Monday 29 January 2018

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
"Chez le droguiste op den hoek"

© Eddy Gabriel
© Rocky Witzenstein

Thursday 11 January 2018

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.