Exhibition -

Two person show versus collaboration
Continual re-evaluation of practices, naming, identifying

CHRISTIAN KEATING & DAVID TONNER

18.03.10

8pm onwards (performance 9pm)

THE FORGOTTEN BAR /
GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL
BOPPSTRASSE 5
10967 BERLIN
MONDAY THRU SUNDAY 8 PM TO 1 AM

christiankeatinganddavidtonner

David Tonner

Guitarist with the name David Tonner

Five Easy Pieces - Yvonne Rainer

A video of a dance work that only involves the hand. The specificity of the hand gestures that means something taken a step further. - in our case; what we recognize as a gesture of language with a symbolic meaning is abstracted. Alot of what we're talking about is the abstraction of presumed absolutes. ie single identity

in japanese martial arts they have the procedure of the kata.
These are simulations of a certain situations between master and student.
It is a kind of theater where you follow exact rules (how many steps to move, when and how you step forward and the othewr steps back)

trying to do the same thing (scheme) but looks slightly different

the amber room
you know that, and the story behind?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Room

translation

translation in the whides sense could be a major topic for us.

i try to translate you and back

similar to the translation program of google.

we can use all kinds of language, text, signs, sheme, drawing.....

signs

A Symbol of Power

Why is the use of the hand considered to be so significant as a means of concealed communications by occultists? The Herder Dictionary of Symbols states that the hand is "a symbol of activity and power." It notes that finding oneself "in the hands of a ruler or God means being in that person's power, but also standing under that person's protection."8 The dictionary goes on to say that the "shaking or offering of the hand is a sign of friendly openers, devotion or forgiveness." But a closed hand signifies secrets or keeping silent. Other uses of hand signs are to indicate fear, threats, devotion, admiration, and argument.

The Herder Dictionary explains, too, that, "In antiquity, covered or veiled hands were generally customary when one approached high dignitaries." Hands with palms resting on one's knees express deep concentration and reflection.9

The hand can also be used as a threat to any would-be traitors or betrayer of the Illuminist cause. In the authoritative Richardson's Monitor of Freemasonry we find an example of this in the second sign of the Super Excellent Master Mason. The sign consists of raising the right hand, making the two first fingers like a fork, and simulating the gouging out of the eyes of a "traitor."


http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/codex_magica/codex_magica03.htm

secret signs an codex, i think is really interesting

secret handsigns and cryptic messages for our communication

----> creating our own language

i really still like the idea with the lamps

also this whole my turn-your turn thing e.g. with the chess clock

what about creating a certain environment instead of doing a work on a plate
--->build your house of changing identity

all the material we need, we store in another room so that the scene is empty in the beginning

links to look at:

http://gaybombnazicastle.blogspot.com/

http://www.sacred-texts.com

http://quazen.com/arts/photography/adolfo-farsari-the-man-who-shot-old-japan/

look at this guy with the plate on the chess board. He looks great being so involved in his own world. We look at him from the outside....

maybe instead of theatre its more about rituals or ceremony like a shaman or the chess player or a scheme...

About the photo: Ainu Bear-Festival. The matting wall is hung with various implements and fetishes used at the festival. The men are eating the flesh of the slain bear. They are supposed to be the guests of the bear. See also an episode from the Kalevala for a curious episode with a bear who gets invited to a feast....Perhaps the book titled 'To Serve Bear' should have been a giveaway.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/sha/index.htm#aboutphoto

A Hobson's choice is a free choice in which only one option is offered. As a person may refuse to take that option the choice is therefore between taking the option or not; "take it or leave it". The phrase is said to originate from Thomas Hobson (1544–1631), a livery stable owner at Cambridge, England. To rotate the use of his horses he offered customers the choice of either taking the horse in the stall nearest the door or taking none at all.
Cambridge Guildhall has a donated portrait of Thomas Hobson. A plaque underneath the painting describes in a little detail how his livery came to be and the origin of the phrase. To add to the above, he had an extensive stable of some 40 horses and therefore there appeared to be a wide choice when in fact there was simply the choice described above.

Buridan's ass is an illustration of a paradox in philosophy in the conception of free will.

It refers to a hypothetical situation wherein an ass, placed precisely midway between a stack of hay and a pail of water, will die of both hunger and thirst since it cannot make any rational decision to choose one over the other.[1] The paradox is named after the 14th century French philosopher Jean Buridan, whose philosophy of moral determinism it satirises.

i'm in..

Hi Christian,

I thought we might be able top make a blog and post ideas and images and things on here that will be development for the piece what do you think?