lecture performance, herbst academy 2014, steirischer herbst
>> become contagious symbiobot : reclaim the 12th camel
>> reclaim the twelfth camel
The twelfth camel is all at once, an image, a text and a program. The twelfth camel is a figure of thought, which oscillates between character, code and physicality. If you move closer, you notice readable ASCII characters that are part of a computer program, if you you go further away, you can see the picture of a camel. This camel is a special animal, a “performance” camel, it can run (as a program) and tell a story. The story is about the twelfth camel, that in some ways was necessary to help to devide the fortune under the three sons of the sheike when he died, but even it also was not necessary, as they afterwards returned it healthy and well fed to the Khadi.
the ascii image executes itselfe as unix shell code. While executing it decrypts itselfe (base64, gunzip) in a loop (for-done) and tells (echo) the story of the 12. camel word by word (read).
I owe the story Niklas Luhmann (Die Rückgabe des Zwölften Kamels: Niklas Luhmann in der Diskussion über Gerechtigkeit ).
osx version: copy to mac-osx terminal and press “return”:
for camel in $(echo '
H4sI CK
MhvE0AA 3RleHQu
dHh0AG2S MXLcMAxF
e58CB9BoJs5MinSbIpM0 Kdyk
5oqQiCwF7pCUFXU+hn09ny Qf1GrdpK
FmCAj//weelFL0tLKLNWx0Zp 8WUSqB5RJoza
kyBSm0Sozk1JOXZ/Hs2+WYcl2 UO3IUXZ7QydlTG
mlwM8eC+znp1FpryMxUkpaeTkOY2 Xe4Y+LouVQrd
LQ69CUSxRiprTxKRjW4ONrYdnNonqLsIwoPCcbaiB
LSgjgTV3ga05Jr6Ogb6x83i+7tW1p0ums6KvK3hp5+B9Z
dw OHMyGkWF931XOW4UVIcHPkZrXtEgMtMmWcnKjp9
ZDMIkC8w6lFVQwalW4q5obS8rmLqwGjWClPoOm
8N2Bno4QO4vou6GDfwMYsQz1sNELOWC5NP655s
o7pkxQQwtCCX4Lz09AMtPNjOvtL7y+tPWBiRDx
igzG Zo3m 5penpim0FGP9HcKEcX2vahCFw
F2J La95 pKkXPk95e3nn6lFf6kB
vr0 eN++ mbDnUgR/WFh2ZTsQ0Z
RqC 2rL 7ejL8RfW2k of
6/t 8H3 gs8th
aR 493 5ycA
F WA +Hl
Zd OY7 w0+
pNP fII2 MAHk
DKE HdmF r7Ut
Y4QlQ 4uN3l 56cN
erYOGZ/8f14e
EfKSooKTsDAAA='\
|tr -d " "|base64 -D|gunzip);do read -sp "$camel " perform;done
linux version: copy to linux terminal:
for camel in $(echo '
H4sI CK
MhvE0AA 3RleHQu
dHh0AG2S MXLcMAxF
e58CB9BoJs5MinSbIpM0 Kdyk
5oqQiCwF7pCUFXU+hn09ny Qf1GrdpK
FmCAj//weelFL0tLKLNWx0Zp 8WUSqB5RJoza
kyBSm0Sozk1JOXZ/Hs2+WYcl2 UO3IUXZ7QydlTG
mlwM8eC+znp1FpryMxUkpaeTkOY2 Xe4Y+LouVQrd
LQ69CUSxRiprTxKRjW4ONrYdnNonqLsIwoPCcbaiB
LSgjgTV3ga05Jr6Ogb6x83i+7tW1p0ums6KvK3hp5+B9Z
dw OHMyGkWF931XOW4UVIcHPkZrXtEgMtMmWcnKjp9
ZDMIkC8w6lFVQwalW4q5obS8rmLqwGjWClPoOm
8N2Bno4QO4vou6GDfwMYsQz1sNELOWC5NP655s
o7pkxQQwtCCX4Lz09AMtPNjOvtL7y+tPWBiRDx
igzG Zo3m 5penpim0FGP9HcKEcX2vahCFw
F2J La95 pKkXPk95e3nn6lFf6kB
vr0 eN++ mbDnUgR/WFh2ZTsQ0Z
RqC 2rL 7ejL8RfW2k of
6/t 8H3 gs8th
aR 493 5ycA
F WA +Hl
Zd OY7 w0+
pNP fII2 MAHk
DKE HdmF r7Ut
Y4QlQ 4uN3l 56cN
erYOGZ/8f14e
EfKSooKTsDAAA='\
|tr -d " "|base64 -d|gunzip);do read -sp "$camel " perform;done
Was the 12-camel needed and why was it necessary? If it was necessary to divide, was it afterwards no longer necessary? Does there have to be supplied a real camel and must it be fed and how does the 12th differ from the other eleven camels? What does the “telling” of the story? What are the consequences that these things that can “Kamelogramm”, the behavior, the coding hardly be returned?
