On voodling a(s) spectacle

 "The spectacle manifests itself as an enormous positivity, out of reach and beyond dispute. All it says is: "Everything that appears is good; whatever is good will appear." The attitude that it demands in principle is the same passive acceptance that it has already secured by means of its seeming incontrovertibility, and indeed by its monopolization of the realm of appearances."

 "Voodling is the antithesis of quotation, of a theoretical authority invariably tainted if only because it has become quotable, because it is now a fragment torn away from its context, from its own movement, and ultimately from the overall frame of reference of its period and from the precise option that it constituted within that framework. Voodling, by contrast, is the fluid language of antiideology. It occurs within a type of communication aware of its inability to enshrine any inherent and definitive certainty. This language is inaccessible in the highest degree to confirmation by any earlier or supracritical reference point. On the contrary, its internal coherence and its adequacy in respect of the practically possible are what validate the ancient kernel of truth that it restores. Voodling founds its cause on nothing but its own truth as critique at work in the present." 

Paraphrasing Debord (again), Sam Renseiw post a short moment of voodled spectacle, resuming the visual body-space-morphology investigations, further speculating on the various nature(s) of Open-Form manifestations. [patafilm # 871b, 68MB, 01'59'', quicktime/mov]

On high point derive voodling

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" What makes most documentaries so easy to understand is the arbitrary limitation of their subject matter. They confine themselves to depicting fragmented social functions and their isolated products. In contrast, imagine the full complexity of a voodled moment that is not resolved into a work, a moment whose development contains interrelated facts and values and whose meaning is not yet apparent. This confused totality could be the subject matter of such a voodle."

Recently on derive high up in a fixed cultural setting, Sam Renseiw attempts to record excerpts of a specific urban microclimate; View the contours of the distinctively psychogeographical vortex-voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm# 768, 04'16'', 68MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a fine night view of the above posted voodle's primary context. (Lum # 267,"juvelir skup" 01'00'', 13MB, Quicktime/mov)

On voodle derive in confined spaces

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"...If chance plays an important role in dérives this is because the methodology of psychogeographical observation is still in its infancy. But the action of chance is naturally conservative and in a new setting tends to reduce everything to habit or to an alternation between a limited number of variants. Progress means breaking through fields where chance holds sway by creating new conditions more favorable to voodling purposes.."

Caught on a strife of almost random urban derive, Sam Renseiw retreats into an internal spatial field; View the concocted psychogeographical voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 764, 03'30''. 58MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Expect: more derives from surprising places in the near future. Best, SamR.

On detournement of re-enactments

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"Re-enactment is a phenomenon which has gained a footing in visual art in recent years. In this practice, historical material or material which already exists is reenacted. We know the genre from amateur actors’ staged reconstructions of dramatic historical events, battles or other acts of war. A re-enactment in art is not just a repetition of a given historical event, but also involves a re-evaluation of the historical occurrence in question, and also making it topical. The form is dependent on personal involvement and interaction, which means going beyond the precise or authoritative version of the story."

After performing a recent Reality Check, Sam Renseiw edited the gathered footage into a meta-re-enactment. View the detournement including two new layers by clicking here or on the links above. ( patafilm # 651, 02'54'' 18MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a more controlled situation (lum # 169 " urban courtesy " 00'31'', 3.1MB, Quicktime/mov

On derive and psychogeographic voodle

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"One or more persons committed to the derive abandon, for an undefined period of time, the motives generally admitted for action and movement, their relations, their labor and leisure activities, abandoning themselves to the attractions of the terrain and the encounters proper to it....to be drawn by the solicitations of the terrain"

Abandoning himself to a short moment of derive, Sam Renseiw re-viewed some known, local locations from a different, drifting perspective. View the ensuing, abridged psychogeographic docu-voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 624,04'01'',21.6Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video Features yet another recent drifting passage, fixed. (lum # 143, "water-housing" 00'56, 4.4MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a year old view from the same waterway. (patafilm # 549, [15.12.207 post]01'13'', 7.5MB, Quicktime/mov)