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[ visitors should sing Tino Sehgal’s “This Is So Contemporary!” in a loop, while reading the text ] A morbid interest in backwards could only persist in a world obsessed with contemporaneity. To want to go backwards, you need to start from the present. But the presentness and presentism, the human fixation on and celebration […]
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2025 2021 The Persistence of Memory – Salvador Dalí’s enigmatic painting where time unravels and reclaims its autonomy from logic and the rigid measurement instruments created by humans. A painting where time becomes a diversion, slipping through fingers like water. Fluid. Uncontainable. Wild. Much like nature itself. Copy Kitty is a concept that likewise bends […]
Backtracking \\ A Ghostly Path
RC: Why ÎNDĂRĂT? CD: Not only why, but where, when, and (with) whom? RC: There is a form of ÎNDĂRĂT in this dialogue structure, as in when it’s spoken vs. when it’s read, a synchrony and a diachrony at work. Well, not spoken per se, but not quite written either, somewhere between langue and parole, […]
Horrors Behind: Humanity
Last winter, the curator Alex Radu brought in a series of paintings by Mircea Suciu into an exhibition which paid homage and reinterpreted the work of Chantal Akerman – Chantal by Us (/SAC @ Bucharest). The pieces fit perfectly into the show – visually and conceptually – even though some of the paintings were made […]
Opere complete
DE NEGUM NATURA Începînd de la Hegel cu negarea negației și terminînd cu Deminge de los Paraguayes, conceptul de neg a parcurs de regulă un drum imens, ajungînd astăzi să fie chiar și obiectul unei noi științe, știință care însă se va inventa la viitorul Congres Internațional de Psihoterapie, Memphis, 1989. În celebra sa lucrare […]
PAN-A-SONYC \\ Partea I
OSAKA 542-8588, Japan. Totul a început cu un SDK5. La capătul a două fire negre, acolo unde totul este numai contact. Unde materialul plastic se termină într-un cilindru cu cap de metal ascuţit. Cap de metal cromat, de argint cu riduri verzui, proaspăt înfipt în mufa lui SL-S113, „Portable CD player”. Mâna tremurândă s-a furişat […]
Asynthesis: An Outline
1. Background and definitions Precursors of artificial sound generation can be considered not only engineers of early electronic instruments such as the theremin but also the forefathers of applied algorithmic research that led to this achievement. Noteworthy is the research into arc discharge oscillators, whose typical practicality can be seen in voltaic illumination devices. Its […]
2 Poems
dust the dust distributed in the air by the fast cars passing near me when I cross the street filled with dried leaves the dust laid on the leaves and the smoke unloaded by the cars on my body and in my hair I wash my hair, the shimmer left on my locks remains on […]
Waitscape
ÎNDĂRĂT \\ Backwards
ÎNDĂRĂT is an old word, now unused; an odd word, and marginal. It roughly translates as back, backwards – simultaneously referring to a spatial and temporal dimension. Paraphrasing Krasna: a vertigo of space intertwined with a vertigo of time. ÎNDĂRĂT means going back, reversing, looking behind one’s back, (re)tracing one’s steps, figuring out a different […]