DAY ONE - TRANSFORMING IN TO PYSCHO'S TROPE

artist: Luz Broto as "The Visitor" 

transformed mutante

public hypnotised sending brainwaves deep 


                                               International Red and Neo Concrete Presence


 6 white panels brushed with Colour Palette guide by the voice of Allan Kaprov

Extract from a Boris Groys text:
An artistic installation, on the contrary, builds a community of spectators precisely because of the holistic, unifying character of the installation space. The true visitor to the art installation is not an isolated individual, but a collective of visitors. The art space as such can only be perceived by a mass of visitors—a multitude, if you like—with this multitude becoming part of the exhibition for each individual visitor, and vice versa.......

DAY ONE- OPENING NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIE PSYCHOTROPIC: EL CHUPACRABAS

Connected to the thought :
More from Boris Groys
Now, the artistic installation does not circulate. Rather, it installs everything that usually circulates in our civilization: objects, texts, films, etc. At the same time, it changes in a very radical way the role and the function of the exhibition space. The installation operates by means of a symbolic privatization of the public space of an exhibition. It may appear to be a standard, curated exhibition, but its space is designed according to the sovereign will of an individual artist who is not supposed to publicly justify the selection of the included objects, or the organization of the installation space as a whole. The installation is frequently denied the status of a specific art form, because it is not obvious what the medium of an installation actually is. Traditional art media are all defined by a specific material support: canvas, stone, or film. The material support of the installation medium is the space itself. That does not mean, however, that the installation is somehow “immaterial.” On the contrary, the installation is material par excellence, since it is spatial—and being in the space is the most general definition of being material. The installation transforms the empty, neutral, public space into an individual artwork—and it invites the visitor to experience this space as the holistic, totalizing space of an artwork. Anything included in such a space becomes a part of the artwork simply because it is placed inside this space. The distinction between art object and simple object becomes insignificant here. Instead, what becomes crucial is the distinction between a marked, installation space and unmarked, public space.

DAY ONE FOR THE WORKSHOP: TROPIC TOPICS

PSYCHOTROPIC-TOPICS:

HERMETIC ART DISCOURSES
POWER GAMES
UNDERGROUND CO-OPTED
HASH/ GRASS/ BEER PERCEPTION EFFECTS
BARCELONA ON ID CRISIS
HYPOCRITICAL KNOWLEDGE
FREE LEARNING

DAY TWO FOR THE WORKSHOP: PSYCHOTROPIC PERIPATETIC SCHOOL DRIFT

PSYCHOTROPIC-TOPICS:

GRASS HIHGH 
SPLIF SPLIFS

ABERRATIONS OF CURATORIAL LANGUAGE
NOTIONS OF DETOUR AND DRIFT
FOUND AND LEFT THERE SCULPTURE
THEORY OF ART: POWER AND SYSTEMS

PSYCHOTROPIC-DERIVE-DRIFT







Nothing is what it seems learning is mediated by being totally high.....we are concentrated indeed! 

DAY THREE OF THE WORKSHOP : PSYCHOTROPIC ORDER

PSYCHOTROPIC-TOPICS :

SCI-FI DRUNKEN ALIENS PSYCHEDELLIC 
RE-ENACTING GRAFFITI MAKING
MIRROR EFFECT
CONCEPTUAL INCONTINENCE OF THE "MAN OF IDEAS"
TV TRANCES SIGNALS

DAY FOUR OF THE WORKSHOP : PSYCHOTROPIC UNEXPECTED

PSYCHOTROPIC-TOPICS:

HAZARDOUS BREAKS
CHANCE AND WRONG
MACHINE REVOLUTIONS
WHAT'S LEFT THERE
BRIGHT COLOURS HIGH





Psicotrópico (del griego psyche, "mente" y tropein, "tornar") es un agente que actúa sobre el sistema nervioso central, lo cual trae como consecuencia cambios temporales en la percepción, ánimo, estado de conciencia y comportamiento.

psy·cho·tro·pic (sk-trpk, -trpk) adj. Having an altering effect on perception or behavior. A psychotropic drug or other agent. psychotropic [-trop?ik] Etymology: Gk, psyche + trepein, to turn exerting an effect on the mind or modifying mental activity

psychotropic (s??·k?·tr??·pik), adj concerns that that affect the mind and influence behavior. psychotropic capable of modifying mental activity.

Visitantes, encuentros, medium, substancias, ideas, psico-psico.... 

CLOSE-UPS FORMS AND SPIRITS

El espacio está vaciado de contenido, de sentido, de dirección.

Los flotantes colores del espíritu de Kaprow, las fotos tuneadas dejadas en el suelo con la accidentalidad o casualidad de su presencia arrancadas de un libro sobre arte moderno y artistas del canon vanguardista son desplazadas o re pintadas aunque sí es cierto que casi todos lo espíritus del convenio son hombres o son figuras de ciertos personajes que pasaron por el mundo como hombres. 
Oiticica, Klein, Kaprow, Artaud.... textos escritos por Peter Osborne, Boris Groys.. mas los espíritus de la escuela peripatética guiada por Aristóteles en las afueras de la Academia. 
Sí, es una contra conversación, un acto de brujería o mutación. 
Despojados, son ether que flota por el espacio estos días de inviernos mientras a nosotras nos suceden todo tipo de cosas inesperadas. 
Lo psico-trópico abarca todo. 
Dentro/fuera, centro/periferia, frontera/borde. 
Encuentros más allá del supuesto y del prejuicio. No contamos las horas, no hacemos arte, atravesamos el arte, lo rasgamos para robarle las formas y el hermetismo. 
Flotan los colores en anchos plafones, así es lo efímero del transcurrir y de lo útil/inútil. 
Es útil pero no se puede instrumentalizar, escapa al cálculo capitalista. Es una contestación a los nombres y hombres (queer or no queer) con los que establecemos dialógicas drogadas. Revanchas y canibalismo mágico religioso de bruja eterna. 

Esther Planas Dic 2010 Barcelona

AFTER PSYCHOTROPIC CONCEPTS

THE IDEA IS THE MACHINE THAT MAKES THE ART

From 2 December to 16 December The BCN Psycho Tropic Workshops
was a working progress show featured at Antigua Casa Haiku in
Barcelona.
Curated by Alex Brahim.
The show was about a sort of retrospective and introspective tour
around material from the very far past and the immediate future.

It started as an introductory show/event where old and new films where
screened,a spoken word piece was re-enacted, the space had few sections
and made a total installation composed by big wood murals and zones
of painting as performance, references to Kaprow, Klein, and Oiticica.

A new project based on the Legend of The Chupacabras which was also part
of a virtual opening night at Miami Basel Art Fair

From the 6 till the 9 of December the workshops where on , participants
and ocasional visitors mixed and interchanged opinions and derives.
Finally the 16 of December and as a sort of conclusive performance,
a Club Esther night was reproduced for the first time ever inside a gallery
space.

Here are bits and fragments of how it was like.....


Collaborative setting between PsychoTropic workshop members

Opening Night

                                               International Red and Neo Concrete Presence


 6 white panels brushed with Colour Palette guide by the voice of Allan Kaprov









Dark Star Poster Set






Dejar que las imágenes y fotos de cerca de estos no-obras de arte tomadas por otro ser, otro artista joven que decide por si mismo que quiere ver en estas composiciones su momento y relación con ellas.. dejar estos documentos ser 

Absorber a los modernos como Man Ray pintar encima de sus consagradas obras y de su rostro

Corrupción en Miami: un video casero muestra a un supuesto Don Johnson en un nuevo inédito capitulo de la serie, en el queda clara la relación entre el tráfico de drogas, el mundo del arte y 

las casas de los super ricos, sus hábitos hipócritas. Influenciada por las experiencias directas de este tema al visitar Miami para una expo en Basel justo un par de Diciembres anteriores a estas fechas.

    A spoken word re-enactment of Redum  a text piece from 1998



THE PSYCHOTROPIC WORKSHOPS


Psicotrópico (del griego psyche, "mente" y tropein, "tornar") es un agente que actúa sobre el sistema nervioso central, lo cual trae como consecuencia cambios temporales en la percepción, ánimo, estado de conciencia y comportamiento.

psy·cho·tro·pic (sk-trpk, -trpk) adj. Having an altering effect on perception or behavior. A psychotropic drug or other agent. psychotropic [-trop?ik] Etymology: Gk, psyche + trepein, to turn exerting an effect on the mind or modifying mental activity

psychotropic (s??·k?·tr??·pik), adj concerns that that affect the mind and influence behavior. psychotropic capable of modifying mental activity.