When even indeed cast in circumstances of eternity from the depth of a shipwreck

WHEN EVEN INDEED CAST.IN CIRCUMSTANCES OF ETERNITY

FROM THE DEPTH OF A SHIPWRECK

MARC JOHNSON, PROPOSAL, 2010

Marc Johnson1323 #9 Park Avenue10029 New York, NYNY mobile : + 1 (917) 488 6386

14 rue Bonaparte75006 ParisFR mobile : + 00 33 (0)6 7606 9344

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WHEN EVEN INDEED CAST. IN CIRCUMSTANCES OF ETERNITY FROM THE DEPTH OF A SHIPWRECK

INTRODUCTION

WHEN EVEN INDEED CAST. IN CIRCUMSTANCES OF ETERNITYFROM THE DEPTH OF A SHIPWRECK

inspired by the famous « Un coup de dés jamais n’ abolira le hasard »« A throw of dice will never abolish chance » by Stephane Mallarmé, 1895, this upcoming work is the scenario of an interpretation of that poem whichbecome a multi-sensory experiences.

Throughout 3 major Acts, this project’s trajectory will to attempt the realizationof a New Exhibition Space, in which (equivalent to the « open work 1 »)will be research : an organism allover, polyphonic, open to the mechanismof simultaneity, delightful with the game of circumstances, the combinationsof all things created Past, Present and Future. 1 Umberto Eco, the open work

Act 1

Elements, is composed by paintings inspired from the Albrecht-Durer woodcut(1496-1498). (screen mesh, Lacquer, Pigment, lath constructions)

Act 2

The Shipwrecked, a project consisting of one feature length film related toSculpture, Military Drum Performance Tatoo and Random Dance focusing onChaos Theory.This project will be set in Dia Art Foundation, Beacon and narrates the circumvolution of « Circumstances, which is in itself a character.

Act 3

Failure ‘s aim is to emphasise on the disruptions that take place in extremecompetitive environment where the body is extremely stimulated and wherethe brain goes from supposedly memorial intention to realization. Finally recordedand performed in Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

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WHEN EVEN INDEED CAST. IN CIRCUMSTANCES OF ETERNITY FROM THE DEPTH OF A SHIPWRECK ACT 1

ELEMENTS

ACT 1, Elements, paintings installations inspired from the Albrecht-Durerwoodcut (1496-1498). (screen mesh, Lacquer, Pigment, lath constructions)

ELEMENTS

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PREPARATORY DRAWINGSAFTER ALBRECHT-DURER

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ACT 2, The Shipwrecked, a project consisting of one feature length film related toSculpture, Military Drum Performance Tatoo and Random Dance focusing onChaos Theory. This project will be set in Dia Art Foundation, Beacon andnarrates the circumvolution of « Circumstances, which is in itself a character.

LEARNING FROM CHAOS THEORY

Chaos theory is a field of study in mathematics, physics and philosophy studying the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions.

Sensitivity to initial conditions is popularly known as the « butterfly effect »so called because of the title of a paper given by Edward Lorenz in 1972to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington,entitled : Predictability, Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil set off a Tornado in Texas ?

The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale phenomena.Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system mighthave been vastly different.

Small differences in initial conditions yield widely diverging outcomes for chaoticsystems, rendering long-term prediction impossible in general.

This happens even though these systems are deterministic, meaning that theirfuture dynamics are fully determined by their initial conditions, with no randomelements involved. In other words, the deterministic nature of these systemsdoes not make them predictable. This behavior is known as deterministic chaos,or simply chaos.

THE SHIPWRECKED

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The Lorenz attractor, named for Edward N. Lorenz, is a fractal structure corresponding to the long-term behavior of the Lorenz oscillator. The Lorenz oscillator is a 3-dimensional dynamical system that exhibits chaotic flow, noted for its lemniscate shape. The map shows how the state of a dynamical system (the three variables of a three-dimensional system) evolves over time in a complex, non-repeating pattern.



SYNOPSIS

(Performers descriptions)

Circumstances

- move simultaneously in every single edges of spaces, between the floor to the walls to the ceiling.- attributes : chance, random, dust, light, sound, microscopic interactions.- something which is not completely predictable by human being

1 Shipwrecked

- she performs palsy movement, trembling behavior, cramping- she is soaked with oil and deep purple ink- she wears a black Loïe Fuller’s robe (without curves but angles)Observation : crawling on the edge of the wall is a form of courtship and provide evidence that spasming1 is a means of establishing territorial boundaries.

1Spasming

The time a muscle or group of muscles in a body go ultra, super tight and shake uncontrollably for a period of time.

THE SHIPWRECKED

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6 Dancers

- can move in any direction along spaces.- must « bang » together.- attributes : improvisations, gestures, rhythms, meters.- chance catalyst : in other word, the bang which result from the shock imply to one body to another create energy.This energy might be the physical cause retrospective metaphor of the shipwreck. (refer to chaos theory)

Observation : improvisation is different than chance because chance workswithout memory.

12 Drummers (military tattoo drum performance)

- can move forward and backward in a straight line area.- can not face each other.- attributes : Drums, Joy

4 Banner-bearers

- can move forward and backward in a straight line area.- must form groups.- attributes : Flags

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CHARACTER-FOCUS

CIRCUMSTANCES- move simultaneously in every single edges of spaces, between the floor to the walls to the ceiling.- attributes : chance, random, dust, light, sound, microscopic interactions.- something which is not completely predictable by human being

In this context, dust is not only the invisible fallout from everyday activities, the monotonous,gray and useless trace of entropy, it takes on the active connotations of incongruity,indeterminacy, chaos, and deviance. Dust can be viewed as a disruptive agent of changeand innovation, both materially and metaphorically.

Circumstances Diagrams, Ramdom Flexions.20

A THROW OF THE DICE

NEVER

WHEN EVEN INDEED CAST. IN CIRCUMSTANCES OF ETERNITY

FROM THE DEPTH OF A SHIPWRECK

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that Abyssblanched slackwater raging slanted glides despairigly even some wing

its own through an advance falling back from ill to take flight and veiling the gushers restraining the surges

gathered far within the shadow buried deep by that alternative sail

almost matching its yawning depth to the wingspan like a hull

of a vessel rocked from side to side

THE MASTER beyond former calculations where the lost manoeuvre with the age rose implying that formerly he grasped the helm of this conflagration of the concerted horizon at his feet that readies itself moves and merges with the blow that grips it as one threatens fate and the winds

the unique Number which cannot be another Spirit to hurl it into the storm relinquish the cleaving there and pass proudly hesitates a corpse pushed back by the arm from the secretrather than taking sides a hoary madman on behalf of the waves one overwhelms the head flows through the submissive beard straight shipwreck that of the man without a vessel empty no matter whereancestrally never to open the fist clenched... « Un coup de dés jamais ’n’habolira le hasard » by Stephane Mallarmé, 1895



CHARACTER-FOCUS

THE SHIPWRECKED- she performs muscular hypertonicity, (trembling, cramping, crawling)- she is soaked with oil and deep purple ink.- she wears a black Loïe Fuller’s robe. (without curves but angles)Observation : crawling on the edge of the wall is a form of courtship and provideevidence that spasming1 is a means of establishing territorial boundaries.1Spasming The time a muscle or group of muscles in a body go ultra, super tight and shake uncontrollably for a period of time.

Spasticity or muscular hypertonicity is a disorder of the central nervoussystem (CNS) in which certain muscles continually receive a message to tightenand contract. The nerves leading to those muscles, unable to regulate themselves(which would provide for normal muscle tone), permanently and continually « over-fire » these commands to tighten and contract.

This causes or tightness of the muscles and interferes with gait and movement,and sometimes speech. Spasticity is most common in spastic diplegia and other forms of spastic cerebral palsy, where it is a result of damage to the brain’s basal ganglia that is permanent and neither improves nor worsens over time. But spasticity also presents extensively in multiple sclerosis and to different degrees in most other neuromuscular diseases and conditions as well, bothprogressive and not.

Symptoms are hypertonia (increased muscle tone), clonus (a series of involuntary rapid muscle contractions), exaggerated deep tendon reflexes, muscle spasms, scissor gait, and over time, shortened tendons and fixed joints (contractures). The degree and even the location of the spasticity varies from person to personand can go from mild muscle stiffness with minimal impact on function, to severeand painful joint and muscle breakdown and painful muscle spasms.

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CHARACTERS-FOCUS

6 DANCERSCOGNITIVE AND BEHAVIORAL NEUROLOGY ORIENTED

- can move in any direction along spaces.- must « bang » together.- attributes : improvisations, gestures, rhythms, meters.- chance catalyst : in other word, the bang which result from the shock imply to one body to another create energy.This energy might be the physical cause retrospective metaphor of the shipwreck. (refer to chaos theory)


Every body movement, from raising a hand to smiling, involves a complex in-teraction between the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord), nerves, and muscles. Damage to or malfunction of any of these components may result in a movement disorder.

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CHARACTERS-FOCUS

12 DRUMMERS (Military Tattoo)- can move forward and backward in a straight line area.- can not face each other.- attributes : Drums, Joy

4 Banner-bearers (Military Tattoo)- can move forward and backward in a straight line area.- must form groups.- attributes : Flags

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FILM LOCATION : DIA BEACON

About Dia : Beacon

In May 2003, Dia Art Foundation opened Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, as a museum to house its renowned permanent collection of major works of art from the 1960s to the present. Located on the Hudson River in Beacon, New York, Dia:Beacon occupies a nearly 300,000-square-foot historic printing factory. The galleries are named in honor of Louise and Leonard Riggio for their extraordinarygenerosity, which has helped make possible the realization of this museum.

Since its founding in 1974, Dia has been dedicated to supporting individual artistsand to providing long-term, in-depth presentations of their art. Dia:Beacon’s expansive galleries have been specifically designed for the display of the artworksto which Dia is committed, many of which, because of their character or scale, could not be easily accommodated by more conventional museums. Each artist’s work is displayed in a dedicated gallery or galleries, many of which were created in collaboration with the artists whose works they will hold.

The Building and Site Dia:Beacon occupies a former Nabisco (National BiscuitCompany) b $ox printing facility built in 1929 and designed by Nabisco’s staff architect Louis N. Wirshing, Jr. In The building’s most recent owner, InternationalPaper, donated the property to Dia in 1999.

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The former factory is built of brick, steel, concrete, and glass, and is considered a model of early twentieth century industrial architecture. Design elements includebroad spans between supporting columns, and more than 34,000-square-feetof skylights which create an exceptional environment for viewing works of contemporary art in natural light. These features were an important part of Dia’s decision to site the museum there, as was its location on the banks of the HudsonRiver only a five-minute walk from the Metro-North Hudson Line train station in Beacon, sixty miles (eighty minutes travel time) north of New York City.

Following the renovation, the building was listed on the State and National Re-gister of Historic Places, and Dia is currently undertaking steps to restore the exterior’s brick façade. Dia is also working with state and local government of-ficials and Scenic Hudson, a nonprofit environmental organization, on a master plan to connect Dia:Beacon facility with the adjacent riverfront land.

The Collection Assembled largely during the 1970s and early 1980s by Dia’s founders, Philippa de Menil and Heiner Friedrich, the original collection included works by some of the most important artists of the 1960s and 1970s including Joseph Beuys, John Chamberlain, Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Imi Knoebel, Blinky Palermo, Fred Sandback, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, and Robert Whitman.

Anticipating the creation of Dia:Beacon, the collection was significantly aug-mented beginning in the late 1990s with works by artists of the same generation as those Dia historically supported. These include Bernd and Hilla Becher,Louise Bourgeois, Michael Heizer, Robert Irwin, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt,Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Robert Ryman, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra,Robert Smithson, and Lawrence Weiner.

Source : http://www.diabeacon.org/sites/page/1/1003

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WHEN EVEN INDEED CAST. IN CIRCUMSTANCES OF ETERNITY FROM THE DEPTH OF A SHIPWRECK ACT 2ACT 2, The Shipwrecked, a project consisting of one feature length film related toSculpture, Military Drum Performance Tatoo and Random Dance focusing onChaos Theory. This project will be set in Dia Art Foundation, Beacon andnarrates the circumvolution of « Circumstances, which is in itself a character.

INITIAL PERFORMERS SET UP

1 Shipwrecked

- she performs palsy movement, trembling behavior, cramping- she is soaked with oil and deep purple ink- she wears a black Loïe Fuller’s robe (without curves but angles)Observation : crawling on the edge of the wall is a form of courtship and provide evidence that spasming1 is a means of establishing territorial boundaries.1Spasming : The time a muscle or group of muscles in a body go ultra, super tight and shake uncontrollably for a period of time.

6 Dancers

- can move in any direction along spaces.- must bang together.- attributes : improvisations, gestures, rhythms, meters.- chance catalyst : in other word, the bang which result from the shock imply to one body to another create energy.This energy might be the physical cause retrospective metaphor of the shipwreck. (refer to chaos theory)


12 Drummers (military tattoo drum performance)

- can move forward and backward in a straight line area.- can not face each other.- attributes : Drums, Joy

4 Banner-bearers

- can move forward and backward in a straight line area.- must form groups.- attributes : Flags

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Failure ‘s aim is to emphasise on the disruptions that take place in extremecompetitive environment where the body is extremely stimulated and wherethe brain goes from supposedly memorial intention to realization. Finally recordedand performed in Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

FAILURE

Failure in highly challenging atmosphere such as wilderness, social environment or discrimination in everyday life is part of the game and make the experience of life even more terrific, fantastic, marvelous and anxiogenic (stressful).

Failure’s trajectory wishes to emphasize this disruption in extreme competitiveenvironment where the body is extremely stimulated and where the brain goes from supposedly memorial intention to realization through a chain of electro-magnetic impulse reactions.

His struggle toward the realization is a series of efforts, pains, satisfaction, refusals, decisions, which also cannot and must not be fully self-conscious. The result of this struggle is a difference between the intention and its realization.

Consequently, in the chain of reactions accompanying the brain to the move-ment act, a link is missing. This gap, representing the inability of the body to express fully his intention, this difference between what he intended to realize and did realize, is the personal « act coefficient » contained in the body.

In other words, the personal « act coefficient » is like an arithmetical relation between the unexpressed but intended and the unintentionally expressed.

Note : text inspired by Marcel Duchamp, « Session on the Creative Act » ,Convention of the American Federation of Arts, Houston, Texas, April 1957.

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WHEN EVEN INDEED CAST. IN CIRCUMSTANCES OF ETERNITY FROM THE DEPTH OF A SHIPWRECK ACT 3Failure ‘s aim is to emphasise on the disruptions that take place in extremecompetitive environment where the body is extremely stimulated and wherethe brain goes from supposedly memorial intention to realization. Finally recordedand performed in Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

SYNOPSISFailure’s trajectory wishes to introduce « the Failure » as a part of all physical transcending achievement . Indeed repetition, memory and movements are all related to the body. From the brain and his electro-magnetic impulses to the muscles, is there any loss ? (Infra-thin research)

Throughout Oscar Pistorium is running and an ice skater begins her descent from the bottom to the ground floor of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum litterally transform into an ice rink, they experience differents kind of sculptures-obsacles,who block their advance upon their final stage : Equilibrium.

(Metamorphic properties : Ice, jelly, penetrable wall, wax, fat, vaseline, collagen)

this gap between what they intended to realize and did actually realize is the « infra-thin » research.

« Infra-thin » generally characterizes a thickness, a separation, a difference, an interval betweentwo things

- At first step, « infrathin » means «very, very, very thin. » But at this level, the concept means « infinitesimal. »- At a second step, « infrathin » characterizes any difference that you easily imagine but doesn’t exist, like the thickness of a shadow : the shadow has no thickness.- At a third step, « infrathin » qualifies a distance or a difference you cannot perceive, but that you can only imagine :

- The warmth of a seat (which has just been left) is infra-thin (#4)

- Subway gates : the people who go through at the very last moment is Infra thin

- Velvet trousers - their whistling sound (in walking) by brushing of the 2 legs is an infra thin separation signaled /by sound. (it is not? An infra thin sound) (#9)

- When the tobacco smoke smells also of the mouth which exhales it, the 2 odors marry by infra -thin (olfactory / in thin).

- Infra thin separation between the detonation noise of a gun (very close) and the apparition of the bullet hole in the target...

- Difference between the contact of water and that of molten lead for that exemple,or of cream.with the walls of its own container .... this difference between two contacts is infra thin.

- 2 Forms cast in the same mold (?) differ / from each other by an infra thin separative difference.

from : Marcel Duchamp, from Paul Matisse, Marcel Duchamp: Notes, 1980 © 2000 Succession Marcel Duchamp,ARS, N.Y./ADAGP, Paris.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum MAP

“Artists throughout history are like gamblers in Monte-Carlo and in the blind lottery some are picked out while others are ruined... it all happens according to random chance. Artists who during their lifetime manage to get their stuff noticed are excellent tra-veling salesmen but that does not guarantee a thing as far as the immortality of their work is concerned. And even posterity is a terrible bitch who cheats some and reinstates others, and reserves the right to change her mind again every 50 years.»Marcel DUCHAMP

WHEN EVEN INDEED CAST. IN CIRCUMSTANCES

OF ETERNITY FROM THE DEPTH OF A SHIPWRECK

MARC JOHNSONPROPOSAL

2010

Marc Johnson

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NY mobile : + 1 (917) 488 6386

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