#pataphysique

[jareckiworld]

Jean-Claude Silbermann — The Lesson (oil on cutout wooden panels, 1993)

[thetaleofthestitch]

Happy Birthday, Alfred Jarry

[already-14]

TRISTAN BASTIT

Dock lagunaire

1979

Tristan Bastit (né le 13 janvier 1941 à Basse-Indre, Loire-Atlantique et mort le 3 novembre 2017 à Paris ) . Plasticien, peintre et graveur français. Il était membre de l'Oupeinpo depuis 1985 et de l'Ouca(ta)po, et provéditeur diaphaniste du Collège de 'Pataphysique.

(et un ami des années noires...)

Il est le chef de file d'un mouvement artistique qui se propose par l'agencement visuel de traces peintes - à la fois indices et signes, fortuites et délibérées - de faire passage à des objets d'une autre réalité. Pour lui, l'objet sémiotique clos de la toile peinte n'acquiers son statut de Peinture que lorsqu'il est le siège d'opérations en acte de trans… : trans-acter, trans-border, trans-cender, trans-coder, trans-crire, trans-ducter, trans-férer, trans-figurer, trans-former, trans-fuger, trans-fuser, trans-gresser, trans-humer, trans-iger, trans-ir, trans-iter, trans-later, trans-lucider, trans-mettre, trans-migrer, trans-muer, trans-paraître, trans-percer, trans-pirer, trans-planter, trans-porter, trans-poser, trans-uder, trans-vaser, trans-verser, trans-vider, etc., etc. Avec le résultat, comme une sorte de traversée du miroir, d'un changement de nature dont cette peinture même présente par transparence l'épiphanie

[millerlevy]

L’Oulipisme vsible jusqu’au 18 décembre dans l’exposition collective Cosmicomix organisée par Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond à la Galerie des grands bains douches de la Plaine Art cade, 35 bis rue de la Bibliothèque 13001 Marseille « En combinant en un seul mot les deux adjectifs cosmique et comique, j’ai essayé de rassembler différentes choses auxquelles je tiens... » Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond #millerlevy #miller #levy #exposition #art #humour #humor #artcurator #artwork #artcurator #patafisica #pataphysics #livre #physique #pataphysique #patafisica #telescope #femme #astronomie #sexualite #pressesuniversitairesdefrance #collection #quesaisje #coll_quesaisje #oulipismes #jeanmarclevyleblond (à Art-Cade Galerie Bains Douches) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXgG9_-Ifge/?utm_medium=tumblr

[yetibaba]

source: college-de-pataphysique.org

[plebeienoblige]

Affiche pour l'exposition La Pataphysique d'Alfred Jarry, présentée à l'UQÀM

[dustedmagazine]

Fukuoka Rinji + Michel Henritzi — Desert Moon (Pataphysique Records)

Desert Moon by Fukuoka Rinji, Michel Henritzi

Fukuoka Rinji and Michel Henritzi have been working together for over a decade. This is their fifth duo album since 2007, but this time around they take on a stricter focus than in the past, aiming for a more intense sound depicting the current crisis they see in theworld. Fukuoka, known for his work with Overhang Party, and more recently Majutsu no Niwa, brings violin and perhaps also guitar, while Henritzi, of Dust Breeders and many collaborations, adds his own guitar-based sonics. 

The approach here is predominantly drone-based, and the title of the second piece, "Song for Nico", is intriguing for its connection with the Velvets' roots in sounds like John Cale's strings and drones from Tony Conrad and La Monte Young. This album certainly brings to mind Conrad's album with Faust, Outside the Dream Syndicate — there are layers of violin, guitar, and effected sonics that often reach for similar inner-space states.

The 13 minutes of "Song for Nico" are in some ways this album's peak moments: these drones are not gentle ambience, but instead strongly evoke the unsettled state of the world crisis the duo has in their sights. But there's also harsh buzzing and pounding piano notes of "Inside the Penitence Box" and the album's most nightmarish moments, when "Sombre Dimanche" descends from a vaguely bohemian feel into shrieking from guest vocalist Junko, of the Japanese noise outfit Hijokaidan.  

Other pieces wander down more variations of drone and experimental journeys, including the most evocative, "Hungarian Snake Dance,” which true to its name does have a ringing, chiming core over which Fukuoka's voice moans and chants. Jingling bells and layering effects build the song into an almost claustrophobic atmosphere, but one with an optimistic flavor; the one song here that doesn't feel distinctly dystopian.  

The album's closer, "Ballad of Josef K,” takes us out the other side with a more recognizable violin part, enveloped in warehouse reverb and mysterious sonic ambience. It's almost peaceful, but then at the last minute it breaks down into clashing, crashing waves of sound and a plaintive violin scrape that could be the last cry of...well, perhaps that's the question.  

Mason Jones

[margaretspencerart]

Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical science in the home...late nights all alone with a test tube oh, oh oh oh...