By chance the relations between witnesses form a circle. One can easily imagine, that it could have been otherwize, and mathematically one can prove that "if each and every person has exactly one witness and is the witness of one other person, than the only figures one can get by drawing out these relations in the way demonstrated above, are one or more circles".

The Foam.Lab project is a collective form of lab in which a group of people are meeting during several times in 5 months to produce " foam" coming outside of an individual project.
I proposed to elaborate a process of archiving the foam based on the witness principle.
Here each participant will be a witness of each others work.
By binome dating, one is following the work of the other.
At the end of the 5 months the participants will be a collective - witness of the lab.
Which will construct a "foam.archive".
In this lab : 11 people will be witness of an artist participant.
A catalogue of witnesses will be printed and could be contacted by the audience to meet the archive of each work.
Each archive has a different format considering the speciality of the witness.

Classification is querying :

- how do we think , how do we classify our individual logic of organizing our thoughts and ideas?

- how do you represent your classification?
(images, drawings, objects, sculptures, performance, recordings, videos, dance )

- how do you archive your work of art? does this archive is a new object of work or the past one that you decide to reactualise in its new form? which format would you consider better as an archive?

Dear,

As you might know, investigations have started in the foam.lab. For the first time foam.scientists and apprentices will meet all together in Echo.Base. And I have a strong feeling, some love affairs have tied into this science, still fragile, but moving…

I look forward to welcome you at the public opening of our foam.lab. It will take place on Saturday 28/02/2009 at 8 p.m.

In our basement we will create a place for a performance, a dance of spaces, a lecture in spots. Over the coming months pathways will evolve through all this material. You’ll be witness to our first explorations into -and in the company of- muses, bubbles, globes, spheres, cappuccino, … Premature immune systems meet tentative contaminations.

I already want to forward some of the scientists’ most urgent questions:

Which words would leave foam on everyone’s lips? Which sounds bounce like the delicate movement of molecules over the curved hills of bubbles in a hot bath? And about those love affairs: how can we make them float up to the waters’ surface with their first breath, inspired, quivering like delicate mousse?

What food tastes like mental surfactants for the production of brain foam? Which part of the brain flicks like a finger through distinct perceptions or classifications? And from where do we poor the foundations of our habitat?

How to dance a documentary and where to look for a partner who will document the space in between two steps?

To sum up: a lot of experiments, we want to share with you.

I am drawing a map that will lead you right into the deep end of this foam.lab. Together with the other foam.scientists, we will guide you to a mark. An "X" to be performed. Like in a tourist guide indicating points-of-view. But our X is marginalized, unknown, always shifting and no longer able to offer any overview. Many kinds of foam will appear instead of this overview.

Over the coming months I will keep you posted on the research process in the lab, and you’ll receive invitations for the public moments every month.

I hope to see you soon,
foam.scientist

Samenvattingen van excursies die niet in de Nederlandstalige vertaling werden opgenomen.

Door Bart Buseyne.

Sferen 1, Hoofdstuk 3, Excursie 1 Telepathie: download

Sferen 1, Hoofdstuk 4, Excursie 2 Nonobjecten en nonrelaties: download

Sferen 1, Hoofdstuk 4, Excursie 3 Het Ei-beginsel: download

Sferen 1, Hoofdstuk 4, Excursie 4 Heideggers leer over de existentiale plek:download

Sferen 1, Hoofdstuk 5, Excursie 5 De zwarte plantage, deel 1: download

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