original invite Livrerie Pharmacie

 came across the origial invite for the evening of readings at the Livrerie Pharmacie way back when...

 though this was the official version, a lot more people read stuff that evening, including bernd Lohaus and Wout Vercammen, who did an explaiation of the speed of light on the retina with a chalk diagram-drawing on a 1m square board, of which I have only half left...

("that's really fifty-fifty!" he would say... ) 

 

somewhere I should have a recording - part of it was used for a record by UltraExceema... and should have some left overs - Ph. Bertel's mirror for instance...  

Printroom graphics

 While still not really on track to get the printroom up and running, we did have a small acrchival reference that keeps us going: returned material includes things for press/impression as well as freehand drawing and such/ so get to it

 

 (skirting the archives - this is a double-take, on the one hande azart-archive as well as JL archive, and of course fifty-fifty to boot... more soon)

Books backing up

 There is such a backlog of books that keep on resisting a move towards the rational - especially in P (the small store in the quiet street near the border) I have a real difficulty in preparing a set of books to leave, get out, move, jettison or otherwise...

just can't do it!

 

re-visit backdrop

 had a good look at a re-visitation of sixties-influence by the now octagenial Yoshio Nakajima and was made (even more) aware of how uch of today's goings-on are due to and because of and copies of what went on before re repro as it were;

 

 

very nice performance in Kiosk Ghent

 

Golden Times

 

L'age d'Or

well those golden have seen better times – as have we, but not to fret and stay the course... along with an archive-exhibition in Charleroi (may-sept) we will combine investigations, one in the framework of a series concerning the 'Borinage' former coal-mining area south-west of Mons, the cradle of the industrial revolution on the continent, and then the resurgence of the 'submersible' series... which has been dormant for quite some time...

 

There will be a publication made, but it is not yet clear if this might be in the guise of a catalogue, a travellogue or pure fiction, free associative bits floating simultaneously... possibly in a LJA format but more likely a RVR... and then the question arises whether to combine the different strands or to separate them:

...one for the series of interventions in the Borinage (being a fifty-fifty intervention at Le Grande Hornu and one at Maubeuge (though this is a bit borderline when it comes to considering what/where the Borinage is... and then one at the two houses where Vincent van Gogh stayed during his sojourn in the area as an evangelist... part of the archive exhibition mentioned...

in any case it's all about by-gones, and as such the RVR (rear view review) lends itself ideally, and who knows, this disappearing bookstore might be it(s last major publisher, seeing as how we are dealing in counterfit anyways...

backing up again

 

Decembrist nicolaean

Considering the autocrat now housing in the Kremlin, it seems that time, its expansion and contraction, is as it was opted by that single stone, flexible...
Flexible, stretchable, rubberized or just plain formless, power distorting any sort of recognizable soul as Gogol might have noted... The revolt did not emmenate from the peasants however, but was an attempt at modernizing and reforming by the upper middling classes and young officers from good homes... Inspired no doubt by the American Revolution, with its notion of equality... 
But translated to the Russian Steppes, there was not much to go on, and it was a bit of a feeble revolt soon quashed by the Tsars army... Nicholas I ... Himself a bit of a reformer, but of a very superficial and diluted sort... The sort we don't even consider nowadays, being weened on hard-hitting breaking fake news and short-cut reasoning if at all... Reason seems to be the least of anyone's worries..
( the sleep of reason)
Producing monsters from one generation to the next, even the bolsheviks could not muster an even-handed redistribution... And in the end were no better than Nicholas II, who, given half the chance might have been a better bet for most of the populace... As it is, history repeats itself and even now, with a useless bloody war being supported by the main body of the population... Why is unclear... We see ourselves forced to admit that progress does not always take place...
So saint Nick has another letter this year yearning for betterment... Peace of earth and all that, piece of mind, Eye and Ear departments...

refurb publications

 soon to be refurbished look-back publications (rear view review) soon to be gathered here...

(been delayed again... bear with us

here a quick look at a reading of spinach during the summer...