Friday, 28 August 2009
Dramatic Treatment for A Million Lies; Once and Only Revealed After Death (Triangle of Need)
Two folk singers are presented to an audience, a male singer and a female singer; they present three songs: an email scam is reinterpreted into a fake language that uses word forms from Swedish, Japanese and The Muppets, it has been written in the style of a man with incredible wealth whose desire is to resurrect a lost species, perhaps Neanderthal, his obsession with this recreation is non-specific; the second song is based on the life of the gun heiress Sarah Winchester and a proposal that the psychic who told her her fortune, which saw her indulge her wealth in a non-stop architectural project in San Jose, California, was actually a con artist seeking a vast share of her fortune; the third song is a new setting of the sea shanty Shallow Brown, from an arrangement by Percy Grainger and HE Piggott from 1908/1910. Shallow Brown, who was a sailor, and of a multi-racial background, known then as ‘challo’, and ostracized for his identity, was notorious for his philandering at different ports of call during his adventures at sea. It was claimed he stole the identity of different people at each port of call allowing him to create elaborate narratives for himself, employing these pretences to seduce women. The setting changes to Shallow Brown as he finds himself in the ship’s hold for an unnamed crime. Meanwhile Percy Grainger’s musical notes from his arrangement of the shanty are read, indicating that Brown received his moniker because he was shallow in his heart. In the hold Brown imagines the life of an immensely wealthy woman who he would seduce, fall in love with and eventually steal the fortune from, his time in the cell allows his imagination to run riot, however he is unaware that he is actually dreaming about the life of a real person, Sarah Winchester, and he has now entered her imagination. Sarah has become a prisoner to superstition, incredible wealth and a desire to remove herself from the public scrutiny, she indulges her every whim and lives out a life saturated by her superstition, she is motivated by a desire for immortality and conducts daily séances that reveal her future. She understands that the spirits killed by the gun that made her family fortune are returning to haunt her and during a psychic reading in Boston is informed that she must never stop building her home in order to protect her from these spirits; her home by the time of her death has become vastly complex, labyrinthine and enormously indulgent, the result of 38 years of non-stop additions, remodelling and adaptations. Sarah, on her death, leaves her fortune to a niece who receives the news of her new fortune in a letter delivered by Sarah’s family lawyers. The letter is read, but it is actually an email scam from the present and it has been rewritten attempting to share a ‘fortune’ of $20.50. A series of spirits in the form of Scotch and Bourbon are drunk by the narrator. The email scam read is the same one used by the American artist Catherine Sullivan from her work Triangle of Need, which the narrator viewed in New York, and also wrote reviews of, published in a series of online and print magazines. The spirits he is drinking are actually hallucinogenic and he enters the imagination of Catherine Sullivan. At the same moment a woman on screen reads out the dosage of tranquilizers she has taken to stem the severity of her panic attacks brought on by the stresses associated by her bullying repulsive employer. Sullivan’s dramatic treatment of Triangle of Need is read briefly concentrating on James Deering an early 20th century industrialist in Miami who built an opulent estate from his huge wealth; he is also a film collector and his wealth allows him to retreat from real life yet viewing it through films from the Pathescope collection of short films, in now redundant film formats. The films show normal scenes from everyday life, scenes from anthropology, just general footage. The narrator mentions an ice-skater seen in the original Triangle of Need film by Catherine Sullivan and also a similar ice-skater in a film made by the Scottish artist Wendy McMurdo. All the while we see scenes from Frank Capra’s film It’s A Wonderful Life, re-imagined by the artist Lewis Holleran, who has removed the scenes which see the central character George Bailey ‘experience’ life as though he had never existed. Holleran’s film appears in the list of films James Deering collected. A different man named Deering appears, a criminal, and death row inmate, who allows an experiment on his heart to take place at the moment of his execution. In this moment he imagine a life outside of crime, confinement and imprisonment. He understands at this moment of death, the shallowness of his heart. These ideas of confinement and desire find themselves within one of Sarah Winchester’s daily séances, none of which have ever been recorded. A second scam email is read, this time a job offer to join the crew of a ship that will sail the ocean, the ship is apparently the property of a company that specializes in indulging the whims of the wealthy, meanwhile the perpetrator of the scam alludes to the good quality nature of its proposed victim. The action moves to Moonbase Alpha from the TV series Space 1999. The crew of this space station based on the moon have been blown out of earth’s orbit and are now adrift in the universe. Alone and isolated they plan to inhabit a new planet. Years into their journey a crew member believes he knows where they can find a habitable planet, but the Captain of the space station is unconvinced and secures any attempts to locate this, as he believes, fictional planet. He locks down any tracking devises, any navigation devices and any technology that would allow them to scan for this new home. He fears raising hopes and desires of the crew members. Suspicious of his Captain’s motivations and now without the technology to seek this planet the crew member devises a séance to find it location. The séance proves futile and the obsessed crew member, now realizing he has been hallucinating due to extended confinement, demands that all the screens and technologies are switched off forever. Finally, a new character appears, the disgraced New York Times journalist Jayson Blair, who was found to have falsified and/or plagiarized his news stories; he describes the moment when his employers confront him with his deceptions.
Two folk singers are presented to an audience, a male singer and a female singer; they present three songs: an email scam is reinterpreted into a fake language that uses word forms from Swedish, Japanese and The Muppets, it has been written in the style of a man with incredible wealth whose desire is to resurrect a lost species, perhaps Neanderthal, his obsession with this recreation is non-specific; the second song is based on the life of the gun heiress Sarah Winchester and a proposal that the psychic who told her her fortune, which saw her indulge her wealth in a non-stop architectural project in San Jose, California, was actually a con artist seeking a vast share of her fortune; the third song is a new setting of the sea shanty Shallow Brown, from an arrangement by Percy Grainger and HE Piggott from 1908/1910. Shallow Brown, who was a sailor, and of a multi-racial background, known then as ‘challo’, and ostracized for his identity, was notorious for his philandering at different ports of call during his adventures at sea. It was claimed he stole the identity of different people at each port of call allowing him to create elaborate narratives for himself, employing these pretences to seduce women. The setting changes to Shallow Brown as he finds himself in the ship’s hold for an unnamed crime. Meanwhile Percy Grainger’s musical notes from his arrangement of the shanty are read, indicating that Brown received his moniker because he was shallow in his heart. In the hold Brown imagines the life of an immensely wealthy woman who he would seduce, fall in love with and eventually steal the fortune from, his time in the cell allows his imagination to run riot, however he is unaware that he is actually dreaming about the life of a real person, Sarah Winchester, and he has now entered her imagination. Sarah has become a prisoner to superstition, incredible wealth and a desire to remove herself from the public scrutiny, she indulges her every whim and lives out a life saturated by her superstition, she is motivated by a desire for immortality and conducts daily séances that reveal her future. She understands that the spirits killed by the gun that made her family fortune are returning to haunt her and during a psychic reading in Boston is informed that she must never stop building her home in order to protect her from these spirits; her home by the time of her death has become vastly complex, labyrinthine and enormously indulgent, the result of 38 years of non-stop additions, remodelling and adaptations. Sarah, on her death, leaves her fortune to a niece who receives the news of her new fortune in a letter delivered by Sarah’s family lawyers. The letter is read, but it is actually an email scam from the present and it has been rewritten attempting to share a ‘fortune’ of $20.50. A series of spirits in the form of Scotch and Bourbon are drunk by the narrator. The email scam read is the same one used by the American artist Catherine Sullivan from her work Triangle of Need, which the narrator viewed in New York, and also wrote reviews of, published in a series of online and print magazines. The spirits he is drinking are actually hallucinogenic and he enters the imagination of Catherine Sullivan. At the same moment a woman on screen reads out the dosage of tranquilizers she has taken to stem the severity of her panic attacks brought on by the stresses associated by her bullying repulsive employer. Sullivan’s dramatic treatment of Triangle of Need is read briefly concentrating on James Deering an early 20th century industrialist in Miami who built an opulent estate from his huge wealth; he is also a film collector and his wealth allows him to retreat from real life yet viewing it through films from the Pathescope collection of short films, in now redundant film formats. The films show normal scenes from everyday life, scenes from anthropology, just general footage. The narrator mentions an ice-skater seen in the original Triangle of Need film by Catherine Sullivan and also a similar ice-skater in a film made by the Scottish artist Wendy McMurdo. All the while we see scenes from Frank Capra’s film It’s A Wonderful Life, re-imagined by the artist Lewis Holleran, who has removed the scenes which see the central character George Bailey ‘experience’ life as though he had never existed. Holleran’s film appears in the list of films James Deering collected. A different man named Deering appears, a criminal, and death row inmate, who allows an experiment on his heart to take place at the moment of his execution. In this moment he imagine a life outside of crime, confinement and imprisonment. He understands at this moment of death, the shallowness of his heart. These ideas of confinement and desire find themselves within one of Sarah Winchester’s daily séances, none of which have ever been recorded. A second scam email is read, this time a job offer to join the crew of a ship that will sail the ocean, the ship is apparently the property of a company that specializes in indulging the whims of the wealthy, meanwhile the perpetrator of the scam alludes to the good quality nature of its proposed victim. The action moves to Moonbase Alpha from the TV series Space 1999. The crew of this space station based on the moon have been blown out of earth’s orbit and are now adrift in the universe. Alone and isolated they plan to inhabit a new planet. Years into their journey a crew member believes he knows where they can find a habitable planet, but the Captain of the space station is unconvinced and secures any attempts to locate this, as he believes, fictional planet. He locks down any tracking devises, any navigation devices and any technology that would allow them to scan for this new home. He fears raising hopes and desires of the crew members. Suspicious of his Captain’s motivations and now without the technology to seek this planet the crew member devises a séance to find it location. The séance proves futile and the obsessed crew member, now realizing he has been hallucinating due to extended confinement, demands that all the screens and technologies are switched off forever. Finally, a new character appears, the disgraced New York Times journalist Jayson Blair, who was found to have falsified and/or plagiarized his news stories; he describes the moment when his employers confront him with his deceptions.
Sunday, 23 August 2009
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
7. Shallow Brown
I couldn’t leave the hold, and the stench smothered me like a blanket. I felt the razor-sharp pins on their chins cut me in pricks. I bled and the room became darker and lighter and then darker and lighter. I wrote on the wall. I counted days. I sang songs to myself.
What songs did you sing?
The story of my life. How I was born and brought up.
Can you sing me that song?
I am singing it.
From: Land of Dreams, Chapter One
Words: Trad arr Harding
Music: sung by Mr. John Perring at Dartmouth, January 1908, noted by H.E. Piggott and Percy Grainger in The Journal of The Folk-Song Society #12
Shallow Brown
(words: Trad Arr Harding)
Shallow Brown, you’re going to leave me
Shallow, Shallow Brown
Shallow Brown, you’re going to leave me
Shallow, Shallow Brown
Shallow Brown, don’t you deceive me
Shallow, Shallow Brown
Shallow Brown, don’t you deceive me
Shallow, Shallow Brown
You’re going away across the ocean
Shallow, Shallow Brown
You’re going away across the ocean
Shallow, Shallow Brown
And will you climb them distant mountains?
Shallow, Shallow brown
Try to find them crystal fountains?
Shallow, Shallow brown
You said I love you Juliana
Shallow oh shallow brown
I truly love you Juliana
Shallow oh shallow brown
You’ll always be my heart’s devotion
Shallow, Shallow Brown
You’ll always be my heart’s devotion
Shallow, Shallow Brown
For your return my heart is burning
Shallow, Shallow Brown
For your return my heart is burning
Shallow, Shallow Brown
When you return, we will get married
Shallow, Shallow Brown
When you return, we will get married
Shallow, Shallow Brown
Shallow Brown, you’re going to leave me
Shallow, Shallow Brown
Shallow Brown, you’re going to leave me
Shallow, Shallow Brown
I couldn’t leave the hold, and the stench smothered me like a blanket. I felt the razor-sharp pins on their chins cut me in pricks. I bled and the room became darker and lighter and then darker and lighter. I wrote on the wall. I counted days. I sang songs to myself.
What songs did you sing?
The story of my life. How I was born and brought up.
Can you sing me that song?
I am singing it.
From: Land of Dreams, Chapter One
Words: Trad arr Harding
Music: sung by Mr. John Perring at Dartmouth, January 1908, noted by H.E. Piggott and Percy Grainger in The Journal of The Folk-Song Society #12
Shallow Brown
(words: Trad Arr Harding)
Shallow Brown, you’re going to leave me
Shallow, Shallow Brown
Shallow Brown, you’re going to leave me
Shallow, Shallow Brown
Shallow Brown, don’t you deceive me
Shallow, Shallow Brown
Shallow Brown, don’t you deceive me
Shallow, Shallow Brown
You’re going away across the ocean
Shallow, Shallow Brown
You’re going away across the ocean
Shallow, Shallow Brown
And will you climb them distant mountains?
Shallow, Shallow brown
Try to find them crystal fountains?
Shallow, Shallow brown
You said I love you Juliana
Shallow oh shallow brown
I truly love you Juliana
Shallow oh shallow brown
You’ll always be my heart’s devotion
Shallow, Shallow Brown
You’ll always be my heart’s devotion
Shallow, Shallow Brown
For your return my heart is burning
Shallow, Shallow Brown
For your return my heart is burning
Shallow, Shallow Brown
When you return, we will get married
Shallow, Shallow Brown
When you return, we will get married
Shallow, Shallow Brown
Shallow Brown, you’re going to leave me
Shallow, Shallow Brown
Shallow Brown, you’re going to leave me
Shallow, Shallow Brown
Sunday, 21 June 2009
Monday, 4 May 2009
1. EXT. MOONBASE ALPHA (SFX)
Eagle leaves base (from series titles).
HELENA (VO): "Moonbase Alpha Status Report. Two thousand and twelve days after leaving Earth orbit. Doctor Helena Russell recording. It is now three weeks since we " [Sarah]
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Tora.
HELENA (VO): " sighted the space phenomenon we call Tora. Within the next twenty four hours "[Sarah]
Eagle leaves Moon.
HELENA (VO): " we shall know whether it is a habitable planet. But false hopes have been raised before, "[Sarah]
3.INT. COMMAND CENTRE
HELENA (VO): " and since Commander Koenig doesn't want to raise false hopes again, he has ordered the few people who are aware of the situation to keep it secret. Command Centre has been put off limits to all but a few chosen personnel."
Narration over: Maya leaves Computer & sits at her desk. Tony moves to his desk.
4.INT. RECREATION CENTRE
The grey haired Cernik plays chess with Eva using perspex tubes for pieces.
SANDERSON (at comms post): "The picture's gone, I don't understand it." ((aggressively)) "We've got a right to know what's happening." [Sarah]
CERNIK: "Well, something is, that's for sure. The Command Centre's off limits, the screens are all blank." [Sarah]
SANDERSON: "We're approaching a planet, a habitable planet, I'm sure of it."
EVA: "You've predicted it before." [Sarah]
SANDERSON: "Well, these things take time to work out." [Sarah]
CERNIK: "But why is Koenig keeping it from us?" [Sarah]
SANDERSON: "Well, I can guess. But why should we guess, let's find out."
Sanderson leads Cernik, Eva & Stevens out. [Sarah]
5.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Eagle flies under nebula. [Sarah]
…
12.INT. COMMAND CENTRE
SANDERSON (entering): "Don't tell me, I'm not supposed to be here, right? Well, I am here. And I'm going to find out what you've got on that screen."
TONY: "You're off limits, Sanderson." [Sarah]
Sanderson shoots Tony, Maya (who falls over the command desk) & Sandra as she rises. [Sarah]
SANDERSON: "Eva. Open the Big Screen." ((Eva goes to Koenig's desk. To Cernik:)) "Shut the doors." ((Eva pushes Maya off the desk and sits at it))
-Big Screen (SFX): Tora. (sc 13) [Sarah]
SANDERSON: "Like I said. A planet."
-Command Centre (sc 14)
CERNIK: "But is it habitable?"
SANDERSON: "We'll need another astroprediction for that. Get prepared. Eva, turn of the computers."
Eva switches off the computer banks & lights. They assemble 4 chairs in a circle & raise linked hands.
SANDERSON: "Concentrate...concentrate...total concentration.."
ALL: "Total concentration."
-Big Screen (SFX): Tora.
-Command Centre.
ALL: "Total concentration."
-Big Screen (SFX): Tora.
-Command Centre
ALL: "Total concentration." [Sarah]
15.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Eagle flies under nebula.
Eagle leaves base (from series titles).
HELENA (VO): "Moonbase Alpha Status Report. Two thousand and twelve days after leaving Earth orbit. Doctor Helena Russell recording. It is now three weeks since we " [Sarah]
EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Tora.
HELENA (VO): " sighted the space phenomenon we call Tora. Within the next twenty four hours "[Sarah]
Eagle leaves Moon.
HELENA (VO): " we shall know whether it is a habitable planet. But false hopes have been raised before, "[Sarah]
3.INT. COMMAND CENTRE
HELENA (VO): " and since Commander Koenig doesn't want to raise false hopes again, he has ordered the few people who are aware of the situation to keep it secret. Command Centre has been put off limits to all but a few chosen personnel."
Narration over: Maya leaves Computer & sits at her desk. Tony moves to his desk.
4.INT. RECREATION CENTRE
The grey haired Cernik plays chess with Eva using perspex tubes for pieces.
SANDERSON (at comms post): "The picture's gone, I don't understand it." ((aggressively)) "We've got a right to know what's happening." [Sarah]
CERNIK: "Well, something is, that's for sure. The Command Centre's off limits, the screens are all blank." [Sarah]
SANDERSON: "We're approaching a planet, a habitable planet, I'm sure of it."
EVA: "You've predicted it before." [Sarah]
SANDERSON: "Well, these things take time to work out." [Sarah]
CERNIK: "But why is Koenig keeping it from us?" [Sarah]
SANDERSON: "Well, I can guess. But why should we guess, let's find out."
Sanderson leads Cernik, Eva & Stevens out. [Sarah]
5.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Eagle flies under nebula. [Sarah]
…
12.INT. COMMAND CENTRE
SANDERSON (entering): "Don't tell me, I'm not supposed to be here, right? Well, I am here. And I'm going to find out what you've got on that screen."
TONY: "You're off limits, Sanderson." [Sarah]
Sanderson shoots Tony, Maya (who falls over the command desk) & Sandra as she rises. [Sarah]
SANDERSON: "Eva. Open the Big Screen." ((Eva goes to Koenig's desk. To Cernik:)) "Shut the doors." ((Eva pushes Maya off the desk and sits at it))
-Big Screen (SFX): Tora. (sc 13) [Sarah]
SANDERSON: "Like I said. A planet."
-Command Centre (sc 14)
CERNIK: "But is it habitable?"
SANDERSON: "We'll need another astroprediction for that. Get prepared. Eva, turn of the computers."
Eva switches off the computer banks & lights. They assemble 4 chairs in a circle & raise linked hands.
SANDERSON: "Concentrate...concentrate...total concentration.."
ALL: "Total concentration."
-Big Screen (SFX): Tora.
-Command Centre.
ALL: "Total concentration."
-Big Screen (SFX): Tora.
-Command Centre
ALL: "Total concentration." [Sarah]
15.EXT. SPACE (SFX)
Eagle flies under nebula.
Thursday, 30 April 2009
Screen Tests. Draft soundtrack. 3 screens. Filmed during a Creative Lab Residency at the CCA, Glasgow and on location.
The distribution of Alt-w awards is managed by New Media Scotland and funded by Scottish Screen and Scottish Arts Council.
ART TORRENTS: Jeremy Blake - Century 21 (2004)
His latest subject is Sarah Winchester, the eccentric heir to a firearm fortune. .... Mark Leckey - Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) · Francis McKee - In ... - Similar pages
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This work, a multi-channel video and performance, commingles complex synchronised narratives, biographies and re-enactments investigating lies, need and imitation to scrutinize identity and its theft.
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A Million Lies; Once and Only Revealed After Death is a multi-channel video installation and performance, which deploys numerous references, fake identities, email scams, archetypes and biographies, texts and participants to scrutinize identity and its theft through an intense investigation on lies, need, deception, belief, imitation, superstition, deliberate misinformation equated with multiple theatre and cinematic genres, techniques and traditions. Using improvised performance-led processes it considers the fragility of identity and memory from external physical or technological sources or through the materialization of internal psychological or physiological distress. The work collides abrasively these narratives and chronologies using live and pre-recorded performance.
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A Million Lies; Once and Only Revealed After Death is a multi-channel video installation and performance which orchestrates exceedingly complex, abrasive and synchronised sets of ideas surrounding lies, imitation, deception, need, wealth, desire, belief, superstition and resources/means. Citing Nicolas Bourriaud’s Postproduction thesis its mirrors a contemporary alignment of visual art practice with DJ practice assembling and re-deploying pre-existing materials with the arbitrary, disordered, abstract. disorientating condition of the exploiting the ‘search engine’ to generate an intense narrative of collided, collage-led, editorialised extracts and references. The performance collides and synchronizes live and pre-recorded materials cued to a multi-channel video installation devised by a group of artist and performance collaborators who have worked with Alex Hetherington since November 2008. The story revolves round the correlation of four central inter-related narratives and artworks: the biography of eccentric gun heiress Sarah Winchester and the heir to her fortune and the Winchester Suite, a video installation by the artist Jeremy Blake with the falsified narratives of email scams, where a huge fortune is discovered following a violent death. The second narrative exploits and re-enacts elements of American artist Catherine Sullivan’s film works The Chittendens and Triangle of Need equating their distressing, disorientating sensibilities with the progressive dismantling of the memory and identity of Alex Hetherington’s mother. Alongside this are related references to the psychology and consequences of lying, the employment of disjointed chronologies, and extracts from selected correspondingly fake artworks, films, theatre and music, continuing to, at once, establish and dismantle identity and its values.
Alex Hetherington is an air-head, with no personality and a shameless desire to be someone else.
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Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Thursday, 23 April 2009
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Thursday, 16 April 2009
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Saturday, 11 April 2009
Sarah Winchester séance based on Space 1999 script
A new planet is sighted, but is it habitable? By holding a seance, one of Alpha's crew becomes convinced that it is and tries to force Commander Koenig to evacuate all Alphans onto this new, green land.
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conj2[0] = "am";
conj1[1] = "am";
conj2[1] = "are";
conj1[2] = "were";
conj2[2] = "was";
conj1[3] = "was";
conj2[3] = "were";
conj1[4] = "I";
conj2[4] = "you"
conj1[0] = "are";
conj2[0] = "am";
conj1[1] = "am";
conj2[1] = "are";
conj1[2] = "were";
conj2[2] = "was";
conj1[3] = "was";
conj2[3] = "were";
conj1[4] = "I";
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Thursday, 9 April 2009
A green isle in the sea, love (The original text is hopelessly out of date)
A fountain and a shrine (there is still time brother)
At the end of these strands of paste (20.5 Million US dollars)
My private wish begins to flake (Sarah Winchester)
My purple pearl, again Eulalie (there is still time brother)
And so, all my days are trances (Poses and fever)
All my nightly dreams (Ninja version)
Are where thy grey eye glances (Clusterbomb shrapnel)
And where the footstep gleams (Try to conceal erections and excitement)
In what ethereal dances (Ok ready let’s do it)
By what eternal streams do you taunt me Eulalie (Merril Lynch)
Veiled in white a form no man can discover (Hyde and Hyde Attorneys at Law)
Despite the tears which drip all over (To indulge in this beauty only tempts further debt)
There the traveler meets aghast (A uno uno dos tres quarto)
Sheeted memories of the past, and calls them Eulalie (Royal Bank of Scotland)
A fountain and a shrine (there is still time brother)
At the end of these strands of paste (20.5 Million US dollars)
My private wish begins to flake (Sarah Winchester)
My purple pearl, again Eulalie (there is still time brother)
And so, all my days are trances (Poses and fever)
All my nightly dreams (Ninja version)
Are where thy grey eye glances (Clusterbomb shrapnel)
And where the footstep gleams (Try to conceal erections and excitement)
In what ethereal dances (Ok ready let’s do it)
By what eternal streams do you taunt me Eulalie (Merril Lynch)
Veiled in white a form no man can discover (Hyde and Hyde Attorneys at Law)
Despite the tears which drip all over (To indulge in this beauty only tempts further debt)
There the traveler meets aghast (A uno uno dos tres quarto)
Sheeted memories of the past, and calls them Eulalie (Royal Bank of Scotland)
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Mother Green spoke more and more of ****, in fact as if here were a real person, a person sort of like Shallow Brown, who was visiting them but wouldn’t be permanent. A kind of transitory somebody. Yes, like Shallow Brown had been. Sometimes Viola wondered if she and Mother Green had only dreamed there had been a Shallow Brown. And Viola often thought that Mother Green might be having the same thought. They were both waiting for something. And Brown had intercepted the wait. But now he was gone, As ****, said: they would have no occupation, but to wait together.
Monday, 6 April 2009
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Monday, 30 March 2009
Friday, 27 March 2009
I am M.Sarah Frank.from England I am deaf and has cancer of the breast I lost my husband 12yrs ago without a child of mine.
I have to sell all my properties left by my husband because the doctors say i have less than 2months to live.
I have deposited the funds of $4.5million USD which i sold from my properties and deposit into a Bank.
I want you to help me use the funds to help the charity deaf and the motherless babies home before i die.
If you are a good and honest Christian i shall give you the contact of the Bank and also the Deposit Certificate so as to claim my funds before my death.Expecting your urgent response and may God bless you as you carry out my wish.
yours dying sister.
M.Sarah Frank.
I have to sell all my properties left by my husband because the doctors say i have less than 2months to live.
I have deposited the funds of $4.5million USD which i sold from my properties and deposit into a Bank.
I want you to help me use the funds to help the charity deaf and the motherless babies home before i die.
If you are a good and honest Christian i shall give you the contact of the Bank and also the Deposit Certificate so as to claim my funds before my death.Expecting your urgent response and may God bless you as you carry out my wish.
yours dying sister.
M.Sarah Frank.
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Thursday, 19 March 2009
ART TORRENTS: Jeremy Blake - Century 21 (2004)
His latest subject is Sarah Winchester, the eccentric heir to a firearm fortune. .... Mark Leckey - Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) · Francis McKee - In ...
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Friday, 6 March 2009
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Franko B #3
A toast to 1977, refernces from the workshop to be made into a video, performance, thing, photograph, nasty intervention... this will be meaningless to everyone but the other participants.
This observation connects numerous references: the date of a Nan Goldin photograph, an observation of a prescribed time period, and therefore a timeline, the act of toasting an event, red wine and other liquids drunk during the three days of this workshop, and a reference to on and off, described in the given text and to the act of switching on and off the lights depending on what was being viewed on screen.
On and off/the screen gave rise also to the opening of the film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which shows a dead body in flash photography accompanied by the burning out of the flash bulb, which is referenced in the text by mention of watching a scary movie. (Audio). I also wanted to use something which included Coca-Cola drunk by some of the participants and to a mention of Australia (where one of the group originates). Which led me to the post-apocalyptic narrative of Neville Shute’s motion picture On the Beach, which is set in Australia after a nuclear holocaust destroys the northern hemisphere before it too is destroyed by an impending nuclear winter, and were the survivors follow a cryptic morse code message, believing it to have come from a group of survivors, only to find it is being created by a bottle of Coca-Cola nudged by a breeze against a morse transmitter. The last message seen on the screen of this film is There is Still Time. Brother, seen by a line of survivors waiting to take a suicide liquid.
So , here’s to 1977. (everyone to take a drink)
This observation connects numerous references: the date of a Nan Goldin photograph, an observation of a prescribed time period, and therefore a timeline, the act of toasting an event, red wine and other liquids drunk during the three days of this workshop, and a reference to on and off, described in the given text and to the act of switching on and off the lights depending on what was being viewed on screen.
On and off/the screen gave rise also to the opening of the film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which shows a dead body in flash photography accompanied by the burning out of the flash bulb, which is referenced in the text by mention of watching a scary movie. (Audio). I also wanted to use something which included Coca-Cola drunk by some of the participants and to a mention of Australia (where one of the group originates). Which led me to the post-apocalyptic narrative of Neville Shute’s motion picture On the Beach, which is set in Australia after a nuclear holocaust destroys the northern hemisphere before it too is destroyed by an impending nuclear winter, and were the survivors follow a cryptic morse code message, believing it to have come from a group of survivors, only to find it is being created by a bottle of Coca-Cola nudged by a breeze against a morse transmitter. The last message seen on the screen of this film is There is Still Time. Brother, seen by a line of survivors waiting to take a suicide liquid.
So , here’s to 1977. (everyone to take a drink)
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Franko B #2
Talking
Memories
Objects
Tears
Kraftwerk Computer World
Lowsalt, Glasgow
Bad art
Hot Guy
Business & Money
Aileen Campbell
The Grand Canyon
Rain
Cas and 20 years
The Chittendens & Triangle of Need
Coffee
Memories
Objects
Tears
Kraftwerk Computer World
Lowsalt, Glasgow
Bad art
Hot Guy
Business & Money
Aileen Campbell
The Grand Canyon
Rain
Cas and 20 years
The Chittendens & Triangle of Need
Coffee
Monday, 2 March 2009
Day #1 Franko B
After Life, Koreeda Hirokazu
Destricted, Larry Clark
Jack Smith
Nan Goldin
Two Chinese artists
Lots of porn
The importance of the legend
Rednecks
Mona Hatoum (not very good work) Sick (Bob Flannagan) (and his hot brother)
And the ambivalence of the live art circuit and the visual art circuit
The London attitude
Destricted, Larry Clark
Jack Smith
Nan Goldin
Two Chinese artists
Lots of porn
The importance of the legend
Rednecks
Mona Hatoum (not very good work) Sick (Bob Flannagan) (and his hot brother)
And the ambivalence of the live art circuit and the visual art circuit
The London attitude
Thursday, 19 February 2009
Let me start by introducing myself, I am MADAM. BELEN ALEJANDRINA,
CREDIT ACCOUNTS OFFICER BANCO DE ORO UNIVERSAL BANK. I am writing you
this letter based on the latest development at my bank, which I will
like to bring to your personal edification. I am a top official in
charge of client accounts in (EQUITABLE PCI BANK) which is now BANCO DE
ORO UNIVERSAL BANK inside the Philippines the merger was late 2007.
In 2001, my client was going through a horrendous divorce in the United
States of America and was on the verge of losing most of his estate to
his vicious and diabolical wife. As a result of this alarming
predicament, my client came to me with a very brilliant idea. He
transferred some funds, ten million two hundred thousand dollars
($10.2m) to a fixed deposit account in my bank under an alias which only
the two of us knew about as the confidentiality of the matter was
necessary for his protection.
Due to his untimely death in early 2002, the funds have been sitting in
the account ever since and will continue to do so perpetually unless we
do something about it. This is where you come in. I located you through
an agency that helps seek people by their email. My client did not
declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work
of his bank deposit. Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that
I would like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to our
client so that you will be able to receive his funds. I want you to know
that I have had everything planned out so that we can come out
successful. I have contacted an attorney that will prepare the necessary
document that will back you up as the next of kin to my client. All that
is required from you at this stage is for you to provide me with your
Full Names and Address and telephone number so that the attorney can
commence his job.
CREDIT ACCOUNTS OFFICER BANCO DE ORO UNIVERSAL BANK. I am writing you
this letter based on the latest development at my bank, which I will
like to bring to your personal edification. I am a top official in
charge of client accounts in (EQUITABLE PCI BANK) which is now BANCO DE
ORO UNIVERSAL BANK inside the Philippines the merger was late 2007.
In 2001, my client was going through a horrendous divorce in the United
States of America and was on the verge of losing most of his estate to
his vicious and diabolical wife. As a result of this alarming
predicament, my client came to me with a very brilliant idea. He
transferred some funds, ten million two hundred thousand dollars
($10.2m) to a fixed deposit account in my bank under an alias which only
the two of us knew about as the confidentiality of the matter was
necessary for his protection.
Due to his untimely death in early 2002, the funds have been sitting in
the account ever since and will continue to do so perpetually unless we
do something about it. This is where you come in. I located you through
an agency that helps seek people by their email. My client did not
declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work
of his bank deposit. Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that
I would like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to our
client so that you will be able to receive his funds. I want you to know
that I have had everything planned out so that we can come out
successful. I have contacted an attorney that will prepare the necessary
document that will back you up as the next of kin to my client. All that
is required from you at this stage is for you to provide me with your
Full Names and Address and telephone number so that the attorney can
commence his job.
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