IL BENE DI FUORI ORARIO Carmelo Bene…. “per prima cosa penso a vivere, poi vivo, la stessa cosa continua. Improvviso partendo da qualcosa di molto elaborato. Cerco di non scadere nel compiacimento. E’ l’unica libertà assoluta. Altrimenti c’è il delirio… I miti italiani non mi riguardano. La Vergine e i Vangeli li lascio a Pasolini” (intervista a Carmelo Bene di Jean Narboni 1968)
Da venerdì 18 marzo Fuori Orario cose (mai) viste dedica un ciclo all’opera di Carmelo Bene
at the opening of Ryosuke Cohen show “Brain Cell” (Osaka, Japan). Lubomyr Tymkiv made a performance “Вce” (Lviv, Ukraine, September 10, 2011). “Bce”, pronounced “Vse”, meaning “all” in Ukrainian
Під час відкриття виставки “Мозкові Клітини” художника Ріосуке Коена (Осака, Японія). 10 вересня 2011 року.
The flicker effect was identified by the famously independent-minded scientist W. Grey Walter in his best- selling 1953 book The Living Brain.
Grey Walter – who was soon to become the father of Artificial Intelligence – discovered that by using high-powered stroboscopes and experimenting with trigger feedback techniques where the flash was set to fire in synchronization with the brain’s rhythms, the brain is, “transformed temporarily to a different sort of brain.” Walter found that time itself could become lost or disturbed. As he observed of one subject:
“[He had] the sense of having been pushed sideways in time by flicker. Yesterday was no longer behind, and tomorrow was no longer ahead..”
Stroboscopic light, or light flashing on the eye between 8 and 13 flashes per second, induces alpha wave activity in the brain – a state normally associated with dreaming and creativity. Subjects often report seeing shapes and colours, some have full-blown hallucinations, others mystical experiences. Approximately one in 4,000 people will have an epileptic seizure.
In 1997, ten million Japanese schoolchildren, and some adults, tuned into the animé cartoon Pokemon to see a “flashing explosion with high frequency red and blue flicker stimulation” hit the screen and persist. What happened next sparked international headlines. Some viewers went into a trance-like state, as if hypnotized. Others experienced altered vision and shortness of breath. Some passed out, others had seizures. Hospitals all over Japan received admissions, though nobody was permanently damaged.
Michele Zaffarano, Istruzioni politico-morali (all’indirizzo dei nostri giovani poeti sul reperimento e sulla assimilazione dei concetti nuovi). [dia•foria, coll. floema, Viareggio 2021.
Presentazione di “Prosa in prosa” (Le Lettere, collana fuoriformato, Firenze 2009), a cura di ESCargot, 16 febbraio 2010.
Il primo video è di Vincenzo Ostuni, il secondo di Sergio Garufi.
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Poet Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. ‘Walden’, his first completed diary film, is an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema.
The film features figures of the scene such as Jonas Mekas, P. Adams Sitney, Tony Conrad, Stan Brakhage, Carl Th. Dreyer, Timothy Leary, Baba Ram Dass, Gregory Markopoulos, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Jerome Hill, Barbet Schroeder, Jack Smith, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Velvet Underground, Ken Jacobs, Hans Richter, Standish D. Lawder, Adolfas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Jud Yalkut, Peter Kubelka, Michael Snow and Richard Foreman.
“Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shoot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing…. Walden contains material from the years 1964-1968 strung together in chronological order.” – Jonas Mekas
