1. Entrance of a museum of contemporary art. An auction is about to begin. Shot of the big hall.
2. Camera pans through the people assembled. Camera zooms in on faces. No art works on display.
3. Camera zooms in. No objects are for sale. A DVD is put in a computer. A sentence appears on a LCD screen.
4. Camera zooms in on the sentence.
1.WHERE I AM CALLING FROM.
5. The auctioneer starts the sale of the sentence. Public seems to feel a kind of uneasiness. Some of them stand alone, some talk.
6. A mobile phone is ringing. Camera zooms in on the person answering his phone. Person talks very loud. Public listens in. A bid on the sentence is done by the person representing the caller.
7. Another mobile phone is ringing. And yet another one… and another one… all the people picking up their phone talk loudly in the middle of the people around them…
8. More bids on the sentence. Prices go up rapidly. Close shots of people and the sentence.
9. Shots of various landscapes. In rapid progression the shots zoom in on small structures in different environments.
10. Next to abandoned border infrastructure a person is talking in his mobile phone, gesticulating fiercely.
11. The atmosphere in the auction hall is tense. The bidding subsides. The sentence is sold.
12. Camera zooms in on the DVD being taken out. Screen fades to black.
13. A new sentence appears.
14. And yet another one… and another one…
2.SLEEPING WITH THE PEOPLE FROM BELGIUM (TWELVE IN A ROOM IN AMERICA)
3.CHOOSING THE LANGUAGE OF THE PRESENT MINORITY : POTENTIAL ESTATE’S CONTRIBUTOR ADAM LEECH (US)
4.ENTERING THE KINGDOM OF COINCIDENCE.
15. Camera shows different shots of the people on their mobile phones. Each sentence being offered for sale. They have started a competition among each other.
5. 9:00 PM : A GIFT FOR THE VILLAGE
6. BUILDING THE "OUT INN", AN OPEN AIR BAR AND CHILDREN’S PLAYGROUND.
7. GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES. PROPOSING A COLLABORATIVE SCENARIO AND A PUBLIC MOBILE SCULPTURE.
8.READING THE RANDOM LAKE YELLOW PAGES IN ORDER TO ISOLATE THE BELGIANS.
9. BRINGING A POSTCARD FROM OUR HOMETOWN. BUILDING A HOUSE AROUND THE POSTCARD IN BELGIUM, WISCONSIN.
10. ORGANIZING ’THE OUTSIDERS’ INTERPLAY FESTIVAL’ WITH LOCAL FOLK BANDS.
11.BELGIUM… SHIT I’M STILL IN BELGIUM
12. INVITATION OUR NATION STARTS HERE. BE PART OF IT. NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IS NEEDED.
13. SEARCHING FOR THE UGLIEST GIRL IN BELGIUM WISCONSIN, AND WHEN I SEE HER, CLOSING MY EYES AND PRAYING THAT SHE WAS PRETTY.
14. SEARCHING FOR THE PRETTIEST GIRL IN BELGIUM WISCONSIN, AND WHEN I SEE HER, CLOSING MY EYES AND PRAYING THAT SHE WAS UGLY.
15. STUDYING AND DRAWING THE PATTERNS MADE BY LAWN MOWERS.
16. MAKING A CLANDESTINE BOWLING, THE DARK SIDE OF THE VEGAS’ FLAMINGO. USING OLD BOTTLES, ENGINES, TRASH FOR THE BALLS AND GAME’S STUFF. MAKING BEAUTIFUL SHIRTS WITH PERFECT LOGOS LIKE "POTENTIAL FLAMINGO HARDCORE BOWLING BAND"
Flemish Bastard aka Jan Smits aka John Smiths aka Canaqueese : metis Mohawk chief whose birth and death dates remain unknown. Son of a Mohawk mother and a Dutch father, he led war parties against the French and served as an intermediary between the French, Dutch, and English circa 1650-1687.
Source : Perrot, Nicolas. Ch. 15 of "Mémoire sur les moeurs, coustumes et religion des sauvages de l’Amérique Septentrionale" at Turning Points in Wis. History) ; see also "The Role of Chief Canaqueese in the Iroquois Wars" by Peter Lowensteyn
17. WRITING A NOVEL AND BEGINNING BY QUOTING : THE PAST IS NEVER DEAD, IT IS NOT EVEN PAST.-WILLIAM FAULKNER
18. SEARCHING FOR THE MOST POPULAR BOY IN BELGIUM WISCONSIN, AND WHEN I SEE HIM PRAYING THAT HE WOULD SHIT IN HIS PANTS.
19. SEARCHING FOR THE MOST ALIENATED, UNPOPULAR BOY IN BELGIUM WISCONSIN, AND WHEN I SEE HIM PRAYING THAT HE COULD IMAGINE A BRIGHTER FUTURE.
20. TAKE A LEFT AT THE PLACE WHERE THEY‘RE THINKING OF BUILDING A HOMEMADE BOWLING AND KEEP GOING UNTIL YOU HIT THE BORDER. YOU CAN’T MISS IT BUT IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, IT’S TOO LATE.
21. FORMING A PUNKBAND IN THIS HUGE PLACE, WHERE EVERYBODY IS DRINKING, FUCKING, DANCING AND PLAYING DIRTY MOVIES, A PUNKBAND THAT WILL NEVER MAKE MUSIC BUT CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTURE.
22. PROPOSING THE COMMUNITY TO CONSTRUCT A ROLLING WOODEN BOARDWALK, IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO WALK ALONG THE BEACH WITHOUT TRESPASSING PRIVATE LAND.
23. SETTING UP A FERMENTATION IN A CLOSED SYSTEM AND CAPTURING THE GENERATED CARBON DIOXIDE TO CARBONATE OUR HOME MADE SOAP !
24. ORGANIZING FLYING CABINETS.
16. Each sentence is sold faster and faster...
25.BEFORE CONSTRUCTING THE ROLLING BOARDWALK, WALKING ON LAKE MICHIGAN’S WET SAND.
26.WRITING A LETTER TO THE VILLAGE CLERK.
27. INVITING THE MILWAUKEE-BASED ARTIST AND CRITIC DAVID ROBBINS, THE AUTHOR OF ’ICE CREAM SOCIAL’, TO TASTE THE UTOPIA ICE CREAM BRAND IN ONE OF THE VILLAGE OF BELGIUM’S FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS, DISCUSSING THE POLITICS OF ENTERTAINMENT.
28. TRAVELLING FROM COUNTRY TO COUNTY (AND BACK AGAIN).
29. USING THE CORPORATE SWEAT-SHIRT FROM THE NEW BELGIUM BEER COMPANY (COLORADO) AS A FLAG.
30. INSERTING LOCAL NEWS INTO THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE VILLAGE OF BELGIUM.
31. MAPPING OUT FLATLAND STREET PATTERNS.
32. SETTING UP A CAR RACING CLUB INVOLVED IN D.I.Y. ENGINEERING, THINKING ABOUT THE STATUS OF CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE.
33. STUDYING AND DRAWING DAILY POLICE ROUTES.
34. BUILDING A PIER ON THE LAKE FOR BOWLING USE ONLY.
35. PAINTING PEOPLE’S HOUSES EVERY MORNING AND TALKING WITH THE OCCUPANTS ABOUT REAL ESTATE.
17. Last sentence for sale. Camera shows the screen fading to black.
36. ASKING A DRAUGHTSMAN TO DRAW A STORYBOARD OF POTENTIAL ACTIONS.
18. Camera zooms in on the auctioneer. He is still not closing the auction. He starts taking down the screen and is moving the furniture around. People in the auction hall are confused.
19. Detail of auctioneer. He opens the bidding on the screen, the furniture, and his auction hammer. Camera zooms in on the objects put up for sale.
20. Rapid shots of the people on their mobile phones who are gesticulating wildly.
21. After the hammer is sold, the auctioneer claps his hands and starts the selling of the camera. Camera registers uncontrolled movements, unfocused images, than stops recording. Camera is sold.
22. No images, no sound. (It is rumored that) The auctioneer declared the auction closed. He and the people on their mobile phones, who continued talking loudly, started to pack all the sold items in wooden crates, which were numbered.
23. No images, no sound. (It is rumored that) Later on, they drove off in a truck, picking up their band of outsiders from the different borderline structures.
24. This scenario is put up for sale by POTENTIAL ESTATE.
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Date: 2006-12-072006-12-07 GMT
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Old Walloon stories found back in Wisconsin.
Robert Venturi’s early professional work was in the office of Eero Saarinen, where among other projects, he worked on the design of the Milwaukee County War Memorial Center.
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour collaborated on another book, published in 1972, "Learning from Las Vegas," a further exploration of urban sprawl and the suburbs in relation to their architectural theories.
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