Oak, land, Us (West Coast pt. 4)

All photos by Pol Matthé.

U.S. Beuys (West Coast pt. 3)

All photos by Pol Matthé, the previous ones also.

West Coastal pt. 2

West Coast Tour pt. 1

 

Ten Statements On Invitation

(Sis’s contribution to A Prior #18)

1. An invitation is serious. It is not just an invitation.

2. An invitation is an active gift of participation. It is a start.

3. An invitation is not a question or a demand. It is a possibility. An invitation is always open, never closed or determined. It carries generosity.

4. An invitation doesn’t need judgment or meaning, and can not be evaluated. It is a vector that starts from subjective practice. Sometimes a practice creates more of an atmosphere of connection than at other times, but this does not determine success.

5. The vector that determines the value of an invitation is incomprehensible from the perspective of the participant. It is a projection on a screen, which feels like a space, with nothing behind or beyond, blocking what insists and turning the desire for distance into a space. A screen is a space that can not be occupied. It is a safe zone. A screen is not a space at all.

6. The vector of invitation does not regard distance. An invitation is an invitation to improvise. It doesn’t demand skill or technical ability.

7. An invitation is a relation. It is about continuation and addition. An invitation is based on trust.

8. An invitation can always be renewed or reactivated. Every start is a restart.

9. An invitation is meant to provoke other invitations.

10. Invitation is enjeu.

A Method

Good memories. A Method w/ TV On The Radio. Night after night after night.

A Prior

The latest issue of A Prior is a project conceived by Nico Dockx, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Anton Vidokle, based on public conversations in New York and Brussels in the summer of 2008. Our very own Sis Matthé was invited by Nico Dockx to be part of those talks and Krist recorded the Brussels part of the conversations. The magazine is out now and features a contribution from Sis, titled Ten Statements On Invitation.

Other participants include Jeebesh Bagchi, Francisca Benitez, Daniel Faust, Liam Gillick, Egon Hanfstingl, Am Johal, Steven Kaplan, Anders Kreuger, Miwon Kwon, Maria Lind, Monica Narula, Hadley Nunes, Saul Ostrow, Marti Peran, Raqs Media Collective, Simon Rees, Els Roelandt, Dieter Roelstraete, Martha Rosler, Joe Scanlan, Helena Sidiropoulos, Monika Szewczyk, Jan Verwoert, Lawrence Weiner, Andrea Wiarda, Louwrien Wijers, Valérie Mannaerts, Maxwel Stephen, and the respective New York and Brussels audiences.

The magazine was presented at Wiels on February 13th and will be again on March 12th in Berlin at The Building and on April 16th at E-Flux in New York. You can also get it in stores or order it straight from A Prior.

Listen to the complete audio recordings of The NY conversations here, recorded 26-28 July 2008 at 41 Essex Street in New York’s lower east side.

Almost Vegan Times

Alex Dumitran was driver as well as present disappearer at our tour with No Age last year, so we were pleased to find out what he’d been doing out there stoned at night or gone in Paris or lost in general. Why he did not put that prostitute in the caravan in the slideshow is still beyond our understanding, but it could have been because it was nothing but a shiny red dream. The 360 pictures you see in the clip are all that’s left and all it was. Some of his other works can be found here. Picture of the artist as a moustachy shadow taken by our main man Obrama aka Bramski Beat, who will be with us out in the States soon too, killing it.

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Hellos.