Residency Alaa Abu Asad in Timelab

1/8/2022  Monday It is the Tiger year in China. It must be the Wasp year here! The train is cancelled, the train is delayed. The regular reality of these (post pandemic) days. My list in Rotterdam said 2 things only: Garbage Cables out In Ghent, I go to fetch! – this is what the confirmation email says – the Swapfiets. I hurry. All the way down the canal, cross the bridge and turn left, to the right on the other bridge and all the way till a third bridge, then to the left. The shop is somewhere on the left side of the road. On the way, immediately after the first bridge, I see a big painting of a wasp; I halt! I take a picture and I think of all the wasps I have seen (and tried to kill) in the previous month, and I think: it must be a year of the Wasps! Is there a tiger wasp? Apparently, yes! Of course, the black stripes! It’s called Venomasicus Tigrus and Google says that its sting is the second most painful. But what is the first most painful sting?

5/8/2022 Friday' If this house was in London, first, it wouldn’t be a students house; second, the home insurance wouldn’t likely to cover the Japanese knotweed around it; third, it wouldn’t be easy to sell the house; fourth, there would likely be financial difficulties for homeowners or developers to work on, maintain, or in worst case scenarios: renovate the property and the land around it; fifth, the neighbours will be able to (formally) appeal to force the homeowner to take reasonable steps to control the Japanese knotweed. This all relies on what the Japanese knotweed UK law clearly states: “it is not illegal for you to have Japanese knotweed on your property, but it is against UK law to cause or allow the plant to spread in the wild. It is legal to have Japanese Knotweed on your property but you can be prosecuted or given a community protection notice for causing a nuisance if you allow it to spread onto anyone else’s property. Under new Japanese knotweed legislation, homeowners failing to control Japanese Knotweed on their property can be prosecuted and fined up to £2,500. This is due to new Home Office rules and regulations relating to anti-social behaviour being introduced in 2014 that include new laws around Knotweed amongst other invasive species such as the Himalayan Balsam and Giant Hogweed."

- See https://www.knotweedhelp.com/japanese-knotweed-law/#Japanese_Knotweed_UK_Law (last visited on 5/8/2022). 8/8/2022 Monday' Rearranging The Third Landscape What does it cost on the way out? Huh! Way out. In between, in the present tense, is what matters here. What was once a requirement has become a principle. Often occurs in the post-traumatic crack. In the Third Landscape where (post / modern / urban / human) interventions ceased. Where new life flows among the ruins. Trans formation The bright spaces of the marginal. In the no-space of utopia, the anti-utopia. Regeneration Grounding She said: Like, how sense of history can be revealed in a site, to prepare itself for a new life. Placeless- ness What do we do? Nothing What do you mean? We do nothing Nothing. The loss of the starting point is the beginning of nature. - Curated by Joni Taylor. Artists: Helen Armstrong, Gap Filler, Richard Goodwin, Peter Nelson, Izabela Pluta, raumlabor. 2012 - Gilles Clément