L'eschatologue
2017 | 6` 10 `` | cg video
This short video uses material from
‘Jean Cocteau Speaks to the Year 2000’ (1963).
The worst thing that an artist can be is useful. Rather, an artist (if they are any good) has to become inevitable. For this there is a simple test. They bang their head against the wall until it bleeds and with this blood write their name on the wall of their studio. If this wall catches fire, then the task is achived.
I am but an intermediary, a sock-puppet. All my brothers are, in this fashion, radio-controlled by the divine geometry that possesses us.
Thus it is hard for me to speak to you of this.This is not ‘inspiration’ to which I am referring. The force that compels us does not come out of the blue. Rather it takes the form of a divine vomit. It is something that emerges from our physic bowels, our somnalumances, and it is this that the poet lays out on a table”
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The worst thing that an artist can be is useful. Rather, an artist (if they are any good) has to become inevitable. For this there is a simple test. They bang their head against the wall until it bleeds and with this blood write their name on the wall of their studio. If this wall catches fire, then the task is achived.
I am but an intermediary, a sock-puppet. All my brothers are, in this fashion, radio-controlled by the divine geometry that possesses us.
Thus it is hard for me to speak to you of this.This is not ‘inspiration’ to which I am referring. The force that compels us does not come out of the blue. Rather it takes the form of a divine vomit. It is something that emerges from our physic bowels, our somnalumances, and it is this that the poet lays out on a table”
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