the art of…

The Art of Work (in preparation)

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THE ART OF WORK

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STATEMENTS OF INTERPRETATION regarding the making of PROCESS CONSCIOUS artworks

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O N STEIN 2009

STUDIO PEPERSAUS

Oelegem Belgium

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The ART of WORK lies in the fact that it is at base a commonplace operation set to order—the manipulation of the minimum achieving control of the maximum—

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The MACHINE is represented as a succession of tasks and the STORY as a serial of unfolding acts .

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If IDEAS are no more than a set of operations
then the primary value of the work lies in being made then unmade in “real time” on a screen or on a network of screens .

IS THE WORK OF ART

Text by O N Stein 2009

with the aid of Josef Pauwels and Nina Zammit-Zorn / ZAMZO Productions
Based on an original text by Jeff Instone 1994

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the curious incident…

The curious incident…

One summer evening in 1570, under Roxy Sultana of the Sultanate of Women, consulting epicurist Erlok Olmis and his eunuch Watsis relax in little grey cells beneath Constantinople’s Street of the Bakers.

“Bas bleu, Watsis!” exclaims Olmis, “The curious incident of the dog in the sack!”

In the nearby Coffeehouse of The Henna Headed Horde an Iranian Adlerphone plays Fairuz's jaunty “Shat Iskandaria”.

“?” from Watsis, impotently.

“Elementary” gurgles Olmis from his hubble-bubble. “Read my monograph Sack Fall Under Suleiman Diminuendo. In executing our peerless Ottoman jurisprudence we place a living dog in a sack with the ‘perp’, and cast them deep into the dark Bosphorus. Yet on this occasion…”

“…Olmis!” interrupts Watsis, “The dog did nothing in the sack! Lose we something in migration?”

Competition entry 2009