下载overseas项目的中文版press release [pdf, 1.7 mb]
Posted by e | reply »if we are something and nothing
“Nothing subsists in a point, except for the simple exteriority of points in relation to each other. A point consists of nothing (it has no “inside”): it is merely relation to other points. There is no point of space nor point of time (as if it were a little particle of the one or the other), but space and time are the one-outside-the-other of punctuality itself. Thus punctiform space immediately opens time which goes from one point to the other – and time opens space as the truth of its trajectory (the point which is already not the one and not yet the other). The encounter of space and time: here-and-now.”
– from “The Technique of the Present“, by Jean-Luc Nancy
I found some sort correlation to this and the viewing of bodies in space as per Sim’s piece in front of the Tate, and thinking about identity as this punctiform being—-what it is, what we are or can be, as nothing more than a series of relations, identity as nothing more than a here-and-now…
Posted by e | reply »mr.tong’s house (vol.3)
OK, ok…here comes vol.3 of the report of Mr. Tong’s house…
i ‘selected’ two rooms for mon and sim, here you go:
Interim report
Mon: Bedroom
Words and meaning
Macht mächt-ig macht-los
Power power-ful power-less
Pouvoir puiss-ant im-puiss-ant
Looking at those three languages translating the state of having power and not having power is quite intersting. in german ‘mächtig’ means being in power and ‘machtlos’ is lacking power. in english ‘powerful’ means literally ful of power, so there is a sense of container filling it. in french ‘puissant’ is more a being and not being since im of ‘impuissant’ stand for a negation of something. is it a BEING or a CONTAINER to be filled, do we LACK of it or are we just NOT it?
Posted by sim | more »alexander platz
i was for 24h in berlin, passing by, doing a blitzbesuch to the big german capital. and on my way from the hauptbahnhof where i left my lugguage to presnzlauerberg, i had to change at alexanderplatz. i went out of the subway and was standing in the rain on that big square where thousand and thousand of people pass by everyday and i was watching them circulate…
i observed their pass way. the square is quite big, there is a big shoping mal nex to the station, the fernsehturm next to it, a fountain in the middel, some little shops, some snack bars…
we move in the structure that are given from ,one place to the other. always in the most direct way?
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