MANON DE BOER
I see the people I love as endless worlds to explore and slowly get to know
feel
that truth is installed in the relation with the ‘other’, not
elsewhere
am conscious of how people express themselves through language
consider
W. Gombrowicz’ book ‘Ferdydurke’ an important point
of reference
like
Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Scenes from a Marriage’ for its sharp,
psychoanalytical portrayal of human relationships
felt
light and deeply impressed after seeing Tino Seghal’s work at Galerie
Jan Mot, because of its precision in relation to the art world and the notion
of the other
live in Brussels
am curious about and interested in working with other people
like
Francis Alÿs’ work, especially in the way he starts with ordinary
experiences, and was happy to read in an interview with him that he sees
it as quite natural that not all collaborations are successful
feel biographical facts are killing the truth
am transparent
am between 30 and 40 years old
studied at the Rijks Academy in Amsterdam
am a multimedia artist
don’t
surrender easily to group directives
have a free and independent mind
am looking for passion, lightness, freedom and truth
sometimes looks like a character from a comic strip
listen to everything from Glen Gould piano music to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
find
that listening to the vibes of Roy Ayer’s music evokes happy memories
of my youth in the 60’s and 70’s
was inspired by the films and plays of Marguerite Duras, among others
need language to describe the word-less in life
the
song ‘Daydream Nation’ by Sonic Youth strongly evokes for him
an experience of ‘living in the moment’
feel
a happy sense of nostalgia coming over me when in bars music of the 80’s
is being played
was
impressed by the way the film ‘Apocalypse Now’ shows what the
experience of horror can do to people
December
16, 2003
spent July 2003 in Europe
feel an inner calm coming over me when listening to Alfred Brendel’s
piano playing
feel Brazilian music is especially suitable for listening to in the winter
am inspired by Henry Miller’s writing and his search for freedom and
non-conventional ways of living his life
like spicy food and sometimes talk to my Spanish pepper plants in order to
encourage them to carry fruits
watching Pippi Longstocking still makes me feel cheerful
October 3, 2004 is never bored except in situations where he doesn’t feel he has enough space to fantasize or think identifies more with cats than with dogs enjoys it when people and things have a strong sensual side to them thinks Chantal Akerman has an extraordinary talent for depicting women in a profound yet light manner finds that listening to South American music often makes her long to go on a big journey to South America think that the big advantage of Berlin is the amount of space there is both in terms of living conditions and in the city itself likes the concept of VPRO’s ‘Zomergasten’ (‘Summer guests’) programme, although she thinks it used to be better a few years ago is well-informed about what’s happening culturally in Belgium and Holland likes Laurie Anderson’s song ‘Oh Superman’ very much, especially the startling word-play, 'So hold me Mom/ In your long arms/ Your petrochemical arms/ Your military arms...' has a strong feeling that the world is becoming bigger and bigger instead of smaller and smaller, as is often said in relation to new developments in communication technology
What I know
From Manons website
About Manon on the web
Frame of reference
www.picks.plus.com/howard/scenes.htm
Scenes
From a Marriage
… Across the road, in the small Minerva Theatre, Ingmar Bergman's Scenes From a Marriage is beyond questions and answers. (…)
The play should really be called Scenes From a Divorce: it is a tragedy
of two essentially unloving people held in a helpless bondage of habit
and organised domesticity, both public and private.
www.postmedia.net/alys/interview.htm
Interview
with Francis Alÿs
Not all of my works are realized with someone else, but most of them are done in the prospect of an eventual collaboration... The way it happens is that , once the first scenario is set, I pass it on and watch it evolve, or die. If the concept holds, "it" will bounce back and forth (from the "other(s)" to
me and vice versa), grow into something else or reinforce itself through the
process of its multiple interpretation... If the concept is weak, it will have
a short term live and disintegrate within the exchange process itself. It's
the test of the articulation, from an idea to a product. Not all ideas need
to turn into products though, the best ones tend to become stories, without
the need to turn into products.
www.royayers.com
Then
came the moment Roy had been waiting for his parents bought him a set
of vibes. He began teaching himself and the by chance he heard that living
just
a couple of blocks a way was an up-and-coming vibes man by the name of
Bobby Hutcherson. The two immediately became friends.
http://duras.ifrance.com/duras/
" Qui es-tu ?...
Tu me plais. Quel événement. Tu me plais.
Quelle lenteur tout à coup.
Quelle douceur.
Tu ne peux pas savoir."
www.sonicyouth.com/
Sonic
Youth- Daydream Nation
"
shots ring out from the center of an empty field
Joni's in the tall grass
she's a beautiful mental jukebox
a sailboat explosion
a snap of electric whipcrack
she's not thinking about the future
She's not spinning her wheels
she doesn't think at all about the past
she thinking long and hard
about that high wild sound
and wondering will it last?"
http://film.tierranet.com/films/
a.now/
an_tscript.html
Apocalypse Now
"It's impossible for words to describe
what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror.
Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and
moral terror
are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared.
They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems
a thousand
centuries ago. We went into a camp to innoculate the children.
We left the camp after we had innoculated the children for Polio, and
this old man came
running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back
there and they had come and hacked off every innoculated arm. There they
were in a pile.
A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept
like some grandmother. I wanted totear my teeth out. I didn't know what
I wanted to do.
And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want
to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot
with a diamond...
a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God...
the genius of that. The genius.
www.filmsite.org/asph.html
The Asphalt Jungle (1950) is a naturalistic film noir crime film
classic of the early 1950s from director John Huston. The sparse,
gritty and
tense film
with a linear narrative is often considered the definitive heist
or caper film, often copied and paid homage to by later films
(e.g., Kubrick's
The Killing
(1956) also with Sterling Hayden, Mackendrick's British film
The Ladykillers (1955), Jules Dassin's French-made Rififi (1954), Ocean's
Eleven (1960),
Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and The Usual Suspects (1995)). The
realistic,
documentary-like,
urban crime film - advertised as "A John Huston Production" - was one of the
first films that completely and specifically detailed how to pull off an authentic-looking
heist - something usually considered morally improper under the Production
Code.
http://wso.williams.edu/~mhacker/clockwork.html
www.alfredbrendel.com/mov.htm
Alfred
Brendel's pre-eminent position as an interpreter of the great Viennese
classics, and Mozart in particular, is further demonstrated with this
new third volume of piano sonatas. Running in parallel with these solo
recordings are recent recordings of a selection of Mozart concertos and
these complement each other perfectly
www.henrymiller.org
"But is it music? Say
what you like, people go nuts not being able to name it and categorize
it. Always fear, always panic, in face of the new... What is it that
people fear? What they don’t understand...The new always carries with
it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what
is new, that is, different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.”
http://www.vpro.nl/programma/zomergasten/
http://www.cinergie.be/cinergie/
revue44/captive.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/plain/A874758
By all conventional criteria, 'O Superman' was totally uncommercial and radio-unfriendly - but it was weirdly gripping and moving. Its use of electronics seemed to evoke the difficulty of communicating emotionally through technology, and there was some startling wordplay: 'So hold me Mom/ In your long arms/ Your petrochemical arms/ Your military arms...'