Jab.: Being in tune equals being part of a wave, of surfing within a greater movement. A surf board is already a vessel. A text is vessel, when you read or write; an image is a vessel, when you make or look at it (an exhibition is a harbor of different vessels). It all starts with leaving.

Realometer: Starting or beginning? Start sounds decisive; beginning carries notions of flux, of feedback, of several components that activate or detain themselves viceversa.

Jab: Henry the Navigator asked others to start journeys of discovering. Others had to leave the stable land of their dwelling. Henry acted within a special temporal space. Navigation was necessary in order to maintain future stability of his country. So he acted with a vision of temporal change. The will to change is principal. This will is based on a relation to time and space. I wonder about analogies to our live and dwelling, today: We are based in a head farm. We buy, set and grow seeds. This includes already time management. But we remain withhin rather stable space and time limits. By the way Henry’ s discoverer were searching for the christian kingdom of St. John the priest. St. John’ s kingdom and its military forces should become allies in the christian battles against the saracenes.

(Henry the Navigator? Image of a person supposed to be Henry the Navigator, from the Polytriptych of St. Vincent in the National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon found at: Commons.wikimedia.org)

Jab.:We should change the name of our quarter. What about Head Vessel ? Every start begins with a sensation of uncomfortness, with the will to change, to leave stability.

Mag.: No, changes start because of a  good feeling, of being in tune.

Here a service on Heads in the Nuclear Industry:

Head I

(Concept of a Future High Pressure – Boiling Water Reactor, HP-BWR
Frigyes Reisch: Nuclear Power Safety, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden)

Reactor vessel head and reactor internals

Head II

(U.S. Cedes Capability for Largest Nuclear Forgings As the world prepares for a new age of nuclear power, demand rises for ultra-heavy forgings to build the reactors. Here’s a closer look at the reasons that the U.S. can’t deliver the supply. By Peter Alpern)

Fabricating a nuclear reactor vessel head. Seven of the components of such structures are forgings that weigh over 500 tons. Nuclear-plant builder Areva is installing this fabricating capability in the U.S., comparable to what it now performs at a French plant.

The compass of pirate captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy points to a new evaluation of the relationship between Man and his world by means of instruments. More

Ein Kompass, der dahin zeigt, was man am meisten wünscht, bestimmt die Handlung in den Filmen „Piraten der Karibik” (2003, 2006, 2007). Eine Replik des Geräts in den Händen des Piratenkapitäns Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) zeigt die Ausstellung Magnetische Erfahrungen, die noch bis zum 16. Juni 2010 in der Zentralbibliothek Zürich zu sehen ist.

Video

Judith Albert, two kinds, 2010, Videostills mit Zeichnung überarbeitet, Inkjetprint

Magnetische Erfahrungen

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Ravi Agarwal

Where Three Dreams Cross

Our perception is shaped by reading. Therefore we orientate ourselves in an image in two directions: top down (head – trousers) and right left (one hole after the other).