Disremembering

As we remember Gyorgy Kepes "differently" we revisit James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake as a attempt to remember and the failure inherent in the process. The event of memory in Joyce functions primarily in two ways: first as an inaccessible initial memory and then as transmutative shift into a new form of memory.

The forgetting-for Joyce..enables the possibility of remembering

Differently....

So today we remember revolutionary artist Liliane Lijn's works starting with Neurographs.

Liliane says "In 1969 Sinclair visited me in London and showed me Deliria, the notebook he had written while in David Cooper's psychiatric clinic. In response I showed him the most recent collages I had made with electronic symbols and he asked me whether I might illustrate Deliria. I agreed, since I thought I could create poignant metaphors for mental disturbances using electronic symbols relating electrons to neurons. I thought of the brain as an electro-chemical system, a kind of organic machine. I found that using these delicate symbols, code for control and use of the flow of electrical energy, opened up a whole imaginative field for me. I called them neurographs."

We are connecting and disconnecting dots to remember universes of images immaculately distilled in pure light.

Jürgen Claus is an artist who works with greatly different techniques, like painting, film, light, or underwater installations. He is particularly known for his solar installations. His interest lies in cross-over of technology and art. He worked as fellow and research affiliate at the renowned Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT in Cambridge, MA, USA. He now lives and works with his wife Nora in Baelen, Belgium, where he is the director of the Centre Overoth.

Today we disremember Gyorgy Kepes via the imagination of Claus who shared deep connections with the Hungarian artist through the floating architectures and liquid paintings in his works.

Thanks to our chief Imaginator Roger F. Malina for introducing Claus to us.