body – Tafel

short #19 – basic mechanics

admin — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 14:43:14 +0000

project by Maud Gyssels, Isabelle Weber, Cristina Emmel

Basic Mechanics is a hold-loose collection of words as findlings and carriers, that hold or lose meaning.
Consequently, a description of this work will never simply come out of one’s mouth. The narrative will seem tied together with loose threads.

As Ursula K. Le Guin writes in The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, we know the story of the hero with the spear and the violence and the teleological progression. But isn’t the story that can be told by all, one of carrying and being carried? Isn’t language a wrapping for all those contradictory and wondrous thoughts and feelings? And can they be captured on paper, for a while, and set free again to counterbalance the killer story?

Confessing secrets and desires to each other became a method of sharing. Accompanied by giggles, we somatically connected the stories we carry, which we (dare to) place with another, which move from the inside out.
This publication spills, soaks, opens and closes to confessions, poems and drawings in looping motifs. A shell swimming in a sea of words.

i’m a vessel
that pours plain words into myths
by snakes invited for a dance
of knots

i’m the ancient man
wrestling at the shore
to hide his womb
to eat his child

tonight a pearl will bloom
in my mouth
and it will be holding me
(i’d give it to you)

feasting on the mess i knitted myself
moon after sun
star after star
the shells on my skin are
antique letters
“to (hold) loose is not a waste of time”

edition of 100 / for sale at sliding price 7-12 EUR / contact via mail
thanks to Spare Wheel Brussels for the publication launch

short 13# – song piece

admin — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 13:28:29 +0000

short #12 – after laughter

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photos (c) Jean Didier Gazeau

Evil Flowers

admin — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 14:04:28 +0000

oeh!, 2019, Camille Ghekiere (und~~er thy skin~~ collection)

(This is a short conversation between several people, held over a period of time.)

“I love your ambiguousness. I normally love things black or white, but here, I love your ambiguousness. It makes you interesting. Makes me want to glance at you, while capturing my own smile of embarrassment.”

“Please tell me what you want and where you want it. It’s just a flower, you know.”

“But we have never done that before.”

“Yes. Just tell me the truth, what are you afraid of?”

“I really don’t know, I find it disgusting.”

“It’s just me.”

“Yes, too much of you.”

“I will do it softly, in disguise, with some petals to cover up the harm.”

“Please don’t. I beg you. What will people say?”

“Probably nothing at all. That’s why I need to put it out there, to evoke the silence on their lips and caress their loss of weights, thrown in the water like a blooming rock.”

It’s all gonna be normal one day and then there will be other stuff.

Still from Anatomie de l’enfer, 2004, Catherine Breillat

pas mal, 2019, Camille Ghekiere (und~~er thy skin~~ collection)

cela dépend, 2019, Camille Ghekiere (und~~er thy skin~~ collection)

find my flower, 2019, Camille Ghekiere (und~~er thy skin~~ collection)

short #9 – cave

admin — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 08:46:03 +0000

going inwards
inwards the body
the body is empty
empty inside
inside the mountain
the mountain has gone
gone in the cave
the cave within
within the sound
the sound is echoing
echoing waves
waves towards
towards a meeting
a meeting of matter
matter is there
there is lost now
now lost a feeling
feeling whole
whole lotta matter
matter is moving
moving fast
fast moving slow
slowly knowing
knowing is to listen
to listen stop speaking
stop speaking to know
knowing all all all all

photo (c) Dániel Mátyás Fülöp