Author Archive

Powerlessness

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

J: A post is not a book. A post in a blog is a way of agreement, an agreement to the programming of a social machine (partly programmed as a Turing Machine). A book (reading or writing) is a way of facing the power and the powerlessnes of subversion:

“There is no door for the blind.”*

and:

“God provides reading matter. He does not read.”**

* Edmond Jabès: Le Livre des Ressemblances [Paris 1976]. Paris: Gallimard, 1991, p. 195.

** Edmond Jabès: The little book of unsuspected subversion [Translated by Rosmarie Waldrop]. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996, p. 30.

Nils Röller: Realometer as a Turing Machine

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Realometer gathers informations about the Turing Machine (TM).  Parts of himself function like a Turing Machine: He reads a sign in a certain state of mind; he accepts the sign or deletes the sign; he changes his state of mind or not; then he moves forward to the next sign or not (next click in yahooland).

D. doubts that. There are no discrete signs for a 20th century artist.  Signs are only vehicles (patrol cars) of the common sense. Of course discrete signs are part of the art game, but they do not match to the demands of an art which is interested in challenging borders of perception (where does a spot of color starts to be more or less than a point, becomes part of a tree (see one post before), of a hand (see other posts before)  or of something never seen or heard before (see other posts)?)

Markus Stegmann: Becher der Hand

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Die Herkunft der Strasse wendet unseren Blick, als Falschmehl vom Himmel schneit, kaum dass der Morgen die Giebel unserer Augen trocknete. Wald wächst aus den Adern der Kinder, als sie schlafen, Becher der Hand. Erschrockenes Blut gerinnt im selben Atemzug mit der fliehenden Nacht.

Sampurna Chattarji: Space Gulliver III

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

‘Food’. ‘Pickle’. ‘Chalk’. For some reason that
can be attributed to hunger of various kinds, maybe,

Space Gulliver finds these words floating before her.
She isn’t sure where they came from, whether their arrival

will be followed by the real things, food, pickle, and chalk.
She could use a little food, something to see her through

another night. She always liked picking out the garlic
from the pickle. Now, in a yahooland where no one

has heard of the Bermuda Triangle, she feels all tastes
are disappearing. Bitter gourd, sweet lime, sour plantain.

Variables, constants. Space Gulliver is looking for a line,
a chalk mountain, a little white sign on a black, black slate

Sampurna Chattarji

Judith Albert

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Sampurna Chattarji: Space Gulliver

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Pinned to the ground that is her shadow
By a thousand Lilliputian laughs.

Nothing can touch her.

Sing a melody that will untangle
The dark cloud of her hair.

Is this the box they will bury me in?
Her day has been rigid, and square.

Neither bone nor blood.

What she longs for is
The heart of a helium circle.

She sees patterns everywhere.

Sampurna Chattarji

Judith Albert

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Judith Albert

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Sampurna Chattarji: Gift

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Itinerant fragment

Rove the earth

Looking for blue snow

The cetacean’s song

The singular whisper of a feather.

*

Nomad of the broken syllable

Seeking the sky

May not lead to wholeness.

The flooding of air into your lung

The beginning of a difficult voyage.

*

Push your peripatetic beak

Into the magician’s hat.

Ribbons, scarves, copper wires, cathodes.

A ship in a bottle.

A mercury lake in the palm of a hand.

*

Link your lines

To the snail’s spiral.

Be unafraid of the opposite of speed.

Gather every gift

And walk across the untamed page.


Sampurna Chattarji

Tränen-Tote: Mogelei

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Anmerkung zum Auto und damit zu Bildern, die wir heute haben, während frühere Zeiten sie nicht hatten:  Während sich Duchamp und Beuys mit unsichtbaren Kräften (nicht-retinalen Osterhasen) beschäftigen, denken wir über Mechaniken nach, über Autos, Bratenwender, Maschinen. Im Unterschied zu dem Wirbel, den die Schamanen um ihre Osterhasen, Kojoten, Phiolen und Pelikanherzen erzeugen, machen wir nichts anderes, als in der Sprachmaschine zu sitzen und diverse Gänge ihrer Schaltung auszuprobieren, Versuche in Scheisse eben oder Versuche, den Ast abzusägen, auf dem wir sitzen.

Dabei mogeln wir – wenn mogeln bedeutet ungenau zu sein, wo man genau sein kann – wohl ein bisschen, wenn wir zum Beispiel dieses Gespräch mit einem Tonband aufzeichnen, also unsere Wortgangschaltungen von elektrisch-magnetischen Kräften aufnehmen und speichern lassen. Wir sollten darauf verzichten, solange wir nicht genau wissen, wie so ein Tonband genau funktioniert.

Wer sagt was wir sollen?

Die Sprachmaschine!

Und was ist mit dem Tonband?

Das legt uns nahe, aufzuzeichen, was wir hier sagen.