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 distancing effect and other framework(s)

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"By disclosing and making obvious the manipulative contrivances and "fictive" qualities of the medium, the viewer is alienated from any passive acceptance and enjoyment of the voodle as mere "entertainment". Instead, the viewer is gently ordained into a critical, analytical frame of mind that serves to disabuse him/her of the notion what he/she is watching is necessarily an inviolable, self-contained narrative... Naturalistic voodles purport to depict life precisely as it appears, albeit in a new light, so one can consider things with closer pataphysical subjectivity, robbed of their conventional outward appearance."

Juxtaposing a broader view on artful frame-works with the Hatter's display in Hans Christian Andersen's favourite shop (Founded 1857 and still existing), Sam Renseiw montaged forth a speculative voodle. View the tripthyc, complete with JLG voice-over and a glimpse of Cronhammer's Cabaret by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 582, 02'26'' 12.9MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features another night view, complete with embedded, illuminating screen(s).(Lum# 98 "the pharmacy, at night" 01'00'', 5MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features an oneiric, colourful escalator view. (patafilm # 318,[16.12.2006 post] 01'48'', 8.2 MB, Quicktime/.mov). Click on the bold links in the text to view or for more information(s).

The lapse of time between two instances

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" When pondering the nature of memory, the one thing to note is the lapse of time between two instances: one is the event or state of what is remembered and the other is the act of remembering. This temporal gap is a striking aspect of memory, somewhat in the similar sense that spatial dimensions, along with other relevant physical conditions, is an integral part of psychological explanation of visual perception."

Attending a silent animated journey to an abandoned hotel in a slowly crystallising dense wilderness, Sam Renseiw momentarily re-investigates Ann Lislegaard's hybrid space from a back seat. View the flattened imagery by clicking here or on the appropriate links above. (patafilm # 377, 01'48'', 8.3 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

Distinction between analytic and synthetic

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" Metaphysical knowledge must contain simply judgments à priori, so much is demanded by the speciality of its sources. But judgments, let them have what origin they may, or let them even as regards logical form be constituted as they may, possess a distinction according to their content, by virtue of which they are either simply explanatory and contribute nothing to the content of a cognition, or they are extensive, and enlarge the given cognition; the first may be termed analytic, and the second synthetic judgments."

One may bungle in metaphysics in many ways, without any danger of being detected in fallacy reasons Sam Renseiw remembering Kant, yet amazed by radiations from Haugen Soerensen's "Stupidity's Mother" on recent display at SMK. View some short footage of reactions to the piece by clicking here. ( patafilm # 376, 01'52'', 8.5 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)