on vignettes, cumulation(s) and screenings

“What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us…”

Cumulating simple visual questions through the optics of 6 second video vine snippets lately, Renseiw continues to follow Perec's dictum..by Vining   In case of impatience, go watch the visual questions unfold on IG- > sam_renseiw

By benevolent request from Pryle Behrman via Michael Szpakowsky, and continuous inclusions to one-minutes by Kerry Baldry, some older collaborative “Lumiere et Son” videos will soon be screened at “quickqickquick” at the 2018 London Art Fair. 

Hope youn can make it there.

Whishing all viewers a very hapy new year… via this patapab02 vlogpage, still working (well) in the original format and design from 2005 (probably one of the oldest vlogs still running!!) Best Regards SAM RENSEIW

On [interior] species of spaces

…We uses our eyes for seeing. Our Field of vision reveals a limited space, something vaguely circular, which ends very quickly to left and right, and doesn't extend very far up or down..[…] Our gaze travels through space and gives us the illusion of relief and distance. That is how we construct space, with an up and a down, a left and a right, an in-front and a behind, a near and a far…

Recently trapped in a deserted northern farm-set piece, Sam Renseiw collected some vaguely circular footage in a recurring traveling interior panorama, while reminiscing of Perec (again)… Get a left-winged travel through time and space tinged by ambient fugue state by clicking on the icon above. [Patafilm # 868, 05'59'', 220MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv]

On little bags of remembrance in voodles

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"…our brain contains something akin both to a photographic plate and a phonographic cylinder, and many other things of the same kind not yet discovered; not a sight or a sound or a smell is lost; not a taste or feeling or an emotion. Unconscious memory records them all, without our even heeding what goes on around us beyond the things that attract our immediate interest or attention. […]...the Voodle should not have to do with an exploit or record, it would be neither a peak to scale nor an ocean floor to reach ... [it] would not be heroic, or spectacular; it would be something simple and discreet."

Trapped by an overflowed harddisk and simultaneous chores, Sam Renseiw nevertheless managed to voodle around in his spare time, montage-ing bits of footage anyway. View a long overdue piece of fragmented memory from short visit to a somehow far-flung place by clicking here or on the links above (patafilm # 840, 02'45'', 49Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a more distinct set-up of unintended narration in an abstract context. (lum # 330 "cold toasted bread" 01'00'', 17MB, Quicktime/mov)

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 lucid dreaming and gallery portraits

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" A Gallery Portrait is not just the anecdotic depiction of a private collection, it is also, in its play of succeeding reflections and in the near-magical charm that these increasingly minuscule repetitions create, a work of art which tips us into its own oneiric universe where its power of seduction has been amplified to an infinite degree and where the agonizing precision of the medium, far from being an end in itself, suddenly opens out into the vertiginous spirituality of the Eternal Return."

Surprised by an esquisite succession of straight foreward facades bathed in a magic winter afternoon sun, Sam Renseiw proceeded to capture the reflections, further adding some interior spaces encompassing a performative ritual. View the failed atempt at exhausting a Copenhagen space by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 657, 01'56'', 14.5MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a simple, yet quite effective blow apparatus (Lum # 174 "smoke-ring machine", 00'31'', 3MB, Quicktime/mov)

On cataloguing circular motion in space

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" In order to escape the arbitrary nature of existence, one is forced to impose rigourous rules and regulations on oneself, even if these rules are in turn arbitrary. But the miracle is that this system of poetics, which might seem artificial and mechanical, produces inexhaustible freedom & wealth of invention. This is because it also coincides with a passion for cataloguing and enumerating objects, situations and conditions. "

Donning skates once again this season, Sam Renseiw muses on Perec's habit of cataloguing while moving around, having the feeling of not reaching anywhere, just desperately voodling away in some sort of futile spatial perpetuum mobile. View the circular travelling by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 656, 02'11'', 16.3Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a battle scene captured in another time and space, yet still fresh.(Lum #173 "re-viewing potemkin", 6.3MB, 00'59'', Quicktime/mov)

On the inhabitation of staged-set spaces (2)

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"What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us. We live, true, we breathe, true; we walk, we go downstairs, we take the elevator,sit at a table in order to eat... How? Where? When? Why? Describe your street. Describe another. Compare."

Further ruminating on the nature(s) of staged architecture, Sam Renseiw crudely investigated a spiralled edifice, somehow toggling between day-dream and benign nightmare, puzzled by the oozing, popular veneration of the place. View the short meander by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 615,01'48'', 10.9Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a short scene of relief on a sweltering summer day. (lum # 135, 01'00'', 5.1MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a moment of flip-flop, goind through phases (patafilm #230, 01'34'[14.08 2006 post],7 MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the inhabitation of staged-set spaces

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"How are we to inhabit/This space from which the fourth wall is invariably missing,/As in a stage-set or dollhouse, except by staying as we are,/In lost profile, facing the stars, with dozens of as yet/Unrealized projects, and a strict sense/Of time running out, of evening presenting/The tactfully folded-over bill?"

Sometimes a voodle may have the distinctive qualities of a Lumiere video; Yet, the subtleties of errant, limpid silence seem to prevail, ponders Sam Renseiw, returning with fresh footage from a short trip south. View the framed fixation with added soundscape by clicking here or try to turn the sound off.(patafilm#614, 01'14'',7.3Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features some more potent traffic on the way to the starting line ( Lum # 133, "cph. historic grand prix 08", 01'00'', 5.1Mb, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a two year old night-concert.( patafilm #218, 01'47''[26.07.2006 post], 8.2 MB, Quicktime/mov)

On the ontology of stable

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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 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."

Still dabbling with various ways on how to re-vision the seen and to re-charter familiar spaces, Sam Renseiw paraphrases Georges Perec while posting - one more - voodle of the past two days captured footage. Try a pataphysical OuLiPian reading of two spaces and a saddling by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 541, 02'09'',12.4MB, Quicktime/mov - Other streaming versions for Pc at Blip.tv)

Last month was NaVloPoMo'07. A real treat! Thanks to all participants for some inspiring and fresh new video-vistas. (still viewing some)... I did not dare participate, as a busy schedule could jeopardise the pledge of one video per day. Nevertheless it turned out that the quota was attainable, anyhow... Promise to join the next round! Best regards. Sam.

On Species of Spaces and other Pieces

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" The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his (her) contribution to the creative act."

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the chains that shackle the spirit... the arbitrariness of the constraint only serves to obtain precision of execution, muses Sam Renseiw, paraphrasing Stravinsky, capturing more intimate footage from the close set-up, complete with plunderphonics, a hint from Rrose Selavy and other left over objects.. View the latest unfolding of species of spaces by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 384, 01'56''. 8.9 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)