Reversal B
...het
is alweer een tijdje geleden, dus ik vond het tijd om weer eens iets
te doen – en aangezien mijn hoofd het afgelopen jaar/jaren in
archieven heeft gezeten, dacht ik eraan om deel te nemen aan de
herfstequinox van de 222Lodge in Dordrecht, gebaseerd op een vraag
die me al een tijdje bezighoudt: heeft stanley brouwn ooit een reeks
stappen achteruit gedaan of was het altijd vooruit... ik heb hem nog
nooit iets achteruit zien doen (ik heb hem wel een glimp van vooruit
zien opvangen...) Ik dacht dat het interessant zou zijn om een
wandeling achteruit te maken, met post-geproduceerde documentatie als
mogelijke instructie voor een remake, kopie, vervalsing of
enactment... die eerder theater dan performance wordt...
(hier
heb ik besloten om een geïllustreerde versie op te nemen en zo
behoorlijk af te wijken van het nette concept)
...it has
been a while, so I thought high time to do something again – and,
seeing my head has been submerged in archives this past / these past
years, I though of doing my participation to the fall equinox
proposed by 222Lodge at Dordrecht based on a question that has been
with me for some time: did stanley brouwn ever do a backward series
of steps or was it essentially always forward... not having ever seen
him do something backward (did catch a glimpse of him going forward
though...) I thought it might be interesting to do an itinerary
backwards, with post produced documentation as possible instruction
for a remake, copy, fake or enactment... becoming theater rather than
performance...
(here I
decided to include an illustrated version ans so diverge from the
neat conceptual quite a bit)
Start bridge:
1 o'clock -
watching swan from the bridge
8 steps back
20 steps
right
(face clock)
7 steps back
28 steps left
10 steps left
face place
(square)
13 steps back
(across the
street)
10 steps left
(face place)
squre
20 steps back
make photo
(passage)
30 steps back
(binnenhoek
St Jacobsplein)
30 steps back
38 steps left
10 steps
right
(photo
tomatoes & sunflowers)
28 steps back
44 steps left
68 steps left
(photo old
gevel) façade
40 steps back
(Senner dog)
4 steps left
15 steps back
(cross road)
46 steps
right
(bookshop)
23 steps back
(Witte
monument)
20 steps
right
(read
monument)
25 steps back
(view swan
from Visbrug)
34 steps back
130 steps
back
(stop at
steps to water)
90 steps back
(Voorstraat)
33 steps left
(look at acts
from bridge)
6 steps left
(look at Anno
1746)
(turn)
look at act
rope from bridge
21 steps left
(corner
Lombardbrug)
15 steps left
(look at rope
and boat)
14 steps back
(look at
matches – Europa Hölzer)
match in
mouth
(Rookvrije
zone) look around
10/11 steps
back
almost
falling, steps
almost
collision (with golden man)
3 steps up /
back
27 steps
right
(along steps
past sprawling woman)
(photograph)
turn from
square
9 steps back
(4 descending
staircase)
19 steps
right
(next to
glass conainer)
look around
7 steps back
(into street)
25 steps
right
(listen to
tourist guide)
31 steps
right
(stop to look
at activities)
29 steps back
(turn away
from sad jester with orange balloon)
look at
string-pully from bridge
33 steps back
(street)
26 steps left
stop at
passage, photo
68 steps
right back down passage
(photo /
bicycle)
92 steps back
(end of
passage photo)
49 steps
right
(stop at
passage with X-mas tree)
(photo)
7 steps left
35 steps
right
(in street)
8 steps right
(just before
2 bicycles)
155 steps
back
(turn, watch
activities at canal)
objects on
washline
listen to the
people ' it's not Vermeer'
(next to
little sculpture on dilapidated plinth)
(sokkel)
7 steps left
watch dog
passing
19 steps left
watch/listen - radio
crossing the canal
(look for
swan)
12 steps back
(radio
middle)
17 steps back
(radio nearly
over..)
18 steps back
(at
rookverbod)
turn, look at
houses & water
look at
courreur (polishing)
8 steps right
turn towards
stairs
look at hands
and water pouring
take
photograph
(feet /
clock)
8 steps back
(next to
circular girl)
12 steps left
(next to
sleeping beauty and match-man)
(Europa
Hölzer)
1 big step
back
(over
sleeping beauty)
(matchman
adds match to hat)
7 steps back
(tree/bicycle)
10 steps
right
(just past
tourist group)
Clock strikes
2...
take off hat
take off
glasses
take
photograph of wrapped figure
HObst
21/09/2025