Whispers about ginger and rice

[imomus]

Here are the phrases I'm asking the staff at Blow de la Barra to whisper gallery visitors during the text-and-painting group show there, The Title as the Curator's Art Piece, curated by Mathieu Copeland.

Wednesday June 21st
"The encounter with the new person continues, after having suffered hardship with lighting."

Thursday June 22nd
"Smell of the source of the callous burning and the Japanese pancake."

Friday June 23rd
"It is it is, to see you speak properly after a long time by the telephone."

Saturday June 24th
"When being small, the element which makes the dining table remember was full load."

Tuesday June 27th
"Because there is no ginger, we have decided to redo extensively."

Wednesday 28th June
"Applying to the bath, you feel the happiness."

Thursday June 29th
"It is healed in the sea being visible from the window."

Friday June 30th
"The ham being attached to the knob."

Saturday July 1st
"Because there is no ginger, it collects television."

Tuesday July 4th
"Eating when giving birth."

Wednesday July 5th
"It seems that everything goes and wriggles with going."

Thursday July 6th
"Master calls with the anchor and the long mediating."

Friday July 7th
"It is the extremely wife."

Saturday July 8th
"You can drink with ease often from now on."

Tuesday July 11th
"Rather than thinking, you rise clearly."

Wednesday July 12th
"Phosphorus the diary it starts printing densely."

Thursday July 13th
"Doing motionlessly with the rain, it becomes greatly."

Friday July 14th
"Pouring the black tea, you eat the bun of the rice field house where the water picture has."

Saturday July 15th
"The night eating the boiled rice simply, reads the various books."

Tuesday July 18th
"In the crepe mountain you have greeted to 1 each of the crepe tiddlers, it seems."

The exhibition continues until early September.

Comments

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

A lot of food in there. Ever consider to become a "poetic chef"?

i like this!

[pitcherthis.livejournal.com]

(Was gonna ask where it was on then followed the link)

thanks for that
x

[tokidoki.livejournal.com]

babelfish translations of japanese blog entries?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Because there is no ginger, densely it becomes the secret greatly. With the chestnut boiled rice meal, it rains.

[kaipfeiffer.livejournal.com]

rather than inking, you rice dearly

[(Anonymous)]

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[bopscotch.livejournal.com]

Unreliable Janglish. I love it!

[(Anonymous)]

He spiders the new clothes of the emperor, he densely

[(Anonymous)]

Translation: he's a con artist

Dash it all Momus!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm going to see the show on Tuesday, and now you've spoiled the surprise!

I suppose I didn't have to look...

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

where'd you pull those from//what did you translate?
i like your own words better, Nick, in the raw not chopped and screwed.

[firthy.livejournal.com]

Those phrases sound very Babelfish-esque.

[petit-paradis.livejournal.com]

have you already heard reactions from visitors?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

The plan is that I send an e-mail a day to the gallery with a phrase, and the gallery sends me an e-mail a day with reactions. That's the theory; in practise, I've only had one reaction e-mail from the gallery. On June 28th Carmen wrote:

"Some people ask if you write the texts. Others expect to hear more."

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, I felt a bit short-changed too.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

It all depends on the quality of the whisper. Did you receive a silky whisper or a silly one? If it was silly, ask for the return of the exact sum you paid for the whisper.

[(Anonymous)]

They're all silly

[wingedwhale.livejournal.com]

Proud to say I know why there is no ginger.

[peripherus-max.livejournal.com]

The mediated version of yourself seems almost on the verge of becoming a ghost in the machine! Everytime I click on Click Opera, there you've been, hovering like a poststructuralist Tibetan monk hybrid over the detrius of first world culture, suggesting alternate caves and storm shelters to weather a "Left Behind"-like end times scenario. Your world of green tea and stillness, crimelessness and art. Suppose I won the lottery and offered you enough money to establish an island nation in the south Indian Ocean, Tristan de Cunha-style... would you take me up on it?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Money means nothing, Grasshopper. You would have to shave your head and join my retreat.

Life in Brian

[(Anonymous)]

On reading these bon mots I felt inspired to boost up the Dashboard version of Eno's Oblique Strategies, which seems to channel a similar feeling. One of immanent and yet deferred significance, nagging importance born of achingly foggy logic, always slightly mis-overheard. Which is rather pleasing ;-)

Alex

[(Anonymous)]

not sure...

entertaining bits

but not really important

[cityramica.livejournal.com]