{"id":1263,"date":"2016-09-25T20:40:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T20:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2016-09-25T20:41:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T20:41:59","slug":"whats-your-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"WHAT’S YOUR STORY?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“What Shall We Do Next?”<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s Your Story?\u201d has become another way of asking what\u2019s up, what\u2019s happening, que pasa? \u00a0 This is fascinating phrasing in this era of the embattled story. \u00a0 While the traditional story died in a plague declared by the avant-garde artists ages ago, the personal story has been sprung up from the crematoria – on Facebook, Sundays on Public Radio, rebranded as Narrative everywhere.<\/p>\n

1) Ira Glass, creator of This American Life, couldn\u2019t stop talking about story when he took the stage in Providence Saturday night.\u00a0 The master of narrative journalism excels finding the universal in a mess of ephemera.\u00a0 He boiled a good story down to one thing: people want to know WHAT COMES NEXT. \u00a0That’s the draw. \u00a0He does it by creating a tug on human emotion that reflects a weird collision of circumstances and leads to the enduring perplexity question: What does come next?<\/p>\n

2) Artist Julien Pr\u00e9vieux nails the existential question that we face everyday: \u201cWhat Shall We Do Next?\u201d \u00a0It’s the title\u00a0 of his 2014 video on view now at the RISD Museum – it may or may not be about fractured story, about the fact that at this moment, we are oddly poised, always holding our breath. \u00a0In one part of our brains, we’re living with sense of impending catastrophe, in another self taking in concrete and sensory desires, pleasures and pain. \u00a0Thus the continual crisis: \u201cWhat Shall We Do Next?\u201d<\/p>\n

Pr\u00e9vieux frames the question through the language of hand gestures that have been abducted, stolen. \u00a0In his compelling video, six dancers conduct performances using hand gestures that have been patented by tech companies.\u00a0 He creates alienated dances using patents as dance scores. \u00a0He cites the philosopher Giorgio Agamben\u2019s work \u201cNotes on Gesture\u201d about how 19th century illnesses of body compulsion have long stopped being noticed – they have unwittingly become us.<\/p>\n

3) The third example is a chubby 20-something who crawls out of bed, flicks his long hair, puts on his hoodie sweatshirt with cupcake graphic.\u00a0 He sticks \u00a0in his earbuds and launches himself onto the street.\u00a0 The city is his.\u00a0 His blue sky is his.\u00a0 The elegant shading of Benefit Street as he shuffled along is his. \u00a0 He is singing to himself, shouting along to his private music in a voice all passersby within several blocks could hear.\u00a0 Does he know the question has been posed, What comes next?\u00a0<\/em> He is oblivious to everything except to his own joy. \u00a0 He doesn\u2019t know anything except his answer, his story.\u00a0 Over and over, he is shouting: Free Your Mind and Everything will Follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhat\u2019s Your Story?\u201d has become another way of asking what\u2019s up, what\u2019s happening, que pasa? \u00a0 This is fascinating phrasing in this era of the embattled story. \u00a0 While the traditional story died in a plague declared by the avant-garde … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[500,503,501,502,504],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-agemben","tag-ira-glass","tag-previeux","tag-this-american-life","tag-what-shall-we-do-next"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-kn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}