the fine art of 'pataphysics in daily life. condensed poetic voodles.
A video blog by sam renseiw
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Valstar Barbie
“During the course of Surrealist development, outside all forms of idealism, outside the opiates of religion, the marvelous comes to light within reality. It comes to light in dreams, obsessions, preoccupations, in sleep, fear, love, chance; in hallucinations, pretended disorders, follies, ghostly apparitions, escape mechanisms and evasions; in fancies, idle wanderings, poetry, the supernatural and the unusual; in empiricism, in superreality.”
"Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting", mused Sam Renseiw, paraphrasing Tzara, while capturing some pinko footage, complete with a delightful encounter with Claude Levêque's Valstar Barbie custodian. View the encounter on the 4th. floor, space16, at Le Mouvement des Images by clickinghere, or step in the stiletto above. (patafilm # 281, 01'23'', 6.5 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version available for PC at Blip.tv)
it all blends in fact. it's a gaze on the state of things.
on sunday nov 5th, some of patalab's videos will be featured in london, at candid art trust by cogcollective > http://www.cogcollective.co.uk/november/index.html
will be interesting to hear the feed-back from the audience.
'Pataphysics, an absurdist concept coined by the French writer Alfred Jarry, is a philosophy dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics. Defined as: "The science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments", Spacetwo:Patalab will exist in this spirit and function as a small, unassuming, experimental visual laboratory. Laced with quotes and useful links, Palatab02 is a forum for subdued, yet powerful and complex, indirectly moving imagery. Enjoy! All posting are videos. Click on the image or the appropriate link in the text to enter. For a view of all videos, see the archive link. Quicktime free download is needed to view this site!
4 Comments:
Ah yes saw this myself on a visit to the Pompidou last year. Will slip it into the Cog Screen Dum mix along with Somehow on Traffic Again
ok. great. thanks phillip.
will try to make it for the show on sunday;
will confirm start of next week, if comming.
Lovely stiletto ;-) Imagine a giant with one eye wearing it at her first pram bal.
Life(energy) is transformed into art expressions or sex or work or?
it all blends in fact.
it's a gaze on the state of things.
on sunday nov 5th, some of patalab's videos will be featured in london, at candid art trust by cogcollective >
http://www.cogcollective.co.uk/november/index.html
will be interesting to hear the feed-back from the audience.
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