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July 26 - August 30
Our summer holiday

July 28 & 29th: DocumentaJuly 30: WehrheimAugust 1st: WurzburgJuly 31st: ManifestaAugust 2nd: RothenburgAugust 3rd: To Prague and the Prague CastleAugust 5th: Into Slovakia and furtherAugust 7th: To and beyond ClujAugust 24th: Rural Romanian RoadsAugust 7 to 23rd: Singeorz-BaiAugust 26th: Kreuzenstein CastleAugust 23rd: Cluj and then northAugust 25th: BudapestAugust 27th: East BohemiaAugust 28: Eva Hesse Exhibiton, WiesbadenJuly 26th: Oom Jan's.August 30th: Maastricht
26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 1, 2 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 - 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 - 30

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Documenta Manifesta The Sculpture
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 The Eve Hesse
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 Germany to Maastricht


July 28th: Documenta, Kassel.

choose another monthIn front of
the Fredericianum
Museum, seeing how much the children and
Beuys oak trees have grown in the last five
years.

For the 1987 Documenta Joseph Beuys sold 7000 oak tree saplings along with the same number of chucks of basalt rock. They went out around the world but most ended up in Germany because his concept was that this was a new forest for Germany. They were to be planted next to each other as you see here so that over the passage of time we see how the relationship between the inanimate and the organic changes.


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"Articulation / Dearticulation" by The French artist Annette Messager (1943).
Stuffed animal and human forms move by pulleys and strings up and down and around the room. It was both macarbe and cute.
To August 2002 "Mesas de trabajo y reflexion" (Tables for work and reflection) by the Argentian Victor Grippo (1936-2002). This was first shown at the 1994 Havana Biennale. Seven tables have texts by various Argentinian writers written over them. Some desks were from Havana and some had resin or rubber spilt over them.


To August 2002 "The Illuminated Manuscript" an interactive video projection of texts onto a book of blank pages by American artist, David Small and about the Joan Jonas installation to come.


To August 2002 A computer projection by Canadian Stan Douglas. More to come.

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"" min film by Ani Kanwar, a Pakistani filmmaker.


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Some of the text accompanying these images.
"violence defined upon itself ... I try to get a hold of myself ... Victims and martyrs, the list is as old as time... and so is this immortal vow... the rise of community and... temples and battle tanks... shiny blue stars shining in the eyes of little children.. I have lost sight of the victors and the vanquished... I may as well be a spectator in..."
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More to come about this fabulous film by the Iranian Shirin Neshat.


More to come about this installation by Mona Hatoum.

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A room where because there was so little visual stimuli, the visitors thought that the reclining reading children
were the art!

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go to August 2002 What the art was was one wall of intense white light (and the two reading children :).

There was a number of things, like this, that I just found tiresome, but on the whole there was a lot more engaging work than there had been in the 1997 Documenta.

To August 2002 This work by the London-based Lebanon artist, Mona Hatoum (1936-2002) was a multiple for sale in the Halle. It was one of a handful of art objects commissioned as a Documenta purchasable art-work. The Arabic reads "West" on one mouthpiece and "East" on the other.


To August 2002 Tama and Toroa in the Hall restuarant waiting for their order. Tama has his thriller
book he bought in London. 		go to August 2002 Toroa and Tama looking at some art in pull up or out folders in the main Hall space. They are sucking on green straws.

To August 2002 The main space of the Halle was filled in archival style. You could sit and read, watch (on the numerious tv monitors) or interact (on one of the numerous computers).

...more to come about the Lithuanian film artists collective.

To August 2002 Tama doing a silly walk on the green in front of the Orangie.

It was a hot and long day and we covered a lot of art and ground. Beyond this green was a park area where the American Renee Green (1959) had made seats inside glass octagonal spaces where when seated you could hear a voice recite lists in alphabetical order. "Octagonal Units for Imagined and Existing Systems" was mediatative. The names of things, actions or places seemed (and probably were) random, but on hearing them one after the other, spoken quietly as if an important list, you couldn't help but make associations between them.

To August 2002 "Maze with 12 signs of depression" 2002, by the Canadian Ken Lum (1956).

It was a cloning-maze and in the end we had to go back to find Toroa who couldn't find his way out.

go to August 2002 Twelves of the mirror plate bear messages etched into them, such as "I cry for no reason" or "I feel alone in the world". They are based on popularized pschology tests found in lifestyle magazines.

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July 29th: Documenta, Kassel - the Binding-Brauerei.

To August 2002 This was a new space in an old brewery and it took almost a day to see everything.

"FluxSpace 3.0 / Mscapes"
(right) was a constantly mutating projection onto the mirrored ceiling and upper walls. It worked well as a computer generated environment. It was a strange sensation, alternating between trick of the eye to the feeling that you really were in that infinate space for those few seconds. Asymptote (Lise-Anne Couture and Hani Rashid) who made this, are an architectual office (founded in 1987) based in New York. They have also made a number of internet design projects as well as public projects such as the 1989 Los Angeles West Coast Gateway steel structure which floats over a freeway.

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"Cell XVIII (Portrait)", 2000, steel, fabric, glass by the French New York-based artist, Louise Bourgeois.

This toweling-madonna looks down onto a row of cloth heads inside a glass cage. On the three walls around this were her "Insominia Drawings" (1994/5) and the effect was overwhelming -a bit like insominia. There is so much going on in your head, that you can't go to sleep.

more about the Alan Sekula "Fish Story" installation to come.


To August 2002 "Alphabet Bete" by Frederic Bruly Bouabre (1921, lives in Abidjan, Ivory Coast) consisted of rows and rows of pen and felt pen drawings surrounded by texts in French and Bete. I'm not sure, the catalogue says it was Bete, an Ivory Coast African language. but some phrases were French.


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To August 2002 "Self-portrait as a building" by Mark Manders (1968, lives in Arnhem, The Netherlands). Info to come about this, Isaac Julien's film projection, and Craig Horsfield's room of video projections.

We left Kassel at about 8 pm getting as far south as a gas station near Gessen which even had shower facilities! I did the washing in the castle-style restaurant toilets and we lingered there till about 11 a.m., because it was so peaceful and relaxing. Sen picked up a pamphlet on fun-parks and saw one for 8 Euro's in a village just north of Frankfurt and so we headed for Wehrheim a small hilly village dominated by an enormous fun-park.


July 30th: Freizeitpark Lochmühle, in the village of Wehrheim.

choose another monthSen felt that the boys needed a break from art, and so he spent the whole day with them at this "play" park.



choose another month They were there from about 10 a.m. until 6.30 p.m.


For me it was a great luxury. I spent the whole day alone in the camper, reading!


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And there were animals too.


Mainly, I read the essays in "Democracy Unrealized ", a book
I bought at Documenta in which were essays from four 2001 "Platforms", co-organized by Okwui Enwezor. I found most essays really stimulating and they gave me ideas for my October Oxford art residency where I want to touch on things to do with colonialism and Euro-hegemony.


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To August 7thWe were stuck in a traffic jam that seemed to extend throughout the whole city, so we turned off and stopped in a northern suburb for dinner. Bockenhein was a nice area and people seemed friendly. Drawing from Tama to come.
We then drove in again at about 10 p.m. for a closer parking space, which was hectic. It was so hot that night that I couldn't sleep until I moved myself onto the floor. Then the drilling from the construction going on on the street started. It felt as if we'd found a remote place but ended up being only a 20 minute walk from the centre of the city.

August 31st: Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt
The European Biennial of Contemporary Art

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The letter r e s i s t were scribbled on each of the white pillars of the building in the background.
At the end of the day I realised that this was the work on the Manifesta artist, Mark ... claiming to be making socially engaged work. Ho hum.

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<- View towards the markt (old city centre) from another bridge further west.

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"Swoon", one of the 'Free Manifesta' projects. We 'saw' that the paper stencils were not graffiti when Tama pointed it out. He was wearing a "Swoon" sticker. We had no idea what is was about but it made a nice photo!

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The Christians vs the Hindus

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Drawing by Tama.

Each time a goal was scored either a Christian marching song played or an Hindu chant.


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Below: The Family played at the table while I went to look at the video projections in the next room.

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