Jonathan Harris: The art of collecting stories

At the EG conference in December 2007, artist Jonathan Harris discusses his latest projects, which involve collecting stories: his own, strangers', and stories collected from the Internet, including his amazing "We Feel Fine."

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[twhichy]

Amazing work. Inspiring.

[JohnDeBunkTest]

@ kurtilein3

It is very difficult to educate people who refuse to learn.

> " how long will it take until they start using more modern methods of whaling?"

> They have been hunting here since biblical times.

> "sell them on the world market, and make some money?"

> No. The hunt is licensed as "sustenance" distributed to the tribe, not sold.

Selling = commercial.

> "whaling is a mistake."

> Commercial whaling is a mistake.

Lets not make native communities extinct by your ignorance.

[crudhousefull]

@tdeff Are you seriously comparing what our cultures would have been if it hadn't been ravaged by western barbarians for 500 years? Even London, the largest center for the west was a cesspool where disease was rampant as late as the 1800s. Historically most of the major civilizations advanced at almost the same speed until your barbaric civilization killed of most of the other races. Screw you and your fucking race you little dimwit

[crudhousefull]

@tdeff Your people went around the world killing people who wouldn't learn your language you little bastard. That's the reason we're using this language. They stole most of everything that indegenous people accumulated and ruined administrative and educational systems.  The population of Sri Lanka is estimated at 30 million in 1300AD, successive invasions by the Portugese, Dutch and finally the British brought that population down to 1 million by 1800.

[LEliseB]

I recommend the story of Mushkil Gusha.

[antontronbon]

how adorable is he when he says "but even holding 1 balloon is like, kind of happy"? his stifled laughter afterwards kills me, it's so cute

[kloten]

hey, it = ur language, the 1 u n vented

[tdeff]

it is spelt correctly what r u on about

[tdeff]

lifes too short for this kinda shit, apologies if i offended u or hurt ur feelings, all is love!

[kloten]

"coorrect English?" Woops! Typo. Happpens to everybody I guess.

[kloten]

Oh sorry, Mr Architect. Can design a building but can't design a sentence in coorrect English. I'll add some nuance to my last comment, you just SOUNDED like a teenage nitwit. I am not arguing against evolution, I only corrected your sloppy statement wherein you said mammoths died because "the world had become uninhabitable to ALL creatures"= with those three letters-"ALL"-you unwittingly implied evolution itself ended altogether. You know I am right. Now, get back to work, son.