Opus IX: Abode of Chaos / Demeure du Chaos 1999-2013
Is it to be considered a book? Or is it a magic object, each page of which being an original narrative of the Abode of Chaos rendered in a ground-breaking dreamlike vision. thierry Ehrmann: we put all our passion and folly into preparing this French-English Collector, the book of the decade: 504 pages / 4.5 kg / Square format – Edition bound – 11.8 in. x 11.8 in. and 1.97 inch-thick – includes the Opus IX from 1999 to 2013. A Note to Our Readers All the photographs, video stills, illustrations, handwritings, sketches, 3D modelling images, plans, maps and drawings are all part of the artworks and/or performances produced "in situ" at the Abode of Chaos. The images of artworks included in this book do not cover the Above of Chaos in its entirety but only a small part of it.
Is it to be considered a book? Or is it a magic object, each page of which being an original narrative of the Abode of Chaos rendered in a ground-breaking dreamlike vision. thierry Ehrmann: we put all our passion and folly into preparing this French-English Collector, the book of the decade: 504 pages / 4.5 kg / Square format – Edition bound – 11.8 in. x 11.8 in. and 1.97 inch-thick – includes the Opus IX from 1999 to 2013.
A Note to Our Readers
All the photographs, video stills, illustrations, handwritings, sketches, 3D modelling images, plans, maps and drawings are all part of the artworks and/or performances produced "in situ" at the Abode of Chaos.
The images of artworks included in this book do not cover the Above of Chaos in its entirety but only a small part of it.
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<strong>Demeure</strong> <strong>du</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong> est 999 qui est<br />
entre autres, une évocation<br />
parallèle de Stalker d’Andreï<br />
Tarkovski (1979).<br />
Le virus H1N1, le tsunami de<br />
2004, la plate-forme pétrolière<br />
Deep Water Horizon et bien sûr<br />
Fukushima, ont donné lieu à des<br />
centaines d'œuvres à la <strong>Demeure</strong><br />
<strong>du</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong>, qui écrivent en temps<br />
réel cette gigantesque agence de<br />
presse dé-légendée sur 9 000 m².<br />
Ce texte lapidaire ne fait que<br />
survoler 30 ans de réflexion<br />
permanente et 13 ans de pro<strong>du</strong>ction<br />
artistique ayant abouti à ce<br />
Sanctuaire qu'est la <strong>Demeure</strong> <strong>du</strong><br />
<strong>Chaos</strong>.<br />
Nous avons pourtant peint et<br />
sculpté pratiquement toutes les<br />
grandes guerres, la fonte des<br />
glaciers, la déforestation, la mort<br />
<strong>du</strong> capitalisme, les crimes contre<br />
l'humanité quel que soit le<br />
continent, la folie d'une science<br />
incontrôlable où l'homme se<br />
subroge désormais à son Dieu<br />
créateur, et nous avons abouti à<br />
plus de 4 500 œuvres.<br />
Ce court texte pourrait expliquer<br />
pourquoi avoir créé la <strong>Demeure</strong> <strong>du</strong><br />
<strong>Chaos</strong> et concentré tant de sujets<br />
aussi noirs :(...)<br />
J'ai acquis au cours de ces différents<br />
périples, tant spéculatifs<br />
qu'opératifs, la convition que la fin<br />
<strong>du</strong> monde ou la fin d'un monde est<br />
une nécessité dans la destinée<br />
humaine car elle est le moteur<br />
secret de nos angoisses, notre toute<br />
puissance et nos interrogations<br />
mystiques.<br />
La fiction est désormais absorbée<br />
par la réalité et peut-être qu'en<br />
écrivant ces quelques lignes, la fin<br />
de notre ancien monde a déjà<br />
commencé.<br />
thierry Ehrmann<br />
A mundo condito<br />
Page 362<br />
"Deepwater"<br />
Page 363<br />
"Peak Oil" inspiré de MadMax<br />
Inspired by Mad Max<br />
362 363<br />
2007/2009/2011, the last entitled<br />
“Survive the Apocalypse”, with the<br />
directive: “write what you have<br />
seen, what is, and what is yet to<br />
come”.<br />
In the <strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong> there is an<br />
ongoing study <strong>of</strong> survivalists from<br />
the year 2000, 9/11 and major<br />
ecological disasters.<br />
One <strong>of</strong> the historic film shootings<br />
at the <strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong> was 999:<br />
among other things, a parallel<br />
evocation <strong>of</strong> Stalker by Andrei<br />
Tarkovski (1979).<br />
The H1N1 virus, the tsunami <strong>of</strong><br />
2004, the Deep Water Horizon oil<br />
rig and <strong>of</strong> course Fukushima have<br />
inspired hundreds <strong>of</strong> works in the<br />
<strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong>, which all create<br />
this gigantic uncaptioned,<br />
9,000 sq.m press agency in real<br />
time.<br />
This rather concise text only gives<br />
a brief overview <strong>of</strong> 30 years <strong>of</strong><br />
constant thinking, and 13 years <strong>of</strong><br />
the artistic pro<strong>du</strong>ction that has<br />
grown up in this Sanctuary, the<br />
<strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong>.<br />
And yet we have painted and<br />
sculpted practically all the major<br />
wars, the melting <strong>of</strong> the glaciers,<br />
deforestation, the death <strong>of</strong><br />
capitalism, crimes against<br />
humanity on every continent, and<br />
the madness <strong>of</strong> uncontrollable<br />
science where man now occupies<br />
the place <strong>of</strong> his creator god and<br />
we have completed more than<br />
4,500 works.<br />
This short article explains the<br />
reason for creating the <strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Chaos</strong>, and why it focuses on so<br />
many dark subjects: (...)<br />
During my various wanderings,<br />
speculative as well as operational,<br />
I have come to realise that the end<br />
<strong>of</strong> the world, or the end <strong>of</strong> a world,<br />
is a necessity in human destiny as<br />
the hidden driving force behind<br />
our anxieties, our omnipotence<br />
and our mystical questionings.<br />
Fiction is now absorbed by reality,<br />
and perhaps while I have been<br />
writing these lines, the end <strong>of</strong> our<br />
old world has already begun.<br />
thierry Ehrmann<br />
A mundo condito<br />
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