<nettime-ann> Club Moral Stocklist 020 - Objective Normandy (Modified by Geert Lovink)

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 Club Moral Stocklist 020 - Objective Normandy
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V,- - Objective Normandy (C-30 cassette with 40-page A5 booklet)

Although both sides of this cassette have distinctive separate tracks, 
the cassette nor the booklet list any track titles.

V,- aka V-Side aka Votnik are Dirk Paesmans (from the net.art group 
jodi) and Koen Theys. This release is a documentation of a week of 
performances and installations by V,- on the beaches of Normandy in the 
summer of 1982, accompanied by Christine. In november 1982 we organised 
an exhibition and series of performances in Club Moral.

The following is a remindable report on the expedition. The atmosphere 
and tension brutally come forward. Besides that, it gives, next to the 
report of the risks, the failures and successes, a remarkable clear 
image on the outline of the expedition and the factors that had their 
influence on it.

 South-station Brussels aug 6, 8.10h.
 The Trans-Europe-Express will leave at 9.20 am. Paris-Montparnasse 
12.10 am. Kolo Kolo by métro to Gare ST.-Lazaire. The turbo to Caen 
leaves in 20 mins. In the station in Caen we try to rent 3 bikes (Train 
+ Vélo formulae) but they have only 1 mini left. At Bike-Rent-Company 
Robert we rent 2 ladies-bikes and 1 Sports-Motobécane, compelled by 
necessity. Caen 5.30 pm. We leave by bike in the direction of 
Riva-Bella, Objective Normandy Beaches. On the hunting-path next to the 
channel we cross the Pegasus-bridge, a bridge with a heroïc past. 
There's going to be a thunderstorm. It's getting dark. In Riva-Bella we 
find a hiding place right near a maïs-field.

 Riva-Bella aug 7, 9.00h.
 Whilst waiting for the commando museum to open, we send postcards. 
Inside. Forbidden to take pictures. We cycle near the coast in the 
direction of Arromanches. Right before Arromanches is Point Asnelles, 
which gives a panoramic view on Omaha Beach, with the reminders of an 
artificial harbor built on june 6, 1944. As tourists we stand on the 
edge of the falaise. The road to the centre is going steep downwards. 
Down in the centre we see a modern building surrounded by 
artillery-batteries. In the front memorial tablets: 'Les clefs de la 
libération reposent ici'. 'The keys of liberation of Europe'. A long 
row is going through the bronze gate on which is written in silver 
letters 'D-DAY june 6 1944'. On the beach still lay a few 
Phoenix-caissons, 1500 tons each. Washed ashore segments from the 
Mulberries. We cycle into the country, to Bayeux, where we spend the 
night in the 'Foyer des Jeunes Travailleurs de France'.

 Bayeux aug 8, 8.50h.
 Hot cocoa with butter-breads. 10.00 am. Bayeux Memorial with 2 tanks 
in front of it. Inside much music, much atmosphere. But we had to go 
very quick to the mass-grave in Colleville-sur-Mer. Cycling like 
beasts. The back-wheel of 1 ladies-bike is bend and trails against the 
brake. The sports-bike is missing 2 spokes. We reach the American 
Cemetery through a large avenue which continues midst the dunes. You 
can see them laying there. This is Omaha-Red-Beach, of which you can 
read in the Michelin-guide that here 'la bataille la plus coûteuse du 
jour J' happened. Charlie Dog, Easy Fox, Sword, Juno, Gold. Une Côte 
d'or pour eux. Here they lay, their bodies as first class lawn.
 30 km westwards Exposition Omaha. Much music, much atmosphere. The 
night overtakes us on a busy Route Nationale without cycling-path where 
heavy trucks drive off and on. We spend the night in the 
football-stadium of Isigny.

 Isigny aug 9, 8.30h.
 We continue our search for the German soldiers-cemetery of 'La Cambre' 
which we were looking for yesterday-night already, without any result. 
Only at the last moment we buy Chicklettes in a Seca-shop we find out 
where it is. 'Versohnung über die Graben' is a German organisation 
which arranges the upkeep of German Military Cemeteries throughout the 
world. Young German volunteers are cleaning the graves. Arrival 
Utah-Beach 14.30h. The small 'Musée 4', an ex-Nazi blockhouse, you can 
see a slide-show there. We find a hiding-place in an open-air battery 5 
x 5m.

 Utah-Beach aug 10, 8.15h.
 We are benumbed and the flood-tide is near. I start working on the 
Atlantik Wall and K. is doing an Emergency-test with his 
survival-packett. F. takes pictures.

 Utah-Beach aug 11, 8.45h.
 We continue our works during the whole day. At night we do a 
shadowplay.

 Utah-Beach aug 12, 9.00h.
 LANDING-PERFORMANCE.

 Utah-Beach aug 13, 8.15h.
 We leave for St.-Mère-Eglise, 20 km into the land. From the 
Airborne-museum we send postcards. Death From Above. We start at 3.00 
pm for a 60 km ride against the clock to St.-Lo. La vie de la liberté. 
After 40 km it starts to rain and it's getting dark. At our arrival 
we're plain wet and cramped. L'auberge des jeunes warm, dry, cocoa and 
butter-breads.

 St.-Lo aug 14, 8.15h.
 Last etappe of 80km. Arrival in Caen 16.00h. With the Turbo to Paris. 
Arrival 21.10. Night-train to Brussels. Arrival 4.45 in the morning.
 Zombies.
(this text first appeared in Force Mental nr3, november 1982)

 On 7 nov 1982 V,- Division landed in the Club Moral spaces with 2 vans 
of equipment. The space is divided in several parts with heavy army 
canvas, each section portrays a different theme of the expedition with 
postcards, photos, objects.
 On 14 nov 1982 the exhibition opens, some 30 people witness the large 
projection of a movie on the outside wall of the factory building. V,- 
plays live bells from a balcony and from the roof. Later on inside, a 
documentary Super8-film and sound bits from the expedition are played.

 The next day 12 people show up to watch AR/TE performs his infamous 
'Power/Impotence' where he pulls the skin of a severed sheep's head 
over another sheep's head. The loud performance is stopped by the 
police. Next D. performs. He lights a fire in the room while drinking 
beer and rum. He throws some sausages and applesauce in a cooking pot 
and fries them. While the space fills with choking smoke he drinks more 
and eats the food, people run to our living room where K. awaits them 
with a pornographic resistance story.

On 19 nov 1982, 9 people show up to witness D. crawling under a large 
sheet of plastic in the courtyard. A howling dog is tied to a pole. 
Accompanied by a large floodlight D. gets undressed and crawls into the 
cage of a goose. The cold, stiffened and disgusted audience returns 
inside. K. shows a re-worked Euro-Chimique promotional film accompanied 
by loud synth music.

11 people are victim to a 45-min long dia-rite on 20 nov 1982. 
Violence, sex, religion, war, love, aggression and V,-. D spends the 
night on the concrete floor of Club Moral with 2 shortwave radios next 
to his head.
 Finally 3 people show up on 21 nov 1982 to witness the apotheose of 
the slaughter-festival. K. stands on a platform holding the goose in 
his left hand, an axe in his right hand. Next to his head a porn movie 
is projected with a soundtrack of singing choirs. The sound stops, he 
chops the head of the goose and lets the blood spurt onto the 
projection. All the time D. sits naked under a black cloth with the 
image of a landscape projected above him.

 Those were some of the days at the Club Moral....

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Club Moral Stocklist 001 - The Simpletones
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Cie)
 Club Moral Stocklist 004 - Zeno X (DDV)
 Club Moral Stocklist 005 - Für Ilse Koch (Various Artists) [Rectified]
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 Club Moral Stocklist 008 - Mutations et Prothèses (Etat Brut)
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 Club Moral Stocklist 017 - Bangkok (DDV & - Delta t)
 Club Moral Stocklist 018 - A Sound Atlas of Venereology (DDV)
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