Lorem starts as a research into messiness and chaotic "orders" that arise and fall apart moulded by chance and time passing through. She is at the same time an author of this work and its protagonist. A persona or a mask I wear, and the thing in the mask itself.

Her impermanence is a tool, a shield, a relay; a shelf (an archive, a storage) used to navigate the world that asks a clear and definite proclamation of identity for all things, all bodies (and their beings).

Starting from the idea of Foucault’s heterotropia, Lorem forms and moves in the space similar to a heterotrophic one. I find this space concerned with materials that are contained in it, and what they want to say, do or make. This space is also concerned with chaoses that arise where lines of all the other things that inhabit this world cross or tangle.

I call this space heteroclitic space, an attribute I borrowed from this fragment of text:

“That passage from Borges (Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge) kept me laughing a long time, though not without a certain uneasiness that I found hard to shake off. Perhaps because there arose in its wake the suspicion that there is a worse kind of disorder than that of the incongruous, the linking together of things that are inappropriate; I mean the disorder in which fragments of a large number of possible orders glitter separately in the dimension, without law or geometry, of the heteroclite; and that word should be taken in its most literal, etymological sense: in such a state, things are “laid”, “placed”, “arranged” in sites so very different from one another that it is impossible to find a place of residence for them, to define a common locus beneath them all.”

- from the introduction of Foucault's The Order of Things


In building Lorem and her heteroclitic space, I use various found materials - digital, physical or otherwise - and attempt to find what their forms, textures, weights or other elements want to build and communicate to each other, to me, and to Lorem. Many of my approaches here are influenced heavily by Dadaistic practices involving chance, as well as those used by the Situationists.

This is Lorem's first experience of being an online entity. Or, better to say, starting to shape into being an online entity.

Here you will find a virtual space, snippets of text and other miscellaneous materials found in this (re)search for Lorem.

I hope you enjoy them, and/or find parts of them inspiring for your own practice, day, body, self, object, space.

Regards,

Lorem Ipsum

Lorem Ipsum umjetničko je istraživanje o kategorijama kaosa kojeg nastanjuju stvari što osciliraju između uređenog i neuređenog, slučajnog i namjernog. Lorem jest i bavi se svime onime što je merkurijalno, nastojeći ispipavati ove nerede te prostor koji im pripada.

Teorijski, rad se oslanja na Foucaultove Riječi i Stvari, od koje također posuđuje riječ heteroklitno kao opisni naziv za “kategoriju” kojom se bavi. Hrvatski jezični portal tu riječ dočarava ovako:

heteròklitan

1. koji odudara od uobičajenih propisa ili običaja
2. koji je čudan, neobičan do smiješnog
3. koji se deklinira prema dvije deklinacije, koji je heteroklit

Etimologija:

grč. heterókliton ≃ hetero- + klínein: naslanjati

Foucault, referirajući se na Borgesovu taksonomiju životinja*, heteroklit definira ovako:

“Upravo nered uzdrmava fragmente velikog broja mogućih poredaka u dimenziji bez zakona i geometrije,dimenziji heteroklitnog. I tu riječ valjda shvatiti u smislu najbližemu njezinoj etimologiji: stvari su ‘polegnute’, ‘postavljene’, ‘raspoređene’ na do te mjere različitim mjestima da je za njih nemoguće pronaći neku točku prihvata, iznad jednih i drugih definirati neko zajedničko mjesto.”

- iz predgovora Riječi i Stvari


Baveći se Lorem, zanima me prolaznost, poroznost, i promjenjivost. Materijali koji komuniciraju jedan s drugim, žele govoriti, ali govore stihijski, vihorito. Često se u radu koristim dadaističkim i situacionističkim praksama koje se bave sa ili namjerno proizvode slučajnosti i greške. Zanima me prostor koji može postati lik, kako se može raspasti u materijal, opet se skupiti u neku riječ, raspasti se nanovo u lik.

Lorem u prvom službenom posjetu internetu okružila sam komadićima teksta, jednim virtualnim prostorom, te drugim nesvrstanim materijalima.

Hvala na pažnji,

Lorem Ipsum







* Borgesova taksonomija životinja naziva se Celestijalni Emporij Benevolentnog Znanja, te se nalazi unutar eseja Analitički jezik Johna Wilkinsa. Ta divna taksonomija ide ovako:

“Životinje se dijele na:

a) one koje pripadaju Caru

b) balzamirane

c) pripitomljene

d) odojke

e) sirene

f) fantastične

g) pse na slobodi

h) one koje su uključene u ovu klasifikaciju

i) koje se bacakaju kao lude

j) bezbrojne

k) nacrtane iznimno finim kistom od devine dlake

l) et caetera

m) koje su upravo razbile vrč

n) koje izdaleka izgledaju kao muhe”