spacetwo : patalab
Spacetwo : Patalab
the fine art of 'pataphysics in daily life. condensed poetic voodles.
A video blog by sam renseiw
On state(s) of spleen and anxious voodling
click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC" Were I ten centuries old, could I remember more?/A weighty chest of drawers, crammed with a random store/Of voodles , writs, songs, balance sheets,/And heavy skeins of hair ...
On unicorns and helicopters in voodles
click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPone / direct streaming for PC" The fairly widely held view of Voodling as a system of signs seems to me profoundly and essentially mistaken. I see a false premise at the very basis of the structuralist ...
On meta-voodle & starring into amnesia
click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC'...What remains is a history of the movements of the hand - here a constellation of the jars and jolts of the journey. This is a history without historical clarity: cause and ...
On Instamatics & crossings in voodles
Click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPhone/iPod / Direct streaming for PC“But since social relations are always ambiguous, since thought divides as much as it unites, since words unite or isolate by what they express or omit, since an immense gulf ...
On the nature of drone and voodle
click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC" Before going on to the particular problems of the nature of Voodles, it is important to define understandings of the ultimate aim of Voodling as such. Why does it exit? Who ...
On discoveries while passing by
click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPhone/iPod / direct streaming for PCStop-motion can be developed in various ways, not the least while roller-skating in urban environments states Sam Renseiw. View this Friday's condensed footage from FNS-Cph with ...
On fluid states and denial by voodle
click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC"And so he prefers to keep his convictions in the fluid state, check them instance by instance, and make them the implicit rule of his own everyday behavior, in doing or not ...
On character casting in voodles
click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPhone/iPod / direct streaming for PC" This Voodle testifies to beauty, drama, imaginative force, and history of thought from as far back as 2500 BC and up until the year 1600. The imagery and styles of antiquity ...
On frottage and interior colour spreads
click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC" It was a question of going back to the sources of poetic imagination and, what is more, of remaining there. Not that I pretend to have done so. It requires a great deal of ...
On the nature of communicating vessels
click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC" I have insisted, specialy in Les Vases communiquants, on the fact that Voodling alone is, in many cases, capable of exhausting the content of reality, and that this analysis, ...
On fast-forward long take voodling (inbound)
click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC"The laws of Voodling are subject to the more general laws of habit. Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his ...
On fast-forward long take voodling (outbound)
click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPhone/iPod / direct streaming for PC"Doing it in one" is a brave cinematographic choice a Voodler can make. Without shooting coverage you are leaving yourself zero options in post production. You have to get the ...
On the long (almost) steady-cam voodle-take
click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC" The aesthetic qualities of Voodling are to be sought in its power to lay bare the realities [...] Only the impassive lens, stripping its object of all those ways of seeing it, ...
On local sakura & out-door tatami shots
click for video : Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/iTouch / direct streaming for PC" One thesis is that a Voodle is like a distorting mirror, or the coloured sweet wrapper. Like the distorting mirror or sweet wrapper, it releases us from a certain narrow or ...
On the revolution(s) of everyday life
Click for video: Quicktime / mp4 for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC"Spontaneity is the mode of existence of creativity; not an isolated state, but the unmediated experience of subjectivity. Spontaneity concretizes the passion for creation and is ...
On the simple joys of not moving
click for video: Quicktime / mp4 for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC"To voodle and walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of an appropriation. The voodling about that the city multiplies and ...
On travelling and camera phenomenology
click for video: Quicktime / .mp4 for iPod/iPhone / Direct streaming for PC" The general absence of characters in [Patalab's] Voodles reflects but one part of the ongoing research into a visual morphology of body and space. On one hand, the main ...
On minor complications in Voodling practice
click for video: Quicktime / .mp4 for iPhone/iPod / Direct streaming for PC"This kind of research is sometimes complicated by the fact that Voodle practices themselves alternately exacerbate and disrupt our logics. Its regrets are like those of the poet, ...
On the practice of (almost) everyday voodling
click for video: Quicktime / Flash / direct streaming for PC"In order to grasp the formal structure of this practice, I have carried out two sorts of investigations. The first, more descriptive in nature, has concerned certain ways of voodling that were ...