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.