Popela’s Escape, by Jack Hauser
Animated photographs as a plan to escape from Popela’s Paralipomena obscored by the use of a score by Kurt Kren
Throughout the laboratory week, Jack Hauser developed a film in collaboration with the other lab participants. His departure point was an existing score of the Austrian experimental film maker Kurt Kren, which points out five camera positions and a particular order and rhythm of organizing the resulting photographs into a short film.
Popela’s dictionary of invented words
On the first morning, the lab participants formulated a shared project of creating a dictionary of invented words. These words would emerge from the context of the research, as a slip of the tongue, as terms denoting new concepts,… All the words were, in an act of collaboration, documented on file cards, 99 in total, containing the word itself with a definition, which could also be a drawing or photograph. The words were also practiced during a word breakfast, used in games, songs and letters, or smuggled into everyday life in the city.
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Double click on a word to open its definition.
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adwie-oddery
oddery: animal-like sound that expresses both surprise, amusement, nonsense and total support.
Example for how to provoke an oddery: place or hide a fake exemplary of something amongst real ones. Or downsize all the furniture of someone by 25%.
air picking
The action (gesture) by which one searches for words in the air, mostly using hands and fingers.
Gesture: hand movements in the air searching for words.
air tuning
anymal
A speechless parasite represented politically by the United Species. Anymals communicate in their parliament by way of polytics. See also: polytics.
aparexit
artiplication
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bailey
bard
begending
bellow (Samuel)
An invisible member.
blastilence
broaduct
Conscious or unconscious synchronization of the brains of at least two separate bodies.
brow
(verb) to forget the purpose of your current action while you have started it already. When your body is still going forward but your mind started to go backwards.
byrat
a word for the exact point when you cross the line from feeling stressed or scared about something, to not being afraid at all -often provoked by a single and sudden thought. May especially occur when escaping one labyrinth and entering another.
See also: to swein.
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carcatcher
A strategy to occupy a public space in a legal way.
Ex: a walking demonstration on a pedestrian crossing (“zebra path”) or on a roundabout.
clur
(verb) to create the positive definition of a negatively charged word. To assign a productive value to a pejorative word as a mean of emancipation. Caution: to clur might generate ambiguïty and misinterpretations within a discussion with unfamiliar interlocutors.
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elur
An elure is the word it all starts with. An elur can form the basis for a dictionary, a new language, a system, even a way of living or organizing the world.
elursom
The word that describes how you feel after having seen a great deal of inspirational things - and then fear that there are not enough good ideas left in this world anymore.
You can find a documentation of one who has experienced this on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICT
errow-arror
One does an errow when one fails right in the middle of raw reality. Cf. errowist.
A arror is a warrior missing more than one “you”, therefore fighting to fall from his narrow subjective path preventing him to hit reality.
eye manuals
Gesture: hands doing movements of opening outwards from the eyes.
Cf. Eye-manuals can be used in case of lacking eye-phones.
eye phones
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faleactory
a faleactory is a kind of factory that produces aleatory acts.
fatiguesqueezing
feetrine
ff
fipe
Since René Magritte lost his pipe in the film “The 39 steps” by Alfred Hitchcock, and since smoking is in many places prohibited nowadays, entering a field of causalities in full consciousness, flexibility, focus, feedback, fuss and friction, fastly speaking f-words such as “format” or “fashion” in order to find fruitful metaphors, one has to prepare one’s mouth with a FIPE. For clarity’s sake: Ceci n’est pas une pipe (Ceci n’est fas une fife).
Popular use: a fipe is an unwanted object, usually received against your will but impossible to refuse.
Ex: “she got fiped”.
formatrauma
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giving good fipes
Gesture: small fast hand movements, from down to up, almost like vibrations.
glore
gourmot
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harpoma
A strong past experience, which has a positive life-long effect on someone. Antonym: trauma.
hyscorical
[Not in use anymore]. Birds from tropical regions who start to lose their feathers. His coricol.
Later also applied to a person who becomes hysterical after or during the work with scores.
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identifight
“A sort of crisis that can occur mainly from within.”
“a barded merman had an identifight after backbooking.”
instruman
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jackthing
to take time to do something on your own.
joddery
to joddery: conveying invented words by speaking them out loud while another person who is seated at a distance is writing them down.
johny
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labryscol
language clit
“Oh, this word really tickles my language clit.”
Organ in the brain that gets stimulated by certain words. Different for every person.
language
All that could be language of the language could be clarified.
loquist
(noun): a person who translates his/her gut feeling into riddles.
luratic
(noun; adj.) a person making a lot of money by being crazy.
lurics
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merman
Is a member who is spellbounded by Popela’s paraphernalia.
mindpollute
“I have no idea what it is.”
mindsneeze
like: to mindsneeze; a mindsneeze.
cf. mindpollute; fatiguesqueezing.
miss interpretation
Is Instruman’s wife & partner. She is the brain behind him.
mistick
monocondys
a disease resulting from the becoming of two entities into one , while remaining in two different spaces.
mouthpreparation
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narrowtivism
the narrowing down of the meaning of a word to its negative use only. To underate a word.
Ex of words often subject to narrowtivism: utopia, feminism, speculation, communism, naïvity, egocentrism,…
negactivate
Turning theory into fiction. When theory blurs into fiction. Turning around.
nokno oyo
Strategies to generate the not-known-yet.
nub
Non-Useful Body. can also refer to a person, c.q. someone who has had the opportunity to learn something new but never did and is therefore stupid or idiotic.
It sounds like “gub”, such as it appears in Woody Allen’s film “Take the money and run”: a nub who wants to rob a bank but doesn’t know how to spell “gun”.
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obscore
A method to create inglorious unknown outcome.
outuition
A word for a particular feeling that everybody else in a certain group knows something that you don’t.
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padpatting
perfromance
A restless night in a cheap hotel when the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table.
First perfromance was preserved by A. Prufrock in T.S.Elliot’s poem “The Lovesong of A. Prufrock.”
piplic
polytics
Gestural babelisation.
popela
“These our members, as you [Popela] foretold us, were all spirits, and are melted into air.”
prelur
prescority
produstivity
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rebutants
redonedance
reflexion
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scoratic
Is a guru that gathers people around him to extort them money by giving them life scores.
scoratory
Ex.: “Scoratory matters”
scoriasis
scoriosis
scorpse
a scorpse is the result of a process of full scorification applied to a living body. A well-known exemple is the James Bond girl from “Goldfinger” who died from suffocation due to full coverage with gold paint.
screading
scrolling and reading at the same time. Or the action of reading the real as a score.
selfneration
“It is not my scor. It is me!”
“Is this mine? - “No, no, go ahead.”
“It’s a lifestyle choice.”
“It’s like being told to perform one’s idea of an alien abduction in a normal way.”
“I think you are good performers.” - “So are you.”
“Why is it actually a man who asks me what to do?”
semacore
shazam
shazamzebrow
shup
sinteriority
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spick
stickling
swein
The emergence of something, which is immediately invisible because it creates a new labyrinth. This process happens at the byrat. See also: byrat.
[To be investigated: the La Fontaine fable “The Byrat and the Swein”.
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to tanick
To change skin colour because of panicking.
temte
Having the feeling to leave but at the same time being compelled to stay. “I feel temte.”
throughtuition
transcient
twuest
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undepreciate
to actively ignore the tacit pejorative connotation of a word.
undoition
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volloloquism
<volare: vliegen, ontsnappen
<volere: willen
<vilere: stelen
<loqui: spreken
is a term indicating a larger group of speech phenomena, where the speaker is taken by something other, else, unknown, that makes him/her speak in a different way than usual, transgressing or transforming his/her own subjectivity.
Examples: speaking in tongues, lapsus, stuttering, Tourette, vollopciteren.
vollopciteren
It is an excessive, volloloquist way of speaking in quotes. See also: volloloquism.
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whender
woral
Gesture: hands doing gestures of entering/exiting the mouth.
When used in a theoretical discussion, it relates Walter Benjamin’s “dialectic image” to “oral fixation”.
