Marcel Broodthaers: In Other Words

Working on a book for some years now of poems entirely made out of anagrams of the name Marcel Broodthaers.
"In Other Words" has been taken literally: the book consists of 52 poems, four lines each, each line being an anagram of the name Marcel Broodthaers.
Poetry brought to a high level of absurdity but with striking incidental references to themes of the late Belgian poet, visual artist and film maker Marcel Broodthaers.


The book will be published in august 2019 in a limited edition of 100 numbered copies. For 12 euros it can be yours.

To order a copy send an email to witzenstein(at)gmail.com

© Eddy Gabriel

The Ruminant Plinth.

Ruminants.

Everyday I Write The Book.

Modified Remington Standard typewriter.

© Eddy Gabriel

You Are Here. (For the lost souls amongst us.)

"You are here" sticker variations

Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo, Japan

Tolyo, Japan

Tokyo, Japan

At the "Philosopher's path" in Kyoto, Japan 

At the "Philosopher's path" in Kyoto, Japan 

Kassel, Germany

Kassel, Germany

Kassel, Germany

Shanghai, China

Vinegar(t) ( A bottle for M.B.)

Vin Aigre Château des Aigles

A bottle containing not a manuscript, but a print on vinyl of the review of the Marcel Broodthaers retrospective show at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York as published in the Financial Times on march 17th, 2016.

"To piss vinegar" is a popular expression aptly describing the tone this review was set in.
https://www.ft.com/content/c3e0f3e8-da1c-11e5-a72f-1e7744c66818

Pisse-Vinaigre, Azijnpisser

I was very happy to be able to hand over a bottle to Broodthaers' widow Maria Gilissen years later, 

in 2024, and to learn that she "got" the joke and was happy with the gift.
"Chez le droguiste op den hoek"

© Eddy Gabriel
© Rocky Witzenstein

Weight Of The World (Atlas)

Atlas.

A page from an old yoga manual. A matter of perspective.

Calling the ghost of James Lee Byars.

© Eddy Gabriel ©Rocky Witzenstein

Above the two versions of stickers posted around in Japan in the summer of 2017.

Dispersed mainly in the streets of Kyoto and Kanazawa - the "Gold leaf city"-, two cities crucial in the  development of the esthetic of James Lee Byars. 

Kyoto, Japan

Kyoto, Japan

Kyoto, Japan

Kyoto, Japan

Kanazawa, Japan ( outside the gold leaf shop )

Kanazawa, Japan

Nagoya, Japan

National Art enter, Tokyo, Japan

National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

Also some stickers have been posted in Antwerp, Belgium, where Byars had a strong connection and in Kassel, Germany, where he staged a performance on the frieze of the Fridericanum during Documenta 5 in 1972.

Kassel, Germany  

Kassel, Germany

Kassel, Germany

Antwerp, A379089 

Antwerp, Wide White Space 

Antwerp, Wide White Space 

The inspiration for these stickers can be found here:
http://ubu.com/film/byars_world-question.html

And here: http://www.belgiumishappening.net/home/events/1969/event367-1969-10-05

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-james-lee-byars-1256727.html

The Ghost Of James Lee Byars. Byars in Kyoto. Byars in Kassel. Byars in Antwerp.