Showing posts with label manifest 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manifest 2. Show all posts

15 January 2011

va dee natland sb?


Now the difficult part comes... so... what is Natland SB?

Natland SB is initiated in Bergen Norway and run by Hilde N (the director managing) and Sluik R (a disposable curator). The issues it exposes, items it presents are collected from their immediate surroundings.

Natland SB continues a thought and questions a quote made popular by German architect Mies van der Rohe: less is more. Natland SB agrees and suggests to add in this century: but how much.

Natland SB dismisses todays trend of a future recyclable and sustainable society as a modern indulgence to ease the soul. Natland SB investigates the decomposability of contemporary art forms meanwhile contributing to clarify the fact art is the only stable science humans have.

Natland SB started as an online gallery showing daily objects they and their neighbors want to get rid of at the communal waste facilities of a housing estate just north of Paradis. In this compound was conveniently enough already a nail in the wall. Natland SB simply started to hang the rejects on this nail, photograph and publish them.

Natland SB also organizes happenings like seminars and meetings of the rectangular table. Natland SB furthermore gets involved into other outdoor matters like a gallery on site or the temporary participation in so-called artistic dialogs.

One effect of the Natland SB activities is less visual rubbish around some places. This might be in the end the biggest contribution. Natland SB is without sorrows.

Vem er Sb Natland?

08 July 2010

second manifest - afterbarking

Answer: Natland S B team returned this Tuesday from 3 weeks in the Czech republic. Good time spend and some time wasted. Tomas was definitely right about the lack of round tables. There were actually 3 or more rectangular ones though in the premises. The meeting was spread over a period of as many days. Good men came early from afar and near by all means: foot or scooter included. Some did not manage or find. They were very missed and were not missed at all. It all worked with the tools available. Circumstances were sufficiently rough to create the right positions. No escaping. No need to check the bus schedule. There was simply no hike passing by.

Question: So the question of how much footprints less to walk to Lidéřovice is not relevant anymore? Been doing what? Burning straws? Willing to share a piece of that action or a look into the oven? Give a picture! Preferably a cloudy foggy smelly smoking one.
Answer: To start with the last request; pictures were given from the start. Mainly pictures and no more. But how could that have been different when... when there was none... and we are still in Miesian tangling. Now those pictures have an inside, a backside, a view through. Who was there knows what is behind that door, knows where to find the bottles, knows what communist hay smells like, picks the right paper, knows how short a speech can be, knows to get a chair that does not wobble, makes coffee smile on a graveyard. It is nice to expand or reverse the view of just an image. It reaches beyond expectations. It actually creates new rooms, new roads, widens horizons and triples the view, ha! It is an hour and five minutes to the nearest shop from that place where the rectangular table stood but you have to go straight where others go left otherwise it is more. Straw... straw! It was good. It was all so good. Nothing really more happened there though and not much less was or had to be repaired during. It was an experience of pure long-term maintenance. A kind of preserving endurance... but also arguably more or less like... giving it just enough air not to die. Little puffs of everlasting wet fire. One set of outspoken Dutch words by a foreigner got stuck in the head and has been revisited over and over: .. het raam is sprookjesachtig... but how to translate that... the window is a fairytale... does not half sound as good as in that Dutch... but what a possibilities... what a chances and opportunities? Anyway, now it is temporary proven that it makes no sense what Natland S B is doing and that feels pretty well. So there is definitely space for more rectangular tables on this planet in the near future. The attending agree. The quest continues to find out the price of the replaceable wounded and wearing vulnerable . Almost got a finger on the value of a view when that sentence popped up out of the blue. Puzzling destination Natland S B is on at the moment. Straight roads but curving waters... ermine and royal meatpin and inn bags and chicken meat jumble were on a menu... We are getting into the tune just before we discompose it as well. There were no barkers really and sufficient violins dressed up as nettles. Will not find the truth. Anyway, it would stop the machinery immediately. No... better stay away from the information desk! Be aware of the dog: Pozor Pes! We are all fenced parcels. We are islands. No sense denying. Just talking is a handicapped method . Conversations are not solid but fluid and they curve. Dialogs are like condensation stripes of high flying airplanes. Evaporating innocent white lines hanging in the sky. So silently and peacefully dirty. Brilliant sometimes! It has hardly begun.

Question: Ahoy, is this the boat to India?

(in the background are no sounds. a neglected clock stopped ticking days ago. just wind)

17 June 2010

second manifest - the location

Meeting takes place this Thursday 24 June at Lidéřovice 38. A village between Dacice, Slavonice and Cesky Radulec (CZ).

15 June 2010

second manifest - more arrangements

photo Tomas Amos Kouba

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Betreff: Re: i Count on You KING!
Datum: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:20, Tomas wrote to Ron:

I was looking for accommodation for rest of the people in neighbour village. I found two places where people can be accommodated. One is 130 CZK per night/person --very simple and quite ugly place. Other place is 220 CZK. Its much nicer already. Not romantic but clean and comfy. WHICH SHOULD i BOOK AND FOR HOW MANY PEOPLE AND FOR HOW MANY NIGHTS? To the neighbour village its 4 km walk. In my house, there is a place for 6 people (six beds Me, Your family, Yngvar} its 5 people already. Should I make space in barn where we could place the other people and get some spare beds for them? Will somebody sleep in a tent? Or should I just book the accommodation in the neighbour village? A lot of questions my Duke, I know, but please try to help me with making the accommodation question clear. King Tomas.

Natland S B likes the barn idea. Please contact S B if the comfy is wanted. Guests are expected to be prepared or to accept that much less is a hole more.

second manifest - provisions and terms

photo Tomas Amos Kouba

It is Natland SB who invites and it is the invited who decides.

By now 12 or so people have confirmed their intention to meet around the table on Thursday 24 June. There is no time schedule or program but all are expected to talk, eat and drink and have a good time together. The weather conditions are promised to be perfect for outdoor activities. A happening. A map is provided and the bus time schedules are available.

Those who come are advised to be prepared: Take enough with you.

second manifest - history & background

photo: Senis Besmegenis

In February 2009 Ron Sluik was guest teacher at the FAMU academy in Praha. One of the participating photography students was Tomas Amos Kouba. A month ago Sluik received an email from him:

What do you do in the summer? Would you like to come for visit in Czech rep.? I will be building my art residence there. You could perhaps join me...:) By the way, if you know somebody that would be interested in this project, just let me know. I search for visitors, voluntary workers or even for another owner for corporation. This is one of my crazy projects... Here you can see photos of the place: http://tomasamos.imgur.com/all/

Natland S B having a weak spot for others with crazy ideas saw in the invitation a perfect possibility to call for a meeting. Flexibility is a keyword for the future and Tomas had a flexible plan. So a mail was returned saying that the Natland S B art Galleri would accept and organize a round table meeting. Tomas replied: Very good but there is no round table on the premises.

Tomas is thinking of starting some art centre there and Natland SB wants to warn him that something else might be more suitable and suggests a rhizomian approach to be best. Tomas gets a think-tank before the layers brick. Natland S B provides in good spirit.

27 May 2010

second manifest - bed arrangements

photo Tomas Amos Kouba
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Datum: Wed, 26 May 2010 22:30 Tomas wrote to Ron:

Ha Duke,

There is 3 different kind of people.
1.hotel type
2.something between
3.sleeps drunk in hay in a barn.

Let me know what type of people is coming and how many, for how many days.
When I am there, I´ll arrange a place to sleep for them.

T

On 26 May 2010 19:23, Ron Sluik wrote:

what about sleeping places for other people?

Somewhere near is maybe a hotel

or private people in the village with spare beds?

R

25 May 2010

second manifest - directions

photo: Tomas Amos Kouba
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Betreff: Ha King Tomas - Here is Duke Bacon!
On 24 May 2010 10:53, Ron S wrote to Tomas K:

Need to know the possibilities how to get there so we can tell THE OTHERS. 24 June is a Thursday. Maybe we fly to Krakow and take a bus or train from there... or Ryanair to Osijek!

Betreff: Re: Ha King Tomas - Here is Duke Bacon!
Datum: Mon, 24 May 2010 23:17:18 +0300, Tomas K wrote to Ron S:

Did not noticed Your last mail.
So, everyone can search for his own route at

http://jizdnirady.idnes.cz/vlakyautobusy/spojeni/


at the bottom of the page is a sign for ENGL/GER
What is also possible is to search connection to LIPOLEC and than walk through wood 3 km. The browser doesn't know about this possibility. Or to come to DACICE and than walk 7 km or take a taxi from there. It could be best for everyone to print a small map from the net of Liderovice- Dacice area.

We could make that fish soup or we could buy a little pig and a barrel of beer. If there will be many people coming.

By the way, do U use skype?

21 May 2010

second manifest - invitation


NATLAND SB MEETING AROUND RECTANGULAR TABLE 2010 LIDÉŘOVICE

The second Natland SB art Galleri outdoor manifest this summer is the meeting in a Moravian village on Thursday 24th of June 2010. This is for invited guests only but persons who show up uninvited will not be rejected.

For any questions and further details you are kindly requested to contact us and we will personally attend to it swiftly. But there are not too many answers to be expected.This is simply a plea to get some adventure back.

contact: postnatland@gmail.com