ABSTRACT
STILL ALIVE and I Got Up At . . . can be found as we stroll across the various platforms and media. And yet the feeling rules attached to each medium, associated with each particular context, suggest that these minimal actions-phatic or not-are, like On Kawara’s work, informed by specific temporalities and subjectivities of the user and their attendant communities. Proclaiming I Got Up At . . . for a single mother of three young children is very different than the same cry from a hungover young female adult after a big night out with friends. These gendered gestures are marked by generational and lifestyle factors that cannot be ignored.
