(first minute of Stockhausen’s crashes and you have no idea why When googling Lucifer, the first Hollywood and the rest of the composition “Strahlen” is played) you kept it open in the first place page listed is the English speaking American entertainment industry For Stockhausen’s time was nothing Wikipedia entry about an “Ameri- creates the best entertainment in Původně poněkud zjednodušující ka- Less than a week after the Septem- less than the now very distant era of can fantasy police comedy-drama the world ber 11 attacks, the German elec- great works of art television series” America creates the best images in tegorie čarodějnictví, rituálů, nábožen- troacoustic composer Karlheinz The reason for this to be the first hit the world ství, magie nebo vědy, chceme-li, jsou Stockhausen was holding a press Between 1977 and 2003, Stockhaus- is due to the fact that if something America in general and the Ameri- vyloučeny ze vzájemného soupeření conference for an upcoming festival en spent most of his time composing exists somewhere in the world but can entertainment industry in par- of his music the epic 29-hour opera cycle “”, also exists as an American version, ticular are also the best distributors o definování skutečného. Do popředí One of the journalists asked him or “Light”, a work carrying the subti- the American version will always be of images in the world se dostává uskutečňování snahy dodat about his thoughts on the attacks, tle “The Seven Days of the Week” the more famous Fifteen years ago, the most iconic pečeť oficiálnosti kosmologiím, přičemž and Stockhausen responded by It is quite impossible to not refer to a The second page listed is the Eng- pictures of a terrorist attack ever tato snaha je evidentně poháněna bojem calling them, quote “the greatest 29-hour opera cycle as a great work lish speaking Wikipedia entry about were created over Manhattan work of art that is possible in the of art, and in order to add even more another character called Lucifer, Fifteen years ago, these images o moc. Tento boj je založen na systému whole cosmos”, end of quote to the greatness and ambition and an old school guy more commonly became the most widely distributed společensky zavedených názorů. Takové Quickly realizing that he had over- pretention of the project, the com- known under other monikers, images of a terrorist attack ever chápání a institucionalizace magie pře- stepped a line or two, he corrected poser himself didn’t even consider including “the devil” and “Satan” měňuje konceptuální přístup na praktic- his statement, and explained that the work to be 29 hours long As I’m sure you already know, And as we’ve already mentioned; in the attack was obviously an act of For the cycle, he claimed, is an “eter- Satan is a not overly friendly one of these pictures, shown live on ký nástroj a možný prostředek nadvlády, evil, the work of Lucifer nal ”, since “there is neither character, famous for bringing evil TV for just a few seconds but then manipulace či vlastnictví. K plnému That didn’t really help, however end nor beginning to the week” – and temptation, a deceiver leading repeated through endless replays, pochopení této změny je však nutné chá- The shit had already hit the fan a never-ending spiral of greatness humanity astray Satan showed his face in the smoke pat i způsoby, jimiž se jednotlivé formy The festival for which the press As you may or may not know, the Maybe you’ve seen it conference was held was promptly Everyone who has ever had a full- last known major public sighting of It was all over the news utajování či zveřejňování magie vzájem- cancelled, as was numerous other time job knows that the week does Satan was on September 11, 2001, You can just image Google it or ně doplňují či nahrazují, a to, jak pře- performances of his compositions in fact have both a beginning and an when his face was seen clearly in check on Youtube svědčivosti symbolů, podle nichž žijeme, during the post-9/11 years to come, end, and that after the end, the crap the smoke coming out of the second It’s really there, very clearly and his pianist daughter said she just starts all over again Twin Tower after a plane flew into it It even made it into the mainstream svědčí kombinace víry a utajení. Jeden would no longer perform using the But everyone working with culture His face could be seen on media and everything, so I’m takový příklad lze spatřit v samém srdci Stockhausen name in our post 9/11 day and age knows TV-screens all over the world, definitely not making it up neoliberální ekonomie, jež je založena Stockhausen was suddenly a perso- that nowadays the work neither appearing in the smoke through I’m not good at making things up Magie je tradičně vnímána jako protipól na myšlence fetišismu komodity, a je jen na non grata, and all of this because stops nor starts over endless replays That’s not really what I do he called something a work of art, This, however, doesn’t make creative Satan works in mysterious ways, I analyse things toho, v co věří západní kultura. Chápání jednou z mnoha oblastí, které plně při- when in fact it wasn’t work a great and “eternal spiral”, as and on that September morning 15 I read things magie se utvářelo kolem konceptuál- jaly za své tzv. strategie moderní magie. Stockhausen would’ve had it years ago, his mode of communica- I see things ního , jehož účelem bylo definovat Forma určité komodity a její magie je za- So, by referring to the attacks as the It does have the feeling of being tion was that of the smoke signal I look into the details opak modernity. Mělo se za to, že magie ložena na pojetí, v němž komodita před- greatest work of art, his own work eternal, but more in the sense of a And I saw the devil coming out fell out of favour, and was suddenly bottomless pit The smoke signal is one of the of one of the Twin Towers fifteen ustoupí do pozadí a postupně vymizí stavuje společenský aspekt, zatímco její hardly worth anything at all Or a totally flat surface oldest forms of long distance years ago spolu s tím, jak se společností šíří racio- pracovní stránka, která danou komodi- He had perhaps been a great Or a perfectly even mush communication nalizace a sekularizace. Takové pojímá- tu vytváří, je zatajována. Podobně jako composer, but like Lucifer himself Or just a bowl of gruel In ancient China for example, sol- Now, as far as I know, the devil has ní magie se přirozeně vázalo na studijní u ekonomiky práce je zde dialektika pu- he had now fallen from heaven, and And although it is true that this diers stationed along the Great Wall never made it into the mainstream both his work and his persona was gruel of contemporary cultural could transmit a message through news before, at least not in this obory, jako je antropologie, a také jimi blicity a utajení založena na procesu uta- being dragged in the mud work has no beginning or end, it an intricate system of smoke extent bylo posilováno. Antropologie sehrála jování: společenské vztahy mezi výrobci Even if his fall came directly after also knows no weeks signals, sending the message as far And as far as I know, the devil has důležitou roli v definování moderního předmětů a předměty samotnými jsou he dubbed the 9/11 attacks a work of It only knows deadlines away as 750 km in just a few hours not really made it into the news in art, he is most certainly not the only And the only eternity it knows is Smoke signals have been used all the same way after, or at least not člověka, jehož racionalita, sekularita představovány jako oddělené a zakrývají artist who has seen the value of his that of the everlasting hopelessness over the world, but if something until Donald Trump started his a hodnoty založené na vědeckých důka- skutečný charakter daného výrobku. Če- work fallen drastically since Sep- of precarious existence exists somewhere in the world but presidential campaign zech měly být v přímém opaku k duchov- líme zde nehmotnému, bez ohledu na to, tember 2001, for the post 9/11 era also exists as an American version, But in the grand scheme of things, nímu původu magie. Antropologie také zda je zastoupeno nepřítomným orgá- has seen what must be the greatest Stockhausen didn’t know shit about the American version will always be even Trump is just a little beep on decline in the value of cultural work precarity, and he was of course to- the more famous the radar napomohla vytvořit tradici zahrnující nem nebo utajenou podstatou zdánlivě and creative labour in the history of tally uninterested in the workweek This means that the most famous Satan in the smoke 15 years ago, magii do argumentů o rozdílnosti, čímž vládnoucího objektu. cultural work and creative labour I doubt he was ever interested in smoke signals in the world are the however, isn’t posilovala představu o nadřazenosti In the end, Stockhausen may have work at all smoke signals of Hollywood For with Lucifer showing his face Západu a hrála zásadní roli v koloniál- Výstava Pravá ruka kouzelníka předsta- been one of the last artists of great What he was interested in was great In its Hollywood version, the smoke that day, something changed works, but he was also one of the works, and that is something else signal is generally shown on screen The world hasn’t been the same ních dějinách Západu. Ať už překvapivě vuje díla umělců, kteří se ve své práci first artists to crash in the new post entirely just before Native Americans, since či ne, tyto západní koloniální dějiny se zabývají některými z klíčových atributů 9/11-economy, in which the value of In fact, it seems that great works called Indians or redskins in Images haven’t been the same staly dějinami, které využívají způsoby takzvané moderní magie a zároveň ma- practically all cultural capital has can only be produced by certain Hollywood English, attack nice and Faces haven’t been the same reprezentace, komunikace, přesvědčo- nifestují svou blízkost ekonomice běž- plummeted individuals who are lucky enough to friendly Christian white people, It’s even as if smoke itself hasn’t not have to work for a living killing a handful of them and taking been the same since that day vání a donucování, jež, ačkoli nazírány ného života a vytváření modernity jako Markéta Stará Condeixa Stará Markéta Apart from all of this, one could For great works are obviously deal- their scalps as trophies In this as well as in many other jako racionální, technické a nemající nic takové. Kolonizace lidské mysli, ekono- also claim that Stockhausen was ing with great things, and instead This invariably leads to the nice ways, September 11 was indeed a společného s magií, do sebe vstřebaly mika touhy, architektura symbolického quite certainly bound to crash any- of dealing with such worldly issues and friendly Christian white people game changer way, regardless of his comments as work or labour, Stockhausen’s having to stand their ground and And every game changer offers některé klíčové atributy magie, čímž kapitálu nebo politika nemateriálního His ambitions were simply not of “Licht” is all about the big picture defend their right and freedom and many different explanations učinily první krok k takzvané moderni- těla představují jen některé z příkladů this time It’s an electroacoustic hippie-hotch- civilization and freedom and Amer- zaci tohoto termínu a k zahrnutí magie zakódovaných v rámci vzájemně sdíle- They were of a time that in 2001 was potch, building on Judeo-Christian ica and freedom and family values When it comes to the 9/11 attacks,

Kurátor do moderního a později proměněného ného moderního systému víry, na jehož already practically gone, and which and Vedic traditions, microtonality, and wipe out as many redskins as there are of course many, many, is now nothing but a memory Hindu mythology, nuclear physics, possible many, many different explanations současného Já. troskách v současnosti stojíme. Or perhaps just a myth circular musical structures, and the According to Hollywood, this is and theories regarding cause and

Or the memory of a myth spiritual and esoteric Urantia book, if not great art, then at least great effect, perpetrator and victim, and Lundkvist Henning The You DevilYou Know, 2016 Know Sound, 22’ loop Or one of those tabs that you never following, for 29 long hours, the entertainment medium and message read but keep open in your web three main characters Michael, Eve, And if Hollywood knows anything, But unlike the explanations of the browser for weeks until the browser and, yes, Lucifer it is entertainment attacks themselves - which can be Once the somewhat reductive categories of witchcraft, ritual, religion, magic or science - if we like, are taken out of their complex competition in defining the real, the realisation of an effort to institution- alise cosmologies driven by an obvious power struggle, comes to the fore. Such a power struggle is based on a system of socially established beliefs. This un- derstanding and institutionalisation of magic transforms a conceptual field into a practical tool and a possible means of domination, manipulation or possession. To understand this shift fully however, we have to understand the ways in which C-print and sculpture, 82 cm x 315 cm x 315 cm 82 sculpture, and C-print forms of magic’s publicity and secrecy complement or supplement each other and the ways in which the persuasiveness of the symbols we live by, thrives on

a combination of faith and concealment. 2015 I, # Rhyme Infinte Magic has been traditionally perceived in An example can be seen in the core of the opposition to the beliefs of Western cul- neo-liberal economy, which is based on ture. It’s understanding has been shaped the idea of commodity fetishism – one of around a conceptual field that was meant the multiple fields, which has adopted AlsharifAzar to define an antithesis of modernity. This fully the so-called strategies of modern was thought to recede and gradually dis- magic. The commodity form and its mag- appear as rationalisation and seculari- ic is founded on the basis of commodity sation spread through out society. Such representing the social, while conceal- an understanding of magic was naturally ing the character of the labour, which connected and strengthened by fields of produces its. Similarly to the labour study such as anthropology, which has economy the dialectics of publicity and plaid an important role in defining the secrecy are based here on the process of modern man, whose rationality, secu- concealment, where the social relation of larity and whose scientific based values producers of objects and objects as such, supposedly stood in direct opposition to are presented as separate and conceal the magic’s spiritual origins. In fact it was concrete character of the product itself. anthropology, which has helped to devel-

We are faced here with the immaterial, volts 9000 grip, bearings, wheels, trucks, Skateboards, op a tradition of embedding magic into may it be represented by the absent body arguments about difference, reinforcing or the concealed nature of a supposedly thus the idea of Western superiority and empowered object. playing an essential role in the colonial history of the West. Surprisingly or not, Magicians Right Hand brings together it became the same Western colonial works by artists whose practice address- history, which has also applied modes es some of the key attributes of so called of representation, communication, per- modern magic, while manifesting their suasion and coercion, which although proximity to the economy of daily life and thought of as rational, technical and ut- to the construction of modernity as such. terly different from the field of magic, in The colonisation of the human mind, fact embodied some of the key attributes the economy of desire, the architecture

of magic, making thus the first step to- of symbolic capital or the politics of the Bullroarers, 2015 wards the so-called modernization of the immaterial body are only some of the ex- Nuno da Luz da Nuno term and the incorporation of magic into amples encoded within a mutually shared the modern and later transformed - con- contemporary belief system within the temporary Self. ruins of which we find ourselves today. Markéta Stará Condeixa Curator Henning Lundkvist Henning Lundkvist The Smoke in Non-Smoking, 2016 The Devil You Know You Know, 2016

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Heads must roll, 2016 roll, must Heads André Romão André Iza Tarasewicz Nikolai Nekh The Means, The Milieu, 2014-2016 Stone of Bad Fortune, 2014

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Franceschini Anna divided into the official explanation So according to branjo’s reading, Something unknown that should For if you take a closer look, you on the one hand, and the tons of the devil in the smoke is a bit like a never have been awakened will soon see things take shape more or less conspiratorial theories work of art Something unknown that should before your eyes on the other - the devil in the smoke The meaning is produced in the eye never have seen the light of day Things that previously weren’t there lacks any official explanation of the beholder, pretty much regard- Something unknown that should There is not one official way of less of the intentions of the artist have stayed buried forever Pareidolia is the term for the psy- looking at it, and then other According to this logic, the smoke chological phenomenon where one different ways was there to be manipulated by the The Pentagon is a 5-sided polygon sees a familiar pattern where none There are only the other different spectators, and without their active If you draw lines between its actually exists ways manipulation, the devil would five points, you get a 5 pointed One of the most famous examples is And really quite a few of them simply not exist, or would at least star, a shape also referred to as a the Rorschach test One of those numerous ways are not be present in the smoke pentagram Other examples are perceived proclaimed by the anonymous Without the spectators, the smoke A pentagram turned upside down images of animals, faces, or objects webmaster of the website Christi- would just be smoke, and the attacks and with a goat’s head inside, is the in cloud formations, the man in the anmedia.us would not be the work of the devil sign of Church of Satan moon, and hidden messages within “This was a dream come true for In this sense, it really was a work of Or, it is in fact not exactly the recorded music played in reverse demons,” the webmaster writes art, as Stockhausen claimed sign of Church of Satan, but the or at higher- or lower-than-normal “Demons knew what was going Perhaps it was even the last true trademarked official logo of Church speeds to happen in New York and they great work of art of Satan gathered there to jump in at the Thus, the symbol of Satan, or the To record a sound or message point of the impact, like a human For with the attack on the Twin symbol of evil if you will, has the backward onto a track meant jumping onto a moving train to have Towers we see the last great smoke same legal status and mode of to be played forward is called a thrill.” signal, a cloud of potential mean- functioning as the Nike swoosh, the backmasking So according to this reading, the de- ings, readings, and interpretations McDonalds M, and the Apple apple A popular myth in the 80s was that mon was not the cause of the attack, that only smoke can offer It is not the symbol of evil, but the hardrock bands were brainwashing but was simply there for the ride It is as if the smoke from the Twin trademarked brand of Satan the youth through Satanist messag- The demon liked to watch Towers, the smoke of the devil, es, which could only be heard when The demon got a kick out of was canopying the whole world, We know that the brand of Satan played backwards watching and later, when the smoke settled, is part of the global distribution A few decades before that, some of When these things happen, unpleas- it covered the entire surface of the system the first sound-altering methods ant as they may be, the demon just earth with a thin layer of dust That is what one would call a known used by early composers of musique can’t look away It is as if these dust particles known concrete and All in all, this is not an entirely changed the whole world We also know that this system is involved playing recorded sounds implausible reading of the whole As if they altered not only the based on killing all local contexts, in reverse and at higher- or low- situation surface of everything, but in fact and replacing them with global er-than-normal speeds transformed everything to a surface machinery Among the pioneers of elec- On another web forum, the highly of dust We also know that the language troacoustic music and electronic conspiratorial davidicke.com, senior It is as if the dust consumed of this machinery is a language of manipulation of sound we find member tootrue writes; “Most everything below, all possible depth signs that has little or nothing to the German composer Karlheinz people have probably seen the ‘scary’ and the very ground we stand on, do with any previously existing lan- Stockhausen ‘faces’, in the WTC smoke, on 9/11” for in the post 9/11 period neither guage, for it constitutes a new one tootrue goes on asking whether depth nor solid ground seem to exist It makes up a global language not of Strahlen is a late work by Stock- the devil in the smoke may in fact anymore writing and reading, but of defining hausen, based on voices and melo- be proof that the whole world is an and following, or ordering and dies from his opera cycle Licht illusion Something did die there, with that obeying, even In Licht, Lucifer is one of three His question follows the theories of last great smoke signal, ending the main characters David Icke, the conspiracy theorist era of great signals, great smokes, For a brand is not there to be But in Strahlen, composed in 2002, behind the web forum bearing great works of art deciphered the year after Stockhausen’s com- his name And a new order came upon us A brand is not there to be read ments on the greatest work of art in Icke claims that humanity is A post 9/11 world All reading needs a context, and the cosmos, many other important genetically manipulated by the This much we know a brand is a sign doing everything voices from Licht are used, while Babylonian Brotherhood, a hybrid This is one of the known knowns to kill the context into which it is the voice of Lucifer is gone race of human–extra-terrestrial We also know there are known inserted Stockhausen, the great composer Illuminati reptilians who broadcast unknowns A brand is a sign of distribution, of great works, has managed to holographic experiences from Apart from this, there are also and the more globally distributed a erase the voice of the devil space and produce an illusion that unknown unknowns - the ones we sign, the stronger the brand When we play the composition first

The Devil Know 2016 Know, You Devil You The humanity perceives as reality don’t know we don’t know – and I The brand is there to cover the world backwards and then forwards, we If this were the case, would the devil won’t even get into all of those if not even the cosmos with its dust, get the feeling of an eternal spiral in the smoke constitute a sort of to wipe out all local contexts and The composition seems to have glitch in the matrix, showing the But what we do know is that a new replace them with itself neither beginning nor end, and it forces behind it all, and exposing the world was created in the smoke ris- Like a prohibition sign, or a Twitter seems that it’s actually intended

Diogo Evangelista Magician´s End, 2015 video rear (SD), projection on red wall, color, mute, 11’11’’ world as an illusion? ing from the World Trade Centres, feed for that matter, it is not really to be played backwards as well as Perhaps and was firmly grounded by the supposed to be read forwards plane crashing into the Pentagon It is supposed to be followed Most importantly, if you listen Henning Lundkvist But the plot thickens, for plausible the same morning closely enough, it is as if you can as tootrue’s speculation may be, The dust from the World Trade Just like most companies behind hear or at least intuitively feel the Sound, 22’ loop 22’ Sound, forum-member branjo replies to Centre may have covered the earth, logos, Church of Satan has an absence of Lucifer, so try to focus tootrue’s post not with an answer but the new order was rooted in the official Twitter account and listen carefully now but with yet another possible crater below Pentagon Church of Satan also has its own reading; “From now on”, the crater told us, podcast, wittingly called “The Devil (first minute of Stockhausen’s Projekt podpořili: Supported by: Quote “ground is gone, there will only you Know” Strahlen is played backwards) “All that fear on 9/11 had to go be surface; from now on language The devil is, as they say, in the detail Ministerstvo kultury Holečkova Appartements somewhere and the smoke was there is dead, there will only be communi- And if you focus on details, you will Magistrát hl. m. Prahy The City of Prague to be manipulated by the conscious cation”, and something was set free soon get the big picture EMBAIXADA DE PORTUGAL thought of those looking at it” from the great unknown unknowns In fact, you will get the big picture Holečkova Appartements Ministry of Culture EM PRAGA End of quote that lay deep below the Pentagon even if none existed before Futura 23/9―27/11 2016

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