Cloud Clock Love by Li-E Chen

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Cloud Clock Love

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CLOUD CLOCK LOVE is a research and development project by Li E Chen exploring a new understanding of ‘Nothing’/'Nothingness’ through a durational laboratory and a creation of e-book distribution.

Cloud Clock Love is open to individuals who are interested in exploring a new understanding of ‘nothing’, one that has a sense beyond the functional, political, traditional, historical, and representational; and that makes no reference to self, identity, memory, or meaning.

PART 1: CLOUD CLOCK LOVE - A two-day durational laboratory on ‘Nothing’ on 3-4 September 2011 Read the full invitation

The durational lab begun with minimal ‘starting points’ (sound scores, performance and textural scores) which takes participants from or to “0″. Experiment was taken place at the Roof Studio, Siobhan Davies Studios, 85 St George’s Road, Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6ER, U.K.

Durational Live Writing by artists Victoria Gray and Bean

Participants/Co-creators of the Durational Lab on ‘Nothing’: James Hodgson, Ivor Houlker, Sophie Morgan, Annette Fry, Dean Soden, Folveog Eva, Daniel Pitt, Qing Qi, Melody S. Sacco, Sally Dean, David Tse Ka-Shing, Solveig Eva Magnusdottir, Sebastian Han-Walker, Apryl Pipe, Sim Lai, Paul Whitlock, David Marchant, Hannah Lammin, Nathan Widder, Victoria Gray, Bean, John Hill, Soren Evinson, Tim Cullingford and those who also took part online. Live stream by artists Ivor Houlker and James Hodgson.

PART 2: CLOUD CLOCK LOVE - An e-book on “Nothing” (will be published in 2012)

Special thanks to …

Cloud Clock Love is created by Li E Chen starting with a series of performance scores which are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

Cloud Clock Love is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

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Bean’s Second half typing

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Nothing Political – Formula

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Formula on Nothing Political, Li E Chen 2011

If Nothing is y, then…

NP + y = 3 (EP + y)
NP + y = 3EP +3y
y = 3EP + 3y – NP
NP = 3EP + 3y– y
NP = 3EP + 2y

Nothing political = 3 x Everything Political + 2 x Nothing

Nothing = 3 x Everything Political + 3 x Nothing – Nothing Political

.: y = 3 x Everything Political + 3 x y – Nothing Political

The formula of Nothing Political was trying to find the possibilities of what Nothing/Plus Nothing/Nothing Political could be, if we notice ourselves making a statement, we can just add PLUS NOTHING, therefore, thing can be Nothing Political. The calculations above of finding Nothing/Nothing Political were realized by Ivor Houlker during the Cloud Clock Love – Durational Lab on ‘Nothing’ – 3-4 September 2011.

Further testing possibilities:

If we replace Nothing as water, relax, still, anti-matter, plain, natural, wood, rock, etc; and we replace Political as statement, order, control, idea, category, form, etc, the result of Nothing Political can be possible as following:

Nothing political = 3 x (statement/order/control/idea) + 2 x (water/still/anti-matter/rock)

Does this calculation work?

Durational Live Writing by Victoria Gray

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Cloud Clock Love, A Two-day Durational Lab on ‘Nothing’ Siobhan Davies Studios, London, UK.

Artists Victoria Gray and Bean documented 19 hours of experiment, live to Twitter and Facebook online platforms.

Participants/Co-creators of the lab:

James Hodgson,
Ivor Houlker,
Sophie Morgan,
Annette Fry,
Dean Soden,
Folveog Eva,
Daniel Pitt,
Qing Qi,
Melody S. Sacco,
Sally Dean,
David Tse Ka-Shing,
Solveig Eva Magnusdottir,
Sebastien Han-Walker,
Apryl Pipe,
Sim Lai,
Paul Whitlock,
David Marchant,
Hannah Lammin,
Nathan Widder,
Li-E Chen
Victoria Gray,
Bean,
John Hill,
Soren Evinson,
Tim Cullingford
and those who also took part online.

Cloud Clock Love
3-4 September 2011.
Siobhan Davies Studios, London, UK.

Written by Victoria Gray on the occasion of Cloud Clock Love, A Two-day Durational Lab on ‘Nothing’ Led By Li E Chen.This text is embedded with links and therefore references outside of itself.

10:20
10:28
10:28
COMPLICATED
10:32
BREAK UP
10:36
REMOVE FROM YESTERDAY
RIGHT SIDE RECORD
10:40
DURATION DAYS
PEOPLE MIGHT
LAB
ALL OF YOU
IN THE MIDDLE IS THE ENVELOPE
SCHOOLING CHOOSING
CHOOSING SCHOOLING
GOOD GIRL(S)
GOOD BOYS(S)
10:44
CONSTANT
10:45
TRANSCRIBING
10:52
10:56
LINK
POLITICAL SIDESTEPPING
11:06
WATER STRUCTURE
11:10
LINK
11:12
REMEMBERING FROM THE FLOOR
STRUCTURE IS BROKEN
EXTRANEOUS INVERT
11:19
LI T
11:37
THIS EQUATES TO NOTHING
11:46
SEED PENS
12:03
ZEROES AND ONES PLANT AN IDEA
12:13
12:25
ON THE PAGE
TRY THIS
AND
12:39
HERMETIC
12:51
SEED PENS
SEED PENS
12:54
SOUND FINALLY
LISTENMONK
BREAKFASE
13:08
A NEW STARTER
13:13
I AM HER ANTI-MATTER
PEOPLE ARE RESTING AND THIS IS NICE
SLOWING DOWN ‘DENSE SLOW MOVING SENSORIUM ‘ (HEATHFIELD, A)
13:33
uncanny 28
13:34
13:43
WHERE IS LI?
BINARY CHOICES GOING ON THERE AND IT IS NICE, WHAT SHE IS DOING
SKETCHING
WHAT SHE IS DOING IS SKETCHING
28:
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.. … ..
.. .. .. .. .. .. ………. … … …. … … … … … … … … ..
.
. . .. … … … ..
. … .. … . . … …. ……..
.
.. . .
… …..
13:56
HOLD ON A SECOND
THINKING ABOUT PHASING
BLACK MARKET
14:00
FASING
LIVE FEED NOW
14:19
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
sLi

14:37
14:42
BRAILLE TALKING
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
T-SHIRT LIKE A NUN KNEELING WAVING THE NUMBER 39 T-SHIRT SKIRT DRESS CHATTERING HOLDING CABLE OPENING LEGS SLIGHTLY LYING
ANCHOR
GET INTO YOUR SKIRT LIKE IT WERE A PAIR OF TROUSERS
WEAR YOUR SKIRT LIKE IT WERE A PAIR OF TROUSERS
STOP PERFORMING
15:03
15:04

Z LI E CHEN (THOSE TESSELATED SHAPES)
15:07
15:09
AFTERNOON SLUMBER STRONGER CASE PUSH DURATION AWAY
15:14
LET THEM THINK
15:15
I WISH WE COULD HAVE SOME SOUND ON
GIVE ME VIOLINS, SOMETHING EPIC
REALLY LONG CABLES LIABLE BECOMES ROPE FOR SKIPPING / PUTTING ‘THINGS’ OFF
USE
SHE’S FINDING THE (SO CALLED) NEGATIVE SPACE
33 REMOVES HERSELF @15:25
HOW TO GET OUT OF THIS FORMULA
THIS FUCKING FORMULA
EXCESS IS
15:29
COME BACK BOY
12
15:37 – WALKER RESPITE
BECOMES AN ABSTRACT CONCEPT
MUSE
BY THE WINDOW HAS PRESENCE GUY
15:48
WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE IF THERE WERE NO TASKS / NO SCORES LI?
@1212360@APLACEOFACTION@ACTIONOTHING
15:42
16:18
16:39
SEBASTIAN ARRIVES FROM THE WATCHTOWER
BERLIN
MELTING HONEY ON LIGHTBULBS AS THEY BURN, CARAMEL LIKE

. .
.————-.
LEVITATE

16:46

12345678910
OK
123456789101234567891012345678910
OK OK
I DONT KNOW
1234567891012345678910
OK I DONT KNOW
123456789101234567891012345678910
OK
I DONT KNOW
12345678910123456789101234567891012345678910
OK
16:53 END

BAD MIC

16:55

18:15 BACK
LONGER THAN EXPECTED

LI READING @PLACEOFACTION

READING @APLACEOFACTION ONTHEWALLS

18:19
JUST LESS THAN 3 HOURS

MM 11 11 11

18:26

33 44

18:28
GRAPE BOWL GINGER ALE STOMACH EMPTIER ROOM WATER BOWL HURT

18:30
RIGHT IN ITS PLACE

( IS ALSO 0 )

18:38
AND THEN THERE WERE FIVE ENGINES MARKING PONDS; STRETCHING OUT; BANQUETING; NUTS & CHEESE & BREAD; COFFEE & WATER; CLOSER

AEROGEL

18:46
18:46
18:47
AND COUNTING
SMALLER NOW

18:52
CREDIT

18:54
CIRCULATING
B

STAYING IN POWER

I AM NOT SURE I UNDERSTAND THE EQUATIONS BUT I WOULD LIKE TO
WRITING TO PRODUCE SOMETHING – ATTEMPT

GUILTY
5
NO 0.50

WHISKY
19:03

19:19
SECOND
19:22

THAT ONE MAN AGAIN LEFT OUT

19:29

1 + 0 IS STILL 1
19:42
RECORDING ‘AFTER’ TOMORROW
19:44

46 – ‘PEOPLE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEMSELVES WHEN THEY ENTER THE SPACE’

19:48
LIKE GLUE

SHOW YOUR WORKING
1 HOUR LEFT OF DAY 1

1 HOUR LEFT OF DAY 1
1 HOUR LEFT OF DAY 1
1 HOUR LEFT OF DAY 1
1 HOUR LEFT OF DAY 1
1 HOUR LEFT OF DAY 1
1 HOUR LEFT OF DAY 1
1 HOUR LEFT OF DAY 1
1 HOUR LEFT OF DAY 1
1 HOUR LEFT OF DAY 1
1 HOUR LEFT OF DAY 1
1 HOUR LEFT OF DAY 1
1 HOUR LEFT OF DAY 1
1 HOUR LEFT OF DAY 1
1 HOUR LEFT OF DAY 1
1 HOUR LEFT OF DAY 1
1 HOUR LEFT OF DAY 1
1 HOUR LEFT OF DAY 1
1 HOUR LEFT OF DAY 1
NOTHING
ONE
O

O = OIN WEBDINGS FONT

O
O

AND O IN WINGDINGS FONT

EAR
+ FLAG
CALL ATTENTION
WITH
O

O
MOUTH

“

“
20:15
20”16
WAITING WILD

@1212360
EXPLAINING CREATING A STRUCTURE ON OF NOTHING AND TRYING TO FIND A WAY TO FIND AN EQUIVALENT FIND IT I THINK AH A STRUCTURE OF NOTHING IT DOESN’T IT BECOME 1 AND 2 DOT
WITH NOTHING IN BETWEEN
EYES A DRAWN TO THE WINDOW / OUTSIDE SPACE / OUTSIDE FRAME / PUNCTUM

PUNCTUM
PUNCTUM
PUNCTUM
STUDIUM
STUDIUM
STUDIUM

20:26
363 HOME
20:28
46 DISCUSSION
88 MSGS
1ST TIME ON

MUSIC
MUSIC
MUSIC
MUSIC
RICH
RICH

VERONIQUE

THE MOST SONG
THE SMALL DANCE
THE STAND
THE TAKING OF PHOTOGRAPHS
THE TAKING OFF
THE STRANGER DANCING
THE CINEMATIC
THE WAITING ENDING
THE 11 HOURS CLOSING
THE PARTICIPATING
THE INHIBITIONS LOST; CURTAILED
THE OPERA
THE SCREAMING
THE CIRCLING OF THE WRIST
THE SOFTLY WALKING ACROSS LINO
THE WINDOW WANTING NOTHING MORE
THE 46 HANDS OF EARS MUMBLING
THE SHOPPER RESTED GENTLY
THE EPIC
THE BAROQUE
THE OIL PAINTING
THE RODIN
THE PARIS
THE DARK NIGHTS
THE SHAME
THE RUBBER BALL BOUNCING
THE PLASTER SHOWERS
THE DOUBLE
THE CURE
THE RECORDING
THE ANTI-MATTER
THE 11TH HOUR
THE LAST 15
THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN
THE INDIVIDUAL
THE SOLO SHE SENT ME
THE PERFORM
THE REACHED
THE REQUESTS
THE TAPE
THE ROME
THE I AM
THE SECOND DOUBLE
THE INDIVIDUAL
THE PLUS
THE SECOND
THE ACTUALLY EXPERIMENT
THE RECORDED MATTER

THE LAST TEN MINUTES / 1 – 0

ARE LIKE PERMISSIONS
ARE LIKE DISCREET BAGS
ARE LIKE GOODBYES
ARE LIKE CORNERS

GO ON THEN @APLACEOFACTION EXPLAIN ANTIMATTER TO ME

Day 2.

1st post @10 & I am the only 1
PINTER NO MAN’S LAND
10:14
ACTION WHAT
WORK OUTSIDE
10:55
I AM NOT WORKING HARD ENOUGH
12:09
35 ANTI MATTER MAN ARRIVES
12:09
RESEARCH PHASE
12:10
12:23
HE BECOMES SEBASTIAN
A DUET FOR DANIEL AND IVOR
50 + 51
12:36
SOMETHING IN SPITE OF ONES SELF
ADMIN 100 @ 12:37 D2
STILL A DUET TAKING SHAPE
LESS TODAY IN TIME BUT IN ENTRY ALSO LINKING OUT
PRODUCING
14:25
BACK FEELING BAD PERMISSIONS
BEING THOROUGH DUET PLANNING IT OUT MORE ROOTED THAN YESTERDAY SETTLED GROUNDED IN A COUPLE OF HOURS THEY MADE THIS SPACE
14:30
TABLET LIGHT LIKE SCHOLASTIC FUTURE CHECKING AGAINST PAPER TECHNOLOGY FOR SIGNS POINTERS ROOTS LEADS NEXTS POSTS
14:33
HAS REACHED 36
14:52
50 READING WALL TEXTS
AND 36
ALSO
15:01
36 IS WALKING WITH A BENCH ON HIS SHOULDERS
36 IS RUNNING WITH A BENCH ON HIS SHOULDERS
AND IS LOWERING IN A VERY CONSIDERED WAY
AND LOWERING IN A VERY CONSIDERED WAY TO ANONYMOUS SOUNDS
15:10
DENY
ONES SELF

WHAT IS TRANSFERRABLE WHAT IS
WHAT IS NEW IS INTRODUCING ONES SELF
15:21
NOTICING MYSELF LOOKING NOTING THE TIME THAT IS NUMBERS
SUITS BACK
KNEE PLAYS 5
15:38
PUT YOURSELF ASIDE

VOID ()

TRUE ‘BEING’ OF ANOTHER
SHARING
16:09
SHARING AS WE GO ALONG
because IT IS FUNCTIONAL

LESS DUPLICATION TODAY

16:42
LISTENING TO YESTERDAY THROUGH SOMEONE ELSE AND THEIR RECORDING
16:45
PETERING OUT

Verb
to peter out (third-person singular simple present peters out, present participle petering out, simple past and past participle petered out)
1. (idiomatic) To dwindle; to tail off; to diminish to nothing.
2. What started as a great effort ended up petering out to nothing.

16:49
11 LEFT

A GREAT EFFORT
17:01

Durational Live Writing by Bean

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Cloud Clock Love, A Two-day Durational Lab on ‘Nothing’ Siobhan Davies Studios, London, UK.

Artists Bean and Victoria Gray documented 19 hours of experiment, live to Twitter and Facebook online platforms.

Full, unedited writing by Bean. Sound recording by Bean – aplaceofaction – typing documentation

Participants/Co-creators of the lab:

Cloud Clock Love
3-4 September 2011.
Siobhan Davies Studios, London, UK

Preperation has reached: 50

9 X Preperation ANTI ANTI ANTI ANTI ANTI ANTI ANTI ANTI ANTI

Cutting + Reading

1 Ss sun opens pausing at pens pushing these flat footing.

Flat footing. Flat. Flat. 0. 0.

11.

Retrun to grey.

Air 0

Folding T-shits Unfolding cables.

Returning to 0.

Start 0.

11 22 33 44

11 – 22 = – 22 – 33 = -55 – 44 = – 99 (almost nothing. this is not perfect, not complete, not nothing)

it is not empty enough

man with one sock up, tries to draw 0

Prep 24. Prep 40. Prep 37. (Prep 21) Prep 28. Prep 29. Prep 49. Prep 46. Prep 39.

Li E circles nothing speaking nothing tongues of nothing not nothing reels of not nothing triping not nothing stumbles not nothing sounds not nothing

left LEFT.

ADD AND +

Green

Blue

Red

Green

Yellow 33 wants to think.

People are choosing envelopes that match their clothes.

I don’t understand your voice or your trousers.

56 performs the experiment. 56 over Ss.

12345678910. 12345678910.12345678910. 12345678910. Bodies pressed. Ok. 12345678910. 12345678910. Ok. I don’t know either. 12345678910. 12345678910. Ok. Ok. I don’t know either. 12345678910. 12345678910.

12345678910. Ok. Ok. 12345678910. 12345678910. 12345678910. Ok. I don’t know either.

The t-shirt is too small 43.

Prep reaches 13. I must perform.

Nothing Political. Nothing Political. (with police sirens).

33 is stamping nothing political

small steps are nothing political

masking tape is nothing political

tearing tape/ folding body into 0.

0 political.

Mutterings of nothing. The only word I know.

Did you say M14?

5/6/7/8

+7 = nothing

(letting the outside in will not lead to nothing)

Prep 42. hold.

Structure of whole numbers. Structures within structures.

The structure of 3 is a collection of random numbers.

I wish I could here you.

The structure of 2 is simple whole numbers.

The structure of one is nothing.

sound over bodies

sound divided by bodies

sound devides bodies

0 white

0 grey

0 = nothing

nothing = grey

All the bodies move super slow. The fan is violent.

Masking tape sticks to nothing of the air.

Air is nothing.

breath.

Amplified air. Amplify the nothing. take it away and there is nothing.

Prep 53. PERFORM!

| || David

||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||||| Head

| || David

|||| ||||| Opening

|||||||| ||||||||| Around

||||||||| ||||||||||| Booty

| || David

I am lost.

| || David

|||| ||||| Le

||||||| ||||||| Around

||||||||||| ||||||||| Booty

1003! THIS MAN IS HERE HEAR.

I like this man and his sounds.

Back resting. Pushing to find what is nothing. To highlight the gap or the non gap to make the gap visible. To make nothing visible.

Why is a circle nothing. what is zero. Why is a circle whole. Why is complete nothing. What is empty. Is nothing everything.

Everying is going in circles and echoing of each other. Sounds circling. The body is so full.

14 15 28 9 7

-7 looking

(3 HOURS = CHANGE)

“3 is a collection of random numbers.”

I always hear 33.

You must stop now When is nothing how

you must stop now can you reference

you must stop now anything

to the page

there is nothing you

can reference to

refer to structure

the structure of 3

the structure of 1.

structure within the structure

bodies on structure construct

Braille note:

Looking at each other. Looking for nothing. The act (ion) of 0

Does it always take 2?

How to dissolve

How do you make something from nothing.

How do you get from something to nothing.

(Prep 6. I am your anti-matter.)

Do less.

You are attracted to the unknown but as soon as it is known to you you are not attracted to it.

Some thing like the radio times.

Do less.

(Prep 13. Sounds like found bound grow)

take take take take take take take take take take take take take take take

walking aggressively into nothing. Turn up(s) testosterone. Shouting with marker pens.

Number 6 scares me.

Gray has one arm in the air (again) she sushes us.

turning into nothing. inside and outside.

clothed air enclosed in nothing dancing with the ether.

4 2 floor

1 tocking on the microphone

1 wait 1 point 1 voice

angular and awkward and large – forever. Take/Grow/

11 22 33 44 like big brother. Staring context. Nothing political / Everything Politcial.

Take 13. Take forever. Take time. Take my heart wondering nothing. Take bounds to grow. Take it all. Take all of this. Take soul. Take my. Take hand/foot. Take my. Take her. Take some of this. Take the outside in. Take that 1995 greatest hits.

(give give give) feet on womb throat murmers reaching to tap for something

hairy fans – staring at leafs – cabled fingers – sun lines – one line – uncrumpled

the mic stand extends her body and the music swings them on 12341223456 1234567812341223456123456781234123456234567812341234562345678123423456123456781234234561234567823412345612345678234123456123456782341234562345678234123456234567812345678123412345612342341234234 preparation has reached 34 and we are anti matter 2345623455678123423456

and I am confused.

chaos.

paired paper ripping through and on chaos.

1 2 slam 1 2 slam 1 2 slam 1 2 slam 1 2 nothing drum rolls. empty.

empty

at last

(THIS GAP IS SO BIG)

The 2^nd of life

The death

The minutes

The time

Rolled up 0 t-shirt revealing gray. Gray = 0

(THIS GAP IS SO BIG)

I am the number 26: I am your anti matter. It does not matter.

0 = focus

Prep reached 28 + nothing: I have just received a silly number.

He gangles.

She unfolds and stacks the on her body, massing over grey. A massed.

They don’t want a new number.

Prep reached 37: hold on 1 second.

(clock stop cock still)

amassed over grey is pushing the excess out the window. She loves Gray. Gray has one arm in the air (again) she sushes us.

Tearing paper microphones (again) and the fan is perpetual. Perpetually fanning nothing. I think the fan is clever. She blows nothing with her legs open and rocking. Staring at 0. 0 = nothing. Her voice so small and sharp I can’t understand it. Knees together step away from the microphone. Mega.

11 22 33 44 blue circle chases pink circle in circles led by the suffocated grey.

11 22 33 44 2 arms like 2

11 22 33 44 2 flirting and talking

11 22 33 44 2 join (1 + 1 = 2)

note: this is making more not nothing

slapping patterns 360 whole turns everywhere turning nothing in something

grey (covered by 28 now) tracing steps muttering numbers in mad repetition feet leading voice/ voice leading feet. take lead into nothing. left and right/ one and two/ in every way she does this. Alone in madness. This is grey. Grey = 0.

26 but cheeks.

Screwing numbers.

Brake.

And it has changed.

she is writing on the floor – I am not writing

the structure of 3. 12345678910 12345678910 12345

(ding ding) 12345678910 OK OK I don’t know

its humid and still. pushing through this nothing.

(ding) nothing political is separation

(ding) nothing political is preparation condition

dragging numbers wrapped in clothes like a cats arse – emptiness itches.

searching for 0

thousands and thousand of bumps like molecules inside body numbers like a map inside body like mushroom touch the texture spots rough rough soft sandpaper its nice thumb me my cracks into language of some kind understanding just nice turning again again again like my mumble this repetition we’re not going anywhere going somewhere because going nowhere I like bumps bumps bumps share the bumps a tiny world of bumps single me out the bumps shaking out the numbers wrapped in clothes this bump bump of nothing talks of something maybe nothing maybe maybe papered bumps cut a story t-shirt on head down cover number place this bump place turning bumps the number stack turning and turning and turning it it becomes becoming nothing becoming something something becoming nothing is the microphone tired of been spoken to its not just an announcer it is it is it is body say body speak the microphone its own body own molecules

stretching out 39 with feet 39 bounds legs 39 is up 39 is ready

this is a playground of anonymous numbered bodies

preparing with hands over ears – you

i can t hear you

she is wearing the numbers as trousers - 49 is defiant

everything is always about circles

0 = nothing 0 = everything

0 the projection – the fan – the felt tip 0

(i feel we are getting closer to nothing)

we keep trying to do nothing and it keeps becoming something

this grey body of 0 circling the microphone catching the fan. So slowly moving cant help the moving. Reverbs cut through fans stream of nothing.

Prepartion 29: (she cant help herself) this is not boat

They have to make noise to know they’re alive

49 wears it as a mask. He is a line (1) but the most 0

Prep 33: think. This is not a boat. This is not a boat. Beyond life the life beyond beyond life the life beyond beyond life the life beyond.

33 the grey one is not living up to her name. must try harder. Or less. Grey = 0

mic cable lapping and slapping in circles to contain or release or be nothing

0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 0

0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

hand traces obsession

Crouching in the corner they are hiding and making nothing 53 actually 43 13 experiment 43 individual 48 individual 35 talking now of nothing

nothing is difficult

this perpetual 11 22 33 44 staring down at us pointing out what we know pointing out what we cant do pointing out failure pointing at us pointing at nothing

I will print to point out our failings.

12345678910 OK I DON’T KNOW NOTHING POLITICAL NOTHING POLITICAL N O T H I N G P O L I T I C A L MMMM MMMM M M M M M M M M M M M M M

15 one the boy in the sun half in half out stiring trees stuck in the nothing 32 the nothing speaks more than the microphone 40 15 such intent 4 thought 40 30 thought. he is joined and left and joined again. recording nothing. no 15. 15 on. Waving and smiling at outside with microphone fist. I am poised. 15 40. Give it to me. 15 40. You tease. 8. I want something. 4/thought 15 a 15 o 15 30 15 40. Begging. 30 40. The longest. duce (2) advantage. me (you)

cracking the mic again

the fan again

the fan the fan the fan the fan the fan the fan the fan the fan the fan the fan

i t i s f i l l i n g u s u p t h e s p a c e u p s o f u l l i n e m p t y

Brake.

MM tells me about zero 0 in the sand

On return

| 0

. .

at peace

what is madness

automatic takes over levitating in humidity pencil shades the body. REPEAT.

to rest.

I’m mesmerized by the pencil I wish I could type its pattern and sound. how do you say a pencil colouring in. its reaching fingers.

Again a lot of looking.

The structure of 3.

This repetition of numbers. Its counting, recording moments of nothing. penetrating empty. braking or making. It commands our attention and compels action. numeric mantras.

penetrating empty numeric mantras

The sum of zero and zero is zero.

1 he has completed himself.

0 is complete. 0 is nothing. 0 (nothing) is complete. 0 (nothing) is everything. everything is nothing (0). 0 (nothing) is everything.

cartwheeling to cut time. back to circles.

circles of nothing. circles to make something.

cartwheeling to cut time. back to circles. circles

of nothing. circles to make something. cartwheeling

to cut time. back to circles. circles of nothing. circles to

make something. cartwheeling to cut time. back to circles.

circles of nothing. circles to make something. cartwheeling to

cut time. back to circles. circles of nothing. circles to make something.

F A I L

The

numbers

are

ordered

folded

line

numbers

are

lineal

straight

THIS IS WHY WE DREW THE CIRCLE IN THE SAND

negative and complete whole and empty

just 31 the fan the paper fan the number fan 11 22 33 44

folding and (un)folding each other. Repetition is key.

Prep 50. 9 + and 9 and 9 and 9 and time and time and night and nigh and night.

Back written back. 11 off return to off. – 32 -55 -19 almost nothing this is not working not nothing. 4 zero. 27.1 .49 46 breath circles nothing speaking not nothing tripling not nothing sounds nothing left left at at plus at at plus at bring through bring yellow people don’t understand there trousers 56 over 122345678910 123245678910 12345678910 audience pressed . OK 12345678910 12345678910 OK. I don’t know either 12345678910 12345678910 OK OK I don’t know either 12345678910 123455678910 12345678910 OK OK 12345678910 123456789010 12345678910 OK I don’t know either to small cant reach I must nothing political 33 is stamping nothing political nothing political tearing tape folding into zero zero political did you say m14 5 678 + 7 lets outside in create 42 holes structure structure of 3 is a collection of random numbers the structure 2 is 1 is nothing 0 same same bodies 0 bodies 0whiote nothing nothing all bodies nothing must number air nothing breath nothing taking too way take it heads heads opening arrive david im lost 1 0 0 3 here hear I like this moon and sun invisible invisible why is it political invisible political invisible political

voice not touching microphone passing over

if I eat a biscuit it goes round inside my head now I hear you

take take take take take walking turn up sushing

the fan is over

take world 11 22 33 44 staring tip time tip it all tip 10 tip 9 tip 1 tip 4 tip tip tip feet on wall hairy string cable fingers the volume 123456 123456789 12341233567123456781234123456234568781378123456235678135334561234567812345234562123456782341234561234567823412345612345678234512345623456782341234562345678123456781234123456123423412342341 population has reached 34 and we are at a maximum 234556234556712342345678nothing complete forest paired paper rhythmic 12 sound 12sound 12 sound 12 18 at last this gap is now so big the 2^nd of lif the death the t-shirt opposite the 0 the number traces it does not want to the 0 nothing a have just received a silly number on the phone a bobbin i don’t want a new number we reached 37 hold on a second clock stop grey is pushing acid up she loves the way shhh ass do you have more paper factory staring at 0 at 0 at 0 the world is so small I cant understand it

the problem is what is useful.

just being.

is zero just being. is that possible? How will we know and if we realize will it not be 0 anymore? Is it a collective effort? Does everyone have to be just being for us to be nothing. Why do we want to be nothing. Is this possible? What is zero? Why does it matter?

31 moves away from the fan and folds-up. BackBlackBack.

There is no one here – is this nothing?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing

46 = nothing

nothing but what is left. Readings of actions. The act of reading. Reading is active. Reading is productive. Reading a product or produce. Reading is words. Words were symbols. The first symbol was 0. 1^st 0. 1 0. 0 before |.

Focus lost. But 1 remains. 1 man. 1.

24 anti matter 37 all honesty 21 I am 29 hold on 49 I am anti matter 46 I am a fawn 47 automatic binary

long flat feet bone pokes on floor.

bone contact.

| 0

un-nerves-memory

the difference between speaking to each other and amplified without you

MAN = 1

individual

binary

requests

anti matter

perform

individual

hold on

anti matter

I am your anti matter

hold on

individual

+ 0

hold on to seconds

I m yours

perform

experiment

request binary

EXPECTATIONS

SOLO FELT-TIP SOUNDS OUT THE SPACE

11 44

33 22

44 66

88 12

16 14

17 it doesn’t work 14

18 16

20 18

44 22

33 11

44 22

copy & paste.

rhythm. Number sequence – pattern/ nature/ biologic/ logic.

commanding clock/ commanding feet/ commanding keys.

dakness drawing outside/ drawing together/ drawing circles all day/ drawing nothing

moon 0

sun 0

nothing 0

mouth 0

sticking nothing to nothing.

we are all compelled.

46 marks time. (Gray “ 4+6 = 10, 1+0 = 1)

now there is 1 + 0 solitary 1 + 0 together 10

collections of nothing

still the fan reminds us there is not nothing here.

is nothing the end – it started with 0

is 0 the end – it started with nothing

sound

we go into it | || ||| ||||

d i s o l v e

I should do less

Do nothing

For everything

For nothing

You cant describe nothing/ inscribe is something

One, 1, dances circles of 11 22 33 44

1 dancing with 0

it is a story of love there was a silence between them they needed no words to express it they sat in silence in the moonlight do you love me I love you more than time can tell you are my light of life sun moon stars everything without you I have no reason for being sitting in silence holding hands bodies how much do you love how much do I love

1 0

cloud – clock – love

inescapable

everything must have an ending except my love for you bodies touching holding hands in moonlight kiss me lean over me lips warm

INESCAPABLE

NUMBERS ARE EVERYTHING

SHE DANCES THE BEGINNING OF THIS

LOVE ANNIHILATES

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter

0 – 0 | 0 – 0 | 0 – 0 | 0 – 0 | 0 – 0 | 0 – 0 | 0 – 0 | 0 – 0 | 0 – 0 | 0 – 0 | 0 – 0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PositronDiscovery.jpg

DAY TWO: START

from the breakfast table. By bringing and consuming have I reduced our chances of returning to zero; must we be empty.

zero functioned as a mere placeholder wombs of nothing

Bitting lips towards 0

body is zero

placeholder

they return, pace space selecting numbers, marking no thing

striped down chest 36: I m your anti matter

Preperation:

1. The action of making ready or being made ready for use.

2. Something done to get ready for an event or undertaking.

Use:

1. Employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of nothing

2. To avail oneself of; apply to one’s own purposes nothing

3. To expend or consume nothing

4. To treat or behave towards nothing

5. To take unfair advantage of nothing

36 + man

36 +1 = 37

3 + 7 = 10

10 = two bodies, 1 0

Action 51: no records match this request

Action 50 + nothing

51 + 50 = 101

1 0 1 = two men and Li E chen

Man Li Man

Their fingers can’t help but mark. Inscribe, addressing with dedication.

Fingering hair. Trying to un-do/ not-do, nothing.

Informally two persons, note in and on.

Beyond surfaces, words, characters.

Draw, delineate one figure (1) within another 0 the inner lies within the boundaries of the other, touching it at as many points as possible.

They are nothing with no records, yet attempt to score something of nothing.

51 under his shadow.

His shadow of yesterday: I’m mesmerized by the pencil I wish I could type its pattern and sound. how do you say a pencil colouring in. its reaching fingers.

Text message from Michael Mayhew: The Nothing that is – a natural history of zero – Robert Kaplan.

The synchronicity continues.

HELLO

IT IS VERY GREY NOW. GREY = 0

ACTION 26: I’m your anti matter/ soft/ honest/ 1 0 baryogenesis / diagonally collided/ is this it.

Asymmetric in everyway.

36 shadow 50

NUMBER

BLACK

NUMBER

1 1 1

rain rods/ rain drops/ rain puddle

1 into 0

looking for/ at 0 is impossible surely?

looking is (un)doing what has been done in nothing

change moments.

(in) direct (un) direct.

RED arrives does not take on number. Remains RED. Small RED dot. Small RED 0. Small RED .

small . sm . s .

black 0 window out-in

in-on on-out on to

there their they’re three free 3

interference – the energy the mass of my body would interefer. Braking. Distance. Paraminters. Boundaries. Critical mass. The tipping point. The typing. Weight.

BLACK DOT WEIGHT

BLACK DOT WEIGHT

speak of volume in silence

11 mutterings

1,1 RED 0 SOMETHING

respect less.

They’re forming numbers 11 (1, 1) (36+50) with shadow rules: ORDERING NOTHING, COMMAND NOTHING, GENTLY NOTHING.

So grey melt into grey into floor grey grey nothing dissolve feet into brain numbers lost logic logically numbering thoughts into still actions bodies like 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 which is nothing which is what they are 1 how can 2 1 ones get to be nothing what about zero 0. 0. its all about the 1 1. Red dot does not engage engage is bad frictions reaction relation kinesthetic energy masses ammmes to more make more make more make more must be making less destruction destruction Metzger.

(14:42)

METZGER

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Metzger

22 64 83 49 02 42 4 002

Brake: Recording Recordings:

the authority to make noicse tonmside sileience is not tnothing 0 is tnot a sosunfd wabev the authority to make noise sounc silience is not nothing notihgint 0 iis anot authoruaty toiiis myw does it alwatys come back to authorutyuy thje the suthority to to do nothing to sdo less who owns nothing the sero the sero can have now nouewnertshitp beciause it has no avalue thewother than the vbalue than tislicence and avolucment and auautiority and zero is nothing zero 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 is everything thie has the most value no one a can own that it is the most valuable so thwne say zero is nothing 0 is nothing it is ac tual everything it is fso FULL FULL FULL FULL FULL FULL FULL how to dget tfrom FUL FILLL FULL to mnothing to empty what is empty haow mempty thoughts it sit posiubbble allways thoughts all blodd lomivoement all ways asmenergy a cccant no enerygyg.

the authority to make noise to make silence silence is not nothing 0 is not a sound wave the authority to make noise sound silence is not nothing nothing 0 is not authority to my does it always come back to authority the the authority to to do nothing to do less who owns nothing the zero the zero can have now ownership because it has no value the other than the value than it is silence and movement and authority and zero is nothing zero 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 is everything the has the most value no one a can own that it is the most valuable so they say zero is nothing 0 is nothing it is actually everything it is so FULL FULL FULL FULL FULL FULL FULL how to get from FULL FULL FULL to nothing to empty what is empty how empty thoughts it is possible all ways thoughts all blood movement all ways asymmetry a cant no energy.

RETURN:

deny oneself everything.

d e n y

o n e

s e l f

e v e r y

t h i n g

o n e

independently doing nothing/ you do nothing together.

He has become 32. Recording nothing with beaky camera suit.

36 bangs I am here into shadow. Pushing heads. I keep returning to heads pushing on surfaces.

Singing under his shadow, this 1 is good at 0

Obsessed with recording incase nothing happened and we missed it.

Walking circles into 0 0 is circle return

0 is circle return

your closeness now draws a line 1 of what is between us and you. Numbers. Champions of nothing. humming and walking circles. Can’t escape movement. Is nothing an act or thought.

Coding

Codepending

a flock of numbers

hair repeat hair repeat this doesn’t mean anything

flock

half of total

1 / 2

my voice is banging round the room SHOUTING NOTHING AND FAILING. us all.

END

Durational Laboratory on ‘Nothing’

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Cloud Clock Love, A Two-day Durational Lab on ‘Nothing’ Siobhan Davies Studios, London, UK. 3-4 September 2011.

Artists Victoria Gray and Bean documented 19 hours of experiment, live to Twitter and Facebook online platforms during A Two-day Durational Lab on ‘Nothing’ – Cloud Clock Love project created by Li-E Chen

Victoria Gray- Durational Live Writing

Bean- Durational Live Writing, plus sound and voice. (unedited-documentations)

News

Creative opportunity: - One-year Durational Laboratory on ‘Nothing’

Title: . .

image from "a structure of 3 on nothing" by Li E Chen 2011

. . has been developed by Li-E Chen from an ACE-funded research and development project, Cloud Clock Love, a durational lab held at the Siobhan Davies Dance Studios. Read More…

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Training opportunity: – Mental Processing OnOff line

The first mental processing: switching on
The second mental processing: switching off

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Job Opportunity - Administrative and Project Assistant

To provide support to Li-E Chen’s projects. Position: Freelance-based (long-term). Deadline Application: 10th January 2012
Interview: Between 16th – 20th January 2012

Performance Scores on Nothing by Li E Chen

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Cloud Clock Love is a research and development project created by Li E Chen (陈丽娥) . It starts with a series of performance scores on ‘Nothing’, which include action, sound/spoken words, video, visual, textural and numerical arts. For Chen, Nothing is simply the state of not knowing but that of being always in the condition of preparation. Participants/users are welcome to explore Chen’s scores on Nothing and/or re-create them in their own contexts. Please note The Performance Scores below are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

: Preparation has reached 41, I am your anti-matter. Li E Chen 2011

Performance Scores on Nothing by Li E Chen (Please note: All links will be uploaded in coming month.)

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ok ok I don’t know – sound A – spoken words
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ok ok I don’t know – sound B - spoken words
1, 2. Left, Right – textural/numerical art
A Structure of 3 on ‘Nothing’ – visual/textural/numerical art – pencil on rice paper on wood
Fan and Numbers – video
Po-po-lit-i-cal - sound A
Po-po-lit-i-cal – sound B
Nothing Political – Nothing – formula
Nothing Political – Plus Nothing – formula
Nothing Political – sound A – spoken words
Nothing Political – sound B – - spoken words
Preparation has reached_____, __________. - visual/textural/numerical art/spoken words/gesture/action
I am your anti-matter. – visual/textural/numerical art, no. 6, 12, 24, 26, 34, 35, 40, 41, 48, 49, 52, 55
I am an individual. – visual/textural/numerical art, no. 42, 43
Hold on a second. – visual/textural/numerical art, no. 29, 37
No Records Match This Set of Find Requests. – visual/textural/numerical art, no. 32
I must actually perform this experiment. – visual/textural/numerical art, no. 30, 38, 47, 53
I am here. – visual/textural/numerical art, no. 33, 45, 51
Plus Nothing - visual/textural/numerical art, no. 28, 31, 44, 50, 54

Cloud Clock Love by Li-E Chen, is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Nothing by Will Fung

12/02/2012

Nothing

Nothing, not a thing… From the beginning, there was nothing. Not only in the Bible’s point of view, but also from the Buddhist religion, Chinese Martial Art Tai Chi, Western Philosophy, academical Physics, even advanced Astronomy! As there was “nothing”, “something” must be happened in order to let the “everything” appears as what we have today.

Everything have an opposite: Advantages versus Disadvantages, South versus North, West versus East, Matters versus Antimatters, Female versus Male, Delighted versus Upset, Yin versus Yang, and so on… The two sides are always fighting for their territories in order to maintain an equilibrium.

The most amazing mystery above all of the “everything” is “Love”. It begins from “nothing” since our first collision. After a long chain of reactions, under the chemicals of love it started to grow. Love is so great! It has no boundary. It has no limit to eternity. If you ask me what is love, I’ll tell you: “LOVE” is “Lots Of Volunteering on Everything”! Willing to do anything and sacrifice everything is the way to love. It is the most valuable thing that grows from “nothing”! And it is also the destination of the whole life! It is the only solution to prevent the entire universe from going back to “nothing” from the “everything” we share nowadays…

Have you found your treasure from “nothing” yet? Have you found the resurrection from turning to “nothing” yet? If not, getting start today! Nothing is too late, only if you put on your first step… Everyday is a brand new day!

That’s all I’ve written about “nothing” this time.

WiLL FunG

"... and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?."

Lewis Carroll. Alice’s adventures in Wonderland. 1865

link: Down the Rabbit Hole

“Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversation?”

So she was considering in her own mind….”