Kabinett for Thoughtography – Experimental Exhibition Project

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I started to attach a roll of photographic paper behind the wallpaper. The sensitive layer faces the black cardboard, while its backside is in direct contact to the wallpaper. Soon the whole corner will be discretely double-layered. Also Mr. Pickledfeets beautyful hologram of Alice in Wonderland has a hidden sensitivity. Exposure time will be determinated by intuition and patience.

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Castle of the Teutonic Knights, Torun – Poland

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Above are some photographic results received during the workshop with Mr. Pickledfeet beyond the zero held in Torun a day after the opening of the show at CoCa Awake are only the spirits.

Over night, I placed a sealed envelope of six photographic papers, Adox Easy Print, down in the cellars of the remaining ruins of the Castle of the Teutonic Knights in the very heart of Torun. The next day we developed them in a secret lab of the CoCa Art Centre. The scans are not the best quality, due to a badly behaved scanner, though the projections of whoever are clearly visible…

Katier shows in Torun: Awake are only the spirits – 26.03.2010 – 30.05.2010

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26.03.2010 – 30.05.2010
Nie śpią tylko duchy /
Awake are only the spiritsr />
o duchach i ich mediach /
on ghosts and their media

kuratorzy / curated by: Inke Arns & Thibaut de Ruyter

artyści / artists:

Lucas & Jason Ajemian (US), Archiwum anonimowego
obserwatora duchów (DE, kurator: hans w. koch), Sam Ashley (US),
Corinne May Botz (US), Erik Bünger (SE), Damien Cadio (FR), Nina
Fischer/Maroan el Sani (DE), Agne`s Geoffray (FR), Kathrin Günter
(DE), Carl Michael von Hausswolff (SE), Tim Hecker (CA), Martin Howse
(GB), Międzynarodowe Towarzystwo Nekronautyczne/INS (GB), Friedrich
Jürgenson (SE), Joep van Liefland (NL), Chris Marker (FR), Jorge
Queiroz (PT), Scanner (GB), Jan Peter E.R. Sonntag (DE), Suzanne
Treister (GB)

otwarcie wystawy / exhibition opening:


26 marca, godz. 19.00 / 26th March, 7 PM
27 – 28.03.2010

warsztaty / workshops:

Martin Howse: WV2: Poza zerem / Beyond the Zero
27.03.2010

16.00 oprowadzanie kuratorskie / guided tour with the curators
18.00 Erik Bünger: Wykład o schozofonii / Lecture on schizophonia
19.30 koncerty / concerts: Zenial; Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Wystawa, zorganizowana we współpracy z Hartware MedienKunstVerein w
Dortmundzie, gdzie była prezentowana w 2009, jest oparta na archiwum
nagrań Friedricha Jürgensona, który w 1959 roku odkrył tak zwane
Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP). Projekt przybliża historie
duchów, które starają się odpowiedzieć na pytanie dlaczego, przy
całym naszym oświeceniu, ciągle przypisujemy irracjonalne
właściwości nowym mediom i technologiom, jak na przykład
zdolność do przekazywania wiadomości spoza naszego świata.

The Awake Are Only the Spirits exhibition, organized in cooperation
with Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) in Dortmund where it presented
in 2009, bases on the audio archive of Friedrich Jürgenson who
discovered the so-called Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) in 1959.
The projects reflects upon different ghosts’ stories, questionning
why – despite our faith in the rational – at regular intervals
irrational properties are ascribed to respective new media and
technologies, such as those purportedly serving as channels for
messages from the beyond.

Więcej informacji / More information

CENTRUM SZTUKI WSPÓŁCZESNEJ ‘ZNAKI CZASU’ W TORUNIU /
CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ART ‘ZNAKI CZASU’ IN TORUN
WAŁY GEN. SIKORSKIEGO 13, 87-100 TORUŃ, POLAND
www.csw.torun.pl

Thoughto-photographic Experiments: The Russian Waterbomb Origami Pinhole Kamera

This is the second experiment with the russian waterbomb origami pinhole box. 10 sec exposure, box was hiding a bit in the dark pointing towards katier again. Traces of katier though very difficult to find…

negative:

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positive:

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Detail of positive:

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with a little more contrast:

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Thoughto-photographic Experiments: The Russian Waterbomb Origami Pinhole Kamera

This is the first result with below mentionned origami kamera. Entirely folded out of on sheet of photographic baryt paper, very shortly (20 sec) exposed to light – focussing katier – unfolded, and finally processed in Tetenal Dokumol developer; The Pinhole had rather a size of a mousehole, but with a little bit of practice… This Origami Artefact unifies a kamera and its film in one solely piece of paper. Photographic paper folded as a Kamera, which after exposure unfolds and vanishes into the photographic result.

The entire photographic sheet as a negative (original result):

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Digitally inverted as a positive:

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And a detail of the positive with an alleged katier revealed:

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Thoughtographic Experiments: The Russian Waterbomb Pinhole Paper Kamera

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The Origami Paper Box, –in some strange country used as a Water Bomb— or maybe Wodka Bomb?, is folded out of one single sheet of paper, blown into shape via the ONLY remaining whole in the centre of one of its six sides. Katiers Water Bomb is going to be folded out of one sheet of photographic paper exposed, unfolded and finally processed. Kamera and results are going to be published in the next couple of days right here!

These days there is no chance of any kamera construction documentation, as Mr.Pickledfeet is on Dienstreise with the one and only recording device that there is. But I will update soon!

PS:17th march 2010: Mr. Pickledfeet is back in town -> Images are updated!