Slowly returning all sorts of material from the decentralized archive where it had been the intention to make an inventory and then decide what material should go where… and I guess it’s the best we can do in this piecmeal way, bit by bit with little rime or reason.. but that’s how it is…
Another way of keeping the showcase at Depinterdep moving, even if it is not clear in which direction…
It’s been a year and so here we are with a proposal to disorganize some archive material – to wit about the wars we have more or less forgotten because new ones grab our attention all the time..
yes – at the Chien brun, 20 rue Simonis straat 1060 Bruxelles Ixelles
For this year’s 6 dec stint we are considering some questions that arose from our research activities during the summer…
here we have a first invite
the phantom of the Saint Nicholas Chapter invites you to an informal meeting
and archival presentation on
December 6th 2024 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Le fantôme du Saint Nicholas Chapter vous invite a une rendez-vous informelle
et présentation d’archives le
6 décembre 2024 de 14 à 18 heures
De fantoom van het Saint Nicholas Chapter nodigt u uit op een informele bijeenkomst
en archivalische presentatie op
6 december 2024 van 14 tot 18 uur
Chien Brun
20 Rue Simonis
1050 Bruxelles
Interim recapitulation, (see also projects- same difference)
The interim activity of the two-ended painting was a good exercise, reminder of past painting activities as well as a mental rehash, reset, refurbishment maybe… Get one’s brain into another gear… On the one hand concerning the ten years of collaborative workings… Rather than cooperation, which is applicable some of the time but certainly throughout… Artist being as individual as they are.. But sometimes it does pan out and all contribute equally.
But as mentioned, not a very good model for editorial purposes.. And so harking back to more traditional formats, a basic backbone of chronological highlights, augmented by short descriptions, and interspersed with more elaborate contributions… That should be ‘doable’… ( though who is going to play the coordinator, last-say editor-in-chiefan feathers? Hmmm who?)
Or, alternately, no skeleton of chronological facts, but a mix, chance play and encounter as we practiced during covid, working apart-together in a practical and uncomplicated way… Using the free contributions as mainstay and adding details and specific accounts here and there, surprise the reader so to speak.
Thesaurius Rex
That might also be an option for the archival, since one never has all the strands in hand… Waiting for this or that section to be registered, records and descriptions made, filed into prefabricated sections and interrelated with others… But not in the classic manner of authority records, but definitions thrown about higgledy-piggledy to avoid making sense at all cost. ( that seems to be the method nowadays) Thesaurial chaos, organised dysfunction, derailed and systematic auto-subversion…
( or something thereabouts, in manageable sections..)
…rooms in fact, each their own room, but interchangeable, inhabiting a conceptual space for as long it is not usurped by another idea… Leap-frogging over a low wall or tentative barrier in pursuit of the next idea… ( recently had a chronology by Tristan Tzara in my hands and couldn’t help making untoward associations…) Does this make sense? Is any combination of givens, haphazardly, make them associates by mere proximity?
Can they be?
(and what image do we use to illustrate that state of mind?)
Parallel chronologies… Straddling three entities… Or more in fact… 2006-2016 / 2012-2023 sort of ( 2007 to now, and the P… Still going or not? Bureaux pour remettre… ( someone’s remit…) for the moment considering a three-tier approach… At thee different locations… Bukta, depinter and mau-B…. And of course the trajectory, space in-between.. Those lost moments of consideration near nowhere, or at least what seems to be nowhere… And as such recalling the fact that the surrealist manifesto was launched this year, good reference for our ‘ dérive’ in any case ( already had considered the excursion from Blois as point of deprature.. When is still not really clear… ( atacking a christfigure might help)….
To understand a period it is good to live in a space that had been configured in that period… If decorative trapping are also present, all the better. One cannot consider a point of view if one has a completely different one… Of course one might theorise, but not experiencing the point of view and its space, the flavour of the wallpaper and the dynamics of the airflow within, one might be excused for not understanding the attitude of the time ( becoming form and/or becoming formal.) Nose job, who nose job…
( though complaining, i was compliant… Nose job indeed!)
No S job. So much to do, don’t know where to start… Simultaneously. Cadence is the word that comes to mind, finding a sort of rhythm between the different beats ticking along sometimes in unison, often counterpoint,
Backbeat and syncopated …
(Synonym for syncopate)
Gimme gimme
Was poetry there before cave painting?
Consider: man-cave painting.
blobpainting JL/mal fait/ref Filliou’s arts birthday 2009
already december again,
Decembrist nicolaean
Considering the autocrat now housing in the Kremlin, it seems that time, its expansion and contraction, is as it was opted by that single stone, flexible...
Flexible, stretchable, rubberized or just plain formless, power distorting any sort of recognizable soul as Gogol might have noted... The revolt did not emmenate from the peasants however, but was an attempt at modernizing and reforming by the upper middling classes and young officers from good homes... Inspired no doubt by the American Revolution, with its notion of equality...
But translated to the Russian Steppes, there was not much to go on, and it was a bit of a feeble revolt soon quashed by the Tsars army... Nicholas I ... Himself a bit of a reformer, but of a very superficial and diluted sort... The sort we don't even consider nowadays, being weened on hard-hitting breaking fake news and short-cut reasoning if at all... Reason seems to be the least of anyone's worries..
( the sleep of reason)
Producing monsters from one generation to the next, even the bolsheviks could not muster an even-handed redistribution... And in the end were no better than Nicholas II, who, given half the chance might have been a better bet for most of the populace... As it is, history repeats itself and even now, with a useless bloody war being supported by the main body of the population... Why is unclear... We see ourselves forced to admit that progress does not always take place...
So saint Nick has another letter this year yearning for betterment... Peace of earth and all that, piece of mind, Eye and Ear departments...
myself to do more for the general public, to get off the seat of my pants and… well share more of the stuff happening currently – difficult because it is all up in the air all of the time, unpredictable and so maybe false…
Here a case in point, – in the file of the ‘entrepot’ question I proposed this empty postal building as semi-temporary haunt for an archive processing entity…
but alas, the plans for a 8^storey monstrosity in it’s place were pushed through against all protestations of local habitants and formed action groups – let alone that the city might appreciate that they have here a golden opportunity to save some of the left-over green areas in town…
to no avail… this is what is left of the building – one that was structurally sound and well-built, easily expanded with little or no ecological waste, a prime example of what one can do with existing structures… but no, it’s far more lucrative to wreck it all and start from scratch, building with flimsy materials so that you (the taxpayer) can start all over again in a few years…
a crying shame.
Well the year is closing up again, still no bright lights in the east, and probably will still linger, dangling, destructively for a while yet – so here just a drooping rose for now, under a spattering of snow which has gone again – in fact global warming makes it unconfortably warm here while way too cold there…
Not having found the balance, it will probably be another year of wavering and being buffetted by elements, facts and occurrances we have no influence on… who would have thought we would have an archaïc war on our doorstep or flee the plight of an pandemic disease?
Having a look at this site to resection parts of the gruzemayer complex which ahs become somewhat difficult to keep within the boundaries of the brief, whecever that may be… so do not be surprised to suddenly find reference to our legal office Grünlich & Weiss or other seemingly defunct sections such as ETO or RNO…
Already another year, and after the serious scare of the past two years glad to be still kicking, but at the same time a bit down due to the reduced amoung of (cultural) activities possible… but then had more time for nature… hopefully next year better!
take care
hopefully a good and healthy 2021
MMXX being such a strange year – will take a while to digest… new way of looking and thinking… who would have gueseed?
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