Oh oui, c'est promis ! Pas de rédactionnel promotionnel.
Oui c'est promis, pas de circonstances atténuantes ! si souvent exténuantes.
Encore fallait-il encore y adjoindre quelques autres, et non des moindres, raisons de justifier pareil déplacements. Ce fut fait grâce à la bienveillante influence de Hannah Wilke, Wangechi Mutu, Henri Matisse, Linder, Margaret Mellis, Raoul Hausmann, Kurt Schwitters, Eileen Gray, Ella Bergmann, Max Ernst, Jean (Hans )Arp, Hannah Hoch, Eduardo Paolozzi, David Hockney, Natalia Goncharova, John Stezaker, Lee Krasner, Nancy Spero ou Robert Rauschenberg, on ne peut, assez logiquement pas rêver mieux, y compris pour les voyageurs immobiles.
Vous l'avez aisément compris, absent origin est une invitation à ouvrir un immense cahier, un possible nouveau cap pour celles et ceux qui, nourris du constat historique et contextuel de l'émergence du DaDa d'antan, feront le choix fondateur de s'y engouffrer, afin de pourfendre une époque devenue, elle aussi, tout autant irrespirable - Mira Calix ne voyage pas seule.
thierry massard / 6 novembre 2021 - 12:01
Oh yes, I promise! No promotional writing.
Yes, I promise, no extenuating circumstances! so often exhausting.
When "absent origin" appears in the landscape, we are logically surprised. It's been a long time since Mira Calix had any desire to give new news, but don't they say "out of sight, out of ... ears". If, without too much curiosity, we know that she preferred the art of travelling, to the few others still available, she did not fail to collect a number of fragments, heterogeneous elements, which one wishes, one day or another, to put to good use, provided with (white) glue. Faithful companion of wandering, because she did not wander alone, DaDa was also invited to the peregrinations, he became her tumultuous (as we know) mentor, GPS presiding over the destinations of this absent origin.
But it was still necessary to add some other reasons, and not the least, to justify such displacements. This was done thanks to the benevolent influence of Hannah Wilke, Wangechi Mutu, Henri Matisse, Linder, Margaret Mellis, Raoul Hausmann, Kurt Schwitters, Eileen Gray, Ella Bergmann, Max Ernst, Jean (Hans) Arp, Hannah Hoch, Eduardo Paolozzi, David Hockney, Natalia Goncharova, John Stezaker, Lee Krasner, Nancy Spero or Robert Rauschenberg, we cannot, quite logically, dream of anything better, including for immobile travellers.
As you have easily understood, absent origin is an invitation to open an immense notebook, a possible new course for those who, nourished by the historical and contextual observation of the DaDa emergence of yesteryear, will make the founding choice to rush into it, in order to attack a time that has also become equally unbreathable - Mira Calix does no longer travel alone.