Grafitti erased and not erased

Two images from a short walk around Whitechapel, East London, this morning. The red wall with erased grafitti is like a huge sculptural impediment planted in the urban landscape. The large tag "2001" faces it across the street and behind this small, decorated building is a huge, brutalist concrete slab - part of the renovation scheme for the East London overground railway, which is presumably connected with the forthcoming London Olympics.

How simple it can be sometimes:

todays demo.

no demolition of the drama theatre building in Cologne.

yes to sustainability in town planning and the restoration of the drama theatre building in the Riphan-designed opera-complex with Opernterrassen (restaurant).

http://www.mutzukultur.de

http://www.ihr-seid-kuenstler.de

temporary sculptures

Here some temporary urban ready mades i found around the corner of my house.

CHANCE ARRANGEMENTS

An exhibition by a KHIB MA student, Jonas Ib F.H. Jensen

opening at Galleri Fisk, Bergen on Friday 22 January

CHANCE ARRANGEMENTS

Or basic shapes of nature (revised ’n’ rewritten)

PROPOSITIONS #1-20                                           PS#01_19-18012010

# 1.     When something is set in motion it can spin indefinitely and accumulate all sorts of stuff on its way.

# 2.     A spoon lying in the side of the road might prove to be a significant event, then again it might not.

# 3.     Something discarded can be found and and considered by others.

# 4.     To say of two things that they are identical is nonsense. To say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing at all. (Quoting Ludwig Wittgenstein)

# 5.     At times nonsense can make a whole lot of sense.

# 6.     Once considered something will start to act out itself.

# 7.     Thoughts are planets circling the sun, at times they align.

# 8.

# 9.     The artist may refuse any responsibility for the event that (s)he activates.

# 10.   A small movement in the string of events can shift everything completely.

# 11.   Any accumulation is influenced by bias.

# 12.   That which serves no purpose is not purposeless. (Quoting Nikolas Dinér)

# 13.   Presence is more accurate than value 'n' truth.

# 14.   The shift from Non-object to object happens through consideration.

# 15.   Chance denotes change, change denotes chaos, chaos encourages chance.

# 16.   Chance will negotiate any reinvention.

# 17.   That which goes without saying should be left unsaid.

# 18.   Any position is the lack of another position.

# 19.   Contradiction is inevitable and avoids conformity.

# 20.   Everything adds up to zero.

NOT VEHICLE OF EXPRESSION BUT CUE TO PERCEPTION

we wish you a.....

I am sitting in the transit area of Hong Kong airport, drinking Carlsberg ???? beer (after three months of excellent aussie ales, this is a sad comedown) and being lulled by robotic versions of anglo-euro-american christmas songs on the airport sound system. If Santa Claus is coming to town, I wish he'd just get on with it then f*** off! Anybody want to start an "I Hate Xmas" blog?

But anyway, goodwill to (most) all men & women. But lets send all the useless politicians of the world to a melting icecap or to the scorching interior of Australia where the chances of rain seem to be diminishing by the day. Let them ponder how much time, energy and money they wasted doing nothing in Copenhagen.

season's greetings ...

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