A Book: Dressed as if nothing is wrong. (40 pages) For a while now, I have been collecting sentences for a picture I took one morning in September 2008. It combines how I think and how I work. Without talking it uses words that I’m not able to speak, in this way, [...]
A Text on Design [PDF] Further studies on Flusser can be found here. Flusser’s essays are short, provocative and lucid, with a resemblance to the style of journalistic articles. One of the difficulties that arise while reading Flusser is the lack of references, quotations or illustrations; his articles seem to be articulated with the originality and freshness of [...]
roelmeelkop Roel Meelkop (1963) studied visual arts and art theory at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. During a post-graduate course at the same academy he decided to dedicate his work to sound and music. His musical activities date back to the early eighties when he started thu20, together with Jac van Bussel,Peter Duimelinks, Jos Smolders and Guido [...]
Michael Snow link 1 link 2 CORPUS CALLOSUM Author: tieman64 from United Kingdom WARNING- do not go to this film expecting some kind of “story”. Corpus Callosum is experimental director Michael Snow’s latest “film”. A feature length bonanza of crazy sights, outlandish color schemes, and visual puns that can be appreciated equally as an abstract comedy or a playful recapitulation of [...]
A little while ago I posted the manifesto of Yvonne Rainer from 1965. I thought it looked intresting without that I agreed with the manifesto. Here is a reconsidered manifesto from 2008 and a remake by Andrea Bozic. It is nice to have it round in this way. I think it makes sense in the Beijing context, i [...]
Not that I really like it as a manifesto. It’s strange to read. (it gives some reasons to think about the also position). — — No to spectacle. No to virtuosity. No to transformations and magic and make-believe. No to the glamour and transcendency of the star image. No to the heroic. No to the anti-heroic. No to trash imagery. No to involvement of performer or spectator. No to [...]
Capturing Beijing on video. 10 minutes of Beijing. (sorry both films are on ytube).
Florian Cramer compressed the nominated oscar movies to 1.44mb, which is the size of an old floppy disk. Don’t know how we could show them but I think they could be nice to have them around.
I just ordered this book Thomson, John: Illustrations of China and its People, London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1873-4, 4 volumes, folio (36 x 49 cm), 96 plates with a total of 218 collotype images of China, plates protected by leaves with letterpress descriptive text. 1874, 2nd edition. 1977, Hong Kong, J. Warner Publications, China: the Land [...]
(taken from www.lumen.org/rekveld) About two years ago I discovered this book more or less by chance: Gilbert Simondon, “Du Mode d’Existence Des Objets Techniques”, Aubier/Montaigne, Paris, 1958 Only to discover that it is less obscure than I thought, but mostly known due to its influence on Deleuze. I’m probably one of the very few mortals left who have [...]
Here I can explain some things people recently or a while ago said about my way of working. Democratic: Carol mentioned that my way of working deals with the definition of democratic. I think she mentioned that I do believe that everyone and everything has an intrinsic valid content. For the exhibition: We can [...]
Links to musician Frans De Waard from The Netherlands, whom I would like to invite as well. This is a magazine he started and makes: http://www.vitalweekly.net/ http://www.discogs.com/artist/Frans+de+Waard
This is the link to the website of Joost Rekveld. The artist from Holland I would like to invite to participate. http://www.lumen.nu/rekveld/wp/index.php
A few days ago I met Carol in the Element Fresh at Sanlitun. The Ginger orange carrot juice tasted well i have to say. Don’t know about your drink, Carol? Afterwards I checked the Mizuno store for some running shoes. They would give me a big reduction if I bought the shoes straight away. From 880 yuen [...]
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