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Psichodarbininkai Sapokoje
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Visada netikėta kokioje nors šalyje atrasti miestelį, kurio pavadinimas primena artimo bičiulio pavardę. Panašiai atsitiko ir su Sapokos miesteliu, kurio pavadinimas mielai priminė Kęstučio Šapokos pavardę. Miestelį žemėlapyje netikėtai pastebėjo psichoproletariniai piligrimai, kuomet žymėjosi kelionės per Rumuniją maršrutą. Miestelis kaip miestelis – nieko ypatinga, bet pagrindinis objektas, kurį žino kiekvienas rumunas, - tai didžiausia visoje šalyje psichiatrinė ligoninė. Ji buvo įsteigta 1960 m. pastatuose, kuriuose iki tol buvo amatų mokykla. Įvertinus, kad regionas aplink Sapoka miestelį – t. y. Buzau apskritis bei su ja besiribojanti pietų Transilvanija – bene labiausiai proletarinis savo socialine sudėtimi. Labai didelis procentas gyventojų vyrų – kalnakasiai. Būtent šios socialinės grupės atstovai buvo pastebimiausi savo saviorganizaciniais gebėjimais ir streikais per visą XX a., o ypatingai vadinamuoju pokariniu valstybinio totalitarinio komunizmo laikais: kalnakasiai iš Džiu slėnio bei Brasovo darbininkai organizavo didžiausius streikus po 1970 metų. Nenuostabu, kad būtent šio regiono darbininkai buvo labiausiai kriminalizuojami, o ir minėtos psichiatrinės ligoninės kontingentas buvo ir tebėra išskirtinai proletarinis. Simptomiška, kad amatų mokykla, kurios patalpose buvo įkurta ligoninė, nebuvo pakankama priemonė atitraukti darbininkų klasės jaunimą nuo pasipriešinimo kovų. Taigi, psichiatrinė ligoninė neabejotinai skirta darbo klasės socialiniam sluoksniui, ir šis faktas leidžia abejoti vis dar eskaluojamu Rytų Europos stereotipu, kad psichiatrinės ligoninės šiose šalyse buvo įrankiu, nukreiptu prieš intelektualų rezistenciją, kurią savo ruožtu rėmė vakarų antikomunistinis ir lygiai taip pat antiproletarinis liberalizmas. Sapokos ligoninės faktas rodo, kad tokio tipo ligoninės iš tiesų buvo nukreiptos prieš darbininkų saviorganizaciją.
Bet kuo čia dėtas šiandienos Lietuvos meno pasaulio transsisteminis kritikas Kęstutis Šapoka? Ogi tiesiog dėl virtinės atsitiktinių sutapimų. Pradėsime nuo K. Šapokos disertacijos, paskirtos psichiatrijos specialistų pacientų taip vadinamai meninei veiklai tirti ir analizuoti. 1 PC (pasen. 2008 m.) balandžio 11 d. jis apgynė Lietuvos Respublikos menotyros mokslų daktaro disertaciją „Dailės terapija kaip integrali sistema: kontekstuali analizė“. Svarbu ir tai, kad K. Šapoka save priskiria psichodarbininkų judėjimui ir tik po ilgų dvejojimų jis apsisprendė visgi nevykti į 12 proletarinio kalendoriaus metų (pasen. 2019 m.) rugpjūčio mėnesį vykusią psichopiligriminę kelionę, kurios planavimo metu ir buvo atrasti šiame straipsnyje aptariami fatališki atsitiktinumai. Netikėtumai nesibaigė ir psichodarbininkams atvykus į Sapoką – psichiatrinės ligoninės uždarajame kieme stovėjo brutalistinės (art brut) stilistikos artefaktas – biustas, kurio veido bruožai švelniai priminė Kęstučio fizionomiją. Tūlas letristas čia pasakytų, kad pagal pirmąjį ir vienintelį pareidolijos dėsnį kiekvienas laisvas atpažinti savo svajonėse užgimusią raidę. Solidarizuodamiesi su kolega psichodarbininkai iš ABRACADABRA (Alytus Biennial Reversion into Abolition of Culture And Distribution of its Aberrant Bacillus Right Abroad – Committee), FIASCO (Federation Internationale Autonome des Situationnistes Contemporaine), NXTPA (Naye iXperamants in Tryolektix aun Psikhish Arbet) ir SOF (Siblings Of Fazlallah) padalinių bei Dvigubų agentų internacionalas DAI bendromis pastangomis šiek tiek pakoregavo Sapokos pavadinimą psichiatrinės ligoninės iškaboje – sukonstravo raidę Š vietoj buvusios S.
Iš tiesų piligrimai planavo surengti psichodelinį pasaulio trišalio futbolo čempionatą Sapokoje, bet kelionės pradžia pasižymėjo daugiau stichiškais veiksmais, ir dalyviams pritrūko tiek psich(olog)inio pasirengimo, tiek klasinės savimonės, tiek saviorganizacijos. Pati psichiatrinės ligoninės administracija buvo nepasiekiama, nors jautėsi, kad jie stebi, kas vyksta. Miestelis irgi buvo tarsi iššluotas – tik du prekiautojai stovėjo prie didelio arbūzų kalno. Nė karto kamuolio taip ir nepaspyrę piligrimai visgi užkalbino bent jau prekiautojus, prabarbeno kelis tuzinus arbūzų, kelis nusipirko, ir tai buvo proga bent šiuos paridenti Sapokos šalikelėje. Galbūt dėl šių priežasčių planuota psichodelinio trišališkumo situacija susikonstravo pati: lygiai po savaitės, sekmadienio ryte, rugpjūčio 18 dieną, mosuodamas lašelinės infuzijos stovu 38 metų amžiaus pacientas minėtoje Sapokos psichiatrinėje ligoninėje užpuolė kitus pacientus. Nenuostabu, kad jis tai darė identiškai, kaip psichodarbininkai ankstesnėse Alytaus psichostreiko bienalės renginiuose panašius įrankius naudodavo gyvybinės energijos siurbimui iš debesų pagal Wilhelmo Reicho orgono patrankos pritaikymo principus. Deja, šis atvejis baigėsi liūdnai: penki užmušti, ir dar aštuoni sužeisti žmonės. Visi jie – pacientai. Rumunijos sveikatos ministrė iškart po incidento viešai pareiškė, kad tai atsitiko dėl „virtinės atsitiktinai supuolusių žmogiškojo faktoriaus klaidų“, ir kad to buvo galima išvengti. Ji įvardino, kad infuzijos stovas neturėjo būti paliktas palatoje, ir kad ligoninės personalas lemtingąją naktį sulaukė dar vieno paciento „alkoholiko“, kurį dėl sunkiai paaiškinamų priežasčių paguldė į tą pačią lovą su būsimuoju užpuoliku... nors ligoninėje dar buvo ir laisvų lovų... Ir dar viena detalė – užpuolikui iš vakaro turėjo būti skirti raminamieji vaistai, apie kuriuos nebuvo įrašyta išduotų vaistų kortelėje, nors seselė teigė, kad pacientas juos gavo.
KÜTAHYA & OTTOMANISM: August 18th, 12PC
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While wandering through downtown of Kütahya, which is grimy and old-fashioned, but at the same time reveals current Erdogan’s “Ottomania” trend, which the largest impact obtained since 2007 – the date of the End of the Age of Divinity. ABRACADBRA-C collected some colour pics from the buildings which in a final set looks like this:
This was a largest amount and widest scale of urban colours in one territory during the whole DAMTP peregrination.
Multiple degrees of Ottomanism, alongside multiple versions of Fatih, persist in the JDP’s contemporary rhetoric. There is a more radical version, with Fatih implicitly cursing Ataturk and 1453 replacing 1923 as the symbolic foundation date of the Turkish state. But there is also a more mainstream narrative in which Fatih and Ataturk remain enshrined together alongside the dates of their triumphs. After 2007 in the government’s enthusiasm for Ottoman history, classic components of Ataturk’s nationalist historiography have been increasingly “Ottomanized.” Just as Kemalists celebrated elements of Ottoman history by simply calling them Turkish, the JDP has stylistically and rhetorically incorporated references to the Seljuks, and even the Central Asian Turks, into their Ottoman- centered history. Thus Erdogan’s Ottoman- revival architecture has drawn heavily on pre-Ottoman Seljuk elements. Colour included.
Fatih, Istanbul. August 18, 12PC
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Heartly felicitations from Felicity Party’s accidental catch-ups while unaware of it in Fatih!
20th century was a century of capitalism of spectacle. In the 21st it turned itself into animation. Somebody still have difficulties to discern between animism and animation – it differs not less than canal and canalization, living and non-living. Especially in photos both cases look indiscernible.
Once absorbed into the “chronopolitics” of the secular West, colonized space cannot reclaim autonomy and seclusion; once dragged out of their precolonial space, the indigenes of the peripheries have to deal with knowledge of the outside world, irrespective of their own wishes and inclinations. That’s what peregrines are for.ISTANBUL TAXIM SQUARE 3SF [ANIMIST] WORLD CUP: AUGUST 17TH, 12PC
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Istanbul (Constantinople) is an intersection point of many approaches, ideologies, paths, religions – all space, time and class divisions and/or multiplications.
If to compare Maciunas made route for FLUXUS pilgrimage “to the Holly Land and Europe” in 70’s, the only intersection point with nowadays DAMTP peregrination route is exactly Istanbul.
The game played in Taksim square in September, 2013 is an exceptional because of being included into s. c. “historical developments” of 3SF in references from the side of DAMTP’s and from the side of “reactionaries” too.
Today Taksim square is divided by half and one side is filled with police cars and officials. Another part of the square – at least how DAMTP’s found it on August 17th, 12PC night – is out of people. But peregrines met 3 dogs, which kindly agreed to join in 3SF [Animist] World Cup. The dogs were accepted each to a different team, but eventually they formed temporary independent animist-nationalist faction and played their own football instead. One moment a light-brownish dog when running with ball stuck in his teeth suddenly stopped, put the ball down, straightened his head up and screamed: “this is a revolution! Animist revolution!” And there came off the ball another one pentagon patch depicting Welsh again.
EDIRNE VERY SLOW TAI CHI 3SF WORLD CUP: AUGUST 16TH, 12PC
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There was a DAMTP dispute in Raiziai due to the limits of respect towards the ones who believe – that echoed in peregrines’ decision not to play 3SF in front of Üç Şerefeli Mosque in Edirne, were “Certain accursed ones of no significance“ (i.e. hurufis) were burnt to death sometime from 1369 to 1453 when Edirne was capital of the Ottoman Empire.
That was Very Slow Tai Chi 3SF World Cup – as slow as clouds are moving in the sky in a windless day. The event welcomed a psychic presence of LPA and Robert Lee.
ARKUTINO 3SF WORLD CUP IN NEVER FOUNDED SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN: AUGUST 29TH, 12PC
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It was intended to have this tournament for a Full Moon on August 15th. But psychic workers peregrines got to Bulgaria too late so there was no chance to attend Arkutino for the time appointed and then the decision was made to postpone the game in Arkutino for August 29th – on the way back from Alinja to Bucharest.
On August 29th DAMTP’s parked their cars at hotel “Arkutino Family Resort” and took the path on the left (when facing the sea). They passed a small house, turned left, climbed some concrete stairs, went through some gate and got to the concrete constructions of unfinished building where supposed to be a school of arts for gifted children. In the 1970s that was the mostly ambitious initiative by Lyudmila Todorova Zhivkova, daughter of Bulgaria’s socialist leader. She was obsessed with founding the art education center in Arkutino, which would house gifted children from countries around the world. After unexpected death of Lyudmila’s in 1981 her father, Prime Minister Todor Zhivkov, set out to honour her wish. He began construction of the massive complex in 1985, but in 1989 as Soviet Block crumbled the project was halted. It’s symptomatic that exactly the same years and similar circumstances accompany appearing of Alytus Art School (Lithuania), which was founded by local communist party leader (to have place for art education for his daughters). The Art School for Alytus was designed in 1980 and the beginning of the construction took on 1985. It was finished in 1986 – before the 1989 – and so avoided the same fate as Arkutino’s.
Art education in the Soviet Block countries was part of the ideology and was equally accessible to all classes of the society. It’s important to note that there was not only “socialist realism” what dominated those schools, but were fully tolerated also modernism and nationalist tendencies. The first blast onto socialization of the arts appeared in early 90’s – the most of the art schools were left for a gradual extinction with exception of the elitist ones – those were redesigned for the higher class off-springs.
Art in the soviet times was understood very much as labour, but artists themselves hold attitudes of very much counter-working-class – as they called themselves being “intelligentsia”. In Lithuania the pro-bourgeoisie nationalist movements in the late 80’s appeared mostly in the art schools. The biggest shift happens in arts in 90’s – art ceased to be a labour, and artists started to obtain entrepreneurship shape. What happen to those schools then? There is a joke which well illustrates the answer: the art schools were founded by communist functionaries; it became a shelter for conservative artists and their students got fully prepared to fit liberalism. What is still living in those schools – that the meaning there is still created by physical destruction of the resources instead of just consuming fashionable terms and concepts.
DAMTP’s finally arranged the 3SF World Cup of unrealized possibilities by kicking ball into building construction’s to-be-windows holes. The world cup ended without any goal conceded. The formulation of the goal was too high to be achieved. After the game everybody jumped into the Black Sea lagoon to swim.
TRANSMITTIVE 3SF WORLD CUP IN KALIAKRA: AUGUST 15TH
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The Kaliakra transmitter build in 1988 – was intended to act as a relay transmitter for Southeast Europe, but construction stopped a year later after the collapse of communism. At that time, nine of the ten planned masts had been completed. For a long time they stood unused but just before arriving DAMTP’s it got demolished. And so the whole sea of 3sf pitches floating in the air got erased from physical and psychic access. But it is still the place to launch the (c)overt energy weapon harassment of the aposTATEs. DAMTP peregrines spend some time to find the concrete places and basements the pillars were mounted on. The concrete arrangements for the fixing of the strains were still present and marked perfect circles around each pillar’s basement. Those were the perfect pitches for the 3SF World Cup.
While wondering around in the field where radio transmitting station was located 9 workers succeed to find 9 electrical ceramic rods. When the game was played each the player was holding a rod in her/his hand. Every goal was met with the contacting the rods and the game ended with the psychic energy shortcut when all the rods of all players got connected.
Almost at the same time in London some 3SF reactionaries got tempted to accept invitation from Tate Modern to exhibit (i.e. bourgeoisify) the great tool for construction of the revolutionary situation. And they did when the ones able to protest this mockery will be on peregrination. Psychic attack of 3SF Kaliakra transmission was directed towards Tate’s colonialist approach and corruption of 3SF descendants. The miserable fetishes collected by those clowns for the exhibition at Tate’s were eventually stolen by suddenly enlightened kids. In London nobody knew were the enlightenment came from.
There in Kaliakra came off the ball a pentagon patch for Welsh.
One of the transmission rods was used later on the same day - few copies of DAMTP paper issue No.19 were wrapped on and thrown into the location which coordinates are 43°15’26.6”N and 27°54’36.2”E. Just because it contained some matters which could bring into additional danger to peregrines when entering Turkey.
Full Moon and Black Sea. August 15th, 12PC
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VENUS BIENNIAL CONVENTIONAL 3SF WORLD CUP AT SATURN POLE: AUGUST 14TH, 12PC
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Sculptor and gallerist Howard McCalebb some years ago had an idea to join forces of fellow artists and to buy property located on a border of Saturn and Venus towns is adjacent to the freshwater Lake Razelm and a public park – and is a 4-minute walk to the Black Sea Coast, which is one of the best large natural beaches on the Romanian seaside. His dream was to have a Razelm Contemporary Art Center and Venus Biennial in former Razelm Convention Center, abandoned since Ceaușescu times broke. This was a utopian idea of paradise for artists willing to have an alternative to Venice biennial of corrupted psychic activities. And it doesn’t fulfil because majority of artists are not the ones to invest into dreams.
But psychic workers in contrast to bourgeois artists sometimes do invest into failed dreams. DAMTP peregrines attended the site, wandered inside the building, their eyes followed the climbing grass route through the ceiling and held a conventional 3SF World Cup as it was announced in advance. Every player got much of dust and sand into the lungs, mouth, and (h)ear.
INFINITE FOOTBALL WORLD CUP IN VASLUI: AUGUST 14TH, 12PC
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Before arriving to Vaslui some DAMTPs had a wish to meet Laurențiu Ginghină, who got some fame from a recent movie, telling a story how non-aggressive form of off-football was invented. Inventor himself called it Infinite Football. So far none from DAMTP‘s succeed to contact the inventor nor [probably] even tried. So the arriving into Vaslui was not accompanied with any pre-planned actions: the promise of the concept of Infinite Football already gave some expectations that there is enough to kick a ball and things will develop themselves. DAMTPs arrived into town in the morning of the working day, enjoyed everydayness of the traffic jam, hardly but eventually got parked the cars and walked all the road along the town watching for any situation to kick a ball into. There they found a stadium and down leading stairs to its entrance. This was a pitch with slight allusion to Odessa steps from Eisenstein’s movie. DAMTP’s did a game, Ginghină did not appeared, so psychic workers choose more revolutionary movie instead. And it revealed that Eisenstein’s notorious principles for film editing and montage in fact are based on triolectics and lettrism.
Marxist Eisenstein saw montage as a process which operated in the same way as a Marxist dialectic - which is a way of looking at the course of history as the perpetual conflict in which a thesis or force collides with an anti-thesis or counterforce to create a new phenomenon called a synthesis.
DAMTP triolectic provides 3 conflict situations instead of one in hegelist-marxist binarist thinking and ensures one conflict perpetually present.
Eisenstein saw the collision of a one shot or montage cell with another as creating conflict that produced a new idea. This new idea would become it’s own thesis and collide with another anti-thesis (or not necessary) creating yet another synthesis, which is not a synthesis anymore but a new idea. Again and again these dialectics build up in a film like a series of controlled explosions in an internal combustion engine, driving the film forward. In a very similar way it happens with the DAMTP self-organization – it was a triolectical game to reveal that its engine works.
On the subject of editing Eisenstein lists methods of montage or how these collisions between shots can be created each one building up in complexity. “Still is not a letter, but a hieroglyph rather” - Eisenstein used to say, and that is very close to the lettrist concept.
Space montage based on approximately equal possibilities to each team to concede a goal by summing up all (dis)advantages: for Vaslui there were staircase steps, handrail structures.
Time montage or Rhythmic – rotation principle, ball bumping down the stairs.
Class (Eisenstein called it dialectical) montage - creates relationships and self-organization between opposing visually-intellectual concepts. Eisenstein succeed to supersede the bourgeois style of continuity of “understandable” space and time as promoted by Griffith, but have reduced it to mere ideology (abstraction) and manipulation (symbolism). Class is neither abstraction nor symbolism.
Cycads at Don Tomaso. AUGUST 13, 12PC
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BOTOȘANI: AUGUST 13TH, 12PC
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It was the place, where Isidore Isou (born Goldstein) was born in on 29 January 1925 and there he had the series of revelations that would become lettrism.
Le 19 mars 1942, un Roumain de 17 ans, Isidore Isou, a une révélation en lisant la phrase de Hermann von Keyserling, "le poète dilate les vocables", qu'il a comprise de travers, vocable en roumain voulant dire "voyelle". Isou lit: "le poète dilate les voyelles", il s'en enchante et crée le lettrisme.
The lettrism was born out of mistake and that mistake was made in Botoșani. Latter with the help of Italian modernist poet and then fascist Giuseppe Ungaretti’s connections lettrism was incorporated into French colonialist culture and degenerated into avant-garde art. Therefore, Botoșani is the starting position for psychic workers’ peregrination in search for lettrist revelations not yet spoiled with avant-garde or art package. And so backwards to the last dream of Fazlallah Astarabadi before his execution in Alinja in 1394.
August 13, 12PC (vulg. 2019) approximately at 10AM part of the DAMTP peregrines decided to investigate the historically Jewish part of the town: first slammed the locked door of Jewish community centre, then inquired about Isidore Isou at the local tourist information centre, where nobody hear about him at all, and then strayed to the historical centre of Botoșani, where occasionally they found hundreds of bits of finely chopped cards. Being activists of post-surrealist urban poker workers from SOF and FIASCO carefully collected all the bits into plastic bags. Some bits, which hardly could be used for urban poker game, later were splashed and sticked onto the Botoșani-Alinja peregrination rout marking map so creating unexplainable marks for future investigations. That was the moment when the peregrination started – the first revelation happens.
At noon DAMTP peregrines (Double Agents International (DAI), NoMA, FIASCO, SOF and ABRACADABRA-C) joined together for lettrist yoga exercises in the main Botoșani city square so preparing for the meeting Dead Jewish Workers at 3SF world cup in Old Jewish Cemetery in Botoșani at 25 Independentei St. DAMTP’s did not succeed to enter the cemetery just because it was fenced to prevent public entrance and gawping. There was a need of efforts to view the location through the holes in the fence or by climbing to have an eye above the top of the fence: there were left very few gravestones in a grass overgrown territory which seemed was not stepped by human foot for many years.
Footballsound Event Against Serious Culture in Sf. George Contemporary Art Gallery. August 12, 12PC
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SFÂNTU GHEORGHE 3SF STAND-IN, SIT-IN AND LAY-IN STRIKE WORLD CUP: AUGUST 12TH, 12PC
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The event was not scheduled in advance and arranged in situ with the task to reproletarize local art gallerists, which were friends to one of DAMTPs who is still concerning himself to be a double agent due to class consciousness. The pitch, framed by the evenly planted trees and so being perfect for 3SF, was found in the park near-by the central city square.
All players agreed on continuous improvement of the rules during the game. First was played a routine game so everybody got into the basics of 3SF, and then the World Cup started to take shape in: first third of the game was agreed to be played without running (i.e. walking, i.e. one leg of the player should be in touch with the ground). Penalty for running was to stay frozen in one place for upcoming few minutes (nobody took care of the penalty duration). Second third was played by players standing in a chosen place in a pitch. The penalty for any relocation of the body in the pitch was to continue the game in a sitting position. In the moment when ball leaves the pitch there were two options: either to ask for spectators or passers-by to pass a ball, or to go for the ball her/him-self so getting penalty to sit-in for the rest of the time. The result was that passers-by and spectators got much more active than the players. The third part of the game was played by all players sitting inside the pitch. The penalty for standing up or relocation of the body into another place was to lay-in. The highlight of the game was founding out that throwing a shoe to hit a ball could be a substitute for kicking. Game ended when all players were laying down, shoes were thrown around and passers-by walking around, kicking a ball.
The scheduled Animist World Cup by the lake Sfânta Ana was cancelled because DAMTPs got too late to the place. And so far grizzlies team came in time they didn’t wait for humanoids - they left location by winning event before DAMTPs to appear, and technical defeat for all humanoid 3SF teams was credited 0 by 0 by 20. It means that the next 3SF World Cup to happen not in London, but in a deep Transylvanian forest with attendance only those humanoid teams to be controlled by wild animals. The message to DAMTPs was delivered by the visiting tourists who succeed to record grizzlies team announcement. Instead peregrines did a swimming in the lake as striking biennial practice as introduced by Stewart Home already during Art Strike Biennial in Alytus in 2PC (vulg. 2009). Especially that the swimming in the lake was forbidden.
CAVES IN BUZAU MOUNTAINS: AUGUST 11
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DAMTP’s knew the Early Christian times reminiscent caves could be found on the territory called Luana’s Land (Tara Luanei), situated near Alunis, Nucu and Colti villages. They did a trip to Buzau mountains on August 11th, which is notorious as Japanese Mountain Day. There was said that caves, cells and churches carved in stone in first centuries of Christianity were used as places of refuge and worship, but now it starts to obtain the shape of tourist site with the differentiated length of tracks and tickets selling. This activity now resembles improvised cash-in by pirate looking like guys, but it gonna be changed for more “continental” version very soon. And that fits well with the idea of Christianisation developed into a colonization.
One of the cells belonged to the monk Dionisie, who, the legend says, made the road to his dwelling as complicated as possible, because he liked to be alone. Peregrine DAMTP‘s succeed to find just one of all 30 cave settlements in those mountains. And it was exactly the one hardest to be found.
Peregrines did a prompt 3SF World Cup. FIASCO started to bounce a ball and did a sound event, signalling the 12th anniversary of the end of the Age of Divinity.
LOPĂTARI GUSTOCEPTIVE PSYCHIC STRIKE BIENNIAL: AUGUST 10-27, 12PC
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In 7PC (vulg. 2014) it was foretold that in five years the Lopătari (psychic strike) Biennale would take place, heralding the age of the Proletariat.
On August 10th DAMTP peregrines (following early [Karl] Marx to [Stewart] Home) started as car mechanics in Bucharest; later then they became proletarian psycho-signallers in Săpoca; afternoon they spend reconciling dead workers with global tectonic movements in Scortoasa (Berca); and late night ended as critical critics in Lopătari. Then there they got incredible countryside dinner and continued with the best Alytus Psychic Strike Biennial line to taste (not to drink as bourgeois artists used to do during the Age of Divinity) wine and/or stronger alcohols made from local grapes, and to eat [water] melons - all in industrial amounts. Many of not eaten and/or tasted items were taken to the cars as food supply. According to Fazlallah’s: fasting is not necessary during travelling, because a body in motion could not become host of letters, so emptying it is besides the point. Following lettrist position the last melon was eaten in Edirne on August 15th, but the last bottle of grape alcohol was irradiated while scanning the car by Turkish custom officials and because of that was left facing the Ararat/Agri mountain on the Azerbaijan-Turkish border on August 24th. The last drop of wine was tasted in ferryboat in a very centre of the Black Sea – this moment marked the end of the Lopătari (psychic strike) Biennale.
When leaving Lopătari DAMTP‘s stopped at seeming salty mountain, climbed it and tasted what looked like salt. And it was salt.
BERCA MUD VOLCANOES ANIMIST 3SF WORLD CUP: AUGUST 10th, 12PC
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Terrestrial mud volcanoes occur where high fluid pressure in the deep subsurface results in the triolectic interaction of mud, water and gas on the way to the surface. This process creates transformative morphology of the unique rich in methane and other hydrocarbons, and hosting a suite of electron acceptors including oxygen, nitrate, iron, manganese and sulfate. And all those are mostly the letters delivered by dead workers. And that was a different case from what was expected at least by ABRACADABRA-C to continue the clay therapy applications started in Alytus Psychic Strike Biennial in 8PC (vulg. 2015).
First of all, thousands of mud volcanoes exist worldwide, defining and affecting the habitat and the daily lives of the millions of people living amongst them. One can follow the rules’ set up letting to conceive one more accumulation of capital in a form of spectacle; or to break the rules and step into the mud so destroying the spectacle, or to invent new rules of the game right on the spot. Peregrines chose the pitch for 3SF quite far away from tourists’ path in a deep tripartite ditch, formed by hardened mud flows and scrubbed by water. Amorphous surface and irregularity of the shapes of the ditches made ball to jump in an unpredictable trajectory.
Secondly, mud volcanism and mud volcano distribution is intimately related to the formation and the distribution of the world’s petroleum assets, thus serving as an indicator for valuable natural resources, destruction of which creates industrial (or capitalist) forms of meaning so specific to the Age of Divinity: world trade routes, trade markets and sources of raw materials, as well as military-strategic points, with few exceptions, were in the hands of the peoples of the West.
Thirdly, mud volcanoes offer an insight into otherwise hidden deep structural and diagenetic processes such as the formation of gas hydrates, mineral dissolution and transformation, degradation of organic material, high pressure/temperature-reactions, and dead workers advises. That is a model of what Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev called energetic materialism as differed from Eurocentric forms of historical and dialectical materialisms.
Lastly, mud volcanism generally involves voluminous generation and emission of both methane and carbon dioxide whereby most mud volcanoes serve as an efficient, natural source of greenhouse-gases and consequently play an important role in global climate dynamics.
SĂPOCA: AUGUST 10-18, 12PC
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The first event of Alytus psychic strike biennial (peregrination issue) was appointed to happen in Săpoca as Psychic Workers‘ 3SF World Cup on August 10th, 12PC (vulg. 2019). But incidentally it got extended up to August 18th.
Psychiatric Hospital and Safety Measures Săpoca is a hospital in Buzău County. It was founded in 1960 on the site of a school of crafts. Spitalul Săpoca is the largest of its kind in the country. The area around Săpoca was and still is inhabited by working class people – miners among them. It’s worth to keep in mind that the location is not far away from famous Transylvanian area famous of proletarian self-organization. There were the miners of Jiu Valley and workers of Brasov who did the largest strikes since 70-ies. Also the most of criminals during the communist regime in Romania were the workers from the region. Seems that there was not enough to have crafts school as a tool for suppression of working class youth. Instead the psychiatric hospital was designed to host working class people – the fact breaks the famous Eastern European stereotype of intellectuals being held in psychiatric hospitals to break the resistance. In reality psychiatric hospital was a tool for communist regimes to break worker’s movements while internationally were escalated just single cases of intelligentsia.
They Think it’s All Over... It is Then!
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Six years ago, in sixth year of the Proletarian Calendar [2013 Vulg.], Strategic Optimism Football club was formed in London. It was created by former members of the nomadic invisible college, the University for Strategic Optimism as a vehicle for its own self-abolition. The UfSO had been a revolutionary tendency within the UK student movement, instrumental in various conflicts with the State and Capital around 3-6PC [2010-13 vulg.]. It is remembered for its part in the storming of the Tory party HQ, of Lewisham Town Hall, the Battle of Parliament Square, etc, as well as triggering a series of viral bank occupations that in turn lit the touch paper for the Indignados and Occupy Movements. However, as a result of this fame, UfSO grew tired of fending of speaking invitations from ‘radical’ art and political organisations, increasingly finding itself recuperated by cultural institutions, from the Museum of London to the fashion supplement of the NY Times – basically anywhere ‘radical chic’ could bump up the sales figures.
The UfSO had only its time. By 6PC [2013 vulg.] the movement of which it was one of the more advanced practical-theoretical elements had dissipated and disintegrated. Even just one year after its founding, the major part of the UfSO’s energy and resources had been diverted into the Occupy movement and the UK and global struggles of 3-4PC [2011 vulg.] more broadly. One can see that in hindsight, this loss of practical coherence manifested in the UfSO’s descent into abstract theorising, resulting in internal wrangling and splits within the group. Internal sexual tumult, along with drug and alcohol addictions played their part, like they do in all good stories, but it was ultimately a political decomposition that brought about an end to the UfSO’s more radical phase of operations. From 6PC [2012 vulg.] on, its direct actions more or less ceased, it became solely an abstract venue for thinking and writing – in short it became another off-shoot of academia. The UfSO’s radicality had always inhered in its praxis, in its practical critique of the university as an institution and the class relations that produce it. Without this praxis it was nothing. After a year or so of attempting to regroup, and thinking through the slow disintegration of the ‘2011 moment’, the remaining faculty of the UfSO decided that a continuing programme of practical critique had become impossible – it had never wished to become an avant-garde without a movement. For a short while the UfSO then turned to thinking through and attempting to put across the insights that it had gained into the nature of radical pedagogy. When it became clear it had said all it had to say on the matter, and that such a project could more effectively be pursued through other groups, the last remaining participants took the decision to dissolve the UfSO as an active
organisation.
In order to do so, it was necessary to put the ‘legacy’ of the UfSO beyond reach of the would-be cultural assassins and profiteers of the worlds of art and politics. For that, what was needed was their practical supersession, something that was to be found in the collective game of three-sided football. Three-sided football was chosen because, truly, it has no author, it is and always was collectively elaborated. It was chosen because it has always remained continually in a state of triolectical incoherence and experiment – as a really existing movement. Most importantly, it was chosen as it extended the practical critique of capitalist social relations that the UfSO had, at its peak, embodied
So it was that in 6PC [2013 vulg.], the UfSO announced its auto-dissolution, but simultaneously the formation of a new triolectical football team; Strategic Optimism Football (SOF) was born. Declaring that it was triolectically inverting Marcel Duchamp’s well-known gesture of “definitively abandoning” art in favour of chess. In their case, the UfSO gave up art and politics, in order to play 3SF: the realisation and suppression of football. However, SOF’s first game was played under the banner of an international day of action against a neo-imperialist corporate land grab in the Roșia Montană region of Transylvania, rather casting doubt on this possibility from day one. Incidentally, it is a little-known fact that it was from this very game that one of three-sided football’s infamous tactical dissimulations, the so-called “Rosia’s (Triple) Cross”, obtained its name.