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06/11/07



BREAK HOTEL
is
a time to think about our life
travel exchange movement meeting network
deplacement
decalage

BREAK HOTEL
is
how to organise
invent a new way of life
and
NO WORK




06/13/07




First i think of BREAK HOTEL as an artist residence
very flexible in the squat LA GENERALE in Paris.
But it appears very difficult to look after a place
when you're always traveling
and maybe it makes no sense
i mean to keep a room
if you' re a nomad!



06/14/07




BREAK HOTEL
is a place wich has no place
UN LIEU SANS LIEU
un lieu virtuel
a virtual place
i'm starting with a blog
as a way to think
to tell to exchange
a way to follow my desire
and to follow the desire of the others
pour suivre mon désir
sans attache
et suivre le désir des autres



06/17/07



today i tell about the break hotel stuff exchange network
jerome a french poet wants to go to vienna in august
i email my friends in vienna myriam axel and nick
nick an austrian artist answers 2 hours later
jenny's room is free for 100 euros in an awesome flat
to share with clemens a german artist and juliane a curator
jenny is leaving for buenos aires by boat
nick asks me for his friend carolina
a german stylist coming in paris for 5 days
i ask philippe a french photographer to receive her
philippe tells me we began break hotel a long time ago!
philippe wants to visit me in ny in july ok
remi's just arrived in queens and shares my room in flux factory
catherine and violaine want to come in ny too
and i have to answer right now



06/19/07




guillaume is a french architect poet philosopher
i've just got guillaume' s sms:
ng est sur la route
ng is on the road
i call guillaume: what are you talking about?
guillaume: you're on the road in your head
my owner just came back from greece and broke my door
(guillaume has been squating her flat for 2 years!)
and guillaume adds
i join you on the road!!



06/21/07



ON THE ROAD AGAIN
SUR LA PISTE



06/23/07



this morning i chat with my friend philippe a french photographer :
ng= arnaud y a plein de ses expos ou il vient meme pas au verni
pm= il a bien raison de pas venir
c'est nul les expos
ng= oui
hier les musees etait gratos alors je suis allee au gugenheim
mais j'aime pas les musees
c'est encore pire
pm= je vais essayer d'embrasser des filles tout de meme
ng= je crois en ce moment c'est vraiment la vie
pm= oui les expos et les musées ça craint
ng= la vie comme performance
pm= oui tout les matins c'est la vie
ng= comme acte artistique qui m'interresse
tere dit ca aussi
les objets je m'en fous
pm= bon je vais prendre mon petit dej
ng= Bises



06/25/07



i'm in bus Q32 queens manhattan
a old woman her name is nell begins to speak
since 45 years she lives in ny
she has to make a new passport
she always repeats this word - immigrant-
i'm sending an sms to remi
a french poet:
i love so much ny
i would like to immigrate

remi answers
immigrate? yes why not?
i'm thinking
yes it will be awesome to tell
I'M AN IMMIGRANT
it will be pretty perfect
to be from nowhere
just an immigrant
TRANS BORDER
I WANT THAT

BREAK HOTEL
all the possibilities to immigrate
who want to think about it?

notes:
i often think i'd like to speak perfectly
another langage
and so nobody knows
where you are from
ng
is about have no sex no country
but it seems hopeless
to eliminate my french accent
if you are an immigrant
you must have an accent
nobody cares



06/28/07



OUTSIDE
i 'm thinking about OUTSIDE
OUT side
dehors a cote
je suis artiste
pour rester dehors
bouger ou je veux
quand je veux
out SIDE
NE JAMAIS ETRE ENFERME
ENFERMEDAD = MALADIE
i'm writing in the bus Q 60
we pass trought the bridge Queens Manhattan
i'm surrounded by all the voices
spanish brasilian english
feeling=happyness




07/01/07



i'm telling julia:
BREAK HOTEL
a project to think about life and ways
art travel weird situation
seppo a finnish artist
trying to fix his old camera in brasil
nick and his band with nowhere to sleep in rotterdam
and i want to make a step beyond
i love artists moving outside

i love nick gee lost in the city trying to reach mountains
i love laurent tixador abraham poincheval going through france straight line
i love richard long walking 300 km each month sleeping everywhere
i love shimabuku in his peniche cooking gherkin
i love gianni motti's assistant traveling for him
i love seppo renvall hanging out half a year in brasil
i love gilles clement traveling all over the world to observe plants
i love nick oberthaler and julien xx riding in warsaw suburbs looking for post punk music
i love johanna kirsch moving throught mountain and forest without using paths
i love tere recarens running throught the fire hose in new york streets
i love maurizio cattelan when he's escaping with his rope
i love remi marie doing nothing except some rare short poems
i love gilles ebersolt buiding ikos the ideal perfect jungle observatory
i love stalker wandering in rome suburbs for weeks
i love jay finch when he's just traveling telling traveler's fantasy

i'm an artist
to move
when i want
where i want



07/06/07



i speak with ernstin an american artist:
e: i'm sort of artist but feel more musician than artist
ng: Ah! i love musicians
i think often music is more generous than visual art
e: in a way yes
ng: two days ago i hang out in chelsea openings
then in 11 av i find tom's studio open
with his friends musicians lee michael...playing music
kind of awesome wild post country music
and i thought : yes it's that! music is obvious!
really i don't care about all this fucking art objects
e: makes sense



07/07/07



let's talk to day about my friends's adventure desire and blabla
jerome the french poet is now in rennes residence
waiting for jenny's answer to sublet her room in vienna
i give him also clemens's mail adress a german artist sharing flat with jenny
guillaume the frenchy architect poet philosopher is writing :
"i have no flat no woman no work all is possible"
he has to leave right now his squatted flat and
he's looking for a cave to put all his stuff
guillaume in paris wandering in the streets looking for a new squat to open
i tell him to visit la generale squat that continue to survive
they're just sending photos of a dancing protest in front of city hall
and alessio a french philosopher wants to immigrate in bresil or china
cause france is so boring institutional



07/08/07



johanna emails me:
"...at the moment i am dreaming buying a van again...
seems to me the only home-solution which really works for me...
as soon as i have one i will be much more flexible..."
i wonder if she's really planing to live in her van
i'm precisely thinking about crossing usa with a van
new york los angeles los angeles mexico
a french artist i met in a little secret squat
told me he cross usa buying van for 300 $
and driving without any insurance until the van is fucked up
i'm asking the people here about to drive without insurance in usa
they don't look very enthousiastic



07/10/07



sebastien a french-american artist :
you can have big troubles without insurance here but
thousands of people drive without licence
ng: Ah!!?
sebastien: you should take a car working with vegetal oil
ng: do you think it really works a car with vegetal oil?
sebastien: yes pretty well
you can cross usa from mc donald to mc donald
dealing the old vegetal oil
(this old oil sounds degusting to me and the project fucking besogneux!!)
ng: at the top of it is this artist from netherland
he built a car in wood working with wood
and he has to drive along the forest i hear he drove to berlin
sebastien:ah! awesome
ng:yes awesome i'd like pretty much meeting him



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