JONAS RUCHENHEVER

Your favourite virtue ::
honesty, truthfulness, integrity

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
humility, compassion, integrity

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
humility, compassion, integrity

Your favourite occupation ::
creating

Your idea of happiness ::
love

Your idea of misery ::
physical decay & suffering

If not yourself, who would you be ::
a better copy of myself, or a bird

Where would you like to live ::
by the sea (4 months/year), in the middle of nowhere (4 months/year) and where i currently live (4 months/year)

Your favourite colour and flower ::
i don't have a favourite colour, and every flower is beautiful

Your favourite prose authors ::
i don't have any favourite prose authors

Your favourite poets ::
Sylvia Plath, Bob Dylan, Lucebert, Paul Snoek

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
underdogs

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
undercats

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Michaël Borremans, Antoni Tàpies, Egon Schiele, Giorgio Morandi, Robert Motherwell, Goran Djurovic, Mark Rothko, Jean Dubuffet, Jan Van Imschoot, and countless others, Eliane Radigue, Gustav Mahler, John Cage, Neil Young, Tomas Köner, Djivan Gasparyan, Frank Zappa, Gavin Bryars, John Coltrane, Terry Riley and countless others

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
my sons

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
my wife and daughter

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
Hernando Cortez and the likes

Your favourite food and drink ::
i have no idea

Your favourite names ::
my children's names

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you)::
hypocrisy, greed, intolerance

The change you most anticipate ::
i try hard not to anticipate anything

A gift of nature which you would like to have ::
i'd like to be able to fly

How you would like to die ::
peacefully

What is your present state of mind ::
restless

Of what fault are you most tolerant ::
the faults of the ones i love

Your favourite motto ::
nobody's master, nobody's slave

13 avril 2012

Jonas Ruchenhever is a self-taught experimental artist from Belgium.

website :: Jonas Ruchenhever

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of Marcel Proust", created by Antoinette Faure around 1890.

LAURA FOCARAZZO

Your favourite virtue ::
Honesty, perseverance, passion.

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
Humor, intelligence, passion.

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
Humor, intelligence, passion.

Your favourite occupation ::
Contemplation.

Your idea of happiness ::
A big garden / a cinema room.

Your idea of misery ::
Hunger, pettiness.

If not yourself, who would you be ::
A singer.

Where would you like to live ::
Anywhere, near to the sea.

Your favourite colour and flower ::
all Pantone / jasmine or "Dama de noche"

Your favourite prose authors ::
Jorge Luis Borges, Abelardo Castillo, Milan Kundera, Yasunari Kawabata, Marguerite Duras, Paul Bowles and ...

Your favourite poets ::
Juan Gelman, Pablo Neruda, Alejandro Urdapilleta, Jacques Prevert, Charles Bukowski and ...

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
anti heroes

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
anti heroines

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Giotto, Rothko, Alejandro Colunga, Leon Ferrari, El Bosco / Bela Bartok, Sergei Rachmaninov, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, "Mono" Villegas, Hector Villa-Lobos, "Cuchi" Leguizamon, Ryūichi Sakamoto, Astor Piazzola and . . .

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
Argentinian

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
Elsa Scotti, my mum.

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
Dictators.

Your favourite food and drink ::
Asado, chocolate / beer, mate, coffee, Nesquik.

Your favourite names ::
Roque, Sofia, Catalina, Pedro . . .

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you)::
Injustice, lack of common sense, intolerance, ignorance.

The change you most anticipate::
The wealth of some countries should not be possible at the cost of impovering others.

A gift of nature which I would like to have ::
It's not necessary to exercise in order to be healthy.

How I would like to die ::
Without knowing it ... I don't want to die !

What is your present state of mind ::
A big bang !

Of what fault are you most tolerant ::
Inexperience.

Your favourite motto ::
" I'm the possible or the impossible, depending on who try it. "

15 mai 2010

Laura Focarazzo is an audiovisual artist and independent curator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

Her works include experimental films and videos which use sound as a 'script' for the construction of non-narrative pieces, as well as curatorial works. She conducts research in the field of the electronic arts. 

As an artist, she has had exhibitions at ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; FILE - Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, United States; MACBA Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires-, Argentina; Festival Les Instants video: 50 Years of Video Art, Marseille, France; BAFICI International Independent Film Festival of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rencontres Traverse Vidéo at La Cinémathèque Toulouse, France; Incubarte International Independent Art Festival, Valencia, Spain; Festival Punto y Raya, Reykjavík, Iceland; Copenhagen Art Festival, Denmark; Lumen Gallery, Kyoto, Japan; Union Docs, New York, United States, among others.

website :: Laura Focarazzo
website :: Laura > vimeo

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890.

MUSTAFA ACIL aka A-CHILL, EDVENJAH

Your favourite virtue ::
wisdom, fairness, faith, aspiration

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
responsible, sensitivity, honest

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
appreciation, compassion, humour,

Your favourite occupation ::
music at all, being a good father,

Your idea of happiness ::
when everyone has enough to eat and drink !

Your idea of misery ::
no clean air and water anymore

If not yourself, who would you be ::
Bruce Lee :)

Where would you like to live ::
not on earth ! it is so full of ignorant beings

Your favourite colour and flower ::
indigo(shade of purple) , daffodil

Your favourite prose authors ::
Frank Herbert, Michael Ende, Thomas Mann,

Your favourite poets ::
Dschalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Khwajeh Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Schirazi, Umar Khayyām,

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Bud Spencer, Klaus Kinski, Christopher Walken, Sean Penn

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Whoopie Goldberg, Goldie Hawn, Uma Thurman

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Joan Miró, Salvador Dali, Ennio Morricone, Henry Mancini, Guiseppe Verdi

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
My Father!, My Son , My friends

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
My Mother !

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
dictators and genocidal tyrant

Your favourite food and drink ::
Noodles in several kind of, turkisch meals, persian meals, Water, Beer, Wine, Milk,

Your favourite names ::
Mustafa, Sinan, Otto :)

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you)::
cats, fishes, pinguin

The change you most anticipate::
freedom and health for all

A gift of nature which I would like to have ::
a time machine to travel back and kick some asses ;)

How I would like to die ::
never or when i sleep

What is your present state of mind ::
confused

Of what fault are you most tolerant ::
when someone try to stand out from the crowd

Your favourite motto ::
everything can and nothing must

9 mai 2010

under the aliases A-Chill or Edvenjah, Mustafa Acil is a musician, a DJ and a radio producer, he now lives in Heidelberg.

website :: A-Chill
website :: kreislauf
website :: discogs

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890

MANUEL DAULL

Your favourite virtue ::
l'humanisme / humanism

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
l'écoute de l'autre / listening to the other

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
l'écoute de l'autre / listening to the other

Your favourite occupation ::
écrire et m'occuper de mon jardin / writing and taking care of my garden

Your idea of happiness ::
la béatitude / beatitude

Your idea of misery ::
l'absence d'amour / loveless

If not yourself, who would you be ::
un arbre, un chêne par exemple / a tree, an oak for example

Where would you like to live ::
là où j'ai une place / where i have a place

Your favourite colour and flower ::
l'orange, les narcisses / the orange, narcissus

Your favourite prose authors ::
Caisses de Christophe Tarkos / Caisses of Christophe Tarkos

Your favourite poets ::
Christophe Tarkos

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Wilt dans la ligne rouge de Terrence Malick / Wilt in Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
le personnage principal dans Attention d'Heather Lewis / the main character in Attention by Heather Lewis

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Malevitch - John Cage

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
mon fils / my son

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
Bonnie Parker

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
pouvoir / power

Your favourite food and drink ::
croute aux champignons - pomerol

Your favourite names ::
Luther King

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you)::
l'ordre établi / the established order

The change you most anticipate::
l'accéleration technologique - la mort du capitalisme / the technological acceleration - the death of capitalism

A gift of nature which I would like to have ::
mourir et renaître après l'hiver / dying and rebirth after winter

How I would like to die ::
suicide à 99 ans / suicide at 99 years old

What is your present state of mind ::
amoureux et désespéré / in love and desesperate

Of what fault are you most tolerant ::
la connerie / stupidity

Your favourite motto ::
oh putain !!!! / oh fuck !!!!

2 mai 2010

Manuel Daull is a writer, decided to respond to :: the questionnaire in his native language. Manuel is actually living in Besançon.

website :: cipm marseille
website :: crl franche-comté
website :: remue.net
website :: editions mix
website :: dernier télégramme
website :: rhinocéros

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890