UTAH BOUND (Week 8)

Peter Greenaway's Tulse Luper - 92 suitcase project is overwhelming. It is a universe. He has created a logic of knowing, where history and fiction are fused together and indistinguishable. It is counter intuitive to my own understanding of an archive, such as the Ryerson Archive, which is stale and dusty and operated by kind near-elderly women. With Tulse Luper it seems infinitely capable of growth and expansion, seeking to include more of whatever it can. Time in the Tulse Luper Archive is constant, all periods as accessible as the next, things that have happened are easily reachable or still happening and it is not yet finished, implying that there still need be things found to add, other than the suitcases themselves. It is such a creative, interactive, inclusive, didactic project. Each suit case contains and internal logic, a way of seeing the world. This is exemplified in the games themselves, as you enter the game in the suitcase, your supervisor suggests that "maybe you'll learn something." I think Greenaway wants his audience to see the different ways that each medium shapes, reminiscent of technological determinism, and alters ideas, by sharing the same or similar ideas over different mediums and seeing their variation. And, how brilliant is Tulse's adventure to UTAH to seek out the creative forces there, because of the Mormon's and their religious ideas. Drole.