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New Cloud Formations
Pictures of clouds are pulled from the internet & manipulated to take on forms never observed in nature (but that's not to say "unnatural" forms). Infinite variations are possible.
Eye Signatures/Eye Music
Screen shots & video captures are made of individual eyes, mostly sourced from the internet but can also be original footage of our own eyes or of others. Small compilations are made of various eyes, followed by a short writing describing a communicative mode, psychological tendency, or other meaning inferred by the movements. The patterns can also be used as a "notation" or chance/aleatoric music.
New Skin Color
Randomly selected (or not) colors are chosen from any source material & applied to the skin. Documented with studio portrait photos &/or video vignettes of ourselves with face paint, painted hands, or otherwise colored body parts. Many options for variations. Followed by an explanatory text that applies a new theory of embodied color.
New Clothes
A new article of clothing is invented, either using virgin materials or by mixing & matching various preexisting garments in ways that defy their original intentions. The goal is to make a "fashion" that is neither male, female, or purely androgynous, but rather ambiguous. Documented through a series of photographs. Example: TW wears everything in ___'s wardrobe, or vice verse. Example: apply marble-dying process to a regular bed sheet & document the various configurations on the body.
Meditation Drawings
A drawing of anything, as long as it's nothing specific. Followed by a text describing a real/fictional meditation experience.
Visualized Telekinesis
A photo/video series of ourselves sleeping in various positions. Followed by a text describing the formulation of telekinetic sculptures that are transferred between us.
Manifesto of Self-Manifestation
A manifesto is written using a collage method, drawing upon as many different & opposing manifestos that we can find, rewritten to elaborate & reinforce the difference, ie: absurdist manifesto. Towards a theory of non-knowledge, learned dumbness, non-thought, un-learning. A "false thesis" motivated by what? Dissatisfaction? Illusion? Disruption? Describes a reversal of the scientific method, so that action is followed by explanation: experiential not experimental.
Related: Reversed/Inverted Science: an ongoing integrative process of charting the imaginary space of the interstice between expression & understanding, opening up a place of non-knowledge under & between all that is currently known to exist. Example: defining a new categorization of matter inbetween animal/vegetable/mineral, or elucidating a third option to any dualistic/metaphysical/dialectical system such as knowing/not knowing, truth/false, etc. A new theory of aether, between the empirical/scientific & the mystical/mythological?
Satanic Baking
Bread is a holy food for Christians, rice is sacred to Buddhists, Peruvians worship maca & quinoa, Egyptians thought wheat to be sacred: so let's make unholy or secular food.
Taxonomy of a Colon
Pictures of human shit, organized by color &/or texture. A system of shit. Associated to real information regarding the nutritional evaluation of feces, but also just an excuse to photograph shit. Related to Satanic Baking: different unholy foods are photographed. Accompanied by a text elaborating on the gut as the new core of the central nervous system = a movement from mind to body, or dissolving the separation between the two.
Unreal Poetry
Images are taken/sourced of the sky, random walls, dark rooms, etc. Photoshopped text is added of randomly generated words to create poems that appear to be written in the sky, scrawled on walls, or neon light installations in art galleries. Possibilities for further variations....
Historically Relevant Artifacts
Photographs are taken of any singular object, followed by a text describing the supposed historical significance of said object. This process can also be utilized to describe any found/appropriated object as an a fabricated object, ie: a sculpture.
New CV
A collaborative Curriculum Vitae is written describing a long history of performances, events, exhibitions, etc. Places are invented, but always keeping within a reasonable expectation of reality. This document is added to continuously.
New Theory of Color
An anti-theory, not in the sense of being negative, but as a reversal of science (see above). Various experiments are conducted with various color combinations & applications, ie: ___'s marbling technique applied to various objects, TW's chroma-shadow technique applied to various backdrops, new operations devised through collaborative discussions. Decisions are made from intuition, subjective aesthetic preference, & other non-concrete/non-objective processes. Objects/installations are accompanied by elaborate absurdist diagrams & elaborative texts describing the various emotional/psychological/philosophical/cosmological meanings evoked by the color combinations.
Books of Non-Knowledge
Any of the above or following ideas elaborated into a "book jacket description," translated into a single image, formatted as a book cover for a specific pre-existing book. The finalized book is photographed, listed on our websites as sold out, marked as being sponsored by various art grants, supported by specific publishers, & otherwise distributed by fictional means.
Examples: Anthroposophy, theories of new star formations, new pedagogic ideology with art as the core, communication with different species/animals, biography of a fictional band, a new theory of color, a new theory of feminism, a new technique of meditation, a biography of Olla Vogala.
Posters for Non-Knowledge Symposia
Similar to the book idea, these will be graphic design experiments to represent any of the above or following ideas in a single image, formatted as a poster as often accompanies an exhibition or performance-event, withholding or falsifying the time & location of the non-event.
Websites of Non-Knowledge
Similar to the book & poster ideas, these will be graphic design experiments to represent any of the above or following ideas in a single image, formatted as a single or series of websites, documented in our portfolios as screen shots captured with inauthentic domain names typed in the address bar. Accompanied by text relaying a certain controversy circulating the contents of the website, the short-lived active days of its existence on the web, & the date (from the past) of its removal due to its conflict with a certain corporate identity.
Lectures/Presentations of New Theories of Non-Knowledge
Photographs depicting us presenting before a fictional audience. Audience photos pulled from the Internet contextualized with new photographs of us presenting in front of digital projectors on various walls wearing various outfits to create the illusion of a past event.
Languages of Non-Knowledge
Various activities captured on video, subtitled with randomly generated text, & presented as an experiential exploration into a new language system. Examples: laughing, recreating insect sounds, recreating human biodynamic feedback frequencies, superimposing wind/breathing sounds directly into a microphone over video of a mouth being open, etc. Infinite variations possible.
Related: Silence Language: A new form of communication based on not speaking, or based on listening, receiving, assimilating, rather than speaking, acting, creating. Akin to the way that music is mixed or paintings are "understood" & responded to: an active process of reception.
Technological Innovations for Languages of Non-Knowledge
Examples: an app/website that translates upper level vocabulary words into "dumb" words like colloquialisms, a filter applied to audio recording of people talking that transforms the speaking into absurdist non-sense sounds, a visual filter that can transform pictures of printed text into scrambled symbols & other general nonsense (emojis?).
New Theory of Gender: Post-Feminism for a Post-Male World (working title)
Various plans for various possible socio-cultural interventions to empower the feminine in contemporary society without utilizing the traditional aesthetic means, ie: relying upon subversive, psychically penetrative, psychologically nuanced, & otherwise experiential not experimental means of shifting the "power dynamic" away from the globalizing masculine tendencies & towards the stifled female potential.
Astrological Perfume
Not actually scents that are mixed, but rather poetic associations of materials printed as labels & presented on bottles filled with various colorful liquids (related to New Theory of Color, New Theory of Gender). Scents can have a variety of inspirations, including: a scent for a new gender, exotic or fictional plants used as ingredients, smells that capture psychological associations of different seasons, 12 different scents for 12 different astrological signs, scents that are tuned to particular human frequency.