Project?

Project?
2-131 Hinodecho Nakaku Yokohama Kanagawa Japan
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Takuji Kogo
Valery Grancher
G.H.Hovagimyan
Mouchette
Rainer Ganahl

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In 1930, Howard Hughes sued for Howard Hawks for stolen words " Take your Gu
n" from his film.
Howard Hawks answered in an interview
He cut the words from his film instantly, and after, he recieved funny few t
elegrams from another film makers.
From Billy wilder is " I have an exclusive right about "They are gone" "
Frank Capra wrote " "I love you" is mine "

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how can I eat the last food - an apple -, when it is so cold here and I
don't even remember my fucking pin code for my creditcard (this weekend is
starvation by defaut)?

how can I forget (adding more irresponsibilities)?
how can I forget (practicing presence and nothing but presence)?
how can I forget (when all these fucking unpaid invoices and bills are on
my floor and I don't have the desire to fuck the insurrance system since
this would add new claims )?

how can I go to war if I don't want to turn on TV?
how can I not go to war if I just stay in bed ( you are the winner!!
congratulations!!!! laughter - go GO GO GOGOGOGO)?

how can I start learning another language - chinese - in january 99 if I
can't properly remember all the other ones (flucht nach vorne) — WHO
WANTS TO HELP ME ?

help? HELP? (please help me, my project, with what I want to do!!! no
protection required)

Rainer Ganahl

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When I talked to Valery Grancher about this idea just quizz as artwork,
I have no idea how quizz can be artwork. So I was trying with no confidence.

But I was thinking , if artwork is different from craftwork, it's in the ide
a of question , not only avantgardes.
I was thinking about Caravaggio's doughting St.thomas or Abbas Kiarostami's
amazing films.
And it seems to me that many interesting works in the web happen around idea
of questions.
Particularly I was thinking about the relation between media and question th
rough last show in candy factory.

* Mouchette is a translated Robert Bresson's film into web.
For me, she is trying this difference movie/web . So she lost idea of time,
she can commit suicide every Christmas. She never grow up to 13. she says "C
'est Moi." Can you believe?

*And John Miller's works about TV game show " Alive with Pleasure"
Maybe this my misreading is embarrassed him.
Quizz as artwork.
Of course , for his work , quizz is not important.
He used most generalized avantgarde's way very simply like Robert Smithon .
He did "cut and paste", but not from nature, from TV as second nature, famo
us game show in U.S " Price is Right"
Then he made to show our unconscious religion. HOW MUCH THIS?

I just felt if we can do something interesting art work in this media,
not through constructed digital images.
I felt some boring on mimetic technique revival in this medium.
That's just craftwork I called. ( not meant techno-pop band )
So If this media get more popularity, we'll see another Mike Kelley using 3d
as common.

I thought webworks originate in phone communication more than digital images.
So in the last show I tried to put a work about phone on the phone line ." E
ntangled Simile"
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*Valery Grancher started "Project?" immediately, his few questions meant "wh
o am I?"
He leaves his identy from the beginning. Because he always is a thief.
He is stealing stereotyped landscape, taking picture or another website.
"who am I?" is most popular theme for 20 century's stories.
So bringing this second hand theme in the web makes to see instantly the sto
ry lost meaning.
Also we can't be a schizophrenic in double-bind, also we lost nationality/li
terature.
Am I Bouvard ? Is he Pecuchet?

*G.H.Hovagimyan says " I love America "
He fucked up form of statement/slogan to be meaningless in his web site.
It remind me Kenneth Burke's theory "counter-statement".
Every slogan makes same statement.
Because form of statement/slogan is an ideology.
G.H changed conceptual art into personal instructions and drive it to his/y
our toilet.
I like to built a signboard written "slogan!!" with him.

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Are we the same?

G.H.Hovagimyan

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*And I asked to join to Rainer Ganahl who is known by learning language project.
He made a reversal colonialism through his performance.
In his signboard written
" please teach me your language"
I heard he is preparing new work about dialect for his home country, I'm ver
y curious.

At 13:21 98.11.23, Rainer Ganahl wrote:
> dear kogo
> "I am jatlagged, please, teach me" i s mine….. copyrighted, right now,
> here, ¥n> I just arrived from NY to vienna.
> questions are alwyas good: they remind me of what my father always told me:
> "don't ask so many questions" (copyrigted by my father in respect to me)

We're probably trying some kind of translation.
Like Wittegenstein seid, each word doesn't have meaning, we just have some r
ule of each everyday game.

On the web, I think this question looks like one of translated sculpture

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What would you like to be written on your gravestone?

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Thank you, Dooley
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please answer this question
"What are you doing here?"

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