RAMMELLZEE: ALPHABETA SIGMA – A TWO-PART EXHIBITION EXPLORING THE WAR ON LANGUAGE
ALPHABETA SIGMA (Side A) – Palais de Tokyo (21 February – 7 September 2025)
The Palais de Tokyo and CAPC join forces to unveil and present the cryptic work of
RAMMELLZEE, an iconic figure of the 1980s American underground scene. This is the first
large-scale European event dedicated to his legacy, conceived in two acts—like the sides
of a vinyl record, each complementing and expanding upon the other.
RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ is not just a name—it’s an equation, a formula for elevation, detail, and
perspective. His work exists at the crossroads of theory, performance, and materiality,
forming a radical practice that turns language into a battlefield. His self-defined Gothic
Futurism merges aeronautics, quantum mechanics, and the velocity of an electromagnetic
transit system with the chemical aggression of spray paint and resin, turning symbols into
weapons of resistance. Central to this equation is his cosmic array of characters—outlaws
and antiheroes engaged in an endless wager on the domination of language, each
representing a letter’s struggle to free itself from imposed structures. His creations, from
his Letter Racers to his Garbage Gods, function as tactical entities in this ongoing linguistic
war, transforming language into an active, combative force.
The provided text is a digital artwork, specifically a piece of electronic literature, titled "La Resocialista
Internacional." Created by A. Andreas in 2010, the work uses bold text, dates, and fragments of Dutch and French
language to create a visually striking and thematic experience. These fragments delve into themes of rebellion, societal
corruption, and the power of art, often expressing criticism of contemporary culture and institutions. The piece also
alludes to a traumatic event from the artist's past, referencing a "murdered man" and a "festival of stimulants,"
evoking a sense of despair and vulnerability.
Table of Contents: Exploring Agam Andreas's "La Resocialista Internacional"
Sous-Ratures / /C (H) RIS (T) IS (T) ////: This section, using strikethroughs and parentheses, hints at a critique of
religion and societal structures, setting the stage for the work's themes.
Urban Tactics: Introduces the urban environment as a space for resistance and social commentary.
De(-)dic(t)ation: Explores the idea of dedication and commitment, possibly to a revolutionary cause, using wordplay
to emphasize ambiguity.
Movement and Transformation: This subsection uses short phrases to evoke a sense of collective action and individual
change.
The felaheen march,
The shrine walk,
Sealine,
To drown again.
Proclamations of Resistance (2010-2013): This section presents a chronological series of bold statements,
highlighting the work's radical political and artistic message. Each statement captures a key idea explored within the
work, ranging from societal critique to artistic rebellion.
Mapping Consciousness and Art (undated): A series of phrases that point to the work's engagement with individual
perception, the passage of time, and the relationship between art and freedom.
Chronological Fragments (2008-2010): A list of dates and locations, possibly referencing events or artistic
interventions related to the larger project. These entries offer a glimpse into the development and evolution of the
work over time.
"In Modeum Rudolf Hess": A multilingual narrative that delves into themes of violence, surveillance, and the
fragility of the body. It presents a dreamlike sequence centered around a murdered man, a police officer, and a sense of
guilt and complicity.
"BURGERWAANZIN.NL": The final entry highlights the collaborative nature of the work, crediting both the original
dream by Judith V. and the symbolic notation by A. Andreas. This suggests an interplay between individual experience and
artistic interpretation.
A podcast created from a private WhatsApp exchange between Hero Werkman and Andreas Maria Jacobs discussing
Werkman's project proposal *), touching sensitive and problematic fields such as Holocaust inversion, the politico-economical
and historical backgrounds of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This podcast was created using Google's AI notebooklm tool. A tool which analyses a given text and creates an
audio transcript called a Deep Dive, in which an artificially created male and female voice are discussing the text.
Although the transcript does not seem to be censured at all, some mistakes needs to be corrected: the Guernica
example is wrongly attributed to Jacobs whereas it was Werkman who came up with it.
I would like to briefly explain the New Auschwitz project.
In particular, the explanation of why New Auschwitz.
It is about the fact that no one and no people has the exlusive right to
the "worst suffering".
Everyone and every people suffers. Suffering is not a possession but a feeling and
a characteristic of a feeling is that it has a beginning and an end. All human beings are subject to this. In essence it is not
a personal but a human experience. Certainly no person or people has a monopoly on it and therefore not on Auschwitz.
If people start to appropriate and monopolize feelings, such as the deep suffering that was inflicted on
them, for example the persecution of the Jews in WWII, more suffering can arise from this. That is what New Auschwitz is
about.
Take a good look at what the State of Israel has been doing in recent decades.
Perfecting the systematic oppression of Palestinians with as the icing on the cake the total destruction of Hamas
and Hezbollah. And the arrogance, just like the Germans of that time, that one is completely in the right. Not wanting
to be addressed about one's behavior, not even by the UN. I want to name that danger.
That is why I am renaming Gaza to New Auschwitz, Southern Lebanon to New Auschwitz II and the West Bank to New Auschwitz III.
I invite artists to contribute to this imagination in their own discipline. **) In the hope of creating more awareness
for the unimaginable and continuing suffering by this deep form of ignorance. It is precisely by recognizing and
sharing pain as a human experience that one can go beyond personal, political and religious identifications and beyond the concept of
injustice being done and perhaps learn from it and choose a better reality.
A wild tale of how Allende's engineers and a British management consultant dared challenge corporations and spy agencies - and almost won. Written and presented by Evgeny Morozov.
Broadcasted live on Radio Patapoe (Amsterdam) Wednesday's at 22:00 starting July 26th
June 7 2023
AI Art
AI generated image of Putin drowning in a flooded area
Andreas Maria Jacobs
Generated by Andreas Maria Jacobs with Diffusers
May 19 2023
Fred Astaire and Joan Crawford - Art created with AI
Experimenting with AI generated images using "prompt sculpting" - the technique of working towards a resulting image by slightly modifying the textual input prompt (the underlying text2img algorithm's input), resulted in a.o. these images.
Using Google's "Lens" function I came to know that most probably the original image used to generate these outputs came from this picture.
Prompt being used : BDM, female, dancing with, SS officer, germany, 1940s style, photo, sepia
Ralf Schulenburg - Geflecht, 70cm x 100cm Acryl on Canvas
August 5 2022
My Father was a Revolutionary
Vlady (Kibalchich): La Revolución y los elementos
By Jacob Boas
What is an intellectual worth without probity of the intelligence. Victor Serge.
What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it. Victor Serge
La política ... ha sido la mayor fuente de males y pérdida de tiempo. Vlady
...
THE STRUCTURAL SKETCH OF A SKELETON OF OBSOLETE POLITICS
July 15 2022
Lenin and Marx swimming
More fun with AI
By Dall.E 2
After a long wait finally allowed to use the official Dall.E 2, a text to image convertor, based on state of the art Artifical Intelligence
Made some fun images using the phrase Lenin and Marx swimming in a Moscow river
Also tried to do something with Chairman Mao and General Secretary Xi Jinping, but unfortunately that was not allowed by Dall.E 2's policies (sic!)
New Digital Collage wants to celebrate the technique of contemporary collage, generating a dynamic showcase of innovative research in the realm of digital experimentation.
The online exhibition will be open for a year, growing daily after its launch in March 2020.
The project New Digital Collage has been conceptualised and curated by Fabio Paris and Linda Rocco.
Agam Andreas (NL)
Plaza, dimensions variable
Digital Collage, B/W Print
May 30 2020
The Art of Life
Hans Heiner Buhr
Poems and drawings from Hans Heiner Buhr
Hans Heiner Buhr was born in 1965 in East Berlin. He had a happy childhood in East Germany, playing football against the wall and being tough warrior Crazy Horse in countless battles in the plains and forests of Kaulsdorf Süd.
Studied Art education and Russian language in Dresden and Smolensk and after that he went to Amsterdam and studied painting.
Lived in the 1990s in Berlin as a young artist.
Moved to Rustavi and Tbilisi in Georgia in the end of the 1990s.
Lived in Samarkand, Uzbekistan teaching German language.
He founded the travel agency „Kaukasus-Reisen“. Lives with his family in Tbilisi.
Hans Heiner Buhr, Self portrait Me vs Me – About the eternal struggle with myself on Superrare.co
May 24 2020
AA, The Last Worker / De Laatste Arbeider
800 x 1133 Pixels on Screen
Re-working of an older work from 2018
May 22 2020
Landscape with Lake
Print on Canvas
Image of a landscape with a lake
April 30 2020
Recursive Lines and Colors
Print on Canvas
Intensely digitally processed image of an older work , wich was already an intensely digitally processed image of a still older work
March 25 2020
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Art in quarantine
ART IN QUARANTINE // OPEN CALL FOR E-MAIL ART & ART BY E-MAIL
Following the outbreak of COVID-19 recently declared as pandemic by World Health Organization, and the consequent application of quarantine measures by many countries, portuguese artist collective wr3ad1ng d1g1t5 announces the call for e-mail art / art by e-mail “ART IN QUARANTINE”.
Having in mind the potential of this initiative to constitute a unique and artistic historical archive, as well as its interdisciplinary nature in the promotion of bridges between arts and health, we invite you, during the next 40 days, to send your contribution (textual/visual, sound and/or multimedia), via the following e-mail: artinquarantine@gmail.com
March 15 2020
"Nothing" is meaningful"
AA created art with AI
Constructed using the free availlable software RunWayML an open source AI solution which allows the use of a slew of different AI trained sets and provides means to use them on your own data
Using its text to image GAN (Generative Adversarial Neural Network) and selecting several sentences made of the abstract concepts: Television and Radio combined with some adjectives and nouns the following images were produced
The images themselves evoke a kind of eerie painterly atmosphere, which probably is caused by the un-understanding of the AI of the particular meaning of these concepts.
The dataset used appears to have the visual cognition of a 5 to 6 year old, it is interesting to see how this translates to the resulting outcome
Also interesting to note is that adding one or several spaces will change the output significantly. It is as if "nothing" is very meaningful for our AI!
Tv statiuc with radio phone ,AA 2020
(Input exactly as above, including misspelling and spaces)
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