Up at 0800. I wake even earlier, but stay in bed relishing the lack of movement and the quiet. Volker comes back for breakfast, and begins to make some calls to see what is to be recovered for the evening performance/lecture. It is possible that there may be some few people there, so I will do what I have to do. Which is, let's see. We stop by at the beautiful restored farmhouse of Rolf Hinterecker (the Director of the Ultimate Akademie) for a chat and then head back home where I simply collected my concentration for the performance.

Performance/Lecture at the Ultimate Akademie Köln This event was a challenge for me from the moment I scheduled it when passing through Köln back in early April 1996. Normally I would rather do a formal and structured lecture at the schools I visit. I knew this would not be the way to go at the Ultimate -- with its close association with the Fluxus movement -- I knew that it was an opportunity to try something that would possibly be scandalous at a 'normal' school ... I knew, for myself, it was a challenge, it had to be a challenge. The primary problem internally was to completely remove myself from any pre-tension that might arise by attempting a performance that did not eminate direct from my internal energies. Pretension is a form of energy that, for me, has a significant negative resonance. I think it is one reason I have never enjoyed theater very much with the enormous pretension within the actors who have to Act. I would like to do three or four things this evening. 1) Cut and eat an apple 2) Name the Places I have been since leaving Iceland on the 22nd of June, 1996, the Summer Solstice, and name the people whom I have been with 3) As I am a traveler, I am a carrier of information and stories from place to place, I would like to find out about you, hear your stories that I might carry them on the the next destination. To name some of the attendees: Pietro Hans-Jürg Tauchert "couple of names of couples for a couple of talking travellers relaxing" Detlef Brezel Mimi Flick Skulli Rolf Hinterecker Volker Hamann Paul Virilio, in kind

Volker and I laugh that in the middle of the performance, Rolf, in an increasingly agitated state suddenly asks "when are we?" as I am reciting three hours of people and places in order of the year's movement. Without breaking my stride, I say "October," and continue on for a couple more hours as the space darkens in the twiLight.