Imagine yourself as a wary cat
Keenly attuned to its off-the-grid environtment
Conciously and deliberately gather
dreams throughout your stability tour
DREAMING OFF-THE-GRID
1_a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation:
Disappearance is an enigma that has given rise to much speculation.
2_a puzzling or contradictory character.
3_a saying, question, picture, etc., containing a hidden meaning;riddle.
4_a enciphering machine developed for commercial use in the early 1920s and later adapted and appropriated by powers for military use.
SURFACE SUSPENSION inside AN EMPTY ROOM under A SENSE OF EMERGENCY AFTER TOUCHING GROUND and BOUNCING BETWEEN POLES when ENGINE RENDERS THE LIGHT.
SURFACE SUSPENSION
These words do not exist and these worlds do not exist. They are all but physical. So by declaring them to be false we are ascribing a
false nature to the third person perception that we understand by the words "witness" and "illuminated". The words "Witness" and "Illuminated" are
relative, not absolute. They are relative to the third person perspective. The words "Witness" and "Illuminated" are relative to the human world
where the sense of causality is stronger and lasts longer.
AN EMPTY ROOM
In that space without object where everything imaginable is
contained, on the forty-second day of April during the spring twilight, when
the flame dusted the snow-proud slopes, the main lights in the ridges all blazed across the two peaks.
Number slept until midnight
and then it must have looked up and had the startling thought that there was no need to wait for the sun.
A SENSE OF EMERGENCY
The act of reducing or the state of being reduced
, as contrasted with the idea of intensity, implies two things. It signifies a
reduction of
something into its opposite—a breaking, or separation, in the substance, or thing, which is in process of being
reduced to that thing's opposite, or
that thing's opposite into its substance. And it signifies a real lowering of the one which is from a higher to a lower level, and an actual pulling
away from the higher or the superior, a
reduction and the removal
of that which is the more superior or better from the inferior. This action of a
force is not without effect. Although it causes nothing to happen, the force, which has been exerted,
affects the character of the thing which has been attacked.
AFTER TOUCHING GROUND
While being on surface, Surface might seem to be far less discernible than formerly predicted. A sudden intuition helps accept Surface as for what
it really is. Then Number adds some sense of objectivity and a mirage forms in the horizon, yet ground and Surface still keep forming a unity that seems to be solid enough to provide
a feeling of consistency.
BOUNCING BETWEEN POLES
Lets imagine a continuum of ideas, prototypes and reconsiderations in a spontaneous, perpetual self inquiry,
where by default interrogation is generative and simultaneously deceptive.
Or lets think about ourselves engaged in that particular state of beingness, between materiality and immateriality while at the same time
still seems to exist a certain notion of acceptance. Certainty, a wish expecting an unbiased confirmation to be delivered. A
question then arises which can not be codified.
ENGINE RENDERS THE LIGHT
Engine says:
“the observable universe can be thought of as a sphered diamond with energy emanating from its core –a seeming paradox given
the collapse of the heart”.
Engineers are baffled.
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ABOUT THE WINDOW
My spectral name is Basik Kubasik.
I am currently based nowhere really (or at least not that I know),
and since as long as I can remember I have been consistently trying to open windows.
I mostly dream in the laboratory and under the open sky, where in both I enjoy a constant and seemingly purposeless adventure.
Between 1994 and 2015 I used to show the result of my work in events and venues. Among others:
And/Or Gallery Los Angeles, Arsenal Berlin, Transitio Mexico, Bienal de la Habana, Art London, DAM Gallery Frankfurt-Berlin, Art Taipei, Hartware Dortmund, La Laboral Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Ars Electronica, Arsenal Berlin, ICCI Tokyo, Arco Madrid, Sonar Barcelona, Centre Pompidou Paris, Next Five Minutes Amsterdam, Read-Me Moscow, Digital is not Analog Bologna, Moscow Biennial, ISSEA, The Influencers Barcelona, The Whitney Biennial New York, Transmediale Berlin, Seoul Contemporary Art Bienial.
These days I am still showing and sharing the result of my research but that is not a priority anymore, if it ever was before, if you know what I mean.
For old adventures and projects and almost very raw research materials you are very welcome to go:
RETROYOU.ORG ARCHIVE 2015-1994
You can still KontaKT me here: