Sluik self interview 1.12

Simultaneously Q and A: We can start soon (?/!)

And both sing from the heart.

Sluik self interview 1.11

Question: Full of questions i have been surfing Tilbud till the early hours and find nothing but bargain and haggle in the forest. This incidentally directed me off course to a BBC3 site where i am invited to listen to some clip of serious music on an organ by David Byrne but then the screen shows: not available in your area... this really makes me, sensitive art lover, question the accessibility of these serious high arts! So let me return to question Tilbake before I also ask myself how and why the BBC should know in which forest i am at the moment anyway? Am i listening?

Answer: Tilbud's best friend is one of a kind. He could be a distinguished artist with an independent oeuvre of international renown but is not. There is nothing to be found on this one, no matter how far back you go. Don't bother to spend early hours on him. He is a little more complicated and not so primary as his gabber. Actually with him it is getting all a bit obscure irritating incestuous conservative and annoying predictable salon anarchistic to convey on this blog with so big but so little ears and then also just lax and suffocating egocentric, so not to be followed, so time consuming, so nothing.

Q: Some gossip maybe?

A: Just that he supposedly went to art academy to improve his left hand, haha!

Q: And what are these two going to contribute here? And why so reluctant to talk about them earlier on?

A: The first question i had expected somebody else to ask me but i guess the road of life we take we take alone. Yes, yes, i know: watch out for the embroidered metaphors! ... Well, Tilbake and Tilbud just contribute like Sluik or Carla do and Bratu still could. Unlike his name Tilbake is really into the new, in starting i mean. He just has problems with the middle part but that is where Tilbud is such an outcome. The end is still ahead. It might at first sight not be clear for the rare visitor what is who's and that in itself is part of the orchestration of this whole monster. With the descriptions given it should be however easy to recognize the individual signature and different intonations once this thing is on the road. Oh, it is a long process where only a few get a view. Not sure even if anybody should understand this interview let alone read it. Go away beauty or beast... look or see... followers and collaborators! This is time consuming! And time is money and money is scarce and we are nothing without so go and do something more useful and earn, earn!

Q: Getting upset about something? Is it the second part of the question?

A: I have only answers and answer the questions, so i control this interview and start with me Me ME!

Q: Sorry but that is not a fact. Remember the opening, chicken: how am i?

A: Scramble bloghead! I am both, idiot.

Q: what is: I am both, idiot. Who is both? Can i be both too?

Photo: is that Tilbake coming back or just dropping off something?

Sluik self interview 1.10

Question: Tilbud and Tilbake!

Answer: What about them.

Q: Easy, easy, just wanted to ask where Tilbud and Tilbake went on holidays this summer? Carla obviously goes nowhere without the keys and Bratu is presumably still strolling through mountainous clouds but where did the other two go?

A: Aha, willing to answer that question now. Tilbud always goes last minute charter or to the camping with family. Actually not sure if he has family. He tends to identify himself quickly as a family member or friend of the family, like some uncle or friend of an aunt. He is a true budget man. More del Sol than del Arte and honestly convinced Bakkum is a hot place to be.

Q: More info to share about him? Please, no gossip, merely observations?

A: Tilbud could be described as a necessity, a useful inter-regional artist playing in sub-towns and hinterlands. He knows the back doors and the scenery or is part of it and many. Lots of output with average input. Little Spiderman tends his web. He dreams of filling important white cubes but ends with wet walls. Never gave up thinking somebody in the brave new world needs him. A continuous emerging artist. But also a bit off or leftover, still mentioned once in a while by equal colleagues. Not enough balls, an escapist hiding behind too many constructed realities. Tilbud is not even his real name!
Persistent though and moving around a lot using the popular AiR. He is an enthusiast linkedin facebook guy who in the mean time can be so easily overlooked but nicely fills the space given. He gets googled once a month average by anonymous searchers.

Q: More nice things about the guy?

A: Lover of bottom shelf products or the get3pay2 section. Yes, a charter artist of the best kind! No harm done, after all most of us are. Always good to have him on board, irreplaceable. Like the bass-player in a band or the tuba in the philharmonic: good for a beer and a laugh. Nothing wrong with the man and is that a problem. He comes in any color or shape and provides any color asked for. Du Ringer Vi Bringer!

Q: A friend?

A: Oh Yes, Top 5! A true companion in the art and crime world. What would we do without him. A good tone just pops out when there is enough noise around. He is a charter artist in residence and an island hopper which makes him a good name dropper. Likes to call himself Tilbake's best friend. He is in a way just that, which makes him a juicy guinea pig for the empirical researchers. Of course i simplify things now and decrypt with ax and claw but that does not feel too bad once in a while.

Q: And Tilbake?

A: Tilbake does not holiday but went to Mexico or Armenia and is not back yet as far as i know.

Photo: Composition with flowers – Johnny Tilbud 2009.

Sluik self interview 1.9

Answer: Shoot, wenker!

Question: As long as i do not mention the girl for a while, or T&T? OK, i reflect in other words: still waiting for Bratot, the lost Jura Lamb?

A: Ha, that is a good one! Well i said he is kind of rűcksichtlos straightforward, self assured and black and white from the beginning did i not? And i also said i just start and he can jump on the boat later. Whenever he wants and with whatever attitude or intentions. So this is a paste job. It is really not that i am trying to or am able to discover another Himalaya ape on high altitudes to save him or it from drowning. This is a variant on the fittest and i am love drugged.

Q: Do i watch out for cliches and metaphors and repeating what is already said like i do now and do i watch out for the listeners behind the back who pretend they are just passing by but nail and burn a person on recyclable crosses, who play with ones moral conscience and want me to crawl up to them and say: please or this is what i said when i sincerely do mean something different?

A: Question?

Q: Ahum, if this interview is an empirical exercise, does it work now after writing about 4000 of these self reflecting words?

A: Thumb up, at least that is what it tries to be. Smile!

Q: Professor Y and some other looser meeting on a bench in the park?

A: The emotion of spoken language through the written form! Just reflect on that a bit, dear Professor Y! get your noodle in gear!

Q: Yes?

A: Well, interviewing oneself, and publishing it, is a kind of observing and testing ones inside as much as the outside. Writing thoughts out loud is a form of word science. Ha, I guess most people start looking for some Freudian link but that is too easy for me. So, Louis Ferdinand Celine and his Professor Y is not so far fetched and closer to me. Also in another sense though. He did create that text out of frustration not being heard in the days after the war. Nobody took him serious or bought his books anymore. Well do not shout into my face i should not have a claim to equal that noble writer, i would not dare, but there are some interfaces here. If that is the right word... Falling asleep!

Q: Aha? No, sorry, i am not on a roll today... so i struggle but also avoid to continue this silly mirror battle leading to pseudo intellectual blabla, faceboy!

A: Go to bed... Although it is raining outside and i haven't sorted out the holiday snaps yet.

Q: Will i get a story while i fall asleep or should i count the sheep?

A: This monkey gets no sweet today. Where have i been.

Q: Can i have the last word? Is it really pouring or just raining or more like drizzling?

Photo: Grimstad, 24 July 2009, Sluik seems to forget to look back but does nothing else.