Anselm Franke on Anselm Franke

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Brown – after Antwerp and Manifesta, possibly snow white.

Brown.

Almost everyday, I succumb anew to the illusion that the right life in the false is possible.

Right now: Laotses Tao te King.

Tony Conradts Flicker

Contemporary: Michael Taussig.

The New Jerusalem – if that doesn’t count as country, then move backwards: the historic Republic of Tortuga, a few miles of Haiti.

The new class of cultural pimps.

Recently: Godards grandiose failure in the Centre Pompidou, the Flemish Primitives in the Royal Museum vor Schone Kunsten Antwerp, the anthropological museum in Mexico City.

The first half coherent text I managed to write – that was some 7 years ago.

It was understood – and challenged.

South Tyrol (Manifesta 7: book now! – they pay us for bringing young tourists there), Amalfi, Mexico.

Rode Seven in the neihhbourhood of Extra City, one of a few places where at least a glorified past may still come to signify political consciousness. Mampoko, one of the colonial cafes in the South, with excellent food and wine, with no political or historical consciousness whatsoever.

In Trento: Sricgnio del Duomo – easy to find: in front of the dome. Outside Trento: Villa Madruzzo.

The general intellect of the collectives that don’t know that they are collectives yet, beginning with the single cell – because this can and needs to be discovered always all over again.

The two aspects become interesting only when combined – perhaps TH Lawrence? Quote “I needed to do that (become the leader of the Arab rebellion, outmimicking the arabs in their heroism - AF) in order to be able to become writer, a poet”. The heroic age of male subjectivity “at the margins” (Kaja Silverman) is over, thanks god. Unfortuneately, the demand for heroes has not flattened, but the quality of the heroes has. Lawrence seems pretty much to hit the possible limit of heroic gestures – included, of course, that he is losing himself constantly, always almost or beyond. History did justice to him by turning the legend into an epic film, Lawrence’s heroism can only be outmimicked on screen….

According to treasure-value: A work by Jimmie Durham, given to me by him as payment for an article.

When you are alone, you wish to work together, in a group, you wish to be alone – I value working together very high. I hear that I am difficult, but I find others also terribly difficult. In difficult situations, one needs close allies, the only way to survive is to conspire.

My ancestors.

Then consequently, you would call it haunted.

Then consequently: the command over the spirit world