on back to the sea

 

 

"The journey takes us through time and space. On the former seabed, embedded in this artificail nature, we travel back in time to unravel some of stories under the landscape(s). Back to the Sea is a common ritual where we can, together, search for what we have lost..."

After a time without longer recording (shorter pieces almost daily at Sam's IG account),here is a longer docu-voodle, featuring a stranded ark and a longer pilgrimage to the sea.( "Back to the Sea", part of Metropolis 2022, by Lisa Brüning, Alfio Bonanno, Peter Flyvholm, Elisabet holager Lund, Adrian Skjoldborg)

[Sam Renseiw  2022, "Back to the Sea", 08'39'', 989MB, quicktime.mov, vimeo]

On the re-habitation of fiction /CC01

"…On the desolate border between the North and South State lies Ruby Town, a settlement populated mostly by the descendants and cult worshippers of Martha Rubin – a famous oracle, who has returned to the living. Tales of her occult gifts and cryptic visions draw great interest in the region, and residents and transients gather to witness her dark predilections. The villagers nurture their recovering oracle and perform rituals in her name, as their future existence is threatened by radiation poisoning in the village, which is said to cause infertility amongst the women. The adjoining North State military outpost supplies the community with food, water and amenities, as soldiers fallen from grace merge with the rugged villagers. Conflicts occur and pass, cards are played, and rumors grow and die - among the strange phenomena…"

Almost a decade after intense embedded voodling for some 18 hours in Signa's Circle Camp, Sam Renseiw reminiscences this fantastic inhabitation of Fiction, blurring the usual boundaries between space(s), audience and performer(s).

The footage is still extremely fresh. Recorded with a tiny, handheld Contax U4R camera, Renseiw had no idea of what would happen next, during all recording, piercing the 4th wall of theatricality… complete with continouus Williams boot-cringing. All is absurdly genuine, including the performers, as they just thought the Contax was a sound recording device. Few had any notion of digital video ten years ago. " Filming" needed some much larger apparatus was the common knowledge then.

Enjoy the re-posted first episode. More of the 11 next will be posted regularly on the vlog, trying to fulfill the promise of a fully operating Vlog by June. [re-post patafim # 476b,02'45'', 525MB,Quicktime/mov > Vimeo]

On experiencing Epoché

 " There is an experience in which it is possible for us to come to the world with no knowledge or preconceptions in hand; it is the experience of astonishment. The “knowing” we have in this experience stands in stark contrast to the “knowing” we have in our everyday lives, where we come to the world with theory and “knowledge” in hand, our minds already made up before we ever engage the world. However, in the experience of astonishment, our everyday “knowing,” when compared to the “knowing” that we experience in astonishment, is shown up as a pale epistemological imposter and is reduced to mere opinion by comparison.

The phenomenological reduction is at once a description and prescription of a technique that allows one to voluntarily sustain the awakening force of astonishment so that conceptual cognition can be carried throughout intentional analysis, thus bringing the “knowing” of astonishment into our everyday experience. It is by virtue of the “knowing” perspective generated by the proper performance of the phenomenological reduction that phenomenology claims to offer such a radical standpoint on the world phenomenon; indeed, it claims to offer a perspective that is so radical, it becomes the standard of rigor whereby every other perspective is judged and by which they are grounded... "

Having condensed (and somewhat expanded) some recent captured suspended opera footage, Sam Rensiew concoted a bout of phenomenological reduction with some Husserlian paraphrasing on the post View the rigor by cliking on the icon above. [patafilm # 874, 03'23'', 63MB, Quicktime/mov, vimeo]

Do you still make voodles ?

 "Yes. I think, if I may say so, it’s like a sentence by Picasso I was once struck by: “I like to paint until the painting refuses me.” I would say that vlogging won’t refuse me for a couple more voodles, a couple more years, so it’s a reconciliation. Not with what I want, because I don’t know what I want, but with what I want from what I have. And to be more able to not ask for something else, but to do only what you really like, to deal with what you have. It’s a more peaceful attitude. When I’m doing a voodle, I’m not angry anymore when it is not well done. Not to be angry that the video should be this way or against another way, but just to do it your way."

 In the midst of summer-DVD re-viewing, Sam Renseiw, immersed into "The "Idiots" and "The End of Language" fell prone to an irresistible recording urge… view the resulting dogma '95 inspired quick-shot docu-voodle complete with diegetic sound and the above JLG paraphrase by clicking on the icon above. [patafilm # 873, 04'10'', 445MB, Quicktime/mov > Vimeo]

On closed spaces and open form(s)

"For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops. Sooner or later, one day, this pounding action will cease of its own accord, and the blood will begin to run toward the body's lowest point, where it will collect in a small pool, visible from outside as a dark, soft patch on ever whitening skin, as the temperature sinks, the limbs stiffen and the intestines drain.[…]The moment life departs the body, it belongs to death. At one with lamps, suitcases, carpets, door handles, windows. Fields, marshes, streams, mountains, clouds, the sky. None of these is alien to us. We are constantly surrounded by objects and phenomena from the realm of death."

Pondering on the phenomenologies of the formality of frozen fields in regards to freely unfolding (new) form openings, Sam Renseiw quotes a short passage from K.O Knausgaard's own struggle (Book 1) while unraveling the latest docu-voodle clickable above-with fine soundtrack from kres5jik underlay; [patafilm # 869, 05'31'', 186MB, Quicktime/mov, other version at Bliptv.

On gaze at grips with a visible world

“It is no more natural and no less conventional to shout in anger or to kiss in love than to call a table 'a table'. Feelings and passional conduct are invented like words. Even those which like paternity seem to be part and parcel of the human make-up are in reality institutions. It is impossible to superimpose on man a lower layer of behavior which one chooses to call 'natural' followed by a manufactured cultural or spiritual world. Everything is both manufactured and natural in man as it were in the sense that there is not a word, not a form of behavior which does not owe something to purely biological being and which at the same time does not elude the simplicity of animal life and cause forms of vital behavior to deviate from their pre-ordained direction through a sort of leakage and through a genius for ambiguity which might serve to define man.”

“I discover vision, not as a "thinking about seeing," to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's voodling gaze.” ... Sam Renseiw paraphrases again Merleau-Ponty and his Phenomenology of Perception after a short visit to Qvarnström & Lagerwall's "Monument" at the 2015 Spring Exhibition in Charlottenborg Kunsthall. Enjoy the elongated deviated footage leakage by clicking on the icon above;  [patafilm # 867, 03'09'', 90.2MB, Quicktime/mov / Mv4, other formats at blip.tv]

On wabi-sabi distortions and kimonos

" Contrary to the Romantic belief that we each settle naturally on a fitting idea of beauty, it seems that our visual and emotional faculties in fact need constant external guidance to help them decide what they should take note of and appreciate. 'Voodle' is the word we have assigned to the force that assists us in identifying which of our many sensations we should focus on and apportion value to.”

"My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind…." Indeed, quotes Sam Renseiw, while having paraphrased de Botton further up on this post, regarding the matter of re-viewing chopped-up kimono footage from last summer, refashioned wabi-sabi like into a parachuted, late docu-voodle. Enjoy. [ patafilm # 862,03.41'', 61MB, Quicktime/mov, other versions on Bliptv ]

On cognitive time-space synaestesia

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"Voodling removes one from the night and the day at the same time. It can neither bring into question nor bring into action this world that binds us.... the mind feels agitated, while in an aesthetic judgment about the beautiful in nature it is in restful contemplation. This agitation (above all at its inception) can be compared with a vibration, i.e. with a rapid alternation of repulsion from, and attraction to, one and the same object. If a thing is excessive for the imagination (and the imagination is driven to such excess as it apprehends the thing in intuition), then the thing is, as it were, an abyss in which the imagination is afraid to lose itself."

After another hectic work period, Sam Renseiw found time to re-collect parts of nevertheless acquired and amassed footage. Take a short peak into the concocted docu-voodled space of a (real) synaesthesia (psychology)lab with some added appearances. Click here or on the links above. (patafilm # 845, 02'43'', 47,1 MB,Quicktime/mov - Other versions on Blipv)


Today's Bonus Lumiere Video conveys a fine sense of contemplation. (Lum # 335 "Mr.Palomar" 00'58'', 16MB, Quicktime/mov)

On meta-voodle & ethos_thanatos reflections

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"States of schizophrenia are native to meta_voodle’s present-absence, its not quite-existence, its fictionalization of truth and its verification of illusion. For Kant, “This fundamental principle of the necessary unity of apperception is indeed an identical, and therefore analytical proposition; but it nevertheless explains the necessity for a synthesis of the manifold given in an intuition, without which the identity of self-consciousness would be incogitable”. Now, self-consciousness is indeed “cogitable,” but is it necessary? The axiom that communication is human may lead to individual human communicators, but it need not, since selfhood is a derivative of communication, a special effect of a particular historical mode of communication. Since self-consciousness is no longer a given but an effect, synthesizing the myriad sensations that crowd upon us into recognizable identities is also in question. I am thus never sure whether what I perceive is raw phenomenality, abstract identity, or synthetic truth."

Indeed, muses Sam Renseiw, paraphrasing from cinema effect, while capturing (pure meta-meta-voodling!) reflective dance footage produced by the local Bergen triad: Eckly, Spreafico and Cohen. View excerpted kill me baby one more time footage and other short non-carte blanche moves by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 816, 05'22'',117MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features another short dance excerpt also in meta-lumiere.(lum # 307 "meta-dance-voodle", 01'00, 17MB, Quicktime/mov)

On slow but lasting simultaneities

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" Suddenly a few good images fitted for a sketch or voodle strike me, delicate visual hits of which I have (almost) never before found the equal. I immediately start recording. I lie and edit these bits of captured footage for myself, and find that they are capital. Little by little others come and fit themselves to the preceding ones. I grow keenly wakeful. It was as if a vein had burst in me; one sequence follows another, and they fit themselves together harmoniously with telling effect.[...] a wonderful sense of pleasure empowers me. I voodle as one possessed, and edit yet another post, without a moment's pause."

This time paraphrasing Hamsun, Sam Renseiw edits recently collected northern footage into a triptych docu-voodle (with dualism ending), enabling [a] delicate transition(s) of outer and inner spaces; View the slow conversion with persimmon overlay by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 790, 04'46'', 68MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a moment of colourful spray. (Lum # 283, "tits spray", 01'00'' 12Mb, Quicktime/mov)

On phenomenology of time in voodles

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" The phenomenological idealist believes that the scientific realm no less than the manifest realm (the "life-world") is projected by or essentially dependent upon man. The realm of scientific entities is nothing real in itself but is a mere "theoretical construct" that is fashioned from the materials in the manifest realm, such that the latter realm is the foundation of the former. Accordingly, scientific time is not only as human-dependent and human-relative as manifest time, but is an abstract construct fashioned from the latter time. Given this, the phrase, "time as it really is" is more suitably applied to the original phenomenologically manifest time than to the derivative time of the sciences. It follows that time as it really is[voodle] A-dimensional, inasmuch as manifest time is A-dimensional, and the [voodle] B-theory accordingly is false or at least restricted to an abstract scientific image of real time."

Somehow still maintaining the validity of parts of the [voodle] B-theory, Sam Renseiw postulates that what we are measuring, when we measure the duration of an event or interval of time, is in the voodle. From this he derives the radical conclusion that past and future exist only in a voodle. View the long-take demonstration the subject's subtleties by clicking here or on the links above. patafilm # 781, 03'28'', 50MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

On beginning(s) as revenant

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"[A spacious garden-room, with one door to the left, and two doors to the right. In the middle of the room a round table, with chairs about it. On the table lie books, periodicals, and newspapers. In the foreground to the left a window, and by it a small sofa, with a worktable in front of it. In the background, the room is continued into a somewhat narrowerconservatory, the walls of which are formed by large panes of glass. In the right-hand wall of the conservatory is a door leading down into the garden. Through the glass wall a gloomy fjord landscape is faintly visible, veiled by steady rain.]"

Upon beginning the first act in a series of repeated Nordic displacement(s), Sam Renseiw, having some slight deja-vue(s) from Ibsen, concocted an appropriate ghost-voodle from footage on the premisses. View the investigation into space(s) and body morphologies by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 786, 03'18'', 49MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video, supplementing the above voodle, presents a fine fjord landscape with moving, urban elements (Lum # 281 "chop & cruise", 00'56'', 10MB Quicktime/mov)

On [almost] inhabiting the Dolphin Hotel

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" Whatever it is one is seeking won't come in the form one is expecting...Thus I (also) often dream about the Dolphin Hotel. In these dreams, I'm there, implicated in some kind of ongoing circumstance. All indications are that I belong to this dream continuity....It seems more like a long, covered bridge. A bridge stretching endlessly through time. And there I am, in the middle of it. Someone else is there too...Time weighs down on me like an old, ambiguous dream. I keep on moving, trying to sleep through it... Another possibility is just plain voodling. Voodling on and on. Entering the world of voodles and never coming out. Living in voodles for the rest of time...."

Paraphrasing Murakami's dance steps and while taking the Possibility of an Island as just that, Sam Renseiw recalls a recent trip to Fionia by concocting footage left-over into a parabolic space, in triptych form. View yet another voodle-detournement exploring (again) morphologies of body and space by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 784,02'35'',37Mb, Quikctime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video feature a fine Danish shoreline, secured for bathers. [Lum # 280, "ishøj beach" 01'00'', 12Mb, Quictkime/mov)

On Kuleshov effects in some spaces

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" This particular voodle studies the space-effective and filmic creative means such as framing, cutting and narrative perspective and transfers those from architecture: The filmic concept of framing which deals with different views of the frame introduces for example the concept of the offscreen into architecture voodles and explains how the imagination of the viewer can be stimulated by deliberately hiding parts of the space. The analysis of the voodle cutting assumes that space perception in architecture is no continuous process but consists of single segments, sections or visual spaces. This idea leads amongst other things to the formulation of the spatial cut, which describes the experience of space, taking into consideration the subject-related visual sensuous understanding. The narrative perspective finally investigates discursive structures and spatial narrative strategies transferring them into the architectural analysis."

Sometime the compression of spaces is partly a re-po act of many layered space views just compressing the impression(s), muses Sam Renseiw while montaging recent footage from two interior locations. The first location is an fine academic one, while the second is a public x-room. View the spatial voodle with included oblique Kuleshov effects by clicking here, on the tumbnail, or on the links above. (patafilm # 773, 04'55'', 62MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a hanging biosphere.(Lum # 273,"biosphere" 01'00'', 11Mb, Quicktime/mov - .m4v)

On embodied cognition & sustainable efforts

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" Cognition is for action. The function of the mind is to guide action and things such as perception and memory must be understood in terms of their contribution to situation-appropriate behaviour. This claim has to do with the visual and memory perception that our minds have. Our vision is encoded into our minds as a “what” and “where” concept. Meaning the structure and placement of an object. This idea goes back to what we are used to and what we have been exposed to. Our perception of what we see comes from our experience and exposure of it. Memory in this case doesn’t necessarily mean memorising something. Rather remembering in a relevant point of view instead of as it really is. We remember how relevant it is to us, and decide if it’s worth remembering."

Roaming carefully about in a distinct and truly remarkable urban context worth remembering, Sam Renseiw follows some arduous task of sustainability performed with dignity. View the short sequence of embodied cognition (with protective gear) by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 771, 02'24'', 33MB, Quikctime/mov -other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video incorporates the same setting with adding some new performers to the setting. (Lum # 270," sustaining efforts " 01'00'', 12MB, Quicktime /mov - .m4v)

On late mournings

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"What can be done, if our sight lacks absolute power to devour objects ecstatically, in an instant, leaving nothing more than the void of an ideal form, a sign like a hieroglyph simplified from the drawing of an animal or bird? A slightly snub nose, a high brow with sleekly brushed-back hair, the line of the chin - but why isn't the power of sight absolute?"

Approaching a site of mourning commemorating a recent catastrophe, Sam Renseiw attempts, in Grotowski spirit, to subjectively record, via objective-para-voodling techniques, a short moment of genuine history. View the long take (with one cut) by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 767, 02'52'', 49MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features the serene & peaceful framing from an urban site with a dramatic and very turbulent past.(Lum # 266, "sigismund's column"01'00'', 12MB, Quicktime/mov)

On encountering demons on sakura edge

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" We push time from us, and we wish him back; Lavish of lustrums, and yet fond of life; Life we think long, and short; death seek, and shun; Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part...Oh the dark days of vanity! while here, How tasteless! and how terrible, when gone! Gone! they ne'er go; when past, they haunt us still; "

Lounging the shores of a cold and not yet fully blooming sakura festival, Sam Renseiw encounters the personification of his two procrastination devils: meet the relaxed and the tensed afraid-type practising their stigma out-doors by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 765, 04'03'', 61MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

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

On re-tracing sustainability settings

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" More than often we pass from one place to the next, from one space to the following without pondering to measure, to chart, to realise theses lapses of space […] The problem lies not in the invention of space, even less in its re-invention, but in its questioning, or simpler, its reading; For what we label as quotidian is not evidence but opacity: a sort of blindness, a form of anaesthesia, to be redeemed by acts of hearty voodling."

Taking Perec's wise words to heart, Sam Renseiw recorded moving moments of a Norwegian setting(s). View a catcher-in-the-snow-like voodle complete with overlaid diegetic soundtracks by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 748,03'47'', 50MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Toady's Bonus Lumiere Video feature a more lofty view. (Lum # 247 " sustainable approach", 01'00'' 7MB, 12,6MB, Quicktime/mov)

On Color State & Hearing Them Speak

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1- "My work derives meaning from the fact that the uncertain, abstract, unformulated, chaotic and inharmonious, no less than the well-ordered, well-considered and flawless, always relates proportionally to something else. No matter how incomprehensible and ungraspable it might be, indeed precisely because it is. It's all about relations and proportions. that applies in art, in architecture and in life..."

2- " I'm very saddened. It is always the same. When I was a child, they let a road be build. When I saw it it thought: Ooh: that makes a lot of garbage. If the whites come here what will become of my children? There is al lot of talk about the mining concession. And it frightens me. Will I manage to protect my forest-land? What will become of us? These are my worries. ..."

Quoting both the artist of Color State and the natives Hearing Them Speak , Sam Renseiw takes a quick walk through known spaces, realising that, up north, a different white cube had been activated. View the docu-voodle interior derive, complete with seraphim soundtrack by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 746, 03'40'', 53MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a serene, frozen, yet moving scene. (Lum # 246 " frozen lake" 01'00'', 8MB, Quicktime/mov)

On hope in honest error

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" Voodle is the flower. Life is the green leaf. Let every voodler strive to make his flower a beautiful living thing. You must offer real, living, beautifully coloured flowers that grow above the green leaf. How beautiful the green leaf. How beautiful life often is, but think of the stupendous possibilities of the flower thus offered - of voodle "

" Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of images, that have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory ", stated Reynolds, yet, one has to capture some of them first, and then carefully re -insert them, best obliquely, as some places are more than well documented. View a crucial part of the Glaswegian heritage, recently captured, just in time for the centennial, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 742, 07'12'', 100,1MB (!), Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's [Double] Bonus Lumiere Video features both a day and a night vision from almost the same famed spot on Renfrew Str/Scott Str. ( Lum # 242 & 242b, 01'00'', 12 MB , Quicktime/mov)