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              Manuscript: artintact 1
              ES ES-OVNI RSC-462 · Item · 1994
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Interactive work on CD-ROM artintact 1 [1994] ZKM (...) "Manuscript" the work Eric Lanz has produced for the first CD-ROM issue of Artintact. We zoom in into a block of unidentifiable graphic elements. Then we decipher lines, then signs that compose them and finally these signs turn out to be the images of tools. Placed against a white background, meticulously lined up and grouped together, like so many letters making so many words, they seem to simulate the hieroglyphs of some strange script. It is possible to run along a line to choose a particular tool, a bit like a finger running over a page. A tool is selected by clicking on it, and we can see the use of the tool in a window. It’s the confrontation between the sign and the object, between the eye, which interprets and the hand, which executes. - Anne-Marie Duguet -

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              Mast Qalandar
              Mast Qalandar
              ES ES-OVNI CTX-S012-SS001-0003 · Item · 2005
              Part of Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

              Above all, Mast Qalandar (Ecstasy) is a look at heterodoxy and a celebration of its existence. Qalandars are a Sufi brotherhood of roaming dervishes who once ranged through an arch that crossed Asia, from Turkey to Pakistan and India. They are characterized by extreme mystical devotion and their revolutionary and anti-dogmatic attitudes within Islam, such as use of hachis and the rejection of alcohol and free submission to Haqq, the truth, which they see as the absence of limits rather than something which narrows and defines horizons. “Mast Qalandar” immerses us in the ritual encounter of these dervishes around the grave of the brotherhood's founder in Pakistan. A vision of heir devotion to “the beloved” that leads them into trance and ecstasy, where death means simply to “draw aside a veil”. Available online until December 27th 2020.

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