reversal b

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