The New Space

A shadow of the meeting

The Starting Point

Meta Moment

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Shadow stories

Friends: Debra Solomon / Nuno Sacramento

The infinite dualism

Today Roe called me saying that he was not feeling good and he asked me if I would not mind to do the Blue Meetings alone. My first reaction was: “I will be alone… without Roe there is no Blue Meeting!” In this thoughts there are two concepts that I should rethink: ‘being alone’ and ‘presence’.

I grabed my computer and cycled to the Kalvintore. Rituals are for me important and usually they are not just related with a specific time but also with a specific place. I could not write this lines at home. I arrive to my shopping mall and while I was going down in the escalator, I saw for the first time since we start the Blue Meetings our table empty. It was empty of the positive presence [1] of Roe but full of memories of our thoughts and discussions, divagations and jumps. Like a quantum field, it was filled with potentialities. I could call it a negative presence, like if I was looking to the empty contour of Roe’s figure.

I sat down and started writing these lines…

Suddenly, Paul arrived…

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Paul is gone and I felt that this time we didn’t tune at all. Our conversation was made out of misunderstandings, at least from my side. I could hardly understand his words and his discourse didn’t made any sense for me. I did an enormous effort to pay attention to Paul, but I didn't succeeded to understand him. What did happen? I remember the last time I found him very interesting. Why this time I was not connected with him at all?

I believe that there is two different settings that one can take when confronted with the unexpected. The Cartesian and the Radial predisposition. I try always to open myself to the sudden changes that the different realities propose to me. I try to make part of the situation and being a witness and not just an observer. However today the reality changed dramatically two times in a short period of time. First when Roe called me and when Paul arrived to this table. It costs energy to be open and to change your mind set so abruptly.

Now that I’m again alone, I realise how busy I was with my self and the chances that I missed…  
 

[1] In the sense of charge and without a qualitative meaning.

Multiple Reflections

Sharpness

Friend: Yane Calovski 

Uncomfortable difference

Reflections

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About love or the practice of hosting

Friends: Inga Zimprich / Paul Gargloff

Spoken people and Items: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky / Theorem (1968) by Pier Paolo Pasolini 

The thinker and the witness (or the small lie)

Through me the Blue Meetings received today an invitation from The Blue House to make part of the Stijdelijke Museum’s program during the coming month of February. My first reaction was positive, but I couldn’t decide alone without speaking with my friend Roe about this. It was urgent to make an extra Blue Meeting to discuss the implications of this invitation. So we did.
Regarding this problem, I believe that everything depends how the project is presented. But before that, we need to think how the invitation is formulated: who is inviting for what? And, to understand if these two agents are coherent with the work, we need also to be conscious about the project itself. Just then we can give a negative, a positive or an open respond to the invitation.
Blue Meetings are a conversation between Roe and me. It exists because two persons come together in a specific moment of time with the predisposition to have an exchange of ideas. We are both Blue House members and this project could just exist in such conceptual context. Personally I experience The Blue House as an art project that aims to put in question the established format of art institutions (and the institution in general), bringing a new notion based on porosity and organic growth. This is why it is possible to do there such a project, where the only link is the pure conceptual idea of an abstract “mind home”.
I believe that art comes from necessity. For me this project appears from an urgent need of discussion as a repeated practice in The Blue House. I believe that for Roe it emerges from a wish of developing his thoughts out of this abstract space that is The Blue House.
These meetings do not exist without the presence or the conscientious absence (that is also presence) of one of their beginners. And the minimal connection with The Blue House gives a context to it. It is a subtle project where a tiny modification makes a big difference. Parallel to this, we invite other friends that we think pertinent to join our discussions. This pertinence can arise from a rational and/or emotional reason.

We did not accept the invitation.

Jumping

Friends: Inga Zimprich / Sönke Hallmann / Paul Gargloff / Jackie Bacon

Spoken people and Items: Franz Kafka Diaries – 30 December 1911 / Aesthetical Time, Yasser Ballemans

Wim Cuyvers / Das Experiment, Oliver Hirschbiegel / City of God, Fernando Meirelles

About Home

Friends: Inga Zimprich / Essam Zaki

Spoken items: Good Intentions - Judging the Art of Encounter - Erik Hagoort / The Cats of Mirikitani - Linda Hattendorf