LET'S CELEBRATE JACK KEROUAC !
SEND US YOUR POEMS, TEXTS, PICS, VIDEOS... FOR JACK. WE'LL SHOW THEM IN THIS ARTISTIC INSTALLATION.
On the 23 of september 2007, an artistic installation, has celebrated in Paris, France, the 50th year of publication of On The Road by Jack Kerouac.
During the afternoon and all night long, Arnaud Contreras and Alain Dister organized Memory Babe, A Tribute To Jack Kerouac, an artistic installation including films, music, photography, films, lectures, texts, performances, to enlight this great american writer, at the Cabaret Pirate (Dame de Canton), in front of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Few monthes before, Arnaud Contreras sent a call for contributions by Myspace and different medias.
All those contributions, videos, mails, letters, from all over the world, are now displayed in the installation Tribute to Jack Kerouac.
This installation is now on the road.
You can still send us some contributions for Jack ( texts, poems, sounds, pics, videos...) at this adress:
JACK KEROUAC
À 360
5, avenue Milleret de Brou
75016 PARIS FRANCE
This project is supported by Agnès b, The Allen Ginsberg Trust, The Beat Museum, Les éditions Gallimard, Le Ministère des Affaires Étrangères et Européennes, Paris Breton, La capsule.
On the road again, and again ...
ps: If you run a gallery, a cultural place everywhere in the world, we'll be happy to come and celebrate Jack Kerouac with you. Let us know !
Some pictures of the Tribute to Kerouac in Paris :
MEMORY BABE
Hommage à Jack Kerouac
Mémory Babe est un projet itinérant d'Arnaud Contreras et Alain Dister,
conçu pour célébrer les 50 ans de la publication de Sur la route, le livre mythique de Jack Kerouac.
Composé d'une installation multimédia d'Arnaud Contreras, d'une exposition photo d'Alain Dister, de lectures-concerts, de performances et de dédicaces, Memory Babe se veut une immersion dans l'univers de Jack Kerouac et de la Beat Generation.
Il a été présenté pour la première fois le 23 septembre 2007, au Cabaret Pirate (ex-guinguette), à Paris, France, juste en face de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Toutes les contributions, vidéos, lettres, sons et mails, en hommage à Kerouac, que nous recevons sont présentées dans l'installation d'Arnaud Contreras et sur le web.
Memory Babe est maintenant sur la route, prépare sa prochaine étape et recherche des terres d'accueil ( festivals, lieux culturels, médiathèques, municipalités...) pour + d'infos et une réservation écrivez-nous.
Participez à Memory Babe !
Envoyez-nous vos textes, poèmes, chansons, vidéos... à:
JACK KEROUAC
À 360
5, avenue Milleret de Brou
75016 PARIS FRANCE
Ce projet est soutenu par : Agnès b, The Allen Ginsberg Trust, The Beat Museum, Les éditions Gallimard, Le Ministère des Affaires Étrangères et Européennes, Paris Breton, La capsule.
° PS: Memory Babe était le surnom de Jack Kerouac, du fait de son impressionnante mémoire.
Laroséedu matin ma brouillé le coeur les oiseaux ont chanté le requiem des amants perdus dans leur je t aime des matins aux fleurs fanées de draps froissés au regardsétrangers mais que fais tu là beau ténébreux ??? souviens toi autour de minuit nous étions dans la lumière des vapeurs d amour supreme tu ma pris la main jusqu a chez toi espérant briser ce chagrin qui me tue chaque jour que la vie me prète..... chaque jour que la vie me laisse encore à espérer retrouver lechemin des écoliers..... mais lavie est sans appel le verdict est déja rendu.... laisse moi repartir ne retiens pasmon malheur demain une autre fille voudra soigner mesblessures autour deminuit elle prendra ma main je lui laisserai croire jusqua aux matin aus vapeurs d amour suprème..... lowell
It is only in the imagination of men that every truth there is a real and undeniable. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art, like life. BIG SMILES
To reach Nepal I first had to leave the Himalayas and travel by bus down to Delhi; from there my journey would continue upwards again, to Nepal via Gorakhpur. During my 10 hour stopover in Delhi I took the opportunity to watch the movie “Hare Rama Hare Krishna” whose title melody I have heard many times during my journey. Whenever “Dum Maro Dum” played anywhere I got meaningful looks.
If all had known the true content of the song it would hardly have been stylized into the hymn of the Hippie trail. The translation would be approximately like this: "Take another toke – forget your worries - sing Hare Krishna Hare Ram. What has the world given us - what did we take from it? Why should we worry about anybody - if nobody cares about us? Take another toke... If we live or if we die – we are not afraid - we do as we want. Take another toke..."
The dark nights and solitude of the desert these are like the winds that we prevail in the vast the unspeakable, we thus face a reality in our revealing ourselves and allowing us to grow and subdue our woes that are all too often that a reflection that life makes us seeing them to seriously. How painful moments pass before we become aware and transmute these moments of pure abandon and so we return in the morning in a bright new day where everything is possible.