cf. f>. m. dostojevski
change can happen
...persévérance est justement un terme très médiéval et bien employé de nos jours. C'est ainsi que je répanderais sa charge. Je veux le traduire, irrémédiablement, tout en m'obligeant à craindre son monument.( j'aime augmenter son vêtement sournois )
Il ne m'intéresse pas le terme durable que l'on s'imagine des églises comme Notre-Dame de Paris, ce qui m'intéresse c'est la maîtrise du regard face au réel, c'est la grandeur de ce regard. Qu'il soit aussi fin, aussi frais que le flair d'un prédateur.
La cathédrale équivaut à une écorce des événements présents plus ou moins reconnaissables. Une amulette en synodes, elle est visible dans la durée. Encore, elle vante son corset moral. Quoique ce soit un chagrin d'ivoire qui s'effondre cyniquement sous l'apparence sauvage d'une panthère.
Paris, 2005
Monday, 8 December 2008
Saturday, 19 July 2008
2SCENES
...low cars were rolling up silently on the warm gravel.
i noticed gunshots rang out. dingdong ! the castle bell !
while suddenly the the movie went on. i remember it as if
it were yesterday. the windows were of amber stained glass,
the rugs deep. dozens, hundreds of people,
mostly blacks and mestizos were dancing. pulsating bodies
took the screen. they breathed behind the man's neck.
surrounding him, the deafening music and the rythm
continued. the beat was frenzied. there were little cottages there,
and he had seen a woman standing at the halfdoor of a cottage
with a child in her arms, as the cars had come past.
ive been in the inkling that the man would be praised in the end,
that in his explosive night of war, he would be our
european son.
(little johnny jewel, cf. t. verlaine
19th of July 2008)
/
to remember that and the white look of the lavatory made him feel
cold and then hot. there were two cocks that you turned and water
came out : cold and hot. he felt cold and then a little hot :
and he could see the names printed on the cocks. That was a very queer thing.
johnny « I have been here before....
we sat on that beach, ten years ago...
he gave me his number having a drink
together somewhere, avenue de grasse or so,
then he made his movies about me and my friends...
« it was good, it was very good, it was like being in a church »
a simoom wind, the impulses which blow like gusts and carry him/ johnny everywhere.
johnny “i guess i must have been sleeping a thousand years
dealing with holyness, in a world with dazzling saints...
not knowing about hell on earth"
his passion runs through a chill, world like lava...
i noticed gunshots rang out. dingdong ! the castle bell !
while suddenly the the movie went on. i remember it as if
it were yesterday. the windows were of amber stained glass,
the rugs deep. dozens, hundreds of people,
mostly blacks and mestizos were dancing. pulsating bodies
took the screen. they breathed behind the man's neck.
surrounding him, the deafening music and the rythm
continued. the beat was frenzied. there were little cottages there,
and he had seen a woman standing at the halfdoor of a cottage
with a child in her arms, as the cars had come past.
ive been in the inkling that the man would be praised in the end,
that in his explosive night of war, he would be our
european son.
(little johnny jewel, cf. t. verlaine
19th of July 2008)
/
to remember that and the white look of the lavatory made him feel
cold and then hot. there were two cocks that you turned and water
came out : cold and hot. he felt cold and then a little hot :
and he could see the names printed on the cocks. That was a very queer thing.
johnny « I have been here before....
we sat on that beach, ten years ago...
he gave me his number having a drink
together somewhere, avenue de grasse or so,
then he made his movies about me and my friends...
« it was good, it was very good, it was like being in a church »
a simoom wind, the impulses which blow like gusts and carry him/ johnny everywhere.
johnny “i guess i must have been sleeping a thousand years
dealing with holyness, in a world with dazzling saints...
not knowing about hell on earth"
his passion runs through a chill, world like lava...
Thursday, 3 July 2008
strange messengers/ étonnement
I
des châtaigniers près de la gare, une marmaille descendit du train dans un nuage coloré de pluie. acides en un liquide industriel, les enfants couraient devant. ils étaient partiellement présents avec des légions d'anges radioactifs d’un dessin signé de 1969, je crois, mais je ne me souviens plus d’une date précise. il y avait un cinéma délabré, quelque chose qui m’a fait naître ; et avec ce que j’avais fait, on m’a laissé la première chambre pour dix jours où je logeais et dormais rassurée par une agressivité indécise.
(charleville le 30 mai 06)
II
calmes méditations nocturnes ponctuées par les sonorités voilées ou imprécises d’un univers qui n’est connu qu'à distance, de prime abord de cet arabia/ un marché se produit, se déplace ; une pénombre qui brûle et s’évade pourtant du noël sur terre. il y avait un défi quasiment diabolique, la graine blanche sur des lettres d’abysse, une matrice d’où procède tout le discours. or, j'avais rangé des cartes postales, un cri par intervalle glissant à travers l’écran des souvenirs ou la barrière des portes et des volets entrebâillés ; le chrome au corps du cadavre luisait dans une nuit meurtrière qui était le cinéma.
III
une foule exaltante débouche sur le vacarme sauvage d'un clan de garçons ne cessant de m’attirer par leur fauve saleté, tout en partance, qui braillent encore des hymnes sur paris, au loin dans la lumière violacée. c'était la postérité, la nation entière qui paraissait sur scène, lorsque le flambard ignare, en bas de ma fenêtre, crie à sa farce.
demain, je vais dérober toute une gerbe de roses lie-de-vin, la poser sur la tombe à la lisière de l’empire nouveau et celle de ma princesse
-J. Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud
(charleville/ juin 2006)
IV
tout en étant héritier du punk, le vrai rejeton musical des écrivains américains de la beat génération dont émane élégamment l'esprit tout à la fois bohème et iconoclaste, déferlait en ma princesse new-yorkaise et la commémorait dans une liberté dégoûtante. de films longs, muets, austères, le psychédélisme dans le cinéma expérimental de stan brakhage me faisait pleurer.
V
deux femmes sont groupées autour du tombeau projeté ; la morte se regardant dans un miroir avec une servante debout ouvrant un coffret d’armures, disposées à leur sécurité future.
il se trouve un triptyque en mosaïque dans son creux dont la princesse dénoue un nœud crème sur ses bras et ses ganglions, avant qu’elle ne m’ait donné une poignée de main contractée qui fut retenue par les faisceaux dans la nuit. elle était un membre sans mort/ection visible. elle se dévoua à une valve imperméable d’encre à tatouage et des numéros.
il y avait des larmes soutenues sur une rampe de rayons visuels et limpides, dans les interstices des rues, et d’un immeuble à l’autre, tel un reflet de l’incendie lointain et désolant ; de là-bas derrière des grèves, elle voyait mes larmes.
pourtant, dans l’évocation pour les noces de sa sœur, elle a obtenu un fragment transcendant ; et, en mouvance, un fanal parfaitement incandescent résidant en sa présence justement souveraine. elle réfléchit. elle défiait l’ordre d’une telle illumination, prise au préalable dans l’évangile, dans le paysage d’un soldat nocturne ; et dans l’étonnement, dans le morcellement du pays, le soleil se reflète sur le vernis de la miniature ; il se cogne et se brise là où elle a regardé.
VI
la lumière se noie dans une bruine anodine et cendrée du contact antérieur. ma main tremble alors que le contact me redresse. l’ultime moment collectif : un garçon regarde deux femmes ; je suis rassurée par leur proximité et par son rêve d’évasion.
© Katia Roessel
Paris, 2006
Sunday, 29 June 2008
although all our friends can't be with us today,
i feel myself strong and resilient. there is an hour in the evening when the meadow is saying something. it never says it. maybe it says it infinitely and we cannot listen or we listen to it though it's something untranslatable like music. we've been waiting for the apparition of a true corpse. its head was a boundless skull of a mare, its body a fishbone or a huge inferior jaw, half toothless and right stretched out ... the arab shape of its weapon defined the place were things happened.
art is providing its privileges more and more in cinema; movies are becoming a very deep attraction by begetting relish and distaste. they help heaps of people to extend their lives or to build another one and astonish. i don't think that films are purely of public interest. at the beginning it's been the artist who dreamed a dream even when finally he had to prove and master its arcane regions,
mesmerizing its ecstatic removals beyond death.
yet we've been truly totally ready to go.
we're learning to give everything for there are spaces and moods
being completely undiscovered, marvels, at least, as much as there are lives on earth. that's what makes it contriving and unbelievably conscious, yet popular, a big deal and leisure of our christian time. for me it's something sole of a great adventure where i'm often communicating with rimbaud. i mean it should invite us all to go further and enter a better era of human civilisation, and we definitely should start enjoying its political freedom !
i feel myself strong and resilient. there is an hour in the evening when the meadow is saying something. it never says it. maybe it says it infinitely and we cannot listen or we listen to it though it's something untranslatable like music. we've been waiting for the apparition of a true corpse. its head was a boundless skull of a mare, its body a fishbone or a huge inferior jaw, half toothless and right stretched out ... the arab shape of its weapon defined the place were things happened.
art is providing its privileges more and more in cinema; movies are becoming a very deep attraction by begetting relish and distaste. they help heaps of people to extend their lives or to build another one and astonish. i don't think that films are purely of public interest. at the beginning it's been the artist who dreamed a dream even when finally he had to prove and master its arcane regions,
mesmerizing its ecstatic removals beyond death.
yet we've been truly totally ready to go.
we're learning to give everything for there are spaces and moods
being completely undiscovered, marvels, at least, as much as there are lives on earth. that's what makes it contriving and unbelievably conscious, yet popular, a big deal and leisure of our christian time. for me it's something sole of a great adventure where i'm often communicating with rimbaud. i mean it should invite us all to go further and enter a better era of human civilisation, and we definitely should start enjoying its political freedom !
as i see that i'm here to conjure a special feeling out of anyone, moving on, feeling myself grateful and gifted with vision, i'm walking through the streets my mother has never walked through.
Monday, 2 June 2008
Thursday, 8 May 2008
where i've once spat my viscera, dreaming of blue mountain-ranges, i saw silver tops glistening on valleys
Now, im really amourous with this old lady com into Paris and telling me how important it is to take care of my teeth, that it was her best advice ever, because actually after the Second World War one never had the money to spend cleaning them as one does today. so i keep watching her walking through the streets of Paris for she's leaving in a few days to the U.S. and for that she'll come back, mean i never saw such a beautiful old woman, she could be my mother, blossoms fall/ Gandhi Gandhi
Friday, 7 March 2008
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