24 by Ra Tack

Today is wednesday apparently
I bought banans this morning but I dont know where I left them
I am sweating a lot
there was a pit smells like nailpolish here
siham and hana just arrived in their bathrobe
they look like quick and flupke
djora is laughing with my way of writing
I just forgot to spell the a goddamnit
Hana is making coffee
I cannot smell it
Maybe my nose just stopped working
I feel something in my stomach
it is probably the aftermath
from all and nothing
Siham is shouting from the kitchen
something about coffee
Simo is playing with the robe, he seems like a girl dancing some sort of robe ballet
it is very simple
emily is sitting with a cup in her hand
it reminds me of a painting I saw once
I think I am never sure
I think
I believe
it was in Copenhagen
in the national museum
Yes I remember
it was a painting just hanging next to two windows
where you could have an outlook
watching childeren en danish fathers playing with each other in the snow
danish fathers are quite tall and beautiful
not the same like japanese fathers
they are totally different
I am not sure how they play with their childeren
but anyway I am thinking about this bottle of champagne now
Bubbles
The painting is now stuck in my head
it was a painting from Renoir
very soft
gentle
like charchaol stroking over the canvas
Siham is eating a bread with eggs in it
and drinking coffee
there is a hole in her booth
this deer is running
almost like over the water
I am not sure if its feet are touching the water
I need to see it again
it has a very simple title
this video
and it has quite a lot of views

we will have bubbles in a little bit
heather is arriving
we are with 8 I think
it doesnt matter
we are all here
the music stopped
I actually dont know how to put a song on repeat in itunes
can you help me ?
The song is on repeat
and there is some stuff going on
which will get resolved somehow
it is interesting for all parties
we are having food together
my stomach is not ok
I stick to bubbles and bananas
Siham is suggesting to smoke a joint
this sentence makes sense
it falls all in its place
it is important to say things
just at the moment where silence comes in
I put this song on repeat
but there is too much electricity
the floor is already dirty
I thought about pierre this morning
the abstract concept of naming someone
the same
maybe it is a communistic point of view
I believe I am making stuff up
all the time
I can just feel that the heat of the projector is really warm

I added a sound to mac dr dree loop
it creates potential for another sound later
when time passes
people dont really eat much
and Hana is looking at me every time I lift my head
I dont know if it a game
it doesnt make me feel uncomfortable
it is just what it is
it is also different to read on the computer or on the screen
I need to play bob marley
it might be necessary for this time
all necessities fallen into place
I need to youtube this something with soldiers
fatima agrees
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I found it
I am laying on the matrass
and some people are screaming
I dont even know how it is
I smell the sound of cheese and it kinda doesnt make sense
djora penses she still has tchaka tchaka
ill find the lyrics for the next song
ill probably need to go to the hospital
because my intestines are exploding
I see myself in djoras phone
I look like I am 80 years old
people always want to hear gangsta paradise
I am not sure about the voice of macy gray
I am a bit confused by it
it sounds like it is autotuned
but it might be her real voice
although I am very sceptical

she HAS A STUPID MUSIC VIDEO
IT IS BORING AS HELL
SHE DANCES THE SAME WAY ALL THE TIME
IT IS EASY TO BRING KIDS AND ROLLERBLOADES IN A VIDEO CLIP
IT IS TOO EASY
but there is beauty in the world

I am playing coolio
and I get reminded of the time I was breakdancing
we had to learn a move and I couldnt do it
because of that this song becomes melancholic
and traumatic
my stomach hurtssss
those cramps woooo
I never want to give birth
maybe I should drink coca cola
I am always serious about things

I really am not serious
it is just a role you play when not serious
it depends on how you reflect on it
THIS CRAMP is gone
it feel like being engulfed by waves of warm pain
there is an easssy explanation for engulfing things
because waves dont have a finite thing
it is ebb and flow it goes back and forth
and up and down and all directions
there is no starting point there is no ending poin
this might be called infinity
but by saying something is infinite
it becomes FINITE
this is the most confusing thing in life
that actually nothing makes sense
and specially these minions
it doesnt make sense at all
but it is so hilariousssss
BANANANAAAAAAA
BANAAAAAAAAA
BANANANANANANA
BANANANA
bANANANAN
blablablablabla

wow MY ears are in pain

this is way too ridicolous
Simo and Siham and Loubna are laughing with a thing
I understand
I dont know what Simo thinks
about this song
would he want to throw a bottle to
the screen
or doesnt he have anger
does Simo even hear the song
maybe he is somewhere else
he probably hears another song
in his head
Naima must have a HEADACHE
I think we need to see this on a big
screen
but he
this seems like a dancer on ice
she wears too much make up
that is not really possible with
so much ice
it is probably recorded
in a studio in Los AngelOs
it reminds of these girls with the
violin who play a song only with
violins
I need to find it
It is 2 oclock now
and the song is 2 minutes far
and although it 5 minutes long
people appear and disappear
SHE IS WAAAAAAAAAAYYYY
OVER THE TOP
ENTHOUSIAST ABOUT
HER VIOLIN
and the lights are probably
cheap ass lights
which you can find in any store
around the corner

I think it would have been better
if she wasnt holding the violin
but just pretending
lik air violin
I think they call it air-violin
where you play violin in the air
and then she could take the MAKE UP off
as well
and the heat
There is a beat in the background
I am starting to believe that
this is not real
somebody payed these girls
a huge amount of money
to put them in this show
and to be satisfying for britains
I am very confused

this is Anselm Kiefer
The first time I saw his paintings
I think I died in a sense
I saw everything in a different way
since then
his paintings
I got sidetracked

his paintings are enormeous
they eat space
they are living they are alive

I also dont think there is no understanding
but then soon he figueres it out
Naima is calling for Emily
they understand each other
when she speaks arabic and emily responds
in english
I got another cramp
it was a big one

this documentary
I think I saw it 100 times
at the same time we are watching
paintings of Lee Krasner
she was the partner of Jackson
Pollock
But no one gave a damn about her
because she is a women

I will need to drink tea
because this pain is unbearable
We just went KO
I cant not even form sentences anymore
when I was laying there
I had my eyes closed
and saw some purple shit
which is a very bad sign for me
when I see a certain kind of color
I just talked about this with Andreas and Lotte
some hours ago
They are a couple at Priscilla
who wanted to have new names for this
I keep sweating and set some moves with black pawns
the queen
always the queen
applaus
there are bananas above our head
it doesnt feel heavy
spoon me
mini spoon
I dont know if it is getting dark
or my eyes and brain has just been fried
Allison just finished another performance
I let it play
and see if it touches me or not
I know for sure that I am extremely warm


I feel like eating water


there are a quite a bit of people arriving
and I cant concentrate on chesss any more
although I am very good at multasking
sometimes it doesnt work

it is important to eat bananas I think
Djora wants to take a shower

if I would eat too many banans
I might have a sugar overload
I was wondering
what happens if you have a sugar
overdose
you probably fall in some sort of trip
where all becomes sugar cubes
and you loose your sense of coordination

your left foot makes a right
and your right foot makes a left

I think I need to change my pants

nobody wants to eats bananas
I am wondering why
I was wondering why
Hana just told us that she looks like
this woman in the movie
with mud on her
I can imagine
it might be her in the movie
I dont know
you never know what is real and surreal
surreality comes reality
there is no difference
they are moving
they are talking

the patio might be the best natural drug


I think it is ok when you move your head once
some woman
some onan
some one
someone
is taking a picture
things are always moving anyway
like the pawns on the chessboard
although they are very slow
they probably are adjusted to the
maroccon climate

there are not many bananas left

I have enough of this movie
it has been quite a long time
I want to see something else
maybe I just google something or youtube something
and I am also aware of the heat of the projector
I feel like smoking and having a glass of wine
but that might not be a good idea
I could play this deer playing in the ocean

on repeat
for some time
infinite time
which becomes time again
without being finite
animals are weird
but humans are more strange
The doors are singing about this
about strange people
they also have lyrics about a storm
and a door

I am not quite sure why people film certain things
and then putting on youtube
I never understond this platform
but I use it all the time
there are people in the room
Nena is laying on the bed
and there is men sitting behind me
I think he is taking pictures sometimes
I hope he is still breathing
because I cant see him as I am with my back
towards him

I am wondering if people could be alive without breathing

once there was this guy was sitting on ice
for hours without breathing

but I was also reading this
in GENIUS WORLD RECORD BOOK

or something like that
I get confused by reality
people tend to explain a reality
but I dont really believe in it
otherwise things become absolute
and finite

it seems dark but I dont know where it is coming from

Fatima is laying down
maybe I should turn my back
but then I have a double screen
and it doesnt really work like this
I just googled tattoos
which I believe quite a bit of people do

there are not really answers for questions
I never know

that is the situation
djora sang really well
it always take a second time
to get better
it always takes more
her voice sounds raspy
I like her voice

there is an intro for 17 seconds
that is quite a waste in our lives

there is potential in the singing
she has a very softsounding voice
it feels like butter
it has this character
and an outrooo
it is funny because I was writing about
waste and then I decided to sing otis about wasting time
there are always englishman in songs
trembling
trembling
I think when we are born and when we die
we always trembling
there is no such thing as stillness
if I would be an Englishman
I would never live in new york
but maybe in Hawai

also I dont really get why they always use
man in songs
in stead of woman
the sound of this tattoomachine
is like somebody who gets bitten
by an army of mosquitos

it feels like I am displaced already
I am in this in between stage where
there is something ending and something
continuing and starting
its like waiting for a plane to come
and take you
and then getting sick of it once you are in there
I think tracey chapman
makes me a little bit sick

but as long as she uses the word squeeze
that is fine

sound of silence
reminds me of growing plants
they need to hear music as well in order
to grow to its fullest
I think this is what they need to hear
in order to grow
we might be in a Californian karaoke bar
I think something snapped
in Emily
some sort of wire in her brain
that seems to lost connection for a second
and then it all gets reconnected and
works in a different way
which makes sense
I think this can go forever
it might be sound

the screen is black I mean the video
and this this ugly purple pops up in my head
there is an idea
there is a an idea
that floats over the sunday and the mondays and the tuesdays
damn I have to type very fast
because she seems to sing very fast
maybe it just me how is slow
and she is just fast
I just heard the sound of a dog in her voice
kinda weird and fucked up
kinda weird and fucked up
kinda weird and fucked up
kinda weird and fucked up
fucked up
fucked up
fucked up
and then the silence came again over the sound of vibrating tattoo
machine
and then you have Fatima saying COMING
COMING
COMING
COMING
COMING
the light is suddenly bright
and I feel very warm
it is the heat of the projector
and the heat of priscilla
the queen of the medina
high max
you are very welcome
you can sit
eat a banana
maybe
there are some bananas hanging
I front of your face
in front of your face
I dont know if you see them
but you can take one
you can take one
I think he is blind
I think he is deaf as well
there must be something wrong with him
he doesnt know what happens
he doesnt wear any glasses
only sunglasses on his head
I actually thought this is a very strange thing to do
this thing that human beings do when they put their sunglasses
on their head
why does a head needs sunglasses
it is kinda abstract
it might be a piece of poetry
I think he might start karate now
I mean I am talking about Max
who is standing behind me
and he is wearing some sort of black
the world is fucked up
when you think about it
there is something as people pretending to do
they go shopping and they watch television
its kinda boring no?
It really boring
and then you have other people who dont do shit like that
and they are kinda boring as well
because they just hang out
on the floor
or attached to a robe together with bananas
If I could eat one thing before I die
like in deathrow or how do I spell this shit

I would choose for bananas and cashews
and maybe an espresso made by the king of Marocco
I heard I might die for sure
from drinking this espresso
thanks to the king
thanks to the queen
queen
queen
queen
holy holy
holy
holy
holy
queen
holy holy
holy queen
queen

yes I did
that is kinda saying the opposite
but it makes sense
I feel like kinda in space
this kinda hurts my ears
it really does
I am very serious about this
dont worry I am just sensitive
today
I did see the rain
it is like a chocolat bonbon
something I dont like

I just need to go to the toilet
I am looking for this place to exist
where people are sitting by the tower and on top and under a
and between
there is just silence
there is a certain stillness
that crosses the eyes before the beds are going under
maybe sunset
maybe a scar of painteed nails
this is the tower of babel
the silences around the tower are mindblowingly facinating


the trains are always comin in

but now they are slow
they are ending somehow
the moon is filled with legs and other
if we could turn that away
the dog is wearing the shirts

1988.
Belgium
Painter and
sound artist
Working and living in Seydisfjordur, Iceland / Marrakesh, Morocco

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