[spectre] b_books presents "as soon as there is more than one" by elke marhöfer [u]

[Geert Lovink [c]]

From: elke marhöfer  <contact at whateverbeing.de>

> b_books presents
> monday, 24.10. @ 9 p.m.,
> the RELEASE of the BOOK as soon as there is more than one   &
> the berlin FILM PREMIERE of helle nacht nichten; (bright night 
> nothing;)
> book and film by elke marhöfer
>
> b_books . buchladen . verlag . veranstaltungen . filme . lübbenerstr. 
> 14 . 10997 berlin . +49+30+6117844 . fax 6185810 . x at bbooksz.de
>
> and lets celebrate ! ... and PARTY ! (please find english version 
> below)
>
> as soon as there is more than one
> by elke marhöfer
>
> with the desire to intervene against a state, we (i as well as many 
> others) want to involve ourselves with aesthetics as a making and 
> doing - as a taking-place of self-formation, of the attainment and 
> mediation of alternative knowledge // to let happen interpersonal 
> relations in tentative or lasting connections // individuality and 
> collectivity are not contrary and mutually exclusive poles, just as 
> the general and the example don't rule each other out but rather 
> substantiate and constitute each other // thus an “i" will always 
> entail a “we" //
> join others in collaboration // commit yourself to trick the so-called 
> 'natural' flows (of consumption and historical progress) // objects 
> emerge from questions, from necessities and possibilities // in 
> discussion with others new problems, more question and potentially 
> sympathies will unfold // essential is that certain - how-to? - the 
> question of the right way of being productive // do not make radical 
> distinctions between objects and thoughts -  they let to and away from 
> each other // don't link what doesn't need to be linked to demonstrate 
> interconnections // but assemble antibodies and experiments // 
> develope a sensitive way, a receptive mode of dealing with the 
> respective objects // mess up normalizing rhythms // become a medium 
> against the producer // forget how 'to make' in order to better learn 
> how 'to practice' // practice to be alive together, against the 
> deathblows of advanced capitalism // then 'to practice' becomes 'to 
> struggle' // don't try to achieve professionalism in a specific medium 
> and perhaps thereby autonomy // work with those who are making efforts 
> in the same direction //
> ideas, texts and works by sabeth buchmann, sina choi, diedrich 
> diederichsen, barbara frieß, andreas hiepko, olaf hochherz, rodney 
> laTourelle, boyan manchev, elke marhöfer, frank motz, l.a.raeven, 
> carissa rodriguez, karsten schoellner, lojang soenario, whatevertext 
> participants and many others.
>
> german/english, 16 x 23 cm, 236 pp., 128 col. ill., paperback
> edited by elke marhöfer and REVOLVER archiv für aktuelle kunst
>  ISBN 3-86588-115-7
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> helle nacht nichten; (bright night nothings;), video, 20 min, berlin 
> 2004.
> this is not an attempt to explain anything. neither an object nor a 
> subject. catching at best: movements, moods, bodies - maybe just 
> evoking bodies. the representation of reality seems completely boring 
> since the actual conditions are by far not absurd enough. historical 
> remanants can be found in the question "what did you do this summer?" 
> a saying recovered from jean rouch's and edgar morins' chronicle of a 
> summer from 1960 - another pre-revolution movie.
> semidigital. semispectacular. an outside doesn't exist anymore, not 
> even outside images. [there is] no outside the chopped up film 
> structure and its chain of associations. varying speeds.
> in the end, nothing falls into place with a higher unity. no 
> error-aesthetic. the images stay neatly clean. polite rejection. many 
> perfect little image units that loose their discreetness because of or 
> through their quantity and which can hardly be re-functionalised, 
> rejecting any syntax that always aims at a solution in the end. isn't 
> syntactical meaning always, totalitarian truth, as soon as it takes 
> shape? you have to stop drawing conclusions. avoiding the coercion of 
> meaning that apparently can only work in a certain field. seeing what 
> happens.
> no unity, no subject of a statement. the syntax won't be fulfilled; 
> parts of the conclusions come to a halt: new combinations of 
> sub-syntagma. word groups don't form sentences but chains. we don't 
> have to go anywhere and repeat the already formed plot of meaning. 
> building a web without progression instead. the only way to form other 
> syntagma of meaning is to pretend to eliminate known meanings and to 
> build holes and nests for new ones.
> faces: faces of politicians, models, victims. open up. the non-face is 
> connected with language, since it is absurd to believe that a language 
> with faces could mediate a new message, one that wasn't there before. 
> the general grammar is always connected with the education of faces. 
> the redundancy of faces gets repeated.
> images and gestures: neither substance nor form. the gestures 
> neutralize rather than build up on each other; they don't educate and 
> have not been produced to please the viewer.
>
>  elke marhöfer