1- words by Alfred Jarry, music by Charles Pourny; performed by the Chorus and Orchestra of the College of ‘Pataphysics
2- Boris Vian
3- words by Boris Vian, music by A. Goraguer; performed by Boris Vian
4- words and music by Alfred Jarry; performed by the Chorus and Orchestra of …
What is the College of ’Pataphysics?
The College
The Collège de ‘Pataphysique, founded in 1948 in Paris, France, is a “society committed to learned and inutilious research”. (The word ‘inutilious’ is synonymous with ‘useless’.) The motto of the college is Latin: Eadem mutata resurgo (“I arise again the same though …
A first look at the work of Adam Pesapane, aka PES, brings to mind the films of Jan Svankmajer, the 73 year-old Czech surrealist whose food-related stop-motion animations can be seen as an influence in the University of Virginia alum’s playful and unusual uses of chow for …
Patakosmos is a tourist map of terrestrial and extraterrestrial pataphysical institutes — a project created by the artist Giovanni Ricciardi, Correspondant Emphytéote of the Collège de ‘Pataphysique, aimed at exploring the science of imaginary solutions: the pataphysics.
🗺️ What will you find on Patakosmos?
An interactive map to discover
