intermediate impromptu

 not quite getting it off the ground, and less impromptu than foreseen,

this series of investigative presentations has still to get started

waiting for the museum to decide which work to jettison...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

one (re-) find has been this table-drawing from the very beginnings of "Aporia" which became buktaPaktop// the Finland prep drwings at OE-29 Avelgem

 

 

intermittent investigation - here another, old drawings and frottages from Tournai (Fondation de Tapisserie) 

 

 

(technical drawings for a suspension in the St Nicholas Church in 1988) 

early activities...

 decided to get started early this year even though cold and rough...

improptu cont... with a small intervention for Art's Birthday while readying the place for the first show;

 

the first show of the year being Viviane Klagsbrun and Lieve Lambrecht paintings and puzzels

"La perspecive des Courents d'Air"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

which was a pleasant set of presentations, classic but agreeable to all...

 

impromp 3 time to stop imprompting

 

Maybe it's time to stop imprompting and getting something off the ground... with that idea ther third impropmtu was a sort of clarion call and to a degree effected a plan to show a video from 20 years ago in the same space... what a reflash!

It might also be a kick-off for more regular archive meets such as the one improvised here: one archive box opened and investigated, described and registered. More need not be – in the meantime some conversations about the material and/or the time it conjures... with the added plus to learn something perhaps one didn't know about this or that yet... everyone has their own memory and flavor of the past... makes it more colourful than the drab notions one might have of oneself and for oneself... exchange quoi!

 

preparing improtu measurements (foto D-K)

Arrêtez d'impromtiver !

Il est peut-être temps d'arrêter d'impromtiver et de lancer quelque chose… avec cette idée, le troisième impromptu a été une sorte de sonnette d'alarme et a, dans une certaine mesure, concrétisé le projet de diffuser une vidéo d'il y a 20 ans dans le même espace… quel reflash !

Cela pourrait aussi servir de point de départ à des rencontres d'archives plus régulières, comme celle impromtee ici : une boîte d'archives a été ouverte, examinée, décrite et enregistrée. Inutile d'en faire plus : en attendant, quelques conversations sur le matériel et/ou le temps qu'il évoque… avec l'avantage supplémentaire d'apprendre quelque chose qu'on ignorait peut-être encore sur ceci ou cela… chacun a sa propre mémoire et sa propre saveur du passé… le rend plus coloré que les idées ternes qu'on peut avoir de soi et pour soi… échange quoi !

digesting an archive box leftovers from Bukta-excurion Munich

Stop met impromteren!

Misschien is het tijd om te stoppen met impromteren en iets van de grond te krijgen... met dat idee was dit derde impromptu een soort klaroengeschal en leidde tot een plan om een video van 20 jaar geleden in dezelfde ruimte te laten zien... ja, wat een reflash!

Het zou ook de aftrap kunnen zijn voor meer regelmatige archiefbijeenkomsten zoals die hier geïmpromiveert: één archiefdoos geopend en onderzocht, beschreven en geregistreerd. Meer hoeft niet - in de tussentijd wat gesprekken over het materiaal en/of de tijd die het oproept... met als bijkomend voordeel dat je iets leert wat je misschien nog niet wist over dit of dat... iedereen heeft zijn eigen herinneringen en smaak aan het verleden... dat maakt het kleurrijker dan de saaie en kleurloze noties die je over jezelf en voor jezelf zou kunnen hebben... uitwisseling quoi!

 

 

 

impromp-2 as replacement (temp)

 

Normally we wanted to go ahead with a regular archival meet et the Chien Brun but things got in the was so as to reduce us to some short impromptus in the meantime – notwithstanding, we still consider the original idea as viable and would like to expand on it, with the proviso that it will be a more diverse and irregular thing rather than a fixed rendezvous.

 

 

To wit, the conference table as 'brancard' a resting place for the near-deceased or seriously wounded combatant... the image of an emergency, urgency, need to intervene if not all be lost... but at the same time waiting, for the nurse, the doctor or the undertaker... which is it to be? Hopefully the nurse, maybe even the head nurse, with gives hope and light and joie de vivre...

 

A new lease on life but with some restrictions – prosthesis, crutches for defunct body parts and misguided thought – ambulant treatment, stationary healing... we shall see, and develop some thought in the meantime:

(more soon)

 

Soirée repassée

 Pour arrondir les connexions entre nous une repas partatgé - tout frais!

lost souper/ supper

soiré repassage

pour nous c’était une très courte visite, une petite acte de participation (couper quelques légumes) au grand repas du soir... une soirée surtout de la groupe Amour et Sagesse qui parle des et avec les gens qui sont dans une interzone de le passage du temps – c’est quoi vieux, ancienne, vintage ? Bon question et cet méthode banqueteuse était une belle introduction – même si nous étions pas pour le repas même – repas passé, intention repassé – prochaine fois mieux.

 

 

Evening ironing: for us it was a very short visit, a small act of participation (cutting some vegetables) in the big evening meal... an evening especially formulated by the group Love and Wisdom which speaks of and with people who are in an interzone of the passage of time - what is old, ancient, vintage? Good question and this banquet method was a nice introduction - even if we were not there for the meal itself - meal passed, intention ironed – better next time .

Dec 6 questionable conjecture

 

The first of a series of archival query's at the new (refurbished) venue Chien Brun...

(to wit - on this day also the buktapaktop website - already defunct - was abandoned officially)

 

 

the small gathering was an informal affair – the presentation rather curioius because it entailed some questions as well as documentary elements – the images were of a St. N exhibition at 'inexistent' but unclear when – which still remains the question. (no-one could help out) the presentation of the itinerary of the 'iris' chair was minimal, and a bit after the fact, but the subtext question whether conjecture is admissible as a valid research method in the archival did set off a lively discussion based partially on the notion of auto-plagiarism and specifically relating to Jacques Lizen's self-remake series as well as various (autosubversive) aspects of the cultural scene in Liège during the late 80's and well into the 90's... ah, memories...

 

 

By way of hands-on intervention we investigated two rolls from the archive mound: one of which as it turns out was dated: 50/50 11/3/1990 – so that was then clear (it was a paper strip of ca. 5 m which we then crumpled into an archive-ball of sorts) (call it re-packaging) – the other was more enigmatic and had no date... but it was sectioned in three with masking tape, which no longer fulfilled it's function... one theory is that it was a cut-off from the installation by Jef L. 'Baghdad 8' – which makes sense because the other paper used for this occasion was a hand-painted paper panel belonging I think to just that exhibition, which read ' firstI sealed, then I invented writing' – not sure if this was referring to Nebuchadnezzar or another Babylonian potentate, but remembering another version used in stamps 'I seal 2 write' or 'I seal II write' – no longer sure which.

 

so much for the Santa complex -

below a videostill from the session on plagiarims during the exhibition of Donovan, Morgan & Rose at F44 which served as a sort subtitle/text for this get-together...

Jef L and Wout V...

en bateau...

 

New structure, new name

Given that the old Buktapaktop was no longer viable and it seemed there were no new faces that might have re-launched the project, it was decided to lay it to rest. But given the fact that the space would be lost for all sorts of activities and there are plans for a complete overhaul in the (near) future, it was decided to make the most of it and install a new, refurbished entity that can be used by a wider range of semi-public activities...

Le Chien Brun

With a new set of parameters and quite a few new faces, re-vamped interior conveniences while at the same time retaining the old workspace-feel... 

 

 

 

in a boat now, and a new hat as well as a companion...   (by Manu T)