The BCN Psychotropic Workshops December 2010 Barcelona//// Close Ups////

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









Sound Performance  by detourned line up of Live Sculpture Dirty Snow

Collaborative setting between  Psycho Tropic workshop members

Opening Night

                                               International Red and Neo Concrete Presence


 6 white panels brushed with Colour Palette guide by  the voice of Allan Kaprov









Dark Star Poster Set

    A spoken word re-enactment of Redum  a text piece from 1998



THE PSYCHOTROPIC WORKSHOPS


Psicotrópico (del griego psyche, "mente" y tropein, "tornar") es un agente que actúa sobre el sistema nervioso central, lo cual trae como consecuencia cambios temporales en la percepción, ánimo, estado de conciencia y comportamiento.

psy·cho·tro·pic (sk-trpk, -trpk) adj. Having an altering effect on perception or behavior. A psychotropic drug or other agent. psychotropic [-trop?ik] Etymology: Gk, psyche + trepein, to turn exerting an effect on the mind or modifying mental activity

psychotropic (s??·k?·tr??·pik), adj concerns that that affect the mind and influence behavior. psychotropic capable of modifying mental activity.


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

TOPICS:
THE LAMENTS OF JEREMY/JEREMIAS
HAZARDOUS BREAKS
CHANCE AND WRONG
MACHINE REVOLUTIONS
WHAT'S LEFT THERE
DEBORD DERIVE

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

SEARCH FOR REFERENTS

CUVO AT EL MATADERO THEATER MADRID

Poster and the entrance to the Theatre space






Noise, improvised life over ghost film at El Matadero de Madrid , proyecto CUVO curated by Alex Brahim  December 2010

Sonia Gomez about to go on stage
and Lydia Lunch holding the red
curtain...

Las Naves del Español del Matadero de Madrid acogerán el sábado 11 y domingo 12 de diciembre la primera edición de CUVO, un espectáculo en sesión continua donde seis performers de origen o estadía catalana que hilarán en turnos de 15 minutos historias que van conectadas por grupos y que comparten la misma visión, forma y método de transmitir de sensaciones y transmutar el concepto de espectáculo escénico en una mezcla de danza, música, show de cabaret, exhibicionismo crónico y plataforma deforme. CUVO se agrupará simulando la reproducción de un vinilo o una cinta de casete: tres pases de media hora con cara a y cara b cada una donde se unirán de la misma forma que se desunen en escena la oferta de performers que se conectan con los elementos y las formas, pero que discurren en el fondo, el contenido y continente de la transmisión de la misma en un puro ejercicio de coordinación.   Alan Queipo

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THE BCN PSYCHO TROPIC WORKSHOPS

The BCN Psychotropic Workshops  2010 


Allan Kaprow is Calling and Teletransported 


Real Tranformations and Mutations will happen 



Comunal Experiences , All together Now !





THE BCN PSYCHO TROPIC WORKSHOPS ELS LABORATORIS PSICO TROPICS A BCN





Esther Planas The BCN Psycho Tropic Workshops An exhibition , a Workshop and a Psycho Tropic Trip De-Tour your Mind / Retro/Spective Situations



Innaugura 2 Diciembre al 16 Diciembre 2010

Workshops del 6 al 9 Diciembre de 16 a 20 h

Club Esther and Dirty Snow Live Set plus guest Stars 16 Diciembre

Antigua Casa Haiku Perill 43 info/telefono: 934342530 Barcelona, Spain



Psicotrópico (del griego psyche, "mente" y tropein, "tornar") es un agente que actúa sobre el sistema nervioso central, lo cual trae como consecuencia cambios temporales en la percepción, ánimo, estado de conciencia y comportamiento.

psy·cho·tro·pic (sk-trpk, -trpk) adj. Having an altering effect on perception or behavior. A psychotropic drug or other agent. psychotropic [-trop?ik] Etymology: Gk, psyche + trepein, to turn exerting an effect on the mind or modifying mental activity

psychotropic (s??·k?·tr??·pik), adj concerns that that affect the mind and influence behavior. psychotropic capable of modifying mental activity.



Y la naturaleza de inventar no es distinta a la de acordarse. Dejemos pues a los explicadores «formar» el «gusto» y «la imaginación» de los señoritos, dejémosles disertar sobre el "genio" de los creadores. Nosotros nos limitaremos a hacer como estos creadores: como Hacine que aprendió de memoria, tradujo, repitió, imitó a Eurípides, Bossuet que hizo lo mismo con Tertuliano, Rousseau con Amyot, Boileau con Horacio y Juvenal; como Demóstenes que copió ocho veces Tucídides, Hooft que leyó cincuenta y dos veces Tácito, Séneca que recomienda la lectura siempre renovada de un mismo libro, Haydn que repitió indefinidamente seis sonatas de Bach, Miguel Ángel ocupado en rehacer siempre el mismo torso...9 La potencia no se divide. Sólo existe un poder, el de ver y el de decir, el de prestar atención a lo que se ve y a lo que se dice. Aprendemos frases y más frases; descubrimos los hechos, es decir, las relaciones entre cosas, y más relaciones aún, todas de la misma naturaleza; aprendemos a combinar las letras, las palabras, las frases, las ideas... No diremos que hemos adquirido la ciencia, que conocemos la verdad o que nos hemos convertido en un genio. Pero sabremos que podemos, en el orden intelectual, todo lo que puede un hombre.



Extracte del Maestro Emancipado de Jacques Ranciere



I am not You!!

Baudrillard argued that meaning (value) is created through difference - through what something is not (so "dog" means "dog" because it is not-"cat", not-"goat", not-"tree", etc.). In fact, he viewed meaning as near enough self-referential: objects, images of objects, words and signs are situated in a web of meaning; one object's meaning is only understandable through its relation to the meaning of other objects; in other words, one thing's prestige relates to another's mundanity.



Art Dustbin



The end of history is, alas, also the end of the dustbins of history. There are no longer any dustbins for disposing of old ideologies, old regimes, old values. Where are we going to throw Marxism, which actually invented the dustbins of history? (Yet there is some justice here since the very people who invented them have fallen in.) Conclusion: if there are no more dustbins of history, this is because History itself has become a dustbin. It has become its own dustbin, just as the planet itself is becoming its own dustbin



Unwritten doctrine



For a long time Plato's unwritten doctrine[32][33][34] had been considered unworthy of attention. Most of the books on Plato seem to diminish its importance. Nevertheless the first important witness who mentions its existence is Aristotle, who in his Physics (209 b) writes: "It is true, indeed, that the account he gives there [i.e. in Timaeus] of the participant is different from what he says in his so-called unwritten teaching (?????? ???????)." The term ?????? ??????? literally means unwritten doctrine and it stands for the most fundamental metaphysical teaching of Plato, which he disclosed only to his most trusted fellows and kept secret from the public. The reason for not revealing it to everyone is partially discussed in Phaedrus (276 c) where Plato criticizes the written transmission of knowledge as faulty, favoring instead the spoken logos: "he who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink, sowing them through a pen with words, which cannot defend themselves by argument and cannot teach the truth effectually." The same argument is repeated in Plato's Seventh Letter (344 c): "every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing." In the same letter he writes (341 c): "I can certainly declare concerning all these writers who claim to know the subjects that I seriously study ... there does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any treatise of mine dealing therewith." Such secrecy is necessary in order not "to expose them to unseemly and degrading treatment" (344 d).

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