Dear Reader
Dear Reader
Since 1992 we have been asking people from various fields about the
existence of a Male Muse.
Please participate in our research: share with us your professional
knowledge or personal observations
(please include -if at hand- documents, photos, texts etc.).
Have you ever heard of a Male Muse?
How would you envisage a Male Muse?
Your answers will be compiled in the next edition of the R.M.M. bulletin.
We would be pleased to hear from you soon.
Yours sincerely
Yvonne Trapp
R.M.M., Akademie Schloß Solitude, Solitude 3, 70197 Stuttgart
-Germany. Fax (0)711-9961950
From September 1999 write to : Yvonne Trapp. R.M.M., Kolpingstr.11,
68799 Reilingen -Germany. Fax (0)6205-6675
Or email your suggestions to n.paradoxa
on the subject: Yvonne Trapp / RMM
INFORMATION CENTER RESEARCH ON THE MALE MUSE
The information center Research on the Male Muse was opened in 1993 in Paris at the Claire Burrus Gallery (Temporary Office) and from that moment on hundreds of letters in many languages were distributed or send by post and interviews were made in bookshops (Walther König, Frankfurt 1994), on art fairs (Art Frankfurt 1996, art forum berlin 1997), during exhibitions (Marstall, Berlin 1998) in the street or published in magazines (Frankfurter Rundschau 1994, Kunstforum Bd.133, 1996/ Bd.135, 1997). 3 issues have already been published containing all contributions we received until now (texts, pictures and sound):
Courtesy Galerie M+R Fricke
TEMPTATION / ATTEMPT
"In front of the entry of Art
Cologne 1998 we distributed 400 apples. On each apple was attached an
etiquette "To be eaten or to be bartered for an image". People
decided to bite into the apple or enter the art fair looking for the booth
of a gallery where they could exchange their apple for a picture"
Taken from contributions published in the bulletins "Research on the
Male Muse".
THE LEGEND OF THE ETERNAL MAN
"THE LEGEND OF THE ETERNAL MAN" Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln 1998 ISBN 3-88375-302-5
This CD-ROM summarises the unfinished Legend of the Eternal Man. It contains pictures, objects and writings, all offering hypotheses which have thus far underpinned the Study, Knowledge and Distribution of the Eternal Man. 'This is why I now intend to leave him to his conjectural fate, casting him bottle-like into the sea. In so doing, I make the wish that the bottle be tossed by as many possible languages as there are conflicting waves on the ocean of human rumour,' states artist Yvonne Trapp.(Text from a vignette in the edition).
CENTER OF THE MUSEUM OF DISAPPEARANCE
The
Museum of Disappearance is another variation of the artistic project
Study, Knowledge and Distribution of the Eternal Man (since 1985),
which has unfolded panorama of communication by producing small
multiples/images, a celebration calendar, giving away-actions, bulletins
etc. Alongside its (psychological) content male muse/eternal man (Meret
Oppenheim, C.G. Jung), Yvonne Trapp is working on the appearance of images
in everyday situations (streets, exhibitions etc.). The Museum of
Disappearance is dedicated to the transformation of the content male
muse/eternal man into a conceptual expression, that Trapp calls Exposition-Disparition.
The Museum of Disappearance was launched by the event/action The
Fall. After a line of administrative complications, it took place on
the 16th of July 1998 and was planned to make a wooden box covered with a
copper surface sink by throwing it down from a helicopter into the waters
of the Wannsee. Although the box had been covered with drillholes, it did
not sink. The video, also entitled The Fall, shows the key images
of the unexpected development of the action and the reaction of the artist
(both her surprise and her mourning). To show its conceptual character,
the Museum of Disappearance exists as a drawing (disegno). One of
its imaginative drawings could contain the action and its continuation in
the form of a video and a poster (BüroFriedrich production #2).
Nothing is preserved but everything remains "open ended"
(Yvonne Trapp).
Marietta Franke
ON THE MEADOW
Communiqué:
Since Sunday, 4th of April 1999 Yvonne Trapp invites to Déjeuner
sur l'herbe and spends the morning or the afternoon with her guests on
the meadow. The location is in south-west direction, not far from Castle
Solitude near the apple trees. From time to time, drinks and simple meals
were served. The content and the run of these meetings till now stay in
secret, but could be transmitted in the near future through new-fangled
technology to all who cannot be on the scene. One thing is certain: the
guests come from different countries for that very purpose to the meadow.
In this intimate environment (both private and public) Yvonne Trapp meets
people from various fields to chat about the male representation today and
about the issue of the model:
It is intended that every guest leaves a trace (whatever it is) of their presence.
"Déjeuner sur l'herbe" is supported by Akademie Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart.
Email your suggestions to n.paradoxa on the subject of the male muse: Yvonne Trapp / RMM
Copyright © : Yvonne Trapp. June, 1999
N.Paradoxa : Issue No. 10, June 1999
