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EXHIBITION PHOTOS
Cabinets within Cabinets…
This freestanding Wunderkammer contains various framed pictures, objects and apparatus which illustrate a possible history of Patamechanics.
Cabinet in Exhibition Gallery
Unluminator detail
The Root Ofallthought
"Make no mistake about it: 'Pataphysics 'Pataphysicies itself through the 'Pataphysics of 'Pataphysical Modes."
-Dr. I.L. Sandomir
Cabinet detail
Legume Vacuum detail
Legume Vacuum
“Instead of formulating the law of the fall of a legume toward a center, how far more apposite would be the law of the ascension of the legume into a vacuum?...”
-June Muldoon
Chipperace's Magic Show
The Pointing Machine
“What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.”
- Flann O'Brien
Unluminator detail
The Night Garden
Olfactory Lghthouse
“Every word has its scent; there is a harmony and discord of scents, and so too of words.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Chipperace's house
Olfactory Lighthouse detail
The Syzygistic Oracle
“Life itself is a quotation”
- Jorge Luis Borges
Le Musée Bicycle
The Undigestulator
“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster." - Jonathan Swift
Pata-acrobatics show detail
Pata-acrobatics show detail
TIME MACHINE
"Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. I.e.: The becoming of a memory"
-Alfred Jarry
Welcome to our night garden...
The Night Garden
Chiperace
“Watch where you step your feet, le Musee is full of Merdre!”
- Chipperace(
Pronounced - chip-per-ach-eeeee)
Chipperace Magic show stage
Electric Nightingales
”I though fit to give then human voices and human laughter instead of the old fashioned meaningless song of a normal bird – it seemed more in harmony with the spirit of progress.” - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Cabinet detail
Syzygistic Oracle detail
2+2=5
"With all the endeavors made-up to the present day to demonstrate that 2+2=4, wind velocity has never been taken into account." Raymond Queneau
Timmy Bumble bee and pals
Timmy Bumble bee and pals
The Dream of Timmy Bumble Bee
Let us go now this way please, to visit our seven bumble bees.
Waltz of the Toothpicks detail
Our Owl
Waltz of the Toothpicks
“I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too?”
-Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
Pointing Machine detail
Singing Mixotricha Paradoxa
"From the belly of M. Darwiniensis
Squiggling songs in a cappella,
Come these singing micro-species
Made of hairs, they call flagella"...
-Hans Spinnermen
Earolin
“One can look at seeing but one can't hear hearing.” - Marcel Duchmp
An assortment of guide books
Deloris Glymph's Patacrobatics Show!
“I need you, dear reader, to imagine us. For we don't really exist if you don't.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Ruby Eyed Cicadidae
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Chipperace's Magic Show