LA GUEULE encore à la creation DE L'HYPERACTUEL

black radish syrup

2011-10-21T16:26:00.002+03:30

I got a black radish from the guy who sells local veggies near my place and he told me something in German about using the radish to make an extract, with oil or honey, but I didn't really understand. After looking it up online I quickly found this info. So now my radish is a member of the kitchen, I can keep it for a while, as I understand and keep on making the syrop. Apparently its good to drink it daily. I found the info here

I put the radish upside down on a cup, cut off the long root bit (underside now pointing up), dug out a little bowl, stabbed it once with a big needle and put in the honey and it started dripping out the tiny hole after just a couple minutes. It should take 2 or 3 hours for all the syrop to drop down. Then you can repeat the process daily, I guess until the radish starts to look ugly.

sorry, no personal photos right now. I am a bit technology challenged this week.

ENTE_TI

2011-09-26T16:57:00.001+03:30

on the other hand

2011-07-06T18:25:00.001+04:30

I really have to mention the other album I got recently, as a lovely gift, which I have already listened to start-finish 3 times in the past 2 weeks. That's AGF's newest album Gedichterbe, all about poetry. I don't understand all the delicate German phrases, but I feel stories from the music and its nice to sit for the whole duration of the album. Maybe once I take more German lessons I will like it even more. I'm torn now, not sure if I like Laub's album Deinetwegen, or this one. Thanks for the art Antye!

mega mainstream

2011-07-06T18:16:00.000+04:30

I bought a cd today. The only one in about 10 years and its totally mainstream, Adele's album, 21. The album is the #3 right now in global music sales... popular...
Adele is young and has a voice that almost convinces that the music comes from a long time ago. A 21 year old from the UK, I was somehow inspired to buy the album and contribute to her career, even though I could have of course downloaded it. Don't know why. If you want a copy, let me know, I'll be glad to send it.

Jardin Suspendu, first couple days at Desert Numerique

2011-06-30T18:00:00.001+04:30

I'm at the Desert Numerique festival in France this week and here is a link (ongoing, adding more photos daily) of the hanging garden I'm building with Annemie Maes and Anna Allkaemper.
The project follows the design plans of the opensource project windowfarms.org . Our version is a bit more freestyle and since its outside, we control a lot less elements, for example we don't test the PH of the water and we don't have a constant flow of water but rather periodic pumps to get the water into the top reservoir. Yesterday we got everything flowing but its dripping super fast, the reservoir was empty in 3 minutes. Now we're working to regulate the flow of drops, we want it to empty no faster than every 3 hours.

This is the second version I have made, following the one at the World Social Forum in Dakar in February.
It's interesting to see how people from the village here react, differently to the visitors in Dakar, as their gardening experience, conditions and needs are different. Everyone is interested in this kind of easy gardening, but I wonder if they will really build one and then connect to the online network. For me the online form on the Window Farms website has proved essential for improving my design and really for suceeding overall. The garden in Dakar is still alive, though it would go better with more regular watering and after 4 months I noticed that the plastic of both the bottles and the inner-tubes is starting to break down from the sun and the heat.

I hope we'll find someone here in St.Nazaire le Desert to adopt the farm after we leave on Sunday. Maybe the local school. Right now its hung on the side of the church in the town center, so maybe it could even stay there and some neighbours can just tend to it. We'll see...

more info on the festival: http://desert.numerique.free.fr/2011/

facade DuoSolo danse festival, 2011, St.Louis, Senegal

2011-06-29T13:56:00.002+04:30

watch without sound

HD facade produced for the front of the building on the final evening of the DuoSolo dance festival in St.Louis Senegal. Made in the context of a workshop with 4 young dancers and choreographer Hardo. These portraits are details taken from a performance, about water, thirst and sand/ It was projected between performances on the front of the Comtoir du Fleuve. I was invited to take part in this workshop, teaching about video to the dancers, by the cultural enterprise Trias Culture, based in Dakar.

Suite a un atelier avec un groupe de jeune danseurs de differents regions du Senegal, avec le choregraphe Hardo, un spectacle a ete produit durant le festival DuoSolo danse, a St. Louis, Senegal, et cette serie de portraits, extraits du spectacle, projete sur la facade de la gallerie Comptoir du Fleuve durant la derniere soiree de performances. J'etais invitee ici par Trias Culture, pour ajouter un composant video a l'atelier de danse.

http://duosolodanse.com/

African Shadow

2011-04-30T14:22:00.000+04:30

I brought some protection jewels from Senegal to Shadow, I thought he wouldn't like to wear it, but actually he was completely comfortable. Plutaras was really shocked about them though.

Branka's 13 step easter Eggs

2011-04-22T23:25:00.005+04:30

I visited Branka, Adam and Dusan in Amsterdam
this week. On my first day we celebrated Passover with a mega dinner and tons of friends and on the last day we prepared some beautiful Easter eggs. (and yes, I know blogging about this, with instructions is totally Martha Stewart)