Hello again to witnesses of audio-visual.journal, the internet component of my art practice, where I share my work in the digital public. This journal exists across the virtual void, documenting personal processes of research on audiovisual culture and aesthetics.

I have been on break since August 2024. I decided to share about that in a set of journal entries that allow you to join me in The Break. These entries are an experimental re-visioning of audio-visual.journal as an immersive and participatory space. It documents my recent experience of intentionally stopping public practice, while offering a way for others to self-navigate learning about what a break has to offer. Clicking around, reading, and listening are ways to move through and beyond each entry. You can enter this semi-linear narrative through the entries page of the journal, and in this newsletter I’m sharing a bit of guidance around what you’d discover.

—

“I don’t know what a break for audio-visual.journal looks like. So, I’m planning to play with that idea...” - Me, in the newsletter “Note 2 Self / On Break”

Hey y’all. Here with some updates.

Join Me In The Break

I hinted in the previous newsletter that you could “join me” while I’m on break. Here’s a bit more about that:

Audio-visual.journal now includes an interactive experience called “Join Me In The Break,” which can be found through the entries page of the journal. This project comes from organizational tools I’ve been experimenting with and uses them to create a series of spaces that respond to the question: “what is a break, for audio-visual.journal”? Learn about what I’ve been up to the past couple months by clicking around, reading, listening, and however else you’re called to interact. In doing so, you make “the break” a shared experience.

breaking silence to publicly wonder,

am I still moving in silence, or silently moving still?

ID: A black and white digital image of grainy, overlapping text. Contrast between layers of text and the black background make some words appear as if they are melting into one another. END ID.

★ Note 2 Self (and witnesses of audio-visual.journal) ★

We made it through the first iteration of the slow archival project, yay! Surprisingly, the text index was the most fun so that ended on an ideal note. Sharing that time with the contents of the journal has felt like a reflective exercise, and I want to use that shift in energy to transition into a break. Except...I don’t know what a break for audio-visual.journal looks like. So, I’m planning to play with that idea over the next month.

It may mean not sharing anything through the journal or newsletter, but possibly not (?) I am still finding value in having a space to share, and inviting others into what I want to share, for the sake of practice. Maybe there will be less (different?; a lack of?) consistency. I’m not entirely sure, but whatever it will be, I’m calling it a break (version 1.0, I guess). My plan is to return to some sense of rhythm in September.

- Paris ★

★ silence ★

✦ silence ✦

&

✶ silence ✶

★ reflection ★
&
☆ Black Study ☆

showed up in my practice between 071524 and 072224. Read the most recent entries of audio-visual.journal to reveal how it all connects.

A-V.J: The Visual Index

✦ Yoji, What’s Wrong With You? ✦

✪ songs that caught my attention ✪

✮ Sessão Bruta ✮

&

⋆ Returning to inspiration ⋆

✰ screenshots ✰

✷ layering ✷

✦ listening practice ✦

✬songs that held my attention✬

&

✪my Numark DJ2Go✪

showed up in my practice between 060324 and 061424. Read the most recent entries of audio-visual.journal to reveal how it all connects.

☆call and response☆

✦[lust]✦

✸resources✸

⍟freestyling/improv⍟

✦a prompt✦

⍟re-homing⍟

&

✸Deep Listening✸

★formatting prototypes★

✮songs that caught my attention✮

✷“Tracing Palestinian Representation”✷

&

⚝Experiencing Music Video⚝

✷captioning✷

&

⍟preliminary questions⍟

✰theo parrish✰

✦screening reports✦

✫movement puzzles✫

&

★songs that caught my attention★

☆the role of witnessing☆

✮musicality-based questions✮

✬CinemaTexas Notes✬