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<nettime> the ABZ of the Copenhagen Free University |
MADNESS The language of madness is the perpetual slipping over of words into acts until the moment when the word is pure act. >From the ABZ of the Copenhagen Free University At the Copenhagen Free University a new exhibition has opened. We present the ABZ slide and sound show. The exhibition is open by appointment from January 6 to March 9 2003. Call +45 3537 0447 and make an appointment. An ABZ reception will take place Saturday January 18 from 6pm. Here we also launch a micro bookshop with self-published magazines and books from Denmark and abroad. All are welcome. As a natural consequence of our effort to develop poetic language and critical consciousness a collection of concepts has crystallised from our practice and material life. We have systematised this collection into a catalogue of concepts, an ABZ from the Copenhagen Free University. Arising from the countless words people have used, or told us or each others in relation to our activities - whether the words are reasonable or senseless, demonstrative or poetic - a cloud of meaning has taken shape that hangs over us, leading us forward. The ABZ is condensing parts of the cloud into concrete words and expressions such as SLEEP, SKI SLOPE, EXODUS, CONSTESTATION, MONEY, UNHAPPY CONSCIOUSNESS, SURPLUS, etc. The Free University itself springs from a speech act: "Let us open a university!" This speech act took place nearly two years ago by now. The University presented us for a new cutting out of things and a new principle of verbal aesthetic articulation. We are getting use to this carefully shaped construction so we take it in as the language we speak. If we do not take part in the production of the language we speak, we will then be spoken by other languages, such as the language of the media, the corporations, the apparatus of the state, the commercials, the food prophets, the health visitors etc. The ABZ is still developing and consists of quite a few voices other than our own: among others Emma Hedditch, Howard Slater, Johnny Spencer, Anthony Davies, Asger Jorn, David Cooper: Thanks to them. Yours Henriette Heise & Jakob Jakobsen, January 3 2003. Copenhagen Free University Læssøesgade 3, 4., DK - 2200 Copenhagen N Contact: +45 3537 0447 or www.copenhagenfreeuniversity.dk # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net