Archive for July, 2010
Duchamp
Saturday, July 24th, 2010D.: I’ve never read Descartes to speak of. … I am not a Cartesian by pleasure. I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you. *
*Eric Cameron: „Given”. In: De Duve, Thierry (ed.): The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp (Nova Scoatia College of Art and Design, Halifax Nova Scotia). Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991, p. 17.
Duchamp
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010D.: A game of Chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn’t geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves; it’ s a drawing, it’ s a mechanical reality.*
* Eric Cameron: „Given”. In: De Duve, Thierry (ed.): The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp (Nova Scoatia College of Art and Design, Halifax Nova Scotia). Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991, p. 16.
Duchamp
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010D.: Cabanne asked me once:„What do you believe in?” and I answered: Nothing of course! The word ‚belief’ is another error. It’s like the word ‚judgement’,they ‘re both horrible ideas, on which the world is based. I hope it won’ t be like that on the moon!*
* Eric Cameron: „Given”. In: De Duve, Thierry (ed.): The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp (Nova Scoatia College of Art and Design, Halifax Nova Scotia). Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991, p. 6.
Duchamp
Saturday, July 17th, 2010D.: Cabanne ask me also: „Nevertheless you believe in yourself?” and I answered: No.*
Vessel Farm
Friday, July 16th, 2010Realometer: A text is vessel.
Jab: A book is a vessel which carriers vessels. Rhyming is a sort of trimming a vessel.
Vessel Farm
Thursday, July 15th, 2010Jab: Words are like waves. Listening to words, speaking them out loudly, reading or writing them we adapt to unstable conditions.
Vessel farm
Monday, July 12th, 2010Realometer: This is no longer stable. Climate shift, volcanic ashes, financial conditions in the gene agroculturual industry … all this highly destabilizes the frame work of farming.
Jab.: Yes, the very foundations of dwelling are shaken. Therefore dwelling and living are forms of navigation in uncharted regions.