The inhabitation of fiction - last episode

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" We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time. / Through the unknown, un-remembered gate / When the last of earth left to discover /Is that which was the beginning;"

At last. The final episode. Concluding the documentation of The Circle Camp, Sam Renseiw now looks forward to other voodling grounds... Yet, the feat of compiling casually voodled footage into fifteen, more or less coherent, docu-soap episodes totalling almost one hour, seems to open up new vlogging territory to explore... Enjoy this last, quiet episode, that ends in somehow the same way as it began, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 489,02.42'',17.4MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for PC at blip.tv)

The Circle Camp was Signa's work in progress for the coming staging of their Oracle Games in Cologne, Germany. Should you be around, Sam warmly recommends this unforgettable, seminal performance art experience. Thus, you might have the possibility of getting acquainted with the darker, voodic, dionysic and overwhelmingly awesome, evocative rituals, that where discretely omitted here on patalab's docu-soap.

To soothe the withdrawal symptoms in the meantime, here is a Bonus Lumiere video for you, featuring a inconspicuous, but nevertheless central space in the circle camp. (Lum # 33, 01'00, 5.9MB, Quicktime/mov). More other's Lumieres at Andreas H's site.

The inhabitation of fiction - episode thirteen

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"Except for the point, the still point, / There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. / I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where / And I cannot say, how long, for that is to place it in time."

As time and place seem to rescind into confused memories, Sam Renseiw ponders once more on the originating conditions of simple dance moves. Indulge in a boring,short piece of uninterrupted, unedited, very plain voodling around the The Circle Camp's camp fire, accompanied by crude fiddle tunes, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 488b,02'03'',12.1MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming version at blip.tv) Last episode of " The inhabitation of fiction" will be posted tomorrow...

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 eleven

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"The inhabitants of the installation harbor the fiction's reality as well as their own personal reality, and this flicker between reality and fiction challenges the spectator's own anchoring in reality."

Toggling away between reality and fiction, Sam Renseiw participates in a snake hunt and visits The circle Camp's out-door kitchen once more, to witness the succulent soup been prepared. View another of Sam's subjective, voodled footage from his experiences inhabitating a moment of fiction by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 486, 02'336'', 14MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming version for all on fabulous blip.tv)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode ten

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What, then, do these concepts of reality and identity imply? Are they merely cultural frames protecting us from an existential chaos by enabling us to deny that which falls outside - the inexplicable, the incomprehensible, the inscrutable? Or does everything move in fixed patterns - more elaborate than those which we ourselves have created and understand?

Docu-soap'ing un-chronologically further into the intricacies of The Circle Camp's performance, Sam Renseiw casually follows a delicate dancer and meets a primitive soup-kitcken-cook. View another episode of "The inhabitation of fiction" by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 485, 03'30'', 19,3MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for older Windows configured PC's at blip.tv)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode nine

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The wordplay / Between us gets very intense when there are / Fewer feelings around to confuse things. / Another go-round? No, but the last things / You always find to say are charming, and rescue me / Before the night does. We are afloat / On our dreams as on a barge made of ice, / Shot through with questions and fissures of starlight /That keep us awake, thinking about the dreams /As they are happening. Some occurrence. You said it.

Now one must find a few important words, and a lot of low-keyed, dull-sounding ones, mused Sam Renseiw while approached with queries on efficient women's seduction stratagems, yet only managing to utter sub-standart one-liners in return. View a short part of re-volving dialogue at The Circle Camp by clicking here or on the links above to continue the docu-soap odyssey. (patafilm # 484, 03'11'', 16.9MB, Quicktime/mov - Streaming 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 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 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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