The inhabitation of fiction - episode twelve

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Recap: "The Circle Camp is the beginning of the Martha Rubin-project about oracle Martha Rubin, who grew up in a circus and became a graceful dancer. Later her unique gift turned her into a marketplace attraction all over Europe - until she disappeared without a trace in 1913. Members of Martha Rubin Society live isolated from society and follow the oracle’s commands in city peripheries. They have built a camp around a circle of earth, stone and chalk and play her oracle-games non-stop for 38 hours."

Almost reaching the end of "The inhabitation of fiction" docu-soap, Sam Renseiw slowly gears down, voodling the remaining footage into the last remaining episodes. This documentary of The Circle Camp, still fresh, can be seen as a subjective trailer for the up-comming "staging" of Signa's Oracle Games in Cologne, Germany in September/October 2007. View excerpts of a joyful, frivolous dance and glimpses of Bacchic invocations by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 487, 04'46'',25.3Mb, Quicktime/mov - Streaming direct version for PC at blip.tv)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode eight

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" And just as there are no words for the surface, that is, / No words to say what it really is, that it is not / Superficial but a visible core, then there is / No way out of the problem of pathos vs. experience. / You will stay on, restive, serene in / Your gesture which is neither embrace nor warning / But which holds something of both in pure / Affirmation that doesn't affirm anything."

While witnessing Mimi's peripecies in The Circle Camp and her short, but quite genuine, row with Felix, Sam Renseiw maintains a serene Candid(e) like optimistic gaze, closing in on some of members of the Martha Rubin Society, chilling-out after yet another, evocative, ritual. View the unfolding of uncut-footage, docu-soap sliced, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 482, 05'26'', 29.1MB, Quicktime/mov - Direct video-streaming-player for PC at blip.tv)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode five C

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"Stories unfold in different places and over a long period of time - usually several days on end - so it will not be possible to see or hear what goes on everywhere all at once. The audience has to move through the spaces, talk to or listen to the performers in order to pick up as many fragments as possible."

As the chronology of The circle Camp documentation in docu-soap like episodes also begins to behave erratically, Sam Renseiw vaguely remembers a dream about a place, and its subsequent resurgence, in a camper-confined conversation. Seemingly, an exotic hut burned down, some time after. View an enigmatic moment of shrink-candour and footage of a beautiful, now lost, place by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 483, 05'330'', 30.8MB, Quicktime/mov - Direct streaming version best for PC at blip.tv)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode six

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"The flow is unpredictable and open to coincidence. The frames that keep the work together are there for reality and fiction to jar with them, just as they jar with each other - so that they can be expanded, moved or transcended through the improvisations of the performers and the participation of the audience."

Somehow loosing track of both space and time by now, Sam Renseiw recollects erratically: a progression of rituals seem to dissolve into a larger amorph expanse of rhythmic voodoo like activities, peppered by ecstatic chanting and traumatic failures at evoking Martha Rubin's coming. View an exhausting voodle - continuing patalab's meticulous docu-soap gaze on "The Circle Camp"- by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 481,03'333'', 18.4MB, Quicktime/mov - Direct streaming for PC at blip.tv)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode five B

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"The basis of SIGNA´s performance work is installation art. Mostly working site-specific, redifining and staging abandoned buildings and camp sites creating enigmatic timeless environments for the audience to explore and to live in."

With the passing of time, Sam Renseiw starts confusing the 15 hours spend during two visits at The Circle Camp... successions of rituals blend with pastoral settings, fleeting encounters with various members of the Martha Rubin Society, merge, with other characters...in a pele-mele fragmented puzzle of footage, imbibed with evocative, looping chants and distinct melodies. View a short moment of condensed et in arcadia ego complete with paraphernalia details by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 480b, 04'033'', 21.4MB, Quicktime/mov - streaming view-in-direct for PC users with obsolete Windows configurations via marvellous blip.tv, as always)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode four

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" The barrier between the spectator and the installation, the audience and the performers is non-existent. The presence of the visitors in the room is as real - or unreal - as the piece of fiction that takes place around them. The works are not performance art pieces in the comtemporary sense. The aim of including performers in the installations is to guide or trick the viewer into the flux of the densely detailed set-ups."

Entering The Circle Camp's barn for the first time, Sam Renseiw is introduced to the Martha Rubin Society's basic custom sets, enchanted by the stark genius loci and the eagerness of the ongoing activities. In later, fourth-comming visits to the barn, the rituals evoking the oracle will unfold with much greater force and intensely disturbing drama. Enjoy the quiet entrance today by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 479, 03'49'', 19.5MB,Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode three

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"...The narrative flow is not chronologically progressive. It is possible to dive into the past of any of the characters as well as witnessing and being part of their common present in the installation space. The narratives are non-linear and often self-contradictable."

Slowly immersing himself into the intricacies of The Circle Camp's space-temporality, Sam Renseiw meets a few more characters and collects fresh footage to voodle. View the important encounter with the twins by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 478, 04'21'', 23.1MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode two

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"The work defies easy categorization as it intersects with a diverse spectrum of pop-cultural entertainment forms such as melodrama, music hall and whorehouse, mixing stereotypical cinematic clichés with bleak realism. The performance installations of SIGNA seek to explore structures of power and degradation, fate, identity and desire."

Voodling can have many forms. Almost unedited footage, segmented into episodes, forms distinct pieces of a larger visual puzzle, revealed in docu-soap manner. View episode two of Sam Renseiw's subjective gaze of "The Circle Camp's" development by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 477,04'24'', 23.8MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode one

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"...She gave birth to 17 children out of marriage. Seven of these, including the Siamese twins Marthina and Corina, she raised together with the female sword swallower Cora Torrini. Martha Rubin disappeared in the Romanian harbour city Constantia in 1913..."

Toggling voodling activities a point further, Sam Renseiw enters the reality of fiction, depicting fragments of inscrutable beauty, poetic tragedy, desire and the hope of love. View the first episode of Patalab's ritualised voodle docu-soap of "The Circle Camp", introducing the Martha Rubin Society's graceful landscape(s) by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 476, 02'45'', 14.6MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

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