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Jewelry as activating media
The following movie shows the recording of my bachelor presentation for the subject applied art and design
My target is a subversive stage play with humor, self-irony and rhythm, to make beholders every days habits aware and give the consumers behavior a sustainable positive influence.
The audience consists of 2 examiners, about 10 students and 2-3 other people.
The presentation took place at 9 am. A ungodly time for a subversive stage play with music. The audience was not awake yet from deep sleep, so just like me.
This performance is a absolute premiere of this play.
You might could imagine how nervous I am.
Well...
… my name is...
… uhhhmmm...
… Siegfried Büeler...
… I do jewelry...
… you might have heard about…
… and...
… I just wanted to ask you...
… what is the meaning of "schmuck"?...
-no reaction from the audience...-
… to early in the morning, huh?…
… can`t I hear something what "schmuck" means for the audience?...
… just short... … at least… … very short???...
… Well...
-"schmückt" (decorates) the body-
… "schmückt" (decorates) the body… yeah...
… but… where does "schmücken" comes from?...
… "schmücken" comes from "smiegen" (snuggle) into something. Slinky, snuggle wearing on the body...
… when do I want to wear something slinky on my body?…
… if it`s valuable, to have it always with me...
… no matter about tangible or sentimental value...
… well, when something is valuable...
… when do I want to wear something else slinky on my body?…
… to reveal one's opinion...
… for what is "schmuck" a indicator?...
… for the social status…
… when I walk threw the streets and I look at the people...
… I can see if somebody is married...
… or if somebody earns a lot of money, because she`s wearing a very expensive jewelry peace...
… or if somebody is a ***, because she`s putting junk jewelry all over her body…
… this is anyone's guess...
… well, "schmuck" is a medium to reveal something, yes...
… to turn, your deepest innermost part, inside out…
… well, if you have a look at my work…
… sure, you all have certainly informed yourself about it before, at the internet…
… you will find out that I`ve got that small esoteric touch...
… Lightly scratched the esoteric level. Yes, like… ups…
… upsala, scratching again...
… well, for the exam preparation, my mum made me some Bach flowers...
-… no reaction from the audience...-
… it has done well, you can see, …
… successfully...
… my father imparted me rather the musically direction…
… because of him flows music threw my venes...
… what you might have noticed as you came inside the room here...
-… I played the djembé as the visitors embarrassed the room...-
… well, my stuff is not only estoric-tinted, yes...
… for me it`s very important to express something what`s important for me...
… and what is important for me?...
… the salvage of our earth...
… that everybody takes care about keeping the earth...
… uhhm, clean and sheer. That we pay heed to our environment, to our nature...
… that`s important to me and that`s what I want to reveal in my jewelry...
… well, now about my bachelor topic: -subversive manifestation-...
… some of you might know nothing about the meaning of this term...
… well, the subversion accrues always from the view of a weaker, thus like a minority group…
… the subversion aims the target to overthrow a existing system or polity…
… so, there is a bunch of systems and politys to challenge...
… and uhm, the subversion challanges quasi all of them...
… the ways and means of the subversion are just as different as the one who is applying it...
… there are examples for the subversion, for example the Dadaism...
… derived from that, comes the surrealism. That`s a form of the subversion, too...
… punk, very clearly, anti attitude, here that one (fuckfinger)...
… "aaarrgghh, *** off… *** the system"...
… punk, very clear, subversive...
… freetekkno...
… yes, pfffff, I don`t even know what this should be...
… there are some crazy freaks with crazy outfits, listening to crazy music, well actually fit`s to...
… that here...
… streetart is a form of subversion, … ...if it`s, like I said before, against a existing system or polity…
… I want to carry you off today...
… or better… …inviting you having a little trip...
… where you face your own consumer behavior...
… and to manifest in your brain, what`s important for me...
… well, you shall face yourself, think about it, to excogitate, to reflect your own consumer behavior...
… and to learn out of it… …sustainable, positive influence is what I want to achieve with you here...
… and if I would do this to every human in the world… …maybe it becomes a better world… …or maybe not...
… well, I have composed a little poem, yes...
… based on the Dadaism, yes… …maybe you don`t know the Dadaism, the Dadaism antagonizes all what is known...
… it is quasi a anti art, which challenges all and is against all...
… uhm, Dadaistic things are poetry, uhm, stage shows, collagenous, sculptures...
… uhm, there are a lot of possibilities to create Dadaistic work...
… well, I have composed a little poem, which should a little bit lean on the Dadaism…
… and if you hear this poem, you might could imagine what my main term is today...
… Fffffffffffffffff...
… Llllllllllllllllllll…
… Eeeeeeeeeee...
… Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii...
… Ssssssssssss...
… Ccccccccccc...
… Hhhhhhhhh...
… Schhhhhhhhhhhhh…
… Ischhhhhhhhhhhh...
… Eischhhhhhhhhhh...
… Leischhhhhhhhhh...
… Fleeeeeiiiiischhhh...
… carnality...
… devour meat...
… ***, devour, meat...
… meat devours ***...
… *** devours meat…
… ussst issst eisssch...
… aisssch issst da!...
… da, da, da,...
… DAAAAAAAAAAA...
… the meeeat is heeeeere… …Yeeeeessssss...
… NO!...
… good meat is rare… … yeeeees… raaaaaare...
… and precious, precious, precious, precious...
… the blood of life annexeded...
… but...
… what`s about the meat, at the supermarket, in those huge shelves…
… life? PAHHH!!! Those animals never had a life...
… like I said before is Dada art, against everything...
… and I`m taking the lead against factory farming...
… because factory farming is a irresponsible business, what not may should be supported!...
… any type of meat, at the supermarket,...
… which is repleted in those shelves,...
… which comes from animals, which are pumped full of antibiotics, to keep them healthy...
… those are fed with accelerators of growth, that they get so fat, they can not carry their own weight...
… these are animals which can not be lived healthy. They can not be healthy...
… and uhhm, it can`t be healthy to eat this meat...
… it`s might be appealing, yeah, it`s cheap, tastes good…
… BUT, IT CANT BE HEALTHY, F**KIN SH*T!!!...
… now back to the Dada, Dada is this kind of art which is against all, bla, bla, bla...
… uhhm, Dada is well known for those sound poems from for example… …Hugo Ball, he has written sound poem. yes… …and those poems are sounding kind of like this…
… bodum zirka ta, brodum zirka ta, ta ta ta, donum pa, dorum pa, dopum pa…
… well, for me it seems like somebody had a false interpretaion or translation about it and the true meaning of those poems are sounding kind of like this…
-making some beatbox-
… well, that`s my interpretation about the sound poems...
… and yes… … now we can arrange something with that...
-Why is my equipment not going well?-
-Aha!!! Because of my nervousness I forgot to put on my Headphones. A fatal mistake as musician.-
… so, and to invoke the shamanic spirit inside here… … I`ve brought some… …incense… … to banish the bad ghosts...
-Short incensetour threw the audience-
… just to calm your nerves, there are no drugs inside...
-no reaction from the audience...-
… now it follows a composition from ol`dirty ***, I`ve been a kind of hiphop fan in my youth...
… and the bridge from my topic to ol`dirty *** is, that… …ol`dirty is a rapper, who likes it raw… …yes, he was always singing: ...
… ich mag es roh, ich mag es roh… … and uhm, that surely means i like it raw...
… and I think that he always means the meat and he has always eaten to much raw meat, so that he died in the age of 33... … so… I just wanted here, a short...
-... where has the golden thread been, again?…-
… so that`s been ol`dirty ***…. ooooyeeee, leute, party people im Haus...
-… still no reaction from the audience…-
… I see… …you`re crazy for ol`dirty ***, yeeees…
… this is phat...
- the one examiner raises her watch and implies clearly with her finger to it…-
… did I forgot the time, is it already half past… … so I shortly need to come over here again…
… honey… … diner is prepared...
… well… …for you… …for me...
… do you like the meat?… …I specially bought it extra cheap, today...
- Some guy breaks into the presentation to tell me it`s to loud. I tell him that it`s over in about 5 minutes. -
… I specially bought it extra cheap today for you, isn`t it so good this cheap meat, huh???…
… fu*king ***… … I just told you, you should not buy this factory farming bullsh*t, man… … you can`t do no nothing right…
… do you want some more pepper, honey?...
… well, I could do some more music tunes, but of course you don`t have any time for it… …or better, I don`t have any time for it, hah...
… uhm, right now, I just want to say some stuff to my wohhh, uhm some words to my stuff...
… lights please...
-now I`m explaining the background about my unwearable pieces of jewellery for the topic "factory farms". Production sequence, choice of materials and further profound thoughts. The work and pictures of the presentation is beholdable at SIGGNATUR.COM
-last week, my professor gave me the kindly hint, I should shave myself for the Presentation. (I had a small nice student beard.)
-so I shaved, the night before the presentation, my head and removed my beanie just now to give the subversion even more expression.
-afterwards the examiners retreated and after their deliberation time, I`ve bestowed a almost very good mark.
-when everybody vanished from the presentation room and I realized that I forgot to wear my headphones during the entire presentation. I needed to return, to record some music, again…
… uhm, now I know why this hasn`t worked very well, before. I forgot to wear my headphones… … and that`s what I`m doing right now...
… to wear headphones is a very important thing for a musician… …because without headphones… …it does not work...
… well, now I can heeeeeeaaaar exactlyyyyyyyy, how the range of my microphone heeeeeeeeere woooooooooooooooorks…
… now we can imitate here a cowshed scene… … Mooooo, Moooooo, Moooooooo, Moooooooooo…
-small time leap fast farward-
… where are you going? where are you going? yes, where are you going?...
… hanfmann, rastafari where d ya goin maan, huh?! whut are yu, man? Bis du rastafari, huh?!
- upsy!!! forgot to loop...
… you see at which I`m getting to… …so that`s dubstep… … and I`m doing such animal sounds, like… … aeeeeeee, auuuueeee,… … that could be a pig at the shambles… … ha, huh… … and when I put some effects over it then it sounds like… HUUUUUUAAAAAAAHHHHH, …, …
-subversive manifestation, Jewelry as activating media-
-a performance from Siegfried Büeler-
-video and audio, Siegfried Büeler-
-english translation, Siegfried Büeler (I hope you`ll get the message…) ;-)