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About jan—animasuri

anima suri (a.k.a animasuri, animasuri, animasuri, animasuri’10, animasuri’11) animasuri is an ongoing project using technologies as media, text as sound and sometimes visuals as odors. animasuri is trans-media. It is possibly mixed with irony, possibly with salad or coconuts; depending on the gaseous nature of transatlantic chatter. animasuri is a rational, calculated forecast of the surreal. It comments and reflects on the perceptions of daily experiences while losing all grips with it. It is highbrow on a low hanging belly. animasuri provides surrealist BrainNnocularZ containing contextual media from teaspoons to nailtrimmings. Some of animasuri’s forms drink bear, or cuddle beer. Some pick noses, or snooze with pixies. Others tap on keys or rather let them tap on others. Therefor, animasuri is clearly straightshooting vegan. animasuri is cerebrally monkey-styled. animasuri browses through the intertwined visual corridors connecting sound art, visual aberrations, appropriationist art, sound poetry and the spoken or written word. As source material visual bits, conceptual queues or soundbites are derived from pre-existing sonic or other materials, artificial creations and digital errors, environmental record-keeping, bio-confabulation and appropriation of context. animasuri is ex- in the premature sense of the word. Etymologically, animasuri is a French-like sourir pickpocketing an Anglican feminist Latin soul. animasuri is not French nor English nor American and surely not Spanish or Brazilian; it is homi in a Bhabha-esque swirl. It is balance found in the chaos of established stereotypes while acknowledging male nipples are trans-national and universally misunderstood. As a reflection of an extrinsically-labeled happily married white Caucasian Judeo-Christian heterosexual Buddha-lover, animasuri finds harmonious solace in Judith Butler’s “Gender Trouble” without any sexual troubling implications. Politically left-free, animasuri is capitalistically comfy bathing in loyal conservative strands amidst its progressive left libertarian conceptualizations with a-communist socialist twists. animasuri contradicts therefor is not.

poem 001

  Powerful tranquility   I find resources of noise within it oases of potential space to scream unheard it is a bacchanalian of silence gulping me whole bequeathing human form it is air with needles acupuncturally synchronized with the absence … Continue reading

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online publications

find some of my online publications here: —1— an article about Cao Fei   —2— a rough (translated into Dutch) suggestion for a project entitled “Terrifying Art” or its English presentation used in 2008 during a conference at Maastricht university … Continue reading

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Carl Andre—a few quotes.

In “Marzona, Daniel. (2004). Minimal Art. Köln: Taschen” one can read a few thought-evoking quotes from Carl Andre (amongst more, of course…). I would like to archive these here as points of reference: One is: “A man climbs a mountain … Continue reading

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Content is King… The King is Dead; Long live the King!

Upcoming posting: Deconstructing the phrase “content is king”

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The Andre Orphanphorn Series

Within architecture and technologies there are those (sub-)objects that become the pariah of their surrounding structure. We, the inhabitants, the ab[sent]users of these larger structures deny their existence, ignore their minute and perhaps fragile structure and dismiss their state. During … Continue reading

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Poormen’s iPad Series—The PiPart Series

About a year or two ago I came across an LCD-based graphic tool or a new media version of a traditional medium; a handheld “digital” chalkboard. Although it is marketed as a Boogie Board by Ebulent Technologies,  I took the … Continue reading

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