Parloir, Tournai

https://gaulizitter.com/parloir-tournai/

How to End It, C.C.C. Gallery, Copenhagen

https://www.cccgallery.net/exhibition/how-to-end-it/

Astrid Noacks Atelier, Copenhagen

https://astrid-noack.dk/en/

https://ursuppe.dk/events/91-plenty/

Cinnamon

It happened gradually and you started

To detect it

You grew shabbier and shabbier

This shabbiness was not the vain shabbiness of vintage style

Of carefully curated second-hand garments

The roughened nostalgia of temporal oblivion

It was the shabbiness of Thule, Ortlieb and Freitag

Of bicycle courier bags gone mainstream

That is the ultimate shabbiness of utilitarian ethics

Missing the glamour of the public realm

Northern efficiency aesthetics as the minima

Of demonstrable desirability

Everything on your back

Carting the means of production like a privilege

“Your day, your story!”

The day backpack and

The desire to be contained

Inside them all

Things that make the public realm appear

An inconvenience or incidental

For example: laptop, refillable drink bottle, ebooks on cultural theory and self-help, facial wipes, spare pair of underpants, portable battery pack for smartphone, keys to flat and bike, Tupperware container, mask, tissues, sweatshirt, wallet with a few different credit cards, ID from a country you aren’t in, earphones, hard-drive, hand sanitiser, bag of nuts, chargers

All were possessions

Minimal possessions

Used to distinguish you

At least nominally

You are flexible and mobile

Connected, multilingual, worldly

You tried not to fly too much

You still remembered being flattered

To go regularly to the airport

Compare airline experiences

When you flew lowcost you were doing jobs

You got used to distinguish yourself from tourists

Still

Like packhorses you were carting

The means of production

Trollies in streets, markets and airports

Showed that you needed

Your belongings close

For the threat of theft

And that you wouldn’t be yourself without them

“Don’t leave your belongings unattended

At any point during your journey.

Keep your bags zipped and keep your phone

Wallet and purse out of sight and valuables secure.”

Because everything was owned

Everyone was also a thing

The ones who left things outside

Were the ones who lived out there on a limb

The ones who owned nothing

And the ones who could afford to lose everything

Locked it all up in cases cars houses insurance packs stocks

The containers were never enough

One day while waiting

For your righteousness to be confirmed

Hold what you don’t have and get rid of it

—Eleanor Ivory Weber

Good Morning, Midnight on LYL Radio

https://lyl.live/episode/good-morning-midnight-10

JOHN PAUL YOUNG — Yesterday’s Hero
JAKUB JÓZEF ORLIŃSKI — Vedrò con mio diletto (Il Giustino, Vivaldi)
LOVEFEAR — World Peace
PELICAN DAUGHTERS — It’s time my friend … (track 2)
BASTARDGEIST — Dog
FUGAZI — I’m So Tired
BOBBY CHRISTIAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA — Drums Galore
PSYCHIC TV — Just Drifting
CHE VUOI — Angoli
WET KISS — Another Day
SUMI JO — Sposa son disprezzata (Bajazet, Giacomelli/Vivaldi)
SPEED TRAINING — High Treason
LEONARD COHEN — Who By Fire (feat. Janis Ian)
PELICAN DAUGHTERS — It’s time my friend … (track 4)
BIANCA STONE — Why Poetry Needs Psychoanalysis (interview Daniel Tutt, Emancipations Podcast)
THE VERVE — Bitter Sweet Symphony

Photo: Strictly Ballroom (dir. Baz Luhrmann, 1992)

DELAY TODAY on Montez Press Radio

https://radio.montezpress.com/#/show/3337

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/17mXZMNRgt/

Alenka Zupančič, Evol & gladys, Ghislaine Leung (with music by The Notwist, Che Vuoi, and Kvantum)

Eleanor Ivory Weber's DELAY TODAY

46 Canal Street, New York

 

Eleanor Ivory Weber's DELAY TODAY
1. Alenka Zupančič, lecture, 16 December 2023 [01:37:29]
2. The Notwist, Your Signs [06:46]
3. Evol & gladys, performance, 2 December 2023 [25:16]
4. Che Vuoi, Angoli (unmastered) [03:25]
5. Ghislaine Leung, conversation, 18 November 2023 [01:32:55]
6. Kvantum (Paul Sigerhall and Stefan Tcherepnin), Kvantum KAS Vol. 1 (excerpt) [12:55]

DELAY TODAY is a program of videos and events that took place in two Brussels art spaces, Etablissement d'en face and NICC, in November and December 2023. Video works by Dora Budor & Noah Barker, Tony Cokes, Stefano Faoro, Harun Farocki & Andrei Ujică, Laleshka Salas Salazar, and Camilla Wills were screened at Etablissement d'en face from 18 November through 17 December 2023. Events with Evol & gladys, Ghislaine Leung, and Alenka Zupančič took place at NICC on three Saturday evenings. The musical interludes are from works in the program: The Notwist appears in Tony Cokes' Shrink! 1.1-4 (2001); gladys is the artist behind Che Vuoi; and music by Kvantum appears in Chase Manhattan (2021-22) by Dora Budor & Noah Barker. Recordings of the three events are mastered by Nelson Beer. Full program details can be found at the links below.

 

Alenka Zupančič is a Slovenian philosopher and social theorist. She is the author of What Is Sex? (MIT Press 2017) and Let Them Rot (Divided 2023).

 

Evol & gladys are artists living in Brussels. They previously made the performances Word without Return (2019) and Night Songs (2021) together.

 

Ghislaine Leung is a British conceptual artist. She is a nominee for the 2023 Turner Prize. Her latest book is Bosses (Divided 2023).

 

Eleanor Ivory Weber is an Australian artist and writer. With Camilla Wills, she runs Divided Publishing. She organised DELAY TODAY.

 

DELAY TODAY Program Notes

DELAY TODAY at NICC

Working with time, Different Class

https://www.differentclass.be/editorials/working-with-time-9am1l

Which aspects of you will we see at Indiscipline?

You’ll see a performance. I often think about montage, creating a cinematic experience. I like to think I am working with time as much as with a specific text, scenario or scenography. Bringing text into temporality by speaking it, when writing becomes reading and speaking. How to work with duration, with an audience, with attention. 

Interview and photos by Stine Sampers.

Indiscipline, Wiels, Grand Casino Knokke

https://www.wiels.org/en/events/indiscipline-2024

https://youtu.be/ZGTdW3xx4dM?si=0VULlUfBtj6MD-r6

Classical Period, Woonhuis (De Ateliers), Amsterdam

Classical Period, an exhibition by Dora Budor with sculptures by Olga Balema, structures by R.D. Laing, and language by Eleanor Ivory Weber 

https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/dora-budor-with-sculptures-by-olga-balema-structures-by-r-at-woonhuis-de-32883

https://woonhuis.de-ateliers.nl/programme/dora-budor-classical-period

https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/dora-budor-woonhuis-de-ateliers-amsterdam-2024

Photos: Gert Jan van Rooij

Delay Today, Etablissement d'en face/NICC, Brussels

https://www.etablissementdenface.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DELAYTODAY-web2.pdf

https://nicc.be/project/nicc-vitrine-eleanor-ivory-webers-delay-today/

https://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/project/eleanor-ivory-weber-s-delay-today-at-etablissement-d-en-face-brussels-30448

http://instagram.com/delaytoday0311301223

https://www.etablissementdenface.com/in-the-past/eleanor-ivory-webers

No Private Problems, Alma Sarif, Brussels

https://almasarif.org/no-private-problems/

https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/eleanor-ivory-weber-at-alma-sarif-brussels-28709

smoking is good, 2023, performance with James Weber on violin (reservation necessary,
2€ coin for entry), approximately 20’. Photo: James Weber. Photos in photo: Sara Deraedt.

in language there are only differences except that there is also, 2023, texts on LED sign,
voltage converter, approximately 12’ loop. Photo: Fabrice Schneider.

Haus am Waldsee, Berlin

An exhibition as text, in texts.

https://hausamwaldsee.de/en/how-to-move-and-respond_lisaholzer-en/

Residency, Antwerpen

https://morphovzw.be/en/residenten/eleanor-ivory-weber

No Counting, No Lists, No Competition, Immeasurable Suffering, Late late motherfuckinelegist/Duuu radio, Paris

No Counting, No Lists, No Competition, Immeasurable Suffering (I Covering, II Before, III Cinnamon, IV Dancing)

Recorded live at Parc de la Villette, Paris, 18 June 2021: https://duuuradio.fr/archive/late-late-motherfuckinelegist (Click "Écouter", 41'00 until 52'00).

Published by How To Become (2021), p. 41.

Residency, New York

https://residencyunlimited.org/residencies/eleanor-ivory-weber/

https://residencyunlimited.org/programs/the-structure-of-looking/

Schaufenster, Kunstverein München

https://www.kunstverein-muenchen.de/en/program/schaufenster/2022/eleanor-ivory-weber

The mouth is a clock without hands

A city skyline is silhouetted against a pink sunset, the lights of the buildings are reflected in the water below, which looks purple. An aeroplane flies out of the frame on the top left of the image, taking off somewhere. It is a warm image, feels like summer’s coming, that feeling at dusk when the night is full of potential and we don’t know what will happen.

In the same movement reportage bears witness to the world and consumes it. It is also a technique for making equivalences out of what is irreconcilable. I keep track of the dates when important things happen as a way to remember how the past shows up today. All the while I am trying to understand how repetitions, forgetting and suspended apprehension are equally part of personal and public events, places and products.

Everything that enables us to record, witness and claim history, also enables us to miss it. The news form is fatal and always precedes the catastrophe of its daily content. Be wary when your senses are trivialised by the marching gait of development, algorithms for ‘personal preferences’ or the hegemony of the new. Grief is not objective.
(EIW)

Recognise this city?
2022
Poster found 7 December 2018 in the old Actiris building in the centre of Brussels, black and pink vinyl, ‘Ee’ typeface based on my handwriting designed 2016 by Ella Sutherland, 16 neodymium magnets
98 x 68 cm, dimensions variable

The mouth is a clock without hands
2022
Digital prints
15 x 15 cm 

Daily news, “All the News That’s Fit to Print”, 14.04–05.06.2022, Munich
2020–
The New York Times International Edition purchased each day the exhibition is open to the public


Overseas (Majestic Fanfare, 1988 version)
2022
ABC Radio news broadcast theme played on the hour between 6 am and 11 pm (AEST), 9-second abridged version, 18-second main version at 7am only

Recognise this city?

 

Supply and supply, Brussels, Munich

Maison Pelgrims, 14 October 2021, 18:00
http://saintgillesculture.brussels/events/exposition-rosa-rosa-rosae-rosae

 

Kunstverein München, 4 June 2022, 19:00
https://www.kunstverein-muenchen.de/en/program/schaufenster/2022/eleanor-ivory-weber

 

 

Supply and supply, 2021

performance, approx. 30 minutes

Australian Others: Penal Logic and the Pandemic, Meanjin

https://meanjin.com.au/blog/australian-others-penal-logic-and-the-pandemic/

Limit as material, LUX and the Artistic Estate of Ian White

https://lux.org.uk/event/limit-as-material
http://ianwhiteestate.org/limit-broadcasts.php

Sara Deraedt, Afterall

https://afterall.org/online/sara-deraedt

Divided Publishing, Brussels and London

http://divided.online

http://twitter.com/dividedpublish

http://instagram.com/dividedpublish

No Private Problems, M.I/mi1glissé, Berlin

https://fb.me/e/3ZPr2Qi0N
https://kunsthauskule.de/M-I-mi1glisse
http://mi1glisse.com/multi/no-private-problems/eleanor-weber/
https://www.facebook.com/mi1glisse/photos/a.438973332951576/531685393680369/

 

 

No Private Problems, 2016

Coat hangers, coat rack, bulldog clips, A3 posters from a series of 43

SpringMeeting, Performing Arts Forum, St Erme

2019: http://www.pa-f.net/node/25134

2020: https://www.pa-f.net/node/25140

2021: https://www.pa-f.net/sm2021

Jacket2, Philadelphia

https://jacket2.org/poems/it-subject

Oscillation Mayday Radio Marathon, Q-O2, Brussels

https://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/emissions-speciales/eleanor-ivory-weber-oscillation-mayday-radio-marathon/
https://soundcloud.com/q-o2/eleanor-ivory-weber-2x-sub-text-labours-marcusmarcus-bergner-tsjapboek

Erg (école de recherche graphique), Brussels

http://wiki.erg.be/m/#Eleanor_Ivory_Weber
http://wiki.erg.be/m/#Reading,_Listening,_Speaking_Seminar
http://wiki.erg.be/m/#Pratique_de_l%E2%80%99art_-_outils_critiques,_arts_et_contexte_simultan%C3%A9s_(MA)

Subtracted Seduction, Hectolitre, Brussels

https://apass.be/subtracted-seduction/
https://soundcloud.com/cicatrise/subtracted-seduction
https://radiostudent.si/kultura/r-a-d-a-r/subtracted-seduction-and-this-situation

 

Glossolalien missive, 2019

Performance with one voice

Word without return, Brussels

https://iselp.be/fr/evenements/word-without-return
https://anchor.fm/cantwont/episodes/Eleanor-Ivory-Weber-and-camille-grenton---Word-without-return-eb0224

Établissement d'en face, Brussels

https://www.etablissementdenface.com/in-the-past/aftertaste
https://www.etablissementdenface.com/in-the-past/the-pots-of-etablissement-6

 

Smog III: Glossolalien missive, 2018
Performance with four voices

RRN (2006-2019)

http://raddestrightnow.blogspot.com/

Kunsthal Gent, Ghent

http://croxhapox.org/c/taxonomy/term/2540
https://kunsthal.gent/en/exhibitions/thirsty-thirsty-1-looking-at-the-letter-a
https://www.facebook.com/events/3339107969433849/

Contents/Consent (manufacturing the missive), 2002/2020

A3 photocopy, unlimited edition, recto verso: contents page of E. Herman & N. Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent (2nd edition), protocol poem using Consent, page 1 of The New York Times International Edition (25 August 2020)

Married to the alt-right, Sydney/Brussels

https://firstdraft.org.au/program/aroundtheoutside3

https://anchor.fm/cantwont/episodes/Eleanor-Ivory-Weber---Married-to-the-Alt-Right-ece1ld

Damien & the Love Guru, Brussels

 http://www.damienandtheloveguru.com/exhibitions/slow-reading-club-soft-cover-soft-cover

Seven poems [O-R-A-L-I-T-Y] or “I would say (write)” [Ong], 2019
A5 prints from an unlimited edition, wheat paste
Individual piece: 15 x 21 cm; Wall piece: 846 cm x 70 cm

 

Daily news (“All the News That’s Fit to Print”) [10.01 – 28.02.2020, SCSC], 1887 –
The New York Times International Edition purchased each day the exhibition is open to the public, paper pedestal
35 x 26 cm

Academia profile

https://independent.academia.edu/eleanorweber