” … ‘Exactly,’ all the noblemen agreed, though they could see nothing, for there was nothing to see. “
[Excerpt from “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Hans Christian Andersen, 1837]
“Handabbeisser” (German for: “one who bites off hands“, from the term: ‘don’t bite the hand that feeds you‘) is a blog and functions as production diary, sketchbook/portfolio-notes, news page, with occasional interviews included.
It was started in 2012, originally to communicate with a group of homeless youth in Oregon during a collaborative long-term /long-distance interview /blind-photo project (“Each reflection of myself echoes a different emotion at me”).
It is deliberately written in casual language that every average person can understand and relate to, making an effort to avoid “art-lingo” that uses language as status symbol and to create diversion addressing intentionally exclusively a particularly educated audience or one that likes to appear as such. It has been since twice deleted for various reasons and occasionally restarted again.
NAZE – shadow 3 (2015)
shadow 2 (2015)
in a parallel world (2015)
silhouettes (2015)
a picture of a picture – plan of future bicycle parking garage (2015)
picture of a picture – dolls 人形 (2015)
picture of a picture – Kishimoto Akiko 1 at Natural Cycle (2015)
a picture of a picture – Kishimoto Tetsu at Natural Cycle and Ao-chan (2015)
picture of a picture – SLOT (2015)
Ima Tenko – Velvet Moon Vol 117 – a dance
展示 (2015)
火 (2015)
歯牙 (2015)
人形 (2015)
手まり (2015)
雲 (2015)
ゼミ, 蝉 (2015)
Josiane Keller – ゼミ (2015) Josiane Keller – 蝉 (2015)
山 (2015)
ごみ, もっとごみ (2015)
Josiane Keller – ごみ (2015) Josiane Keller – もっとごみ (2015)
トカゲ (2015)
丸太町通 – Marutamachi-dori (2015)
Kawamoto Kihachiro and “The Book of the Dead / 死者の書 ” – a certain something in the slender margin between the real and the unreal – puppets are things that act, there is no such thing as “doll animation”
I found this very nice obituary article on Japanese puppet trick film master Kawamoto Kihachiro on this BLOG “ANGURA!
On puppet trick film – a short documentary on Jiri Trnka (1967, Czech TV), making the first puppet – fabric
… can be seen right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WieHF0r-q1k The natural evolution of my photos of dolls (next
Jirí Trnka and Kawamoto Kihachiro, two old (fairly) article by other people (old BFI site)
An article on Jirí Trnka I found on the old BFI website, which as stated (on the site) it is no longer being maintained; but
What was the original reason why we make pictures….? Pictures of pictures of pictures…
Josiane Keller “sumie teacher – Wang Shih Ming” (2015) Josiane Keller “Emily” (2015) Josiane Kel
What was the original reason why we make pictures? Pictures of pictures… of pictures
What was the original reason why we make pictures? Pictures of pictures… of pictures: can we hold something still? Stop
What was the original reason why we make pictures? Pictures of pictures, reflections and silhouettes
Josiane Keller “silhouettes” (2015) Josiane Keller “in a parallel world” (2015) Josiane Keller “
What was the original reason why we make pictures? Pictures of pictures
What means a picture of something? A replacement for something that is not there, or also something that is there, but canR
Ima Tenko dances Butoh “Velvet Moon” at Urbanguild
I would love to explain more, but I am dealing since a few days with a crappy internet connection and so this is all you get,
What was the original reason why we make pictures? Frames: 雲, 手まり, 人形, 歯牙, 火, 展示, a reflection of life
Why place images in specifically created spaces to draw more attention to them? Frames of various sorts. Framed cloud: Josiane
What was the original reason why we make pictures? ごみ, もっとごみ, 山 and ゼミ
To compare? Or to tell a story in pictures? To communicate? Josiane Keller ごみ (2015) Josiane Keller もっとごみ
トカゲ- what was the original reason why we made pictures?
Before images turned yet a new stock market currency and ‘being an artist’ turned ‘corporate office employee
How much shall we share? Why do we want to make pictures? Who wants pictures? Why do we want pictures? Do we need pictures?
It seems to me, these days ( I heard many artists of older generations point out that is different to when they were younger a
Autonomous Weapons: an Open Letter from AI & Robotics Researchers – you can sign through the link
You can sign through this link: “This open letter was announced July 28 at the opening of the IJCAI 2015 conference on J
Apropos “passport”: I am going on a trip
It is high time to air the brain and inspired by Ai WeiWei getting back his travel documents I am going on a trip myself. I wi
Welcome home, my passport! Learn how to say “Congratulations!” in Chinese:
Learn how to say “Congratulations!” in Chinese: learn how to say “Congratulations!” in Chinese Photogr
Kiln and pink clouds
Cooking something and it looks like this: Josiane Keller “kiln” (2015) and pink clouds: Josiane Keller “pink
The Book of Clowns – Volume I / blue edition (2015)
Josiane Keller “The Book of Clowns – Volume I / blue edition” (2015) First Volume of “The Book of Clow
A day on the beach
As the titles say … Josiane Keller “Segelschiff” (2015) Josiane Keller “nut head” (2015) Josiane