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When a teacher gets students to fix a particular, established sequence in their heads, then that sequence has already existed for a long time. The teacher is just as incarcerated in that sequence during communication or information exchange. This datum seems to link language and obedience irrevocably. Tony Allard’s language obedience left something to be desired and he is therefore now in an institution. His problematic spelling performance was the start of all the misery. He explains a great deal when he says in this video: “I sit down and study God’s spermy white, pearly alphabet, strung up cursively around the room like halloween tombstones marking the death of reality murdered by God’s word and his alphabet.” ‘Corpse and mirror’ questions the ability of rational language to adequately describe and control extreme mental states. Central to the tape is the use of poetic language - a strategy to convey the shifting unconscious through image, sound and text - to delightfully unbalance our sense of the real.
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Willem van Weelden
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Text Tony Allard, Camera Tony Allard, Kristine Diekman Monique Nobo, Sound Tony Allard, Kristine Diekman, Alex Noyes, Music Eric George, Sean Meehan, Voice Janice Woolery, Cyan Meeks, With Tony Allard, Dr. Sanford Pomerantz
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