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Photos by Amy Blackmore and Cindy Lopez

Nuit Blanche at 141 Ann. Montreal.

Nuit Blanche at 141 Ann in Griffintown

Thank you to CoMotion Farm for hosting us.

Well, we played on nuit blanche in the open space of factory walls and mish-mashed artworks strewn about. On a white floor of paper we came together without rehearsal to perform simultaneous individual acts, one of us for the first time, one with practise and one with ownership. All devoted to destruction we made no claims to perfection nor presented ideological impressions. We did things at the same time that we were relatively good at. The cohesion for the work was only the content of our focus with these things. So... ya pictures is all we got left.







Nuit Blanche at 141 Ann in Griffintown

be-lated nuit blanche critique

i read many books on Art Theory, stage relantionship, spectacle and torture
(foucault is very popular with the young people)
While Ben beats himself with his fist. and breaks stereos with a baseball bat.

M. Kelly came on half way with a plastic smile playing the banjo.

There were many reactions many frowns, one woman said "i can't hear"
"why doesn't he talk louder" "shhhh- this is Art"
other comments: "well, atleast it was interesting."
"funny and scary"

Their ears were straining for an explanation through words.
There was no sacred meaning.
You are invited to an empty conference, you are the guest lecturer.
These are men who have no opinions that expand outside the borders of the stage.
There are no undercurrents.
No comments on the Media.
Some sort of sacrilege initiation rite?
You are invited to interpret however you like.
There is nothing behind: a moving mouth
a beating fist
a strumming banjo
pop music

These are young men without a message to send you.
Does this pose a problem?
They would like you to know they have the gumtion to grasp the molotov
but once its flaming in their hands they know not where to throw it. perhaps.

The Perfect Human

Al

intresting surrealist video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39j7bypVxL8&feature=PlayList&p=AF6094C083302825&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=5

WHY ISNT ANYONE KIND ENOUGH TO POST STUFF

JESUS CHRIST GUYS/
ITS NOT SO HARD TO TRY TO MAINTAIN A COMMUNITY ONLINE, AND CHRIST I THINK YOUR ALL BEING
REALLY:
LAZY
SELFISH
BORING
SAD
SHITTY
FAT
PLAY-DOUGH
\ PRIVILEGED
CUNTY
DISGRACEFUL

It dont look as bad as it sounds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrEsnZf2-6M&feature=related

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction

I am capable of such great evil.

its silly sandal wearing gold fish tenders

its silly to just copy paste and sit here.

Lists will save 12 lives a year in American operating rooms:

-socks
-juice
-sandal wearing goldfish tenders
-salt
-cream
-beef
-carrots
-yeast

jobs that destroy your life.

http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=37

I have a good relationship with beer, an unhealthy relationship with liquor and a complicated relationship with wine.

here is something about an early black dancer named "Master Juba"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Juba

My Friend's Blog Entry

I thought it fit.

http://ahmoskalblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/awful.html

- Evan

FROM: How to Learn About HERBS [Inspired by a Now Magazine Edible City article & the Law of Hoarmonic Energy Motion, the 0-9 Law

10) Know that Chaos leads to opportunity & Change; Death gives Life, A Cosmic Law; Dark shows Light

quotations

SICKNESS AND DEATH ARE ALL GOOD FOR A MAN WHO WEARS THE DANDY SUIT OF ELEGANCE

Max

posted by Ben

quotations

from Archive Fever Jacques Derrida 1995

"The death drive tends thus to destroy the hypomnesic archive, except if it can be disguised, made up, painted, printed, represented as the idol of its truth in painting. Another economy is thus at work, the transaction between this death drive and the pleasure principle, between Thanatos and Eros, but also between the death drive and this apparent dual opposition of principals, of arkhai, for example the reality principle and the pleasure principle. The death drive is not a principle. It even threatens every principality, every archontic primacy, every archival desire. It is what we will call, later on, le mal d'archive, "archive fever". [12]

genral labour:DWYC2Y:destruction

(original statement)

do what you can in 2 years...

This thing will serve as an open archive. Take and add what you can whenever possible. Cite your contributions and they in turn will be cited. We are creating together and autonomously. The goal is to make a performance on Dec 9th 2011. It will happen, with or without you because no matter what withers or decays, the archive will remain (hopefully).

general labour

A public email account to which everyone has the ability to contact anyone who has ever contributed to the archive. General Labour will be our "company" name (for now) but as it is public domain it may be changed if need be. Please login and add yourself as a contact using your prefered personal email account.
It is a gmail account.
username: DWYC2Y
password: 45524552

the arch. (pronounced: ärk)

The archive is a blog that uses the server at blogspot.com
username: DWYC2Y
password: 45524552

The arch is located in a public space with complete public access. In this case the arch is a blog fascilitated by a communal email account. The passcodes and usernames to the arch and the atached email account are labeled in order grant access to all contributers, obtainers, benefactors, misappropriaters, defacers, and critiques.

The unlimited public access entails the risk of minipulation of the contents of the arch. This is good, content is less important to the structure we are trying to uphold. I then must ask: Please do not delete this arch, there is no private document to back it up. It of course can be deleted, you all have that power and that right. The structure would not function without those rights.

The arch is a place of refuge for learning and sharing what we know and what we do not know. It will exist as a constant outside our scheduled lives and gives freedom to take and give as you please. It asks not for understanding as a prerequisit but for a curiosity and a willingness to support. A space where questions are prioritized over answers.

Let us create publically.

The Contents

Destruction is the first proposal.
insert here... or anywhere... or not...

Ben and Max

this was in the common e-mail...

From Max

www.mcaf.net/html/2-Events-Ai-weiwei-2004-Dropping-Han-urn.html

proposal #1

Where we will be:

Scotiabank theater at Pia Bouman's School for Dance (standard blackbox)

things we will:

plywood
dirt
tape of sweet nuthin' by the velvet underground
ceramic cups and saucers
boombox
running model train with ample track
camera
projector

The thing

we construct a small wooden structure that will act as a protective barracade from the destruction. we have dirt on the centre of the structure as fondation for the things we will make with the ceramics.
We play the game
A camera will ride a train that circulates the track and will give a live feed projection in the space.
The boombox will be played as someone (Julia?) Talks about what we are doing.

Foreseen Problems:

How do we build the structure safe enough to protect the audience and the space yet give us space to destroy?
How do we relay a live feed from the camera to the projector if the camera is moving in a circle?

Ben

The Why

Why has this come about?
Exhausting parachute workshop show production and the desire to belong with people are two main factors. The allowance for transient involvement in a research project where the end goal is a performance and some things. The slower creation of history, extracting the command of the individual upon documentation and memory in search of a comunal archive. A shared history to provoke a community that nurtures diversity of intelligences and offers skill trades in the process. Learning to be together for later.
Ben