I wanna be Alfred Jarry --- wishful thinking by Rainer Ganahl -(exactly 100 years late)

I WANNA BE ALFRED JARRY - wishful thinking with imaginary solutions by Rainer Ganahl

more on Alfred Jarry ((8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was of Breton ...)

The Passion considered an uphill bicycle race, or I wanna be Alfred Jarry, 1903/2011, Tyrolian Alps 2011

The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race, 2011 - KOOIO, INNSBRUCK video, objects, photographs, an exhibition

see films:

Call of nature, 2008, 5 min

I wanna be Alfred Jarry (bells), 2010 - 6 min

CE QUI ROULE - THAT WHICH ROLLS - EARLY FORMS OF ROLLIN' ROCK, 2008 - 43 min

Film props - CE QUI ROULE - THAT WHICH ROLLS - EARLY FORMS OF ROLLIN' ROCK

follwoing the dominating TV and film industry model of "product placement", this film is shamelessly filled with strange objects

dadaleninUBU LENIN

a re-inthronation of ALFRED JARRY'S UBU KING

( FRENCH VERSION: below the english version )

theatrical performance

Ubu Rex (King Ubu) by Alfred Jarry is a master piece about the murder of the polish royal family and the abuse of political authority. Considered to be a herald of the Absurd, Dadaist and Surrealist theater this work really anticipates the monstrosities of 20th (and 21st) century history. As so many dictators and politicians since the writing of this master piece, Ubu was a cruel, greedy, vulgar, self-agrandizing and stupid monster that triggered wars and pushed his population into misery. King Ubu was performed in Zurich at Cabaret Voltaire in 1916 and most likely seen by Lenin and his wife Krupskaya. This must have inspired them to offer the Romanov, the house of the Russian tsar, the same fate. The fact that Lenin was a participating dadaist in Zurich - though in disguise - served me as pretext to rewrite the original Ubu play as Ubulenin, replacing Ubu father and Ubu mother with Ubulenin and Ubukrupskaya. Needless to say, even Bush's weapons of mass destructions and former US Fed chief Greenspan - main regulator over ubuesque investment schemes leading to the current fall down of the world financial system - have an appearance on stage.

CE QUI ROULE
That-Which-Rolls (early forms of rollin' rocks)
A theater performance / play in 3 parts

Act 1)
PERPETUAL MOTION FOOD
dialogs, extracted from the first part of SUPERMALE - spoken by 5 actors

Act 3)
The Ten Thousand Mile Race (bicyclilng between Vladiwodstock - Paris against a train)

Act 3)
The Passion Considered
as an Uphill Bicycle Race

see also :

I wanna be Alfred Jarry, Vindex 1897, 2011, 16mm film -

I wanna be Alfred Jarry, CLEVELAND - Toulouse Lautrec, 1896 / 1898 / 2011, 2011, 16mm film

Duchamp's ÉTANT DONNÉS revisited through the eyes of Alfred Jarry

Étant donné - Use a Bicycle - a black and white 16 mm film, 2011

Counting backwards, Approaching the era of Alfred Jarry (1873 - 1907), 2011

materials: bicycle inner tube (caoutchouc / natural rubber), 1930s; bicycle saddle (leather and metal fixture) 1930s/40s; bicycle fork (metal)1960/70s

more of these works Counting backwards, Approaching the era of Alfred Jarry (1873 - 1907), 2011

www.perpetualmotionfood.com

Perpetual Motion Food - This miraculous food was invented by Alfred Jarry to promote bicycling, love making and other wonderful imaginary solutions. Marcel Duchamp promoted it througout the 20th century. Recently, Pfizer and otheres have been producing generics.

sold by: Supermale (Le surmale (fr.), Supermann (dt)) since 1903.