Travel report Geneva for anual DOGtime report

Our time in Geneva could be described as the week of nice and not so nice words.

"IDUM" is different to "HEAD"* - although not very new, but a wonderfully sonorous word.

Some people who like to think about the first - and have no idea that it is a abbreviation - have the second in hands

and fight with what we give them to understand.  

These words sound in contrast to "The Kafka Machine: A Three Hours Testament" a bit bony and even creaky.

But it turned out that our interactive installation - whose title i just mentioned -  worked pretty well together

with what Felix Guattari had in mind when he asked us - in true Che Guevarian manner - to build 

"Millions and millions of Radio Alices". We ignored his emblematic warning "Danger, Watch out the slightest deviation and everything will go up in smoke" and did our thing.Especially Jefta, Gosja and Jamie Griffith did our software thing.That day - Alex and Jelmer were home -

me and Willem were philosophing on cutting edge and all about to despair (once again) about the world,life in society and art.

But then also wanted to live through a situation, in a constellation that is able to resist a micro-Gulag that the exhibition space sometimes occurred to be.

After a million of stop and go's from Jefta we finally felt like a small family who is proud of her new baby.

"The Kafka Machine" became alive! "They talk, oh yes indeed,they talk all the time.

They emit signs,words,fragments of signs,fragments of words,all trying to make us accept our roles..."

So did we in the city of Geneva when meeting our nice student fellows after the exhausting work for the show and had 

a few drinks with them.They were very friendly and welcoming, giving us shelter and guide through the 

night life of the Swiss french capital.I was very impressed to see the contrast of the super rich town (25Eur for a regular pizza!) 

and the autonomous place where we stayed that week.Romain and his friends are true representants of the idea of an 

autonomous lifestyle.I hope to see them and the Swiss Mountains again! 

Unfortunately nothing is complete so is this travel report but we wrote Dogtime history and became interactive

in a curatorial space for the first time outside of Amsterdam! What a subjectivation...!

*Art Academy Geneva