The Pattern of the Plans and The Lack of Plan Plan (4-Dimensional Syntax in Porcelain and Steel)

Douglas Park recital, ‘Gridburst & Cloudlock’, Conference Towards A Syntaxtical Elaborationism, 

“experiment initiated” by Hilary Koob-Sassen and Rut Blees Luxemburg, 

T1+2 Artspace, London, 2004

'Conference Towards A Syntaxtical Elaborationism', group conference, chaired by Hilary Koob-Sassen and Rut-Blees Luxemburg, T1+2 Artspace, London, 2004

Gridburst & Cloudlock

Jagged broken windows fracture and dismember culprits responsible — far distant glacial crystal iceberg mountains in direct line of fire. Shards, leftover from each opponent adversaries’ side are gathered up, so that inconclusive and unresolved cartography and portraiture can be torn and scrawled, both efforts get confused and caught up with one another. Spectrum separation, and merger process digital mutation genetic retouching expertise arrives at special paintwork, brushstrokes and imagery which will never fully dry out or set, though do craze and flake in a few places, while some others melt and blend slightly. Not stuck, fixed or still, but loose, flowing and alive liquid jewellery, heavily vitamin and mineral rich and swimming with tuppence-coloured tinting, sepia haze, moire and grisaille trompe l’œil vignette mural stage-scenery, movies, animation and mirrored reflections, housed together under the same roof of walk and drive-in life-size picture-postcard tourism-ad holiday snapshot landscapes, boasting genuine weather, geology, sky, water-features, plantlife and animals. Storage, display, wholesale, retail and disposal of this readymixed miracle-cure formula solution is entrusted to open-topped brimming kegs, buckets, urns and jars. Rather than getting lost, wasted or struck-off, every stray shed tear, nosebleed, offcut and splinter fallen overboard rebounds back, as ready-to-use refuel-cartridges for bulk-stockpiling (available in ampoule, phial and canister, either from vending dispensers, over the counter, through mail-order, on prescription and by intravenous drip-feed).

Pressed botanical specimen safari-parks (hereditary ancestral-homeland and rightful natural-habitat to taxidermised zoology trophies) break out all over in contagious infection of museum acquisition codes, hallmarks, royal seals (of approval), estate stamps and categoric file index registration entries (spreading to any and every thing, body and where else). Down below the undercarriage, beneath the forest and sea-bed floorboards and secret buried treasure-trove, amidst cemetery trench-warfare, coal-mine chimney-sweeping and grave-robbing digs, dancing shadow-puppets cast silhouettes, emptying ashtrays and crude sump oil, leaving exhaust fumes, dark smog and indelible greasy stains, that burn, bruise and shopsoil, even without any contact made. Thus, partially paving way to bring about advent of volcanic foundries, meeting demands put upon supply; the uncontestable and ultimate emergency-service and universal-wonder.

Dents knocked into and bites taken out from elasticated ballgame and fishing-net are met by replacements and repairs (that subtract away, divide apart, add up and multiply many times over), allowing rows and blocks of edible and toxic predatory bait to build nests there; raising (starting from seed and egg stage), what soon becomes wounded riot-shield of omnivorous and cannibalistic, yet healing, sword-swallowers, covered, from head to tœ with restless and vibrant skin-pore, tree-bark, knot-hole, wood-grain, marble-veining and granite-fleck tribal-markings.

©, Copyright, Douglas Park 

— with Tom McCarthy, Claire Hooper, Alex Hamilton, Francis Upritchard, Samon Takahashi and Charles Hayward.

After reading, ‘Gridburst & Cloudlock’, for 'Conference Towards A Syntaxtical Elaborationism', as part of 'The Pattern of the Plans and The Lack of Plan Plan (4-Dimensional Syntax in Porcelain and Steel)', an “experiment initiated” by Hilary Koob-Sassen and Rut Blees Luxemburg T1+2 Artspace, London, 2004

Invitation, The Pattern of the Plans & The Lack of Plan Plan (4-Dimensional Syntax in Porcelain & Steel), “experiment initiated” by Hilary Koob-Sassen & Rut Blees Luxemburg, T1+2 Artspace, London, 2004 

Manifesto, The Pattern of the Plans & The Lack of Plan Plan (4-Dimensional Syntax in Porcelain & Steel), “experiment initiated” by Hilary Koob-Sassen & Rut Blees Luxemburg, T1+2 Artspace, London, 2004