Friday, October 3, 2008

brussels

on est tous
deja morts

we are all
already dead

Saturday, September 27, 2008

paris

and ng thinks

1 si
je suis trop active
if i m too activ

2 si je perds le reve
if i lost the dream

3 alors je perds tout
i lost everything

4 je perds le sens
i lost the meaning

5 je me perds
i lost myself

6 je perds NG
i lost NG

Saturday, September 20, 2008

brussels

et emilie dit

1 c est une bataille
2 une bataille non stop
3 combien de temps
on aura encore
envie de se battre?

1 it s a battle
2 a non stop battle
3 how long
do you enjoy
to struggle?

Monday, August 25, 2008

and NG is fasting

eating nothing
just drinking water
for 15 days

to eat is an habit
to fast an autonomy

manger est une habitude
ne pas manger
une autonomie

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

and stephan emails

here the adress
of somebody
who never eat
and feeds with light

je veux rencontrer
une de ces personnes
qui ne mangent pas
et se nourrissent
de lumiere

Sunday, July 13, 2008

et Ng dit

1 c'est un instinct
de survie
it's a survival instinct
2 je n'ai pas le choix
i have no choice
3 je dois trouver
des lieux ou vivre
des relations
des projets
3 i have to find
places to stay
relationships
projects
4 surtout
ne pas m'installer
continuer
4 and keep moving

Friday, July 4, 2008

air antwerpen

and philip is telling

1 i live in a
parrallel world
2 art is becoming
an industry
now everywhere
you have art towers
in china
in india
five or six
art towers
in each town

et philippe dit

1 je vis dans un
monde parrallele
2 l art devient
une industrie
partout
tu as des building
pour l 'art
en inde
en chine
cinq ou six
tours pleine d 'art
dans chaque ville


3 when the industry is there
the pleasure is gone

3 quand l industrie est la
il n y a plus de plaisir


i live in
a parrallel world
the question is
the conection

Monday, June 16, 2008

and remi tells

what people want
is
a beautiful picture
just
a beautiful picture

une belle image
juste
une belle image

Saturday, June 14, 2008

station of antwerpen

and ng is thinking

1 money is not a problem
2 the problem is
what you have to do
to get money
3 i want money flow

et ng pense

1 l argent n est pas
un probleme
2 le probleme est
ce que tu dois faire
pour l argent
3 je veux que l'argent
coule a flot

Thursday, June 12, 2008

paris

et yona dit

1 notre societe a
un fond d esclavage
2 c est une societe
d esclaves
3 y compris les gens
les plus riches

1 our society is
based on slavery
2 it 's a society
of slaves
3 included the
most rich people

Monday, June 9, 2008

brussels

and Jean tells

1 i have a gallery
2 i make my living
with art
3 i work non stop
4 i'm ill all the time
i lost seventeen kg

and
i want more!!

1 i want a
bigger gallery
2 i want assistants
3 i want to produce more
4 i want more money

et jean dit

1 j'ai une galerie
2 je gagne ma vie
avec l'art
3 je travaille
comme un fou
4 je suis malade
tout le temps
j ai perdu 17 kg

et
je veux plus!!

1 je veux une plus
grosse galerie
2 je veux des assistants
3 je veux produire plus
4 je veux plus d argent
and NG is thinking

1 he already has
what he wants
i already have
what i want
2 he lives the life
he wants
i live the life
i want
3 we all already
have
what we want

et NG pense

1 il a deja tout
ce qu'il veut
j'ai deja tout
ce que je veux
2 il mene la vie
qu'il veut mener
je mene la vie
que je veux mener
3 nous avons tous
deja tout
and tv tells

if you don t
want more
you've got
less

si tu ne veux
pas plus
tu as moins
and timoty tells

in the next generation
everyone
will get
cancer

et timoty dit

dans la prochaine
generation
tout le monde
aura un cancer

Sunday, June 8, 2008

antwerpen

and vaast tells

1 i come
2 i do something
3 i don't tell you what
4 i ask you nothing
no money
no production
nothing
but
1 i do what i want
2 you can't control

et Vaast dit

1 je viens
2 je fais un truc
3 je vous dit pas quoi
4 je vous demande rien
pas d'argent
pas de production
rien
mais
1 je fais ce que je veux
2 vous ne controlez rien

Saturday, June 7, 2008

dendermonde

et sonia dit

1 l'art c'est aussi
l'argent
2 l'argent
fait parti
de l'art

and sonia tells

1 art is also
money
2 money
is a part
of art

Friday, June 6, 2008

paris

et Yona dit
1 je ne fais rien
pour l'argent
2 si quelqu'un veut
me payer
je ne le refuse pas

and Yona tells
1 i do nothing
for money
2 if somebody want
to pay me
i don't refuse

berlin

and benji e mails

1 i am not going
to fall
into the trap
of all work
and no play
2 all thought
and no feel
3 all fast
and no slow

i ' m
a joker


so lovely
to be here
on earth
right now

Thursday, June 5, 2008

NG is wondering

1 what is my character
in this road movie?
2 what is my role?

1 quel est mon personnage
dans ce road movie?
2 quel est mon role?

1 am i an artist
moving all the time
making exhibitions
with a lover
in each town
kind of rock
and roll stuff?

1 suis je un artiste
voyageant
tout le temps
faisant
des expositions
avec un amant
dans chaque ville
genre rock and roll?

2 am i
a peaceful
quiet
lazy
character
living very coool
from residence
to residence?

2 suis je un
personnage
paisible
tranquille
paresseux
vivant tres cool
de residence
en residence?

Sunday, June 1, 2008

finland vasa

and wolf e mails

1 i am in finland
in an artist residence
2 i enjoy my solitude
3 it is so good
to become
a stranger again

et wolf ecrit

1 je suis en finlande
dans une residence
d 'artiste
2 heureux
de ma solitude
3 c'est un tel bonheur
d'etre un etranger

Thursday, May 29, 2008

AIR antwerpen

and remi tells

1 there is relationship
only if there
is money
2 if you have a lot
of money
you have a lot
of people around you
3 and you feel
responsible

et remi dit

1 il n'y a de relation
que s'il y a argent
2 si tu as beaucoup
d'argent
tu as beaucoup
de gens
autour de toi
3 et tu as des
obligations

dans chaque
relation
l'argent
sans argent
pas de relation

in each relationship
money
without money
no relationship

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

paris

and romain quotes

1 only when the last
tree has died

2 and the last river
been poisened

3 and the last fish
been caught

4 will we realize
we cannot
eat money 

Friday, May 2, 2008

and remi tells

1 you say
i don't work
i do nothing
2 but you work
all the time
3 me
if i do nothing
i tell nothing
if i write
i write
4 i don't write
to tell
i'm doing nothing

et remi dit
1 tu dis
je ne travaille pas
je ne fais rien
2 mais tu travailles
tout le temps
3 moi
soit je fais rien
et je me tais
soit j'ecris
et j'ecris
4 j'ecris pas
pour dire
je ne fais rien

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

berlin opening

and matthew tells

1 professionalism
comes from
to profess
2 it 's also religious
a profession of faith
3 all the artists
profess


et mattew dit
1 professionnalisme
vient de
professer
2 c'est religieux aussi
une profession
de foi
3 tous les artistes
professent

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

air antwerpen

and andrew e mails me

i'm happy enough
I have in your terms a home

If that's the question
you're asking yourself ?

et andrew me e-mail

je suis assez heureux
j'ai selon tes termes une maison
si c'est la question
que tu te poses a toi même ?

Friday, March 14, 2008

I love jay when he tells

1 /HOME IS IN MY HEAD
2 /HOME IS IN MY HEAD
3 /HOME IS IN MY HEAD

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

1 puis je me sentir chez moi
n'importe ou?

2 ai je besoin d' un lieu
qui m'appartienne ?

1 can i feel at home
anywhere?

2 do i need a place on my own?

Saturday, December 22, 2007

i stayed for two nights at violaine's place
four days at lyn 's home in paris
one night at pierre's home in brussell
five days at sonia's home in brussell
fifteen days at bad foundation in rotterdam
seven nights at nicole's /home in vienna
two nights at gerald's place in vienna
one week at remi's house in south of france
and now i'm staying for two months
in the bubble house of antti lovag
for my new project

YOUR HOME IS MY HOME: living in utopia

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

1 parasites brings air
2 parasites do other things
3 parasites speak another langage
4 parasites are a question

1 les parasites amenent de l'air
2 les parasites font autre chose
3 les parasites ont un autres langage
4 les parasites sont une question

Thursday, October 18, 2007

and guillaume tells

1 i revendicate to be a parasite
2 without parasite you are dead
3 parasites can be invisible
multiform

et guillaume dit

1 je revendique d'etre un parasite
2 sans parasite on est mort
3 les parasites peuvent etre invisibles multiformes

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

paris

and remi tells
i'm a poet
it's a radical position!


you are an artist
it's not as radical
cause
art is a business

et remi dit
je suis poete
c'est une position radicale
ca veut tout dire
tu es un artiste
ce n'est pas aussi radicale
l'art est un business

Monday, October 15, 2007

la villa du lavoir

and jerome e-mails me
1 i write books
2 i organise lectures
3 i'm a publisher
4 i'm exhausted ----NOT TO WORK

et jerome e mail
1 j'ecris mes livres
2 j'organise des lectures
3 je suis editeur
4 je suis épuisé de ----NE PAS TRAVAILLER

Friday, October 12, 2007

paris

we don't work but we work all the time

and alessio tells
1 i don't earn money
so i don't work
2 but i work all the time
it's a strange situation

et alessio dit
1 je ne gagne pas d'argent
donc je ne travaille pas
2 mais je travaille tout le temps
c'est une étrange situation

Sunday, October 7, 2007

vienna

dans chaque projet
dans chaque voyage
dans chaque rencontre
une aventure

in all project
in all travell
in all meeting
an adventure

Saturday, October 6, 2007

vienna

and ng is telling
i 'm editing a project
called I LIKE TO FEEL INSECURE
about the pleasure of insecurity
kind of post punk music
with electric guitars
it's urgent to shout
1 I LIKE INSECURITY
2 I LIKE DANGER
3 I LIKE EMPTYNESS


et ng dit
c'est urgent
de crier
1 J'AIME LE DANGER
2 J'AIME L'INSECURITÉ
3 J'AIME LE VIDE

Monday, October 1, 2007

vienna

I like to travell
i like to feel the emptyness
j'aime voyager
pour sentir le vide

un inconfortable flottement

Sunday, September 30, 2007

foundation bad

et kamiel dit

1 maintenant c'est moi
c'est ma generation
qui construit le monde

2 je suis responsable
3 je me sens responsable
4 nous sommes tous responsable
5 je m'occuppe
d'une centaine de squat d'artistes
ici a rotterdam


and kamiel tells

1 now it's me
it's my generation
building the world
we want
2 i am responsible
3 i feel responsible
4 we have to be responsible
5 i'm looking for about
one hundred artist squat
in rotterdam



et ng pense
1 je ne me sens pas
responsable du monde
2 je ne peux rien changer
3 je suis responsable
de ma vie

and ng is thinking
1 I don't feel responsible
of the world
2 i can't change nothing
3 i'm responsible
about my life

Friday, September 28, 2007

rotterdam

and laurent tells

art is a research
artist shoud have the same
statut as scientists---etc
and i want to teach

et laurent dit

l'art est une recherche
les artistes devraient
avoir le meme statut
que les chercheurs
les scientifiques---etc
et je veux enseigner

and NG answers

i don't think
i want to teach
i want to have
all my time
and stay free


je ne veux pas enseigner
je veux avoir tout mon temps
et rester libre
j'ai deja demisionné

Thursday, September 27, 2007

I love the architects
building nothing
Stalker Jona Friedman ---
why not living in a country
where it's possible to stay
under a tree all the year long

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

rotterdam

1 ma pensee est claire
quand je ne fais rien
juste errer dans les villes
me balancer dans un hamac

1 my mind is clear
when i 'm doing nothing
just wandering in cities
dream in my hammock


STOPPER NET
TOUTE TENTATIVE
DE TRAVAIL

STOP ALL PROCESS
TO WORK

Sunday, September 23, 2007

and NG tells

1 i have the project to stay
six months in a pacific island
2 diving swimming in the ocean
to fish and to gather plants
3 make some picture and video
and continue my road movie

1 j'ai le projet de vivre
six mois dans une ile du pacifique
2 plonger nager dans l'ocean
vivre de la peche et de la cueillette
3 faire quelques photos et videos
pour continuer mon road movie

Saturday, September 22, 2007

and léon tells

I'm leaving to morrow
to make my journey around the world
by foot
i will follow the mountains
russia mongolia china
america
from alaska
to pantagonia etc etc

1 i'm leaving for ten years
2 i'm leaving for ten years



et léon dit

je pars demain faire le tour du monde
par les montagnes en marchant
la russie la chine la mongolie
l'amerique
de l'alaska a la patagonie etc etc

1 je pars pour dix ans
2 je pars pour dix ans

Monday, September 3, 2007

ng is a STRANGER
in his own country
people always ask
where do you come from?
you speak perfectly
but
you have an accent
you could be german
or bresilian
or spanish
or russian


comment avoir une maison
comment etre chez soi
quand on est un etranger?

how to have a home
when you're a stranger

Saturday, September 1, 2007

1 i love jay traveling and telling stories about his travels
2 i love maurizio when he escaped the museum using his rope
3 i love gilles buiding ikos the ideal jungle observatory

1 j'aime jay qui voyage en racontant des histoires de voyages
2 j'aime maurizio quand il s'echappe avec une corde
3 j'aime gilles creant IKOS le parfait observatoire scientifique de la jungle

Friday, August 31, 2007

rotterdam foundation bad

I remember when i was staying
on the beach in canaries island
a guy told me


1- I DECIDE TO LIVE ON THE BEACH
AND THAT'S ALL

2- I DECIDE TO LIVE ON THE BEACH
AND THAT'S ALL

3- I DECIDE TO LIVE ON THE BEACH
AND THAT'S ALL
and remi marie writes

1 production is pollution
2 anything we produce
go straight to the bin

1 la production est pollution
2 tout ce qu'on produit
va droit à la poubelle

oui mais j'adore mon ordinateur
il y a beaucoup de paradoxes

l'acte le plus radical serait
de
TOUT ARRETER

yes but i love my laptop
there are a lot of paradoxes

the more radical act
will be
TO STOP EVERYTHING

Thursday, August 30, 2007

and david tells

1 it's weird you are like that
thinking, writing,
filming, eating, sleeping,
i don't say you are doing nothing
....but ....but....

2 here we all have to work
you know
we have to try
i mean
you take your chance
and you work /hard
...work is a chance

3 then for a long time David speaks about
---- parents paying studies
----- feeling of guiltiness-------
---every people wanting to be famous-----
etc etc etc

and NG answers

i think it's a trap
an illusion---
are these people happy?

c'est un piége
une illusion
est ce que ces gens sont heureux?
il repond que ce n'est pas
une question de bonheur
and NG thinks

i don't want to repeat in loop
as a very nice robot=

1 I'm an artist
2 I work a lot
3 I have a lot of project
4 sorry i have no time
5 i have a lot of friends
doing amazing stuff


je ne veux pas repeter enboucle
comme un gentil robot

1 je suis un artiste
2 je travaille beaucoup
3 j'ai beaucoup de projets
4 ah désolée je n'ai pas de temps
5 j'ai beaucoup d'amis
qui font un boulot super genial!

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

and dan is telling:

I have a flat and a studio
i want to be a professional artist
it's what i want
when i have an apointment
i don't want people see my bed
it's not professional
i work very hard because of that


isn't it a trap?

here one always tells

1 i want to be a professional writer
i want to be a professional artist

2 but what does it mean?
it means ----money
3 professional means money
very simple

ici tout le monde precise
1 je veux etre un artiste professionnel
2 ca veut dire --- l'argent
3 profesionnel= argent c'est simple

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

and NG thinks

-can i say
here in Ny
i don't want to work?

work seems such
a positiv value ?


puis je dire
ai je le droit de dire
ici a New york
que je ne veux pas
travailler?

Sunday, August 26, 2007

on a terrasse in williamsburg

and Ian tells:

i have a flat and a studio
i have 2 differents jobs
i work a lot
to pay the rents
i can be in my studio
only on sunday


and NG thinks

it's weird
working so hard
for a studio
you never go

Saturday, August 25, 2007

flux factory new york

and Kerry tells :

do you think I'm a monster?

i decided to have a top surgery
get off totaly my bigs boobs
surgery is a freedom
to build the body i want
1 i want to move
2 i want to run
3 i want to be androgenus


et Kerry dit:
penses tu que je suis un monstre?

j'ai decide d'enlever
totalement mes enormes seins
la chirurgie est une liberte
pour creer le corps
que je veux
1 je veux bouger
2 je veux courrir
3 je veux etre androgyne


Kerry had a surgery
cause she wants to move
and it makes me think
cause i hate surgery
but all i do
is about
1 moving
2 feeling free
and i want
to be androgynus

Thursday, August 23, 2007

it's always the same paranoia
try to escape

an opresiv system

1 family
2 power
3 slavery
work
money


c'est toujours la meme paranoia
essayer d'echapper
à un systeme opressant

1 la famille
2 le pouvoir
3 l'esclavage
le travail
l'argent


essayer d'échapper
par le pouvoir des mots
et
vivre sa vie

vivre sa vie
bande a part
dans le livre de Marcel--- proust
a l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleur


BAND OF OUTSIDER

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

and NG tells

i'm an artist
i can do
anything
like

to live in a magic bubble house
et NG pense

je veux realiser mes reves
voyager à
berlin londres los angeles mexico tokyo
et passer six mois de l'annee
à
1 plonger dans la mer
2 marcher dans le desert
3 escalader les rochers


I want to live my dreams
to travell in
berlin london los angeles mexico tokyo
and spend the rest of the time

1 diving in the sea
2 walking in desert
3 climbing rocks


i still want to believe
art is about freedom

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

and eric tells:
you are a technomad
a technomad
and
a perpetual traveller

Sunday, August 12, 2007

flux factory queens

chaleur tropicale
je reve que je suis
un aristocrate ruiné
en pleine décadence
je me balance dans mon hamac
et je pense
à la folie du monde

in the tropical sun
i dream to be
an aristocrat in bankrupt
in a complete decadence
spending all his time in an hammock
thinking about the crazyness of the world

he has no money
but doesn't care
he has the culture to stay free

Saturday, August 11, 2007

et Zarathoustra dit :

1 “Vivre comme j' ai envie
ou ne pas vivre du tout”

2 “Vivre comme j' ai envie
ou ne pas vivre du tout”

1 To live as I want
or not to Live at all

Friday, August 10, 2007

and yona friedman writes :

if nobody tell to indians :
YOU are poor
then they are not
they don't feel poor

si personne ne dit aux indiens
vous etes pauvres
ils ne sont pas pauvres
ils ne sentent pas pauvres

if nobody tell to indians :
YOU are poor
then they are not!


BREAK / HOTEL
is about
1 to feel rich
2 to feel free

Monday, August 6, 2007

and Guillaume tells

you don't want a studio
of course!
studio is about WORK

tu ne veux pas d'atelier
bien sur!
un atelier
c'est pour travailler

Sunday, August 5, 2007

queens

Break Hotel is a way
to deal with bad
professionalism in art
question of
1 conformism
2 rules
3 labels

le mauvais professionalisme
questions
1 de conformisme
2 de regles
3 d' étiquetage

Thursday, August 2, 2007

ETRE A SON PROPRE RYTHME
EST UNE REVOLUTION

TO RESPECT YOUR OWN RYTHM
IS A REVOLUTION

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

and Joanna e mails:

sounds to me really good 
beeing focused on
what you want  
without
1 effort
2 output
3 production.


se concentrer sur ce que l'on veut
hors de l'esclavage
1 de l'effort
2 du rendement
3 de la production


ETRE A SON PROPRE RYTHME
EST UNE REVOLUTION

TO RESPECT ONE'S OWN RYTHM
IS A REVOLUTION

Saturday, July 21, 2007

flux factory queens

ny

et deleuze dit:

1 le nomadisme est precaire
2 le nomadisme est offensif
3 le nomadisme est a la frontiere

le nomadique n'existe
que jusqu'a nouvel ordre
l'action dans des contextes precaires
est la condition du nomadique


1 nomadism is precarious
2 nomadism is offensiv
3 nomadism is at the border

nomadism can exist only for a short time
and sebastien tells:

take a car working with vegetal oil
you can cross usa from mc donald to mc donald
dealing the old vegetal oil
(this old oil sounds degusting to me !!)

and NG answers
I want to meet this artist from netherland
he built a car out of wood
with an engine working with wood
and he drives along the forest

j'aimerais rencontrer cet artiste hollandais
qui a construit une voiture en bois
qui marche au feu de bois
et il se deplace en longeant les forets
and johanna e-mails:

i dream to buy a van
it's the only home-solution
that really works
with me

je reve d' acheter un van
c'est la seule maison
possible pour moi

et ng pense
j'ai envie
de traverser les usa avec un van
new york los angeles los angeles mexico

i want to cross usa in a van
new york los angeles los angeles mexico
et guillaume écrit

1 je n'ai pas d'appartement
2 pas de femme
3 pas de travail
tout est possible


1 i have no flat
2 no woman
3 no work
everything is possible

Sunday, July 8, 2007

and enerstin tells

i 'm a visual artist
but i feel more like a musician
music is generous
music is obvious!
really i don't care about
all this fucking fucked up
art objects

Friday, July 6, 2007

flux factory

i love nick gee trying to reach mountains
i love laurent and abraham walking straight line throught france
i love shimabuku in his peniche cooking gherkin
i love gianni motti's assistant traveling for him
i love seppo hanging out half a year in brasil


1 i'm an artist
2 i want to move
when i want
where i want

1 je suis artiste
2 je veux etre
ou je veux
quand je veux

Thursday, July 5, 2007

and NG thinks

OUTSIDE
OUT----- side
dehors a cote
je suis artiste
pour rester dehors
bouger ou je veux
quand je veux

NE JAMAIS ETRE ENFERME
ENFERMEDAD MALADIE

we are passing the bridge
on the hudson river
Queens Man/hattan
surounded by
spanish brasilian english
feeling=happyness

Sunday, July 1, 2007

manhattan queens

in bus twenty two
queens manhattan
an old woman repeats the word
- immigrant-
- immigrant-
- immigrant-

I listen to her
and i think
i want to immigrate
me too
NG IS AN IMMIGRANT

NG IS from NOWHERE
a
TRANS -----
------BORDER

I am a TRANS -----
------BORDER

NG IS A TRANS



ng n'a
1 pas de nom
2 pas d'age
3 pas de pays

ng
has
1 no name
2 no birthdate
2 no country

Saturday, June 30, 2007

et philippe dit:
1 en ce moment c'est vraiment la vie
2 les expos et les musées ça craint
la vie comme performance
oui tous les matins c'est la vie
3 les objets je m'en fous

and philippe tells:
1 it's only the life
the life as performance
2 exhibitions and museums are fucked up
3 i don't care about objects

Friday, June 29, 2007

and guillaume tells

ng is on the road
ng est sur la route

i ask guillaume:
what are you talking about?
he says
you're on the road in your head
and i join you on the road
cause my owner just broke my door
and kicked me out

Thursday, June 28, 2007

new york

BREAK HOTEL

UN LIEU SANS LIEU
un lieu virtuel
a virtual place
A PLACE WITHOUT PLACE

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

flux factory queens

how to organise oneself
invent a way of life
and
NO WORK


comment s'organiser
inventer un mode de vie
et
NE PAS TRAVAILLER
1 le titre
BREAK HOTEL

2 BREAK HOTEL
est un travail en cours

3 BREAK HOTEL
est un ROAD MOVIE

4 BREAK HOTEL
est une fiction


1 BREAK HOTEL
is the title

2 BREAK HOTEL
is a work in progress

3 BREAK HOTEL
is a ROAD MOVIE

4 BREAK HOTEL
is a FICTION

Sunday, May 6, 2007

a first part of Break Hotel was published by OUEST in june 07
http://po8alouest.blogspot.com