188 - Storylistening

Lost Xplorers

From Kris's notes:

I take the view that visual Art begins at the crossroads of eyes and hands. A stick or a bone is good…dust mixed with water. Blood. It’s a start. (With Sculpture, the question seems to me to be how does one escape? The whole world including open ocean is one vast sculpture park.) With music, hands and voice are the original party starters…splashing water. Two rocks would be handy. Maybe a blade of grass or a taut vine. (What’s not a musical instrument?) Work from there. When it comes to Story however, then I reckon some serious cultural technology is required. Language. Repeatable fire perhaps. It’s interesting to me that we have elaborate formal notions of Storytelling….and later endless pedagogies regarding the learned skill of Reading. It’s very hard to find a guide to Storylistening. It’s harder still to find the coherence of connection (satisfactory or not) between Storylistening and Storytelling that we have with Reading and Writing.