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

 

Alfred Jarry (8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907)  has been an obsession of mine for many years. (www.Iwannabealfredjarry.me). He was not only an amazing writer, avant guard figure, inventer and pataphysician but he also was a fabulous bicyclist. On top of that in 1903 he developed PERPETUAL MOTION FOOD, a powerful performance enhancing drugs while biking and during sexual activities. A compagnion of him, Toulouse Lautrec depicted one of their contemporary world champions know not only for his spectacular accomplishments (see Armstrong) but also for his extensive use of Perpetual Motion Food.  see: ALFRED JARRY, THE SUPERMALE 1903

see exhibiton at KUNSTFORUM vienna I wanna be Alfred Jarry-- including puplicatoin

 

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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 ...)

 

recent exhibitions:

Kunstforum, Tresor, Vienna 2012

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Kunstverein Neuhausen, Stuttgart, 2012

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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

 

 

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I wanna be Alfred Jarry . VINDEX BIKE DICK, 2011

16 mm film,black and white film

 

 

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

 

 

see films:

 

Call of nature, 2008, 5 min

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

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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

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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.

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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

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

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Act 3)
T
he Passion Considered
as an Uphill Bicycle Race

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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

 

 

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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.

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I wanna be Alfred Jarry -- dicks...

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I wanna be Alfred Jarry -- sip tea !!!

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This website is powered and sponsored by PERPETUAL MOTION FOOD and USE A BICYCLEs

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The language of Bosse-de-Nage, Paris 1898/ New York 2013
The language of Bosse-de-Nage, Paris 1898/ New York 2013
16 mm, 3 min 15 

 

 

 

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Perpetual Motion Food - A 24 Hour Re-Enactment, 1902 - 2007

"The act of love is of no importance, since it can be performed indefinitely"THE SUPERMALE, ALFRED JARRY

 

 

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KUNSTFORUM vienna I wanna be Alfred Jarry--

 

 

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