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3rd WABook

The Wandering Arts Biennial is a research and production biennial that focuses on mobility, versatile production and presentation methods in the field of contemporary arts, and the nomadic practices of artists.
In 2014 nadine vzw created WAB to anticipate artists and creative thinkers using mobility, nomadism and temporality as an instrument or creative method in their artistic practice. WAB was conceived as an open platform where works can be shown, shared and communicated in an independent context.
Each edition of the WAB is followed by a publication featuring contributions from all the participating artists.

oracle contributed with a text to this WABook edition as well with an insert printed on the Risograph.

3th Wandering Arts Book is designed by Überknackig, bound by atelier sans nom and presents texts by Marialena Marouda, Loes Jacobs, Bruno De Wachter, Chloé Schuiten & Clément Thiry, Gudný Rósa Ingimarsdóttir, Isabel Burr Raty, The Oceanographies Institute, Maud Salembier, Mira Sanders, oracle, Shervin Kianersi Haghighi & Georgia Kokot and inserts by Bruno De Wachter, Buratinas/ooooo, Christian Hansen, Chloé Schuiten & Clément Thiry, Davide Tidoni, Francesca Chiacchio, Gudny Rosa Ingimarsdottir, Isabel Burr Raty, Jesse Cremers, Marialena Marouda, The Mental Masonry Lab, Kasper Demeulemeester, oracle, Shervin Kianersi Haghighi, Steven Jouwersma, TAFEL, Various Artists, Waend, Wouter Huis

WAB coordination: nadine, Loes Jacobs, An Goovaerts
WAB editorial coordination: Loes Jacobs
Translation and proofreading: Patrick Lennon
Book design and production: Grandhomme & Bennani (Überknackig)
Inserts and Interventions designed and produced by participating artists in collaboration with Überknackig and nadine

Riso print:
Duplo Seiko DP S850 on Fedrigoni papers
Woodstock Verde 80g/m2 Arcoprint Milk 100g/m2

Offset print:
Pixart Printing, CMYK on Classic Gloss and Woodstock Betulla 100g/m2, Graphius, PMS 2935u on Generic Offset White 240g/m2, Zwart Op Wit, CMYK on Invercote 250g/m2

Binding:
Song Yi Han, atelier sans nom

Many thanks to An Goovaerts, Francesca Chiaccio, Ismaël Bennani, Hans Van Wambeke, Justine Maxelon, Kasper Demeulemeester, Loes Jacobs, , Lune Borloo, Marzia Dalfini, Nassia Fourtouni, Orfée Grandhomme, Song Yi Han, Various Artists all participating artists

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text contribution for WABook 3

That is why I like novels: instead of heroes they have people in them.

So, when I came to write science-fiction novels, I came lugging this great heavy sack of stuff, my carrier bag full of wimps and klutzes, and tiny grains of things smaller than a mustard seed, and intricately woven nets which when laboriously unknotted are seen to contain one blue pebble, an imperturbably functioning chronometer telling the time on another world, and a mouse’s skull; full of beginnings without ends, of initiations, of losses, of transformations and translations, and far more tricks than conflicts, far fewer triumphs than snares and delusions; full of space ships that get stuck, missions that fail, and people who don’t understand. I said it was hard to make a gripping tale of how we wrested the wild oats from their husks, I didn’t say it was impossible·

The carrier bag theory of fiction proposes an alternate narrative of human evolution:

…before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home.

Prior to the preeminence of sticks, swords and the Hero’s long, hard, killing tools, our ancestors’ greatest invention was the container: the basket of wild oats, the medicine bundle, the net made of your own hair, the home, the shrine, the place that contains whatever is sacred. The recipient, the holder, the story. The bag of stars. It opens a portal to terra incognita: unknown lands where the possibilities of human experience and knowledge can be discovered anew.

Ursula K Le Guin “The carrier bag theory of fiction” and subsequent texts inspired by web trawling on Ursula.

Permeating characteristics, exchange of o’s and O’s, creating an ever changing vessel for the individual and collective desire. A vessel made out of flesh, fire – a living vessel. We are a vessel. We are the vessel. The vessel is not in between us. It’s not an organism outside of us. We are this amorphic organism. Or the carrier bag. We contain Us.

 

 

What is in the carrier bag of oracle?

 

 

 

Politics & ethics

Gut feeling

Vibrations

Ideology

Infinite vocal beings (an entire population)

Fatigue

The non-heroic

Closing off

Contradictions

Languages of an ancient time

Myths & Magic

Animals

Common story?

Techniques

Primordial soup

Friends

Oracle is a living book

Playfulness

Intrigue

Love of literature

Memories

Loss/ lostness

Uncomfortable moments (for a public & an oracle)

Time (less-ness)

Meaning

Decisions

Monsters

Emotional responses

Bravery

Uncensored waterfalls

Innovation of body/ voice /self-discovery

Intention

Here & now presence

Togetherness in varied ways

Women

Listening to

–           Intuition

–           Body

–           Soul

Story telling

Body

Writing sound waves

Where we come from

Home

Live art

An uncontrolled archive

Pie & po

The room that I am in

Resources

–           pens

–           post-its

Inner resources

–           ideas

–           ways of working

–           skills

tolerance to self

hardness

pain

individual interests

successful failures

a red scribble

support

Contradiction

–          of oneself

–          the other

–          the world

silence

will – individual

monsters

publicity for the self

be – longing

spirit

food sharing

feeling

staging theatricality, performance

repetition

stealing, copying, infecting, contamination, resonances

harvesting – book making

the landscape that I am in

stories

reading what?

Love in what we do and how we do it

Voicing an entire universe

Character

Connect – ing

Breath

Showing an (alien) world

Space for disappearing

Collect collective

Co-existence

Together

The space that I am in

Resonance

Vibrations, trembles, oscillations

What is data?

Questioning

Scoring

Scoring what?

A live human