NEWS 2013
29 DEC 2013
THE CHURCH OF CODE
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Mark Reeve, The
Church of Code, 1999. Acrylic & magic marker on
board. 5×2.5ft. Private collection.
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This is the first ever 'proper' painting I sold, not due to lack of talent or appreciation, but a sheer dearth of normal commercial intentions. This piece began in a dream (the idea that is), then was bolstered in waking as an abstract, razor-sharpened, 3B pencil sketch of a certain church in North Wales, created in a peculiar state of consciousness. This representation was later developed in colour during a three-month angles ritual, to obtain "more than meets the eye".
12 DEC 2013
COMES
I was present at this manifestation, that looks like a film still from a 1950s B-Movie. It is in Lincolnshire, a poacher, the ducks floating along the river. My trembles my cock hard entire duration, the travellers first induced Roman work. Now they stand in line for to instruct the physicists. A glowing bridge. Unscrambling behaviour - orientation in me.
17 NOV 2013
WORLD PATRIOT (HUNTED NUANCES)
16 NOV 2013
"THOUGHT IS JUST THE INDEX"
I'm not sure why but this Bases 2 Part 4 documentary fascinates me whenever I watch it. Made by Miles Johnston in 1993, it features the British UFO abductee and researcher, Ray Wardle (pictured above), in Las Vegas. I admire his leather jacket; the way his chunky black walky-talky sits on his hip; his gruff voice and his bridge-burning lifechange - escaping the UK to make a new start in Nevada, USA as a "Casino Security Video Technician" (wonder if his job "rubs off" on him; all that chance gambling flux, amazing possibilities...). This video has a pleasingly peculiar dreamlike otherworldly quality that builds as it proceeds, and leaves me curiously satisfied/wanting more.
During a Q&A session at the Bases At The Barge event at the Barge Inn, Wiltshire, in December 2015, Miles Johnston claimed that when he brought the original abovementioned videotape back to the UK: "both European Intelligence and British Intelligence were waiting for me, to watch that tape." He doesn't elaborate on this, but one would assume intel agencies have the means to secretly copy such recorded media in transit, delaying his luggage if need be, without informing him so blatantly.)
I also like a similarly trippy segment from Bases 2 Part 3 (1996), featuring the late Ron Adams talking of occult matters and demonstrating the Woodpecker Signal; him, Lisa Williams and the aforementioned Miles Johnston sort of psychic questing at the creepy Copped Hall in Epping, Essex, UK; John Hardwick speaking about the strange atmosphere and stranger goings on at Harwell village in Oxfordshire, UK.
I deem these particular motion pictures connected, and hiding something, that got them made and watches from them, sometimes reaching out. So I decided to fully "suss" this matter via remote-viewing, that I'm pretty good at when in the mood (feeling a surplus of a particular psychically-tinged or psychically-useful raw energy that I channel into the act). Apart from seeing the type of things already shown or mentioned in the video, including an active volcano, I zeroed in on a photocopied, semi-underground magazine on UFOs and Aliens produced in the USA in 1992. Its title was something like "Tresh" ("Threshold"?) and isn't that important - what is is the name "Gunther" and a location called "The Plas", both of which are connected to the mag. A quick Google search for "gunther the plas" brought up: "Plastination is a technique or process used in anatomy to preserve bodies or body parts, first developed by Gunther von Hagens in 1977." Best left alone this one I think.
16 OCT 2013
MAP OF A MAP
Austin Osman Spare, Man is a Bundle of Ids (1955). Part of a twelve-picture series that AOS called "Contexture of Being". This painting is what first drew me in.
28 SEP 2013
BRITISH INTENTIONS
26 SEP 2013
EASYACTION
There are people wondering what I'm "really" doing. People who have clues, handcuffing others into uselessness. You know as well as me that there is more, there is other. You want one, you want the other, you want nothing.
You have your space, your entrances and exits... Will you give yourself a break? Get away from this drone of limitation, the reshaping of what was already known to press thoughts, mind spin... Focus pocus.
25 AUG 2013
FEED SCAN
A relatively short but powerful session in the middle of the night with active substance and direction teased out:
Found Objects Television: Marvellous video compilations of bygone British weirdness compiled by Unmann-Wittering of the communal blog Found Objects. Episode 1. Episode 2.
Frequency Experiment: Performed and filmed at the Fondaction Boris Vianin in Paris on 25 October 2006, with the New York Butoh dancer, Moeno. Produced by Testcard.
Shows how sometimes films by completely different people can intermesh in a vibrant and useful way for the viewer.
16 FEB 2013
OKOK VISUALS & AUDIO ONLINE
This deft remix of OKOK Society Video 2 has been produced by Emit Snake-Beings in New Zealand. This short documentary features OKOK Society and Deepkiss 720 collage collaborations (17secs in) and the OKOK Manual (1min:50secs in), as exhibited at the Public Address group show, Namaskar Rooms, Eastbourne, England, between 3 July-28 August 2005. Curated and installed by Jason Williams. Some OKOK Research Bureau visuals (and audio) appear on two doomtube occult weird videos that can be viewed here and here, respectively.
29 JAN 2013
THE BAG O'INNUMERABLES
This 2005-2009 OKOKian multi-medium collaborative work by myself and Liam Olan consists of an A4 transparent resealable bag filled to the brim with handmade 2D and 3D objects, plus an eighty-minute existential consciousness stream spoken-word audio-cassette conceived and performed by 'Dot'. In a strictly limited edition of one, this work has been exchanged with a private collector overseas, including additional special items that are not shown in the photograph above.
28 JAN 2013
THE OKOKIAN OLO
The OKOKian olo experiment (2005) conducted by myself and Liam Olan resulted in a limited edition audio/art box of five very handmade copies, which included four audio-cassettes, transcendental instructions, a genuine condom filled with individual dry-transfer letters and knotted at the end, and an assortment of wilding ephemera, either hand-drawn or printed. All are now held in UK private collections.
01 JAN 2013
REASON TO REASON RETURN
Print in drifting realm... That image pleasing, attracts. A past art on the walks, hence cloaks in the trees, words on the breeze, plays on. Underground stream cleans the blood memories sent forth by the Autumn cavern rumbles. The streets embossed, lower left, with an anti-clockwise propeller. It will be flashed, the subtitles erased. Do you feel the ripples?