Inhoudsopgave Episode 4:
Simulacrum 4 Teeth, editor Leonor Faber-Jonker
Recht In De Ogen Contribution by Ido van Blijdesteijn
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….
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
51.438470688796706,
5.443782327506125
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.
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.
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.
Contribution by hannah perner-wilsom
De vlag van Taxania, Contribution by Woody van Amen