REVISED 11/7/2014 ELEVEN VISUAL POEMS GK/AGENCE 'X' ANNO DOMINI 2013 EDITIONS 'X' AGENCE 'X' 2013 Number _____ of _____ copies Image (above) – Kasimir Malevich, Black Cross (rotated), 1923. iii CONTENTS PRÉCIS The 11 experimental, pseudo-avantgarde visual poems (wordless, other than title and date) are an indirect homage to the late-great filmmaker and photographer, Chris Marker (1921-2012), foremost to his penchant for utilizing disintegrating imagery in his film-essays and multimedia installations. All images were captured using a Research in Motion, BlackBerry 8520 cellphone, and subsequently 100-percent de-saturated, and 100-percent contrast-adjusted, using Microsoft Office Picture Manager. The images, as a result, resemble the primitive production values given to the pinhole camera, and the "dogmatic" (uniform) adjustments (as above), applied to the original BB images, reference the early strictures applied to filmmaking by Lars von Trier. The above-mentioned, black-and-white adjustments notwithstanding, all images are used "as captured," without cropping. The series begins and ends in Botwnnog, Northwest Wales, in May and August of 2013, respectively, with interregnums and brief idylls in Rijeka, Croatia, Trieste and Ancona, Italy, and Igoumenitsa, Ioannina, and Athens, Greece. Tracking the peregrinations of the author of the poems across Europe, and intimately associated with the then-nascent research and exhibition project, "Not-I/Thou: The Other Subject of Art & Architecture,"* the poems are also a compressed form of scholarship, albeit operating in the shadow-lands of knowledge per se, and evoking the non-discursive side of literary-artistic production, a penumbral zone within cultural production that nonetheless references the discursive arts (essay and/or full-blown treatise), but favors the paradox and/or tautology – privileging, then, the much-desired destruction of dialectics. 1/ Archipelago (Llŷn Peninsula, Northwest Wales) 2/ Hell's Mouth (Llŷn Peninsula, Northwest Wales) 3/ Auto-portrait de Mai (Llŷn Peninsula, Northwest Wales) 4/ Pleroma (Llŷn Peninsula, Northwest Wales) 5/ Tumuli (Llŷn Peninsula, Northwest Wales) 6/ Stations of the Cross (Rijeka, Croatia) 7/ Trieste à Hellas (July 26-27) 8/ Ioannina ("Philosophy and Crisis") 9/ Hellas (Athens International Airport) 10/ August 4 (North Wales) 11/ Sailing . . . Else-where (Llŷn Peninsula, Northwest Wales) *The nine-month research trip, part and parcel of the author's PhD project, "Visual Agency in Art & Architecture," ended back in Australia with publication of the book-length study (monograph), Not-I/Thou: The Other Subject of Art and Architecture (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), and the multimedia exhibition, "'Shadow-lands' II: Not-I/Thou" (March 2014). iv [BLANK] ARCHIPELAGO LLYN PENINSULA NORTHWEST WALES 2 [BLANK] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 HELL'S MOUTH LLYN PENINSULA NORTHWEST WALES 18 [BLANK] 19 20 21 22 23 24 AUTO-PORTRAIT DE MAI LLYN PENINSULA NORTHWEST WALES Pour Jean-Luc Godard 26 [BLANK] 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 [BLANK] PLEROMA LLYN PENINSULA NORTHWEST WALES 40 [BLANK] 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 [BLANK] TUMULI LLYN PENINSULA NORTHWEST WALES 56 [BLANK] 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 [BLANK] STATIONS OF THE CROSS RIJEKA, CROATIA 74 [BLANK] 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 TRIESTE À HELLAS JULY 26-27 90 [BLANK] 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 [BLANK] IOANNINA "PHILOSOPHY & CRISIS" 104 [BLANK] 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 [BLANK] HELLAS ATHENS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 130 [BLANK] 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 [BLANK] AUGUST 4 NORTH WALES 142 [BLANK] 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 SAILING . . . ELSE-WHERE LLYN PENINSULA NORTHWEST WALES 158 [BLANK] 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 ITINERARY JANUARY 2013: MELBOURNE-HONG KONG – January 15 – Cathay Pacific/CX104 HONG KONG – January 16 – Visit, GK/ES, University of Hong Kong HONG KONG – January 16 – Visit, GK/WC, Chinese University of Hong Kong HONG KONG – January 16 – Visit, GK/SC/OMA (HK), 3/F Man Cheung Building, 15-17 Wyndham Street, Central HONG KONG – January 16 – Visit, GK/JM, White Cube Gallery, 50 Connaught Road, Central HONG KONG-LONDON – January 16-17 – Cathay Pacific/CX251 LONDON-VENICE – January 17 – British Airways/BA578 LJUBLJANA – January 17-April 17 – Research/Visual Poems LJUBLJANA – January 19 – Visit, GK/PČ, Ljubljana University, Faculty of Architecture LJUBLJANA – January 20 – Visit, GK/NG, Ljubljana University, Faculty of Architecture FEBRUARY: LJUBLJANA – February 1-28 – Research (Kandinsky, El Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, Marcoussis), Moderna Galerija, +MSUM LJUBLJANA – February 1-28 – Research (Jože Plečnik), Plečnik residence/churches/city MARCH 2013: LJUBLJANA – March 13 – Film/Research (Bronisław Malinowski), Savage Memory (Sly Productions, 2011), 75 minutes, directed by Zachary Stuart, Kelly Thomson, "Days of Ethnographic Film," March 12-15, 2013, Slovene Ethnographic Museum LJUBLJANA – March 18 – GK/Lecture, "Not-I/Thou: Agent Intellect and The Immemorial," "Creativity and Experimentation in Architecture" (Design studio), University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture GENOA – March 22-23 – Conference, "Rebel Matters/Radical Patterns," Viewing/Manifesto Section, Università degli Studi di Genova, Faculty of Architecture – GK/Paper, "Not-I/Thou: Agent Intellect and the Immemorial" GENOA-LONDON – March 24 – British Airways/BA2689 CAMBRIDGE – March 25 – Visit, GK/MEB, Cambridge University, Department of Architecture LONDON – March 26 – Visit, GK/J-PM, Goldsmiths College, Visual Cultures LONDON-PRAGUE – March 27 – British Airways/BA852 PRAGUE – March 27 – Visit, GK/YV/PP/MŽ, ARCHIP VIENNA – March 29-31 – Studio visit, GK/PR, University of Applied Arts, Urban Strategies Postgraduate Program APRIL 2013: LJUBLJANA – April 5 – GK/Lecture, "Chris Marker: The Last French Revolution," Muzej Sodobne Umetnosti Metelkova (+MSUM) LJUBLJANA – April 8 – Visit, GK/MŠ, OFM (Theological Faculty, University of Ljubljana), Franciscan Library and Archives LJUBLJANA – April 11 – Visit, GK/AP/MU, Znanstvenoraziskovalni Center-Slovenske Akademije Znanosti in Umetnosti (ZRC-SAZU) VENICE-LONDON – April 20 – British Airways/BA2585 LONDON – April 24 – Visit, GK/NS/PW, University of Greenwich, School of Architecture LONDON – April 26 – "Calder After the War" (Exhibition/review), Pace Gallery, Burlington Gardens LONDON – April 26 – "Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union: New Art from Russia" (Exhibition/review), Saatchi Gallery, Sloane Square LONDON – April 27 – "Poets on Pasolini: A New Decameron" (symposium/review), Blue Room, British Film Institute, Southbank CAMBRIDGE – April 30 – GK/Lecture, "Chris Marker and the Multiple Arts," ARCSOC, Cambridge University, Department of Architecture MAY 2013: COLWYN BAY, WALES (NORTH WALES) – May 2-6 – Visit, GK/PW LONDON – May 7-10 – Research/Essay (Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas), Warburg Institute Archive and Library BOTWNNOG (NORTH WALES) – May 16-31 – Research/Visual Poems (Llŷn Peninsula) JUNE 2013: 172 BOTWNNOG (NORTH WALES) – June 1-18 – Research/Visual Poems (Llŷn Peninsula) LONDON – June 21 – "Philosophy and Knowledge in the Renaissance: Interpreting Aristotle in The Vernacular" (colloquium/review), Warburg Institute LONDON – June 21 – "Architectural Association Projects Review 2013" (exhibition/review), AA, Bedford Square BOTWNNOG (NORTH WALES) – June 22-30 – Research/Visual Poems (Llŷn Peninsula) JULY 2013: BOTWNNOG (NORTH WALES) – July 1-8 – Research/Visual Poems (Llŷn Peninsula)/Novella (The Anti-capitalist Sublime) LONDON – July 9 – "ARCSOC Summer Exhibition 2013" (review), Cambridge University, Department of Architecture, Testbed 1, Battersea LONDON-ZAGREB – July 11 – British Airways/BA0848 RIJEKA – July 12 – Visit, GK/MV-M, Centar za ikonografske studije, Filozofski fakultet Rijeka (Center for Iconographic Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka) RIJEKA – July 12-19 – Research/Visual Poems (Franciscan Monastery/St. Mary's Trsat)/Novella (The Anti-capitalist Sublime) LJUBLJANA – July 20 – "Zabavaj me/Amuse me" (exhibition/review), Mestna galerija Ljubljana LJUBLJANA – July 21 – "Imagining the Balkans: Identities and Memory in the Long 19th Century" (exhibition/review), Narodni muzej Slovenije RIJEKA – July 21-26 – Research/Novella (The Anti-capitalist Sublime) TRIESTE-IGOUMENITSA – July 26-27 – Ferry (Minoan Grimaldi Lines/Europalink) IOANNINA – July 28-30 – Conference, "Philosophy and Crisis: Responding to Challenges to Ways of Life in the Contemporary World," World Congress of Philosophy Pre-conference, Session: "Contemporary Philosophical Views on Crisis (II)," University of Ioannina, Department of Philosophy, Education and Psychology, with the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (RVP) – GK/Paper, "The Anti-capitalist Sublime" IOANNINA – July 29 – University of Ioannina-Ioannina City Center, Tour of the citadel and Turkish fortifications ATHENS-LONDON – July 31 – British Airways/BA0641 AUGUST 2013: CONWAY-COLWYN BAY (NORTH WALES) – August 3-7 – Research/Photo-essays (Gardens and Landscapes That Do Nothing Much) BOTWNNOG (NORTHWEST WALES) – August 7-31 – Research/Photo-essays (Gardens and Landscapes That Do Nothing Much) SEPTEMBER 2013: BOTWNNOG (NORTHWEST WALES)-BANGOR/GWYNEDD – September 1-30 – Research/Photo-essays (Gardens and Landscapes That Do Nothing Much) OCTOBER 2013: BOTWNNOG (NORTHWEST WALES)-BANGOR/GWYNEDD – October 1-21 – Research/Photo-essays (Gardens and Landscapes That Do Nothing Much) PRESTON – October 11 – GK/Lecture, "Not-I/Thou: The Other Subject of Art and Architecture," University of Central Lancashire, School of Built and Natural Environment LONDON-MELBOURNE – October 22 – Qantas/QF