1112001 Dominika Kustosz
By Accident, Jean-Philippe Convert
The project “By Accident” is mainly concerned with the
factor of “fate striking work at any stage of production, exposure or whenever,
only for drastically affected outcome to be kept by the authors, deliberately
addressed and appearing as part of their output – as well as actually
generating other work”.[1]
Douglas Park has done research on the topic of marginalized elements of
contemporary art history through the prism of “accident”. According to him, it
is impossible for the process of creation not to be influenced by a magnitude
of factors, starting from historical events, weather, accidents and failures
during the process of creation, lack of materials, finishing with the emotional
situation of the artist, whether he is, for example, in conflict with someone.
The text written by Douglas Park was later passed on to other artists by
Komplot, which conceived the project for Le Commissariat. The artists then
responded by creating work inspired by the readings, completing them.
One of the artists taking part in the project was
Jean-Philippe Convert, a Belgian poet and filmmaker, concentrated on the making
of video films and performances after his own texts. In his work he mainly
tries to explore the possibilities of oral and musical expression, in relationship
to text and image. In his “object-films”, as he defines his work, the visual
and the auditive converge. For “By Accident” he re-wrote the unorthodox stories
created by Douglas Park, in order to smooth their passage from London to Paris.
He also took part in the performance.
Jean-Philippe Convert has worked with Douglas Park also
on a different project. Also in 2009, they met during the production of the
film “Marcel”, also done in cooperation with Komplot. Jean-Philippe Convert wrote
the script and the screenplay for Marcel, in which Douglas Park was an actor.
They were scheduled to travel from London to Belgium, Brussels, together (for
the filming). Apparently, somewhere between that time and the arrival,
apparently they had a stimulating conversation about William Blake, the English
poet, painter and printmaker. The conversation made a big impression on Douglas
Park, he described it with these words: “Another revelation was discussing William Blake
with Jean-Philippe Convert –the 1st time I’ve ever heard somebody from mainland
Europe even mention William Blake’s name.”[2]
Douglas Park’s account of
the process of filming of “Marcel” seems to be connected to the idea of “By
Accident”, as he recounts everything that happened during the time it was shot,
or anything that was connected to it, conflicting schedules, traffic accidents,
regrets about which scenes got to be filmed and which not, surprisingly pleasant
moments, people he got to meet, and so on. Looking at the dates provided on the
website it is unclear to me which project happened earlier, but it seems clear
that the idea of “By Accident” was alive during the time Jean-Philippe Convert
and Douglas Park were working together on “Marcel”.
[3] http://douglasism.blogspot.kr/search?q=convert (http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7227149691603389556#editor/target=post;postID=7238230321869689115)
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