Artist´s book release [2015]
BARBARER SIMULERAR SAMSPRÅK
(Barbarians simulating conversation)Publisher: Styx förlag. Format: 210 x 287 mm, paperback, 140 pages.
Contents:
First part – 30 colour images by Niklas Nenzén, accompanied by texts from Dhmnpss Aeouy, John Andersson, Christian Andersson, Helena Boberg, Kenneth Cox, Christofer Dahlby, Karl Eklund, Kim Fagerstam, Merl Fluin, Mattias Forshage, Bill Howe, Robert Lindroth, C M Lundberg, Emma Lundenmark, Maja Lundgren, Matti Steiger Lundmark, Niklas Nenzén, Kristoffer Noheden, Gabriella Novak, Eva Kristina Olsson, Ika Österblad.
Second part – Three b/w comics; Jordens leende, Skuggan and En reserverad plats.
this makes me think of ramachandran and his use of the mirror box to amputate/heal ghost limbs? which makes me wonder if the whole of our body image is only a projection of what our mind expects to see–it would make sense, right? so is what’s happening here in the drawing that they are each discovering that the person opposite is also an ”extended” projection? as in a dream, where each person is a set of beliefs and behaviors which you sometimes hold/are ”possessed” by, projected outward and symbolized as another so that you might dissect the effects of that behavior and decide if they are positive or negative, thus consciously shifting reality with your decision? and so where do i begin and you end, and where do i end and the world begins, and where does this dream end and reality begins….?
either way, the drawing itself is fascinating and visually appealing and makes me think about a lot of things, my favorite 😀
and is it bogart and bacall???
Yes, you´re spot on : ), Bogart and Bacall are ”in Casablanca” (white house), which I fancied could be used as a metaphor for ”in the skull”, the cartesian localization of the soul. In the midst of wider territorial claims — Casablanca being a city in Morocco which in the film is a French colony while France is under the rule of the Nazi Vichy regime — by falling in love they (in the drawing) invent a common interface to renegociate the world and ”where it begins” and ends, which would be a panta rei situation of sorts, where even time periods intermerge.
Wow, never think I heard of Ramachandran and the mirror box before, just briefly googled it, and it seems to tie in interestingly with Merleau-Ponty´s tactile phenomenology and Franz Bardon´s occult ”hand-exteriorization” technique, which were the reference-points I had for thinking about the body-world ”neuro-signature”. Also, as I read about some years ago, NASA recently made experiments with similar although hi-tech projective techniques for ”on-earth-astronauts” to be virtually able embody planet-traversing vehicles or robots.
ah, yes, and as for the nasa idea, there is also some experimental work being done now for paraplegics to be able to move robot arms to drink water, or for others to be able to ”think” speech through a computer, but i had never heard of either of these people you referenced here, the world is so *big*!