{"id":44,"date":"2007-10-21T23:19:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T23:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/2007\/10\/21\/harmony-korine\/"},"modified":"2015-06-10T20:09:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T10:09:54","slug":"harmony-korine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/2007\/10\/harmony-korine\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmony Korine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harmony-korine.com\/work\/gummo\/\">Gummo<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harmony-korine.com\/work\/crackup\/\">A Crackup At The Race Riots<\/a> especially. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harmony-korine.com\/work\/julien\/\">Julien Donkey Boy<\/a> not so much. I&#8217;m looking forward to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0475984\/\">Mister Lonely<\/a>, but I&#8217;ve no idea if I&#8217;ll actually like it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not  about specific pieces of work, of course &#8211; it&#8217;s about <i>him<\/i>. Him and his Unified Aesthetic.<\/p>\n<p>Introduction to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Collected-Screenplays-Harmony-Korine\/dp\/0571210023\">Collected Screenplays<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>charles eames was most notably an architectural engineer, a furniture designer, a man of scientific theory, but most impressive to me were his films &#8211; films about toys, spinning tops, toy towns, toy soldiers, toy trains. he will be remembered first and foremost as a creator of chairs. he did not give philosophical credence to his own separate and varied modes of creation; in essence his chairs and his films were one and the same. the content was king, and thus developed a &#8216;unified aesthetic&#8217; that brought the walls down and allowed him to work free of any of the self-imposed restraints that most artists suffer.<\/p>\n<p>personally, i have published books of fiction, books of photos, displayed my art in many galleries and in many forms, made recordings of banjo music, written and directed films, composed a symphony using only the same three black keys on the right-hand side of the piano, and i most importantly am now trying to revive the tap-dance scene by developing an entirely new repertoire of semi-improvised, extremely technical, avant-garde dance structures. (please do not think i am joking; it would be of the deepest misunderstanding to interpret my intent, my dream, as somehow being an ironic display. i am admittedly not as advanced at the moment as i need to be before i showcase this next phase in my career. if my dream comes to fruition and i am capable of a total tap revolution, then i declare without any hesitation or pause a complete and total abandonment of my involvement in the cinema and all other areas of artistic contention. i need to go where i am most useful.)<\/p>\n<p>the point being: everything from me had previously been deposited inside me. this is due to the force of a sacred entity whose identity i will take to my grave. this curse\/blessing was bestowed upon my being without any previous knowledge and total disregard of personal choice in the matter, with no consent. and when i am dead, perhaps i too will be best remembered for a chair i once built.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course. Gummo and A Crackup At The Race Riots especially. Julien Donkey Boy not so much. I&#8217;m looking forward to Mister Lonely, but I&#8217;ve no idea if I&#8217;ll actually like it. It&#8217;s not about specific pieces of work, of course &#8211; it&#8217;s about him. Him and his Unified Aesthetic. Introduction to Collected Screenplays: charles &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/2007\/10\/harmony-korine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harmony Korine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trystingfields.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}