Contribution, Bert Frings

Simulacrum 4 Teeth, editor Leonor Faber-Jonker

Recht In De Ogen Contribution by Ido van Blijdesteijn

Studio Findings 2 and 6 Contribution by Lula Valletta

Early Works

Unseen early works by well-known artists.

Episode 4, Jan Dibbets, Compositie, 1965

Olieverf op papier, Rijkscollectie

Otaku 4: beter dan al dat seksuele gedoe


Editor: Otaku

Otaku disclaimer

Zelfs als u Otaku zou willen zijn – u bent het niet.

Otaku is een hersenschim. Niets in de werkelijkheid kan worden aangeduid als Otaku. Er is niets met Otaku bedoeld. Bijna niets.

Otaku: soms ben ik helemaal alleen “oog”, dan verdwijnt al het andere. Otaku heeft en is geen lichaam meer - er is geen taal meer, er is geen commentaar meer, geen zelfkritiek. Alleen maar licht, kleur, vorm, compositie – nou ja – veel meer en complexer dan wat met armzalige woorden aan te duiden is. “Ik ben” is er ook niet 

meer. Bevrijding! Geen “ik denk”, geen “ik ben”. Jammer voor Descartes. Er is als het ware alleen een oog dat door de lucht 

zweeft en kijkt – maar zonder het oog als fysiek ding. Niet dat alles ineens “goed” is – dat zijn oordelende categoriewoorden, er zijn geen categorieën meer -, maar alles wat te zien is zweeft in dat oog gevoel – want het is geen materieel oog - ongelofelijke overweldigende visuele uitingen ervaren. Maar die woorden 

kloppen helemaal niet - niet te beschrijven, het gebeurt buiten taal.

Is het een soort extase?


Otaku: geen idee, maar bijvoorbeeld die dingen die door chemische producten, alcohol, drugs of hormonen veroorzaakt worden komen zelfs niet in de buurt van dat gevoel als Otaku alleen oog is. 

Bijvoorbeeld die simpele voorspelbare seksuele dingen worden plotseling een soort periodiek terugkerende banale behoefte, een klier of zo, ingepakt met een paar geluksgevoel hormonen – geluksgevoel is altijd verdacht! Jammer dat juist op dat seksuele, als nano-extase, dan de hele schilderkunst, cultuur en 

literatuur op gebaseerd is.

Hebben andere kunstenaars dat ook?


Otaku: geen idee, er is wel een titel van een werk van Hokusai: “Een bergtop die het penseel doet wegwerpen.”. Hokusai heeft wel meer uitspraken die een beetje raar zijn, helemaal niet “kunsthistorisch verantwoord” of “om beroemd mee te worden”, dus misschien duidt dat ergens op.


Is het soms verlichting?


Otaku: wat een religieuze onzin – en dan zeker snel inpakken in allerlei regeltjes, zogenaamde heilige teksten schrijven, oorlogen beginnen, met bommen gooien en een oud mannetje aanstellen als grote bewaker van het heilige oog? 

Otaku: Dit is een ervaring die een onomkeerbare verandering 

teweegbrengt. 


Is het over te brengen, vraag je er patent op aan?


Otaku: Dus: het is geen ervaring die verkoopbaar is. Er kan geen 

sekte mee worden gesticht. Eigenlijk wordt in onze maatschappij, in 

wetenschap en cultuur ontkent dat deze ervaring bestaat, omdat er 

niet in te handelen valt. Het is geen verkoopbaar schilderij, geen 

patent, en geen castorolie, om het maar zo te formuleren. Dus 

bestaat het niet. Maar goed ook trouwens.

Is er iets van terug te vinden in je tekeningen? In de Schilderkunst?


Otaku: natuurlijk niet! Misschien komt de schilderkunst eruit voort, 

maar het is niet te vergelijken. Een flauw afgietsel waar de 

mensheid het maar mee moet doen en waar iedere toerist dan 

maar achteraan sjokt – wat moet je anders als je op vakantie bent? Allemaal naar de Mona Lisa…zielig hoor. Het is natuurlijk al 

verdacht dat iets een gouden lijst nodig heeft of een speciaal gebouw dat wit is vanbinnen. Bewakers eromheen. Dan moet er 

iets mis mee zijn? Denk aan die doorzichtige gelukshormonen, die het lichaam produceert als het iets vervelends op een prachtige manier wil inpakken….

Past in the present 4 , editor Leonor Faber-Jonker


Seabed in the city 

Bob van Persie in het atelier

contribution Woody van Amen

Contribution Jan de Bruin

The yaki sushi nori can be glued 

together with just a bit of water.


It is a sensor for water, which 

might be useful on Mars: if it starts 

raining it becomes very smelly, 

soaking up the humidity.


Because the skin produces sweat, 

it also becomes smelly on your 

skin, which produces a nice smell, 

which will save on deodorants on 

Mars.


A yaki sushi nori lifestyle trend line

is being developed and will be 

available soon. Don’t email me 

about it. Don’t follow my social 

media.

Yaki Sushi Nori Dress


Editor Contrechoc


The difference between artists and 

designers is that designers want to 

save the world but first go to Mars 

- artists want to save themselves 

and after that go to Mars.


My designer side produced the 

proposal to make eatable 

garments, of course equipped with 

interactive smart electronics.


This dress was proposed for living 

on Mars. Since there is nothing on 

Mars, but (for humans) pollution, 

terrible dust, radiation, and you 

will live only for three months 

anyway, why not grow your own 

dress, wear it, eat it, put the 

excrements in a kelp growing tank, 

and make your own dress again?

Lasagne sheets

Corinne Bonsma & Leonor Faber-Jonker


Drawing, sculpting, and baking with lasagne sheets

Editor Marina Toeters

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Fashion Tech Farm

Citaten van de designers in de Fashion Tech Farm:

16: My smart sports outfit funded by a grant from Europe just obtained a medal in the Tokyo Olympics. The only public allowed were vaccinated sneakers.

17: My intelligent garments were trying to solve the assignments I had given to my students behind my back.

18: Special grants are rewarded for innovators which help the less intelligent and under privileged pieces of our wardrobe - particularly pyjamas and socks.

19: We are specialised in treating the chronic pessimism of the wintercoat which fears extinction because of climate change.

20: De bibliotheek stuurde een fikse boete voor de boeken die gereserveerd waren door het intelligente petje - het terugbrengen van de boeken was helaas nog niet geprogrammeerd.

E-textile drawing showing a knitting in combination with some laws of electrodynamics

Knitting experiment


About designers working in the Fashion tech Farm: 


Beam Contrechoc approaches the field of e-textiles as an autonomous artist. This means the explorations are not the result of a paid job. All concepts developed in this autonomous way have found applications. The 

world of e-textiles in all its paradoxes is still unexplored and wildly rich of possibilities. Combine this with the

rich and long tradition of art…




Mission Statement:


In the Toekomstpyjama – impossible to translate in English– Beam Contrechoc contributes to the mental health of the world by offering his humoristic approach in projects which are meant to be totally serious. This is done in citations, drawings, e-textile experiments and publications both “on-line” and “ongarments”.

Ondertussen op de Lijnbaan                                                                   

Is This The Solution

Uncomfortable                                                                                                                                  Contribution by Corinne Bonsma

Publication Textiles 4


By editor Beam Contrechoc


In this series the peculiar way of an artistic research into the concept of “publication textiles” is traced as it happened.



In episode 3 the cube was used to experiment with the idea of publication textiles.


Although this cube is “soft”, it is still a cube, that is a geometrical shape suggesting “hardness”.



The next step is experimenting with a textile on a soft shape, that is the body shape.


For this next step in publication textiles a new text was written. It turned out to be impossible to use texts of others. The texts will be deformed, there will be invisible parts, or parts “at the other side” – this cannot be done with a text of another author.


The big question is: is the purpose of the text still “readability”? Can it be seen as being “published”? What if Gutenberg had printed the Bible on garments? Is it that we have been taught that a book is “a publication text’ but anything else is not? Could we get used to other surfaces for publications? We embraced the computer screen although it neither is a book – and it is not very convenient to read more than a few lines of text.

The text printed on the garment:

That we have to move

Forward only eyelike

That we are here

That we have to repeat

The same stories

That the illusions

Chemical trickery

Bumping into other bodies

Is the story

Our brain is a prothesis

Moments and garments

We forget

Listen to music

We forget before And after

Bumping into other stories

That we see & conquer

Go faster than other bodies

Think and imagine

How impressive

Even being so smart

Or so our prothesis thinks & forgets

Standing still is moving

Reading is addiction

Just be profound - Try story repeat

Wait for the moments

Forgetting even about that

Using credentials Could be imposing

Then at the right moment

Follow our crying rules

Don’t even think of thinking

How impressive How recursive

Garments prothesis brain

Words that then

Verbs repeat forget

Meaning:

We only go forwards because our eyes are looking in the forward direction, we neglect the backside for example the past.


We are basically just repeating what someone else has taught us  (to repeat), we are endlessly doing the same things over and over again. This is a sad feeling, so sad…..(but who told us to repeat that this is sad?)

All our thoughts and feelings is just chemicals, hormones. (This is what they told us to repeat.)


We repeat and forget

Forget that we forget

And repeat the stories

Which are repeated.

We think we are better, faster, smarter than other bodies: illusions of the brain inside the skull.

But we forget faster than we even can imagine forgetting is

Crying rules: even our deepest feelings is just following these rules – see drawing about fake feelings in another contribution in this episode.


Recursive: we repeat even the not even realizing we are following the rules – of forgetting.

Otaku saw this post and criticized:


1.    The text itself is already unreadable, even printed flat even on a paper

2.    printing a text on a garment makes any text unreadable

3.    text on a garment is seen as “texture”, not as something to read.

4.    Outside normal publication media, like a page, a book or online, a text will never be understood as having the purpose of reading it.

5.    The fact that a text is printed on a garment makes it suspicious, since any garment is suspicious in the act of trying to be more than a garment.   

6.    What is the meaning of the circular structure of the content of the text, the repetitions?

7.    If the meaning is not clear it does not communicate

8.    Something that does not communicate is not art

9.    Something that is not communicated as art is not art

10.    Something that is not in a series is not even to be considered to be a serious attempt to be art

11.    Something not in a golden frame or gallery or museum is not art

12.    Everything shown is just a printed t-shirt

Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen, Verval 20-9-2021

Episode 4: Swatch Exchange Rituals: Emotion, Hard Work, Sacrifice


Editor Beam Contrechoc

Reminder:As from thesummer of 2013 e-textile designers came

 togetherin the small village of Poncé sur le Loirin the middle of 

Francein“Les Moulins de Paillard”.Hannah Pernier Wilson from 

Berlin came up with the idea of an “exchange” of physical 

e-textiles in the form of a “book”.The participants had to bring 25 

copies of one of their experiments.

http://etextile-summercamp.org/swatch-exchange/

Real Magic

The swatch starts on the internet. Then it becomes real. It evolves 

in 25 copies, which are not industrial copies. If the mounting, the discovering of the real swatch is the magic, this means that the pages published on the internet are lacking something vital. Are 

we immune for pictures on the internet? Unconvincing, too easy, too much photoshopped? Proximity. Holding something in your 

hand – is that missing on the internet?

Is that missing in the online Fifth Trade-Plough?

Emotional

There was a museum interested in the 2013 swatchbook. This provoked a discussion, because swatch book production is limited to the producing participants and the museum asked for it 

without participating. There is no copy more than the number of 

the participants (normally, because there are exceptions, 2016 

and 2017). The participants could not agree on changing the ritual for the museum. The controversy between the honor of becoming part of a museum collection, the museum getting a free copy and sticking to the ritual aroused emotions amongst the participants.

Hard work, Sacrifice

•    Could the swatch production be called a “sacrifice”?

•    To belong you need to sacrifice.

•    Sacrifice is opposed to value and money.

•    The sacrifice is exchanged and ritualized.

•    By the exchange of the sacrifice the in between-ness               overcomes the normal mode of self performance and ego constructing.



2015 Swatch – Beam Contrechoc

The total collection of knitted swatches.

Inside are sheets which collect statical energy when moved.

This statical energy could be enough to make the LED shine.

Or not.

Contribution by hannah perner-wilsom

De vlag van Taxania, Contribution by Woody van Amen