Sculptor and gallerist Howard McCalebb some years ago had an idea to join forces of fellow artists and to buy property located on a border of Saturn and Venus towns is adjacent to the freshwater Lake Razelm and a public park – and is a 4-minute walk to the Black Sea Coast, which is one of the best large natural beaches on the Romanian seaside. His dream was to have a Razelm Contemporary Art Center and Venus Biennial in former Razelm Convention Center, abandoned since Ceaușescu times broke. This was a utopian idea of paradise for artists willing to have an alternative to Venice biennial of corrupted psychic activities. And it doesn’t fulfil because majority of artists are not the ones to invest into dreams.
But psychic workers in contrast to bourgeois artists sometimes do invest into failed dreams. DAMTP peregrines attended the site, wandered inside the building, their eyes followed the climbing grass route through the ceiling and held a conventional 3SF World Cup as it was announced in advance. Every player got much of dust and sand into the lungs, mouth, and (h)ear.
When contacting Howard’s Romanian friends and their family members who helped him to collect information about the property, peregrine DAMTP’s were treated as potential investors – very respectfully. Those people own a property close near-by – a fancy resort centre. DAMTP’s were even offered to come some month later, because at this particular time there were no vacant places for rent. None of the peregrine DAMTP’s were willing neither to stay nor to come back to this so bourgeoisified location where even proletarian ghosts hardly to be found in that abandoned ghosts’ centre. It was a perfect time to burry Venus biennial. Might be the last opportunity – it’s always better to burry [art] biennial before it started to become workers’ burial. And finally it could be a perfect place to hold a Venus Burial Biennial for some unorganized psychic (dead non included) and non-living workers, who still fear to lose their graves. There came off the ball another pentagon patch – the one depicting Ireland.
It happens on August 14th – the same day as in 1791 Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Voodoo ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution.
After driving few more kilometres peregrines got to Vama Veche to stay for a night. There they did more of swimming in the Black Sea, and enjoyed charms of slightly fading away hipster surrounding. No space, no time, no class, but sex, drugs and rock’n’roll ghosts.
