On cold attics as new art hotspots

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" Voodling, said Andre Bazin, substitutes for our view of the world a world that accords with our desires. Cold-attic is the sort of story of this world...in which the real exists only as perceived, in that situations can be said to exist only when a consciousness is engaged with something other than itself. In this Voodled view, reality is not a completed sphere the mind encounters, but an “emerging- something” which the mind essentially participates in..."

A day after JLG's 80th birthday, Sam Renseiw follows professor Ezik inviting him to climb an internal Jacob's Ladder to experience [new] elevated art-den revelations, to assert a reality according to our desires. View the polar-cabin demonstrating the same-same-but-different maxim by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 804, 02'34'', 65MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)For ulterior Vaterpas Research, voodled by yours truly, click here.

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a simple revelation: the planting of tulips in Copenhagen parks is done in early December. (lum # 294,"tulip planter" 01'00'', 16MB, Quicktime/mov)

On junctures and follow-ups

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"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all."

In the midst of the cold bowl and chamberlain craze at Vaterpas, Sam Renseiw paraphrases Dom Cheverti's credo "I am trying to throw something and to hit something, to see what throwing and hitting consist of" and resumes voodling with another boring, pataphysical voodle. Enter here or on the links above. (patafilm # 506, 03'02'' 19MB, Quicktime/mov - Streaming version for Pc at blip.tv)

Today's Complementary Voodle features Indian hot engine paraphernalia, complete with engine trouble, brut smog sound-extract. (patafilm # 504, 00'36'', 4MB, Quicktime/mov)

On level pagan dub

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"In Denmark, Midsummer's Eve is a popular day, celebrated with large bonfires. Among Danes, this event is known as Sankt Hans aften, or St. John's Eve, and is celebrated on the eve of June 23 rd. Danes sing on this day the traditional Vi elsker vort land, "We Love Our Land", and burn a witch made of straw on the bonfire as a remembrance of the Church's witchburnings of the 16th and 17th centuries. The Scandinavian customs date back to pagan times when tribute was paid to the powers of the sun god with bonfires signifying the defeat of darkness."

Enjoying a cosily absurd moment of quiet pagan relaxation, Sam Renseiw joined the exclusive crowd at The Vaterpas Research Institute's Villa in Ll. Elmue, to celebrate this year's midsummer. View some streaming hot footage complete with cool Danish dub by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 445, 02'16'', 10.6MB, Quicktime/mov - Streaming Flash version for PC at blip.tv)

On the continuity of melancholy

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".. we base all the events in our lives on the continuum of our sorrows; we translate into the emotional language of continuity what would be more accurately expressed in the clear and trenchant narrative of objective events. Continuity is but our emotion, our unease, our melancholy, and the role of emotion is perhaps only to blunt ever-hostile newness.."

Casually dropping by a random Tuesday evening, Sam Renseiw got mixed up in a rather nostalgic set-up at Vaterpas Fine Arts. While wondering about the sense of space and place in time, and, if all might be a revolving simulacrum re-performed by an atavistic new generation, blurred footage served to clarified. View the short, unfolding ballade by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 398, 01'35'', 7.3MB, Quicktime/mov -Flash version at Blip.tv)

On dyslexia and art on board

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" Sam R. (perhaps without wishing to) has enriched, by means of a new technique, the hesitant and rudimentary art of voodling: the technique is one of deliberate anachronism and erroneous attributions. This technique, with its infinite applications, urges us to run through a voodle as if it were filmed after the events experienced; This would fill even the dullest videos with adventure and cheerful party mood."

Battling with mild dyslexia, Sam Renseiw joined Zoe T. and guests at the Common Room's festive opening to tag a few supplementary doodles on the blackboard surface, all the while new and old ready-mades lurched artfully in all corners. View the festive set-up by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 532, 01'33'' 9.5 MB, Quicktime/mov - other streaming versions for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a live drawing exercise with Studs Skarven and Susan Horsens at the Vaterpas Ball Room. (Lum # 54, "the drawing exercise" 00'58'' 5.8MB, Quicktime/mov)

God is only the question

"God is only the question, the answer is YES", said Viktor IV. Viktor was not part of any particular art movement or group, though he kept contacts with artists such as Anton Heyboer and Robert Jasper Grootveld. Viktor IV was a well-known local figure in Amsterdam, living and working aboard an old riverboat. On his boat, Viktor began painting on boards, driftwood and ships' hatches, which he found in and around the Amstel River. Besides painting "Ikons", Viktor made "Logbooks". These "logbooks" contained a stream of stories, notes, drawings and collages with specific titles such as "The Logbook of the Ship Henry David Thoreau" and "Thank You Silent Sun".

At Vaterpas Fine Arts in Copenhagen, artist Teddy Parterre is currently exhibiting his "Wrong Artist" contemplation, a loving homage to Viktor IV; Sam Renseiw manufactured a cut-up video-triptic of some of the outstanding works on show. View them by clicking here, or check the timeline above. (patafilm # 194, 01'34'', 7.1 MB, quicktime/mov - Flash version here)

On footage and leg

" I stepped to the side to make way, slipped on the ice, rolled on my ankle, and went splat, back first, onto the footpath. I was embarrassed and confused and tried to get up and stop the fuss immediately. Then I realized something was wrong. Something was wrong with my left leg. Something indeed had given. It was my leg. I had broken it. But at this stage I didn't know. One hour later they told me I had a broken leg and I was going to be in a cast for six weeks. I remember thinking, "Oh no, that doesn't fit. I haven't got time to do that. I was on my way to Paris..”

Some dark Voodoo at work on Sam Renseiw, out of Vaterpas balance. Yet the event might result in more video postings the next weeks…
Click here to get on the feet, or enter directly above. (01’3’’, 5,7 MB, mov/quicktime) // rev.01.10.15

Duchamp is back(stage) again

"To capture the effects of chance", recalls Dr. Renseiw, "Marcel Duchamp conducted an experiment. From a height of one meter, he dropped a meter-long piece of thread onto a prepared canvas, letting it twist at random.He repeated this procedure three times, fixing the threads in place where they fell. Some years later, Duchamp felt the urge to to ask whether some other things which are presumed to be absolute, might also be merely arbitrary.. "

" The Bycycle Wheel is turning smoothly now", replied Charlie Bonheur of Vaterpas Fine Arts, "I even installed a dynamo for further enlightment. Enter here (or click on the icon above) to meet Charlie and Marcel D.)