Timestamped My Life (7/18/2019)
  • The Great Dictator (7/6/2019)
  • XTreme TRUMPological Dystopia (6/13/2019)
  • The Imposition of the Host on the Disorderly Flow of Events (6/2/2019)
  • The Most Dangerous Threat of all is the Post Real (5/20/2019)
  • The Dark Ugly Side of America (5/17/2019)
  • Beyond the Edge of the Real (5/3/2019)
  • He is Eating Your Soul (5/2/2019)
  • As I Sink Even Deeper into the Hypnosis of the Media Torrent (5/1/2019)
  • In the Aftermath of WWW III (4/24/2019)
  • The Challenge to Scale Up for TRUMPological Times (4/15/2019)
  • To Grasp the Sheer Volume of Media Excess (4/14/2019)
  • Weapons that Change Consciousness (4/10/2019)
  • The Dilemma of Art Making for Super-Participatory Phone Addiction (4/4/2019)
  • TRUMP the Manchurian Candidate (3/3/2019)
  • The Greatest Show on Earth for the Post Reality (2/27/2019)
  • Theater is a State of Constant Emergency (2/16/2019)
  • The Great Memetic Pavlovian Experiment (2/6/2019)

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