RESUMED DATA FROM THE PSYCHOTROPIC EXPERIENCE

THE IDEA IS THE MACHINE THAT MAKES THE ART

From 2 December to 16 December The BCN Psycho Tropic Workshops
was a working progress show featured at Antigua Casa Haiku in
Barcelona.
Curated by Alex Brahim.
The show was about a sort of retrospective and introspective tour
around material from the very far past and the immediate future.

It started as an introductory show/event where old and new films where
screened,a spoken word piece was re-enacted,the space had few sections
and made a total installation composed by big wood murals and zones
of painting as performance,references to Kaprow, Klein and Oiticica,and
a new project based on the Legend of The Chupacabras which was also part
of a virtual opening night at Miami Basel Art Fair

From the 6 till the 9 of December the workshops where on , participants
and ocasional visitors mixed and interchanged opinions and derives.
Finally the 16 of December and as a sort of conclusive performance,
a Club Esther night was reproduced for the first time ever inside a gallery
space.

Here are bits and fragments of how it was like.....



CLUB ESTHER / BIPOLAR SOCIAL CLUB

SETTING:
NEO-WHITE CUBE,TABLES,
CHAIRS,DJ MUSIC,DRINKS,
PERFORMANCES,XMAS LIGHTS,
DERANGED LIVE SET BY DIRTY SNOW,
NOISE,FANZINES,EPHEMERA,T SHIRTS,
POSTERS,GUEST ARTIST,ANAMOR LOVE
TAROT,PERE FAURE READINGS,
"DETOURNED"ART WORKS AS STAGE PIECES,
SCULPTURES,LEFT OVERS,LOTS OF PUBLIC.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS??

What is Club Esther? Club Esther is a NO-CLUB -NO HYPE- NO COOL-NO ARTY ART_

A no no no no and NO
No shit
Is pure S+M =sub-serviance
IT'S NARCISSISTIC BECAUSE: Obedience to the law is freedom!!!
FUCK YOU ALL
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
http://www.clubesther.biz/club/club.htm



TOPICS:
ABERRATIONS OF CURATORIAL LANGUAGE
THE CENTRE D'ART SANTA MONICA AFFAIR/WHAT'S WRONG???
NOTIONS OF DETOUR AND DRIFT
FOUND AND LEFT THERE SCULPTURE
THEORY OF ART POWER AND SYSTEMS
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TOPICS:
THE LAMENTS OF JEREMY/JEREMIAS
HAZARDOUS BREAKS
CHANCE AND WRONG
MACHINE REVOLUTIONS
WHAT'S LEFT THERE
DEBORD DERIVE

TOPICS :
IGNORANTS AND MASTERS
RE-ENACTING GRAFFITI MAKING
MENTALLY ILL?
MIRROR EFFECT
CONCEPTUAL INCONTINENCE OF THE "MAN OF IDEAS"
LITERALLY APPLYING JOSEPH JACOTOT

TOPICS:
GENDER OF ALL SORTS
HERMETIC ART DISCOURSES
POWER GAMES
UNDERGROUND CO-OPTED
HASH/ GRASS/ BEER
BARCELONA ON ID CRISIS
HYPOCRITICAL KNOWLEDGE
FREE LEARNING

The BCN Psychotropic Workshops during the show at Haiku