Meeting Location For The First SIXSIXSIX Co-Relational Performance

Please Read the following information carefully.

Meeting Place: SE 16th Ave and SE Brooklyn Street
Follow posted instructions. Walk the blue line.


Time: 6pm

The first six people to arrive - who meet the below criteria and are willing to stay for the entire performance) will be invited to play the part of those experiencing total immersion. Those who arrive after the first six will be invited to play the part of intentional partial immersion and will be free to come and go as they please.
Dress Code: Blue - first half of your ticket (Primary blue or ultra marine is preferred however any shade will do)
Wear or bring shoes you are comfortable to walk in.

Bring - a pine branch and a rock (Required - second half of your ticket)
If you have an old feather pillow or comforter that you do not want anymore please bring it with you. These items will not be usable after the performance (Not required)

Please note: Cameras, Phones, personal music players, bags and all non-essential items etc. will be checked upon arrival, to the dinner location. These items will tagged and locked in a safe place and returned to you at the end of the performance. This is to your advantage and will allow you to participate and enjoy the performance more fully. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Systems: The Ecology Of Place And Line: Towards An Architecture Of Healing (Paternal Void)

Chapter Two

I know two things about my paternal Grandmother. The first is that she was of Blackfeet Sioux and Lacota decent. The second thing I know about my Grandmother is that my father found her dead on the kitchen floor of a heart attack induced by alcohol. My father was fifteen at the time. It was March 1974, six months before I was born. He ran away and never came back.

Benzene

Benzene

“The tar deposit at the former GASCO site [on the Willamette] was created by discharges from the oil gasification facility early in the 20th century, but the contamination remains in and on top of river sediment. The tar contains high levels of total polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (TPAH), as well as other chemicals, most notably benzene.”

“…about 15,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment will be dredged from the [Willamette River] followed by placement of a protective cap. The action includes a silt curtain system designed to contain contamination loosened during removal and prevent fish from entering the dredge area. The silt curtain will also be engineered to withstand boat wakes and high-river flows. Contamination will be taken by barge and then truck for disposal at the Chem Waste Subtitle C (hazardous waste) facility in Arlington, Oregon.

6/21/2005 – from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website - http://www.epa.gov/

Benzene, or benzol, is an organic chemical compound and a known carcinogen with the molecular formula C6H6. It is sometimes abbreviated Ph–H. Benzene is a colorless and highly flammable liquid with a sweet smell and a relatively high melting point. Because it is a known carcinogen, its use as an additive in gasoline is now limited, but it is an important industrial solvent and precursor in the production of drugs, plastics, synthetic rubber, and dyes. Benzene is a natural constituent of crude oil, but it is usually synthesized from other compounds present in petroleum. Benzene is an aromatic hydrocarbon and the second [n]-annulene ([6]-annulene), a cyclic hydrocarbon with a continuous pi bond.

An aromatic hydrocarbon is a hydrocarbon, of which the molecular structure incorporates one or more planar sets of six carbon atoms that are connected by delocalised electrons numbering the same as if they consisted of alternating single and double covalent bonds. The term 'aromatic' was assigned before the physical mechanism determining aromaticity was discovered, and was derived from the fact that many of the compounds have a sweet scent. This sweet scent actually came from impurities in the compounds. The configuration of six carbon atoms in aromatic compounds is known as a benzene ring, after the simplest possible such hydrocarbon, benzene.

Benzene, C6H6, is the simplest AH and was recognized as the first aromatic hydrocarbon, with the nature of its bonding first being recognized by Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz in the 19th century. Each carbon atom in the hexagonal cycle has four electrons to share. One goes to the hydrogen atom, and one each to the two neighboring carbons. This leaves one to share with one of its two neighboring carbon atoms, which is why the benzene molecule is drawn with alternating single and double bonds around the hexagon.

Many chemists draw a circle around the inside of the ring to show six electrons floating around in delocalized molecular orbitals the size of the ring itself. This also accurately represents the equivalent nature of the six bonds all of bond order ~1.5.

Benzene burns with a sooty yellow flame because of the high carbon-hydrogen ratio.

- From Wikipedia 2008

Full SIXSIXSIX Schedule

1. Open Now!!! - “Schema” – An installation at Gallery Homeland that serves as a map or diagram of what will happen over the course of SIXSIXSIX.

2. Opening Tonight!!! - A satellite installation of “Schema” installed along the Esplanade (East side of the Willamette).

3...August 29, 2008 - Tonight!!! - A performance piece entitled: “Struggle"

North of the Hawthorne Bridge on the Esplanade at 8 PM.

Performers: Isreal Lund and Greg Sheran

4. Beginning Sunday August 31, 2008 – “Six Dinners, Six Locations, Six Days”. All of the events will happen in public space in North, S.E, N.E, S.W, and N.W. Portland.

Dates: August 31, September 3, 6, 12, 18, 24,

Time: 6 PM

Closing Event - September 30th, 2008 – Time to be announced

5. Ongoing - SIXSIXSIX BLOG serving as a Key to the Map (“Schema”). Log on to the BLOG to find out details and the meeting location of each event.

6. Ongoing (Opening to be announced) - An installation at Milepost 5 (MP5) as part of “Suddenly” that will serve as a comprehensive explanation of the whole SIXSIXSIX project. The MP5 installation will change over the course of month of September as documentation from each event is added.

The Keys To the Condo

These links will be helpful in understanding SIXSIXSIX

Monotone Symphony

http://www.artep.net/kam/symphony.html

Chelsea Hotel Manifesto

http://www.yvesklein.de/manifesto.html

Why Hexagon?

Benzene Molecule.

Benzene comes from tar. It is known to cause cancer (specifically leukemia).Tar comes from petroleum refinement. GASCO (which became NW Natural Gas) dumped a lot of tar into pits that got covered up by dirt in the 90's. The tar began leaching Benzene and other toxic chemical compounds into the river. In 2006 the EPA made them clean up. They dug out 15,000 cubic yards of tar from the bottom of the river. There was 365 ppm Benzene in the earth around the site and 17 ppm Benzene in the water (including groundwater).

SYSTEMS: The Ecology Of Place and Line: Towards An Architecture of Healing

Chapter One

“You carry your own joy with you wherever you go."
- Kurt Schwitters

Blue (Early Visions Of The Void)

My room was always blue when I was a child; like an inside-out robin’s egg. May be that is why I spent so much time in there, because it felt safe. I was an only child. I spent most of my time alone.

When I was seven years old I had a vision while seated on the floor of my room. I know it was not a dream because I was awake when it happened.

I come to a fork in the road. The right fork is well lit and easy to navigate at first. It is smooth and wide If I go this way I know that eventually I will get lost. I will never come back. I will die. It will end in pain.

The left fork appears treacherous and uncertain. It quickly disappears into shadowy nothingness If I go this way I know that it will be very painful and difficult at first, but I will eventually come out the other side alive. I will be OK.

I understand the path on the right is a path to substance abuse and that the path on the left is the path of sobriety.

Everyone wonders why I have never used drugs and rarely drink. It is because I don't want to die.

Gary Wiseman Presents, In Cooperation with DOUGLAS F. COOLEY MEMORIAL ART GALLERY "Suddenly"
http://web.reed.edu/gallery/

SIXSIXSIX

A Co-Relational Weaving In Six Parts
(Six Dinners, Six Locations, Six Days)

“Take care! Nothing has crystallized as yet; nor can I say what will happen after this. I can only say that today I am no longer as afraid as I was yesterday… I find myself before you…ready to dive into the void.”
- Yves Klein

“The space that appears to separate us actually connects us.”
- Ian Dorsey

“Our elders teach us…protect the water…the water is life.”
- Danny Beaton
Turtle Clan, Mohawk Nation

Richard Brandt, Jessica Tannenbaum, David Liberty, the Intertribal Fisheries Department, Robin Shanti, Paul Middendorf, Caitlin Moore, Stephanie Snyder, Matthew Stadler, Greg Sheran, Brennan Novak, Ashley Kaempf, Seth Nehil, Todd Balmer, Gordon Barnes, Chris Hudson, Gary Wiseman, Walter Fenk, Yves Klien, Marcel Duchamp, Situationist International, Fluxus, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Rikrit Tiravanija, Vanessa Beecroft, Doh Ho Suh, Louise Bourgeois, Gordon Matta-Clarke, Christo and Jean-Claude, Kurt Schwitters, Damian Hirst, Jeff Koons, Joseph Bueys, Maurizio Cattelan, Fritz Heag, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ingmar Bergman, Theo Angelopoulos, Rudolf Steiner, You

Tarpaulin (Blue = future, possibility, protection, restoration, erasure, healing, Eve, Dawn, Void, IKB, Anthropometric - one note symphony, twenty minutes, silence Situationist International, Spectacle, Revolution, Fluxus, Happenings; Tarpaulin Entomology - heavy canvass, coated with tar, waterproof (nautical connection, water connection) Tar = (sailor = grandfather = navy = electrician) = Benzene = (hexagon = 6 sides, 6 = lucky number = number of man = SIXSIXSIX = six diners, six locations, six guests) = industrial solvent, plastics, synthetic rubber, pharmaceuticals, (Lamictal = hexagon shape = pharma-molecules in water supply) liberation (Tar = modern tarpaulin), Tar = by product of oil gasification (early 20th century), GASCO (NW Natural Gas) (Tar Baby [trap] Tar and Feather) Willamette River, Portland, 2005, EPA; 15, 000 cubic-yards of tar removed from Willamette, 2005, Benzene in sediment, water, earth, air (clinically proven cause of leukemia). Willamette, pollution, superfund, 8 sewage treatment plants, agricultural runoff, past industry, current industry, open sewer; destruction = creation = future = possibility [indigenous people, plants, animals, food] original inhabitants, Grandmother, Alcohol, Father, The clearing, Indian Fishing Camp, Prior to 1845, Co-Relational Ecology, Social Architecture, Homeland, Family, Identity, Lineage, Place, interconnectedness, energy, magic, timelessness, the void

SIXSIXSIX: Schema Installation

More photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/garyeugenewiseman/

Photos by Walter Fenk

Origins: Sketches For SIXSIXISX: A Co-Relational Weaving

Please see photo set Origins: SIXSIXSIX here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/garyeugenewiseman/