back to when

 seems that all that has been built up since the end of the war is unreavelling again and that we have to reconsider the WEU from the cold war era to keep things managable

Furthermore

 

after the cadavre de ETO (and post-act submerging of painting)

A new lease perhaps – due to an anniversary issue of gold leaf, with certificates and open references as to what to do with it all, seemed appropriate, well perhaps even intentionally so (appropriation) for the european theatere of operations which has been rather dormant of late.

A chance to rekindle the personages involved, reminding us of the origins and references from bygone activities... and equally useful for the RNO as well as ACC...

 

the text accompanying the issue of shares reads thus:

“That set me thinking in a convoluted A to Band back to A way about (A) art, archives & anniversaires to (B) Big Blue, Bonn Ben Patterson's 'Rheingold' – blue chips an thence back to Klein's issuance of shares of air (A)...

this all in Chipping Norton no less, considering a display by the local contemporary showcase featureing Art & Language... The whole thing to be rendered as AAAA (Quadruple-A) ArtActionAéreAnniversaire … ombined with a definitive closure of the the site along the Rhine river at Bonn (Plittersdorf).

 

 see also report on triangulation drive september 2025.

theatre piece

 a bit like paper piece as related to me at the time of Ben P's visit in 2012 - this was also one with toilet and towelpaper, but by 'Unbeat' Yoshio nakajima during a lecture about his work at the anatomical theatre in the ghent academy - I include this im my series of 'European Theatres of Operation' due to the fact that this Japanese flux-fenomenon walked (hiked/hitched) all the way to Europe across Asia back in the sixties to become a major influence on the art of it's day - and remained... living in Sweden for ever so long...

 

back on the street

 One of the first notions to pursue the ETO at all was a participation in street theate activities as a student - at the time politically engaged it was a format that seemed viable and pertinent... still is, but now on a very reduced, even 'unnoticed' scale - 

to wit

operation (Chien Brun Brussels)

this wrap-up of defuct archive material (from performances way back - remnants, slightly documentary but not really essential... in how far does an object (remnant) carry significance in the history of a piece... or add to the understanding of it?

a question still to be considered

street by street

 considering the re-delineation of streets as part of a european intervention (staring at Maubeuge in Nord Pas de Calais... completely redone after last war...)

here some trial runs

back and forth, less so

 whereas I used to zip back and forth to all sorts of venues constantly, it is now a matter of preparing and weighing the pro's and con's of any move, even the slightest... a different way of looking at it I suppose, and also perhaps a lot less energy lost.

considering the by-gones more than the 'what's to come' and making note of the passage - I remember watsching them load up the old giant wine barrels from the royal depot before it was demolished entirely, and marvelled at the craftmanship of the things - gone somewhere north to start a new life as a commercial decoration rather than a well-made public amenity - here an image when presumeably they were still if full use.

in my research I came across a mention which would tickle all supporters of the 'intercontinental entrepot' and also conjures memories of oneself having to go and file douane-papers and such in these hallowed halls:

to with the painter Vincent van Gogh himself to his brother Theo when he had just gotten to Antwerp:

 On Time (lookback)

a déja-vu feeling arises when looking at the wanton destruction wreaked on U

a throwback to the forties of the last century...