Yerevan's Crossroad

Seen from the 8th floor of the Shirak hotel, a crossroad in Yerevan, during the night of September 11 - 12.

tv impressions

We read in Wikipedia that "on an empty channel, an analog TV receiver shows a "snowy" noise pattern. This particular "snowy noise" that was an everyday experience will no longer exist within the next years after the victory of the digital tv. We may already feel that this snow shows something lost. One can create a similar pattern on a digital channel when not using a digital TV converter box.

cabin monument

A particular naming can transform a find to something we used to call a "work of art". The name for this conceptual construction would be "Gaze Monument". We name "Gaze Monuments" conscious transpositions of objects to unexpected areas. Sudden descriptions that are proved similar to constructions. Some things (that could already be writings) explode and reach areas "in which they don't belong"; they then are structurally formed as "gaze monuments". Either provocatively, as here for instance, or silently, objects can be proved the testimonies of "other discourses". The object, an action, a composition or any element installing reality "as such" can undertake the role of a particular definitive transformation. The work of this transformation would be a conscious change of meaning of the element. A Gaze Monument would than be the disturber that disarranges the symbolic order of things. Showing it as a non ordinary piece may already formulate a sabotage strategy.

A metaphoric structure could be for example obvious in the "cabin monument", found during a walk in Munich, 2009: it maybe expresses the possibility of different inhabitations proposed for a stable marble basis. The piece can be shown as an open possibility of hosting whatever statue in the same place. A possibility of a monumentality for replacement could be at stake. We can remember Lenin's first politics of monuments that prescribed wooden sculptures or provisional honorary sculptures for the acts or the heroes of the revolution.
Is the Cabin Monument an empty monument or does it shape the structure of the monumental? The Cabin Monument could be presented for instance as a quest for investigation about the ethical construction of memory. From another point of view the Cabin Monument pose this inverse question: can we think of ethics without memory? Can a provisional monumentality form an enough strong foundation for future ethics? Can ethics exist without a strong, monumental, symbolic order? The Cabin Monument could be a paradoxical word, pronounced in a non existing language or it could function as a particular question; as a destabilizing fragment of reality, in the same time obviously included in reality's most banal side. The transformation of some forgotten objects into important things is a silent work; it is the production of a particular recognition or a perverse reference that can substitute the work of art with a construction of the gaze. Such constructions, such intellectual distortions can form a series of steps in a city level. The city would then be an idiosyncratic museum of banality. Nevertheless such a museum is more a museum of seeing. A "gaze monument" would mark a responsibility for seeing. In the same time it does not require more creative energy then the distorting power of any intellectual occupancy.

the hinge as a time structure

[from the Oxford Dictionnary]

We could construct a possible ontology of architecture based in the concept of hinge. The hinge would then be a generator of every possible architectural condition: the control of difference in space would be undertaken by the hinge. Furthermore : we could read the Georg Simmel's essay about the bridge and the door as a particular silent honor to this architectural piece that is absent but maybe omnipotent in the text. If we keep thinking in a Simmel's background we could also add in this "hinge syllogism" a particular view connecting the possibility of constructing views over the fragmentary and the "holistic". Still the hinge can be proved to be the regulator of this particular mutation from the part to the whole for which Simmel writes in his Philosophy of the Landscape.

the 3 walks monument

The Prague's Monument

A sculpture is constructed in Prague, May 2009: the construction is an observation of the roof opposite to the hotel room. The shape of the description is the sculpture's shape: this short film and a series of photographs.

ALEXANROS hotel Monument

The Athens House Monument.

The air condition Monument, Cyprus, Kyperounta, Troodos Mountain.

Μorning sun in the Cyprus House bathroom.

hairdresser in plateia eleftherias, south Nicosia

"The continuous monument", to be visited within the next days, only for a few weeks, national road Athens Salonica, between Thermopylae and Lamia; 1 km of light, white blocks creating a line of 2.5 meters high, a personal work with a reference to Superstudio's Continuous Monument.

New images from the "sea monument" taken early in the morning.

Varsos pastry shop visit during late night.

athens, aristidou street an interior view of the city.

empty aquarium and overflying fish

the sea is never found in front of the person.