Andrey Bogush
"...The gigantic mass [the crowd] is immobilized before the eyes. It is transformed into a texturology...
To what erotics of knowledge does the ecstasy of reading such a cosmos belong?...
Is the immense texturology spread out before one's eyes anything more than a representation, and optical artifact?...The panorama-city is a "theoretical" (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture...
Escaping the imaginary totalizations produced by the eye, the everyday has a certain strangeness that does not surface, or whose surface is only its upper limit, outlining itself against the visible...A migrational, or metaphorical, city thus slips into the clear text of the planned and readable city."
--Michel de Certeau
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"We inhabited the same era
in a deserted town
in a deserted town
and the electrical curtain
would introduce its batteries twice
in a box of bizarre matches."
--Francis Picabia, "Cut Flower"
PART OF 'STREETOPIA' // 6/9:
II. Michael Alfred launched PRINT FICTION earlier this month.
“Awakening From the First Decade of the 21st Century”
w/ Chip Lord, Sam Green, and Rebecca Solnit
Chip Lord screens “Awakening from the 20th Century”, a video essay
made in 1999 about San Francisco and the first tech bubble. Following
the 34 minute film, Lord will be joined by Sam Green and Rebecca Solnit (
live or on tape ) for a freewheeling discussion of the changes to the
City in the short decade since the first tech bubble burst… and the rise
of what seems to be Dot Com Boom pt. 2 in the city today
7:30 PM @ Luggage Store Gallery*
*My friend screened films from about midnight until dawn at this spot, last Saturday night. ("WR: Mysteries of the Organism"/galactic footage from the Wilson Observatory**/Super 8 Occupy Oakland documentation...)
**something a bit FUCKING WEIRD that just made itself known: I mentioned the observatory here, characterizing it with a(n apropos, yet totally unrelated) Rudolph Wurlitzer title--excerpts of which were used as captions for another, unrelated experimental film shown that night. BAADER-MEINHOF SYNDROME PLAGUES...
II. Michael Alfred launched PRINT FICTION earlier this month.
"Print Fiction
shows printed based works from different well known artists and graphic
designers into a digital environment. The space was built using Unity
engine and presents a minimalist architecture, a simple cube divided
itself in 8 rooms, all connected through a hole in the edge on the
middle of the cube. The walls are semitransparent allowing the visitor
to see the other artworks through the walls. The navigation is really
simple and intuitive by using the arrow keys or [w, a, s, d] and the
direction is contolled by the mouse. By clicking on each work it's
possible to read about their information and credits."
"...St. Rosa de Lima (1586-1617), patron saint of South America and the first saint born in the New World. Her parents wished her to marry; she painted her face with chili pepper so that the sores would drive away any suitor."
I started the work on "Dero Abecedarius" in the mid of july 2001.
The work should have two principles of order: the sequence of the pages should follow the normal ABC, and the basic theme should be the Statue of Liberty which I am collecting since many years.
This subject is a public-relation one in many variations, so that I could work
on the idea of freedom especially with these partly absurd copies of our consumer society, to question it poetically and theoretically.
There exist three structures: 1. A-C, D-F, G-I, J-L, M, N-R, S-U, V-Z; 2. A-C, D-F, G-I, J-L, M, N-R, S-T, U-Y, Z; 3. A-C, D-F, G-I, J-L, M, N-P, O-R, S-T, V-Y, Z on four levels: black/poetic, green/poetry, blue/ABC, red/autobiographically.
Within this work are personal experiences of many visits to the USA and the absurd idea, that a letter has its own meaning/importance. The ABC as an own sign-world and as an example for the dealing with seeming/apparent unliberties and so called rules.
The work should have two principles of order: the sequence of the pages should follow the normal ABC, and the basic theme should be the Statue of Liberty which I am collecting since many years.
This subject is a public-relation one in many variations, so that I could work
on the idea of freedom especially with these partly absurd copies of our consumer society, to question it poetically and theoretically.
There exist three structures: 1. A-C, D-F, G-I, J-L, M, N-R, S-U, V-Z; 2. A-C, D-F, G-I, J-L, M, N-R, S-T, U-Y, Z; 3. A-C, D-F, G-I, J-L, M, N-P, O-R, S-T, V-Y, Z on four levels: black/poetic, green/poetry, blue/ABC, red/autobiographically.
Within this work are personal experiences of many visits to the USA and the absurd idea, that a letter has its own meaning/importance. The ABC as an own sign-world and as an example for the dealing with seeming/apparent unliberties and so called rules.
I work on the sequences usually by making first all collages on the pages, then the text-elements and finally a follow-up of a few corrections in the existing collages. The work should have had 28 pages and was done for an exhibition in the Buch- und Schriftmuseum Museum of the Deutsche Bibliothek Leipzig with the opening on the 8th of November 2001.On the 11th of September all collages on the pages were done and also some pages with text-elements. Looking back that particular day over my work I noticed some elements which I can`t explain: I saw some disturbing connections. So on pages F, M, O and Z. I added after the 11th of September some new elements only in the existing collages of page R and Y, and I added the last two pages after Z. So that now the work has 32 pages as a consequence of the 11. September and was finished on the 21st of October 2001.
"Santiago was the bell-ringer in Santiago de Chuco. Though blind, Santiago was afraid of the dark."
IV. DAVID ARNOLD: SELECTIONS FROM SITUATIONS
"The ruler of the Incan Empire was distinguished by his hair fringe."
V. 1915 Italian horror film, "Rapsodia Satanica" (soundtrack by Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie)
"...the communion wafer of the Catholic Mass had to be swallowed whole; chewing on the wafer was forbidden because none of 'Christ's bones' could be broken."
[pre-]transmissions from the Waygonesphere: VA volunteering/planet transits/neustuff every day/turning 26/flying a plane/Věra Chytilová/sensory deprivation tank/sensory immersion tank/spending the night 20 feet above-ground in a nonelectric cabin by 9.38^2 evergreens + candles + typewriter + no one.
...wrote six-word-novel:
...wrote six-word-novel:
"MEAN WITH LOVE LATE AT NIGHT."
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