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This is how the show advertises itself:
"Carrières de Lumières, established in 1976 as the Cathédrale d'Images is a permanent fairy and giant slide show in which large bright images are projected on the stone walls of huge galleries dug into the rock of the Val-d'Enfer. The wall surface used extends over 4000 m2. The images are projected in the dark on the limestone walls of the quarry where the viewer is immersed in a visual and musical experience."
This is the opinion of art critic Joseph Nechvatal that I agree with:
"What I found in this gargantuan light and music spectacle is a nasty bit of metaphorical necrophilia. It degrades the work of the daring dead painter and his expressive, surface-rich paintings while simultaneously underusing the awesome powers of immersive digital technology by displaying on a colossal scale slightly animated high-resolution reproductions of Vincent van Gogh’s better-known paintings.
I was engulfed in a gliding field of spectacularly colored kitsch: projected at an enormous scale onto the walls and floor van Gogh’s paintings, such as “Starry Night” (1888) and “Wheatfield with Crows” (1890), were ridiculously sliding around and morphing into each other. This gaudy digital presentation has the general effect of reducing the public to a complacent “wow” condition. The critical faculties involved in confronting and contemplating complex art are reduced here to a state of infantile passivity."
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Les Baux-de-Provence.
France, 2019
In November 2013, nearly a year to the day of the beginning of construction, "a year and one day" stands proud and tall on the grounds of Longue Vue House and Gardens in New Orleans, Louisiana. Created to slowly be overgrown with plant-life (both indigenous and invasive) and deteriorate with time, this site-specific time-based artwork continues to evolve. Step inside this tomb and contemplate the cycle of life and death. Light filters through a water prism in the ceiling to create a place of passivity.
Modern Monoliths migrating investigates the power-laden language dictating public and private space. Here, phone booths, designed for private conversation in a public place, become a repository for speech between unknown parties. Inside each booth, sloganeering voices articulate force, reward, and persuasion, showing how power is historically established and maintained. It is short, repetitive, and persuasive, yet accompanied by a subversive, whispered voice. In juxtaposition to the traditional active participation of phone booths, audience agency is undermined through a forced passivity, mirroring public and private tensions and intersections.
Geographically placed at the convergence of several types of power—river power, the political and cultural power of the city, and the onsite electrical plant—this work renders internal the external play of power.
Presented by Northern Lights.mn
Photograph Patrick Kelley, courtesy Northern Lights.mn
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The fifth of six major works completed by sculptor Robert Cremean in his studio in France between 2016 and 2021. The entire body of work is titled FRENCH SHELVES.
THREE BUSTS OF ROBERT DLV VIEWING SCROLL
Back right sculpture: 16"w x 13.5" deep x 69"h
Back left sculpture: 16.5"w x 13.5" deep x 69"h
Central sculpture: 16"w x 16" deep x 67"h
Scroll: 67"w x 14"deep x 55"h
This portrait consists of four separate sculptures, three busts mounted on tripods facing a sculpture mounted on two trestles. This fourth piece, titled SCROLL, consists of clusters four male and four female figures and a permanently attached sketchbook containing sixty-nine double pages of notes and drawings, thoughts and ideas entered from time by the artist during the entirety of the time of the creation of this work.The entries were made from one side of the sculpture and from the other depending upon where the artist was working at the time of entry. Below the photograph of each double page is a transcription of the written words whenever appropriate.
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Left Page:
She was my mother….As this I remember her still.
Her nagging was an eternal presence within the household.
EROS
She loved her father
She stole my
Sexuality—Were
not two daughters
enough?
At last, I am grateful.
She seemed so
fragile!
This was, of course,
her strength.
Her maiden name was
Margaret May Miller
Right Page:
And what of response?
Shouldn’t it die out with
the death of Desire?
Would this not depend on the
strength and resolve of the
responder?
My father’s passivity
acknowledged her dominance.
THANATOS
Modern Monoliths migrating investigates the power-laden language dictating public and private space. Here, phone booths, designed for private conversation in a public place, become a repository for speech between unknown parties. Inside each booth, sloganeering voices articulate force, reward, and persuasion, showing how power is historically established and maintained. It is short, repetitive, and persuasive, yet accompanied by a subversive, whispered voice. In juxtaposition to the traditional active participation of phone booths, audience agency is undermined through a forced passivity, mirroring public and private tensions and intersections.
Geographically placed at the convergence of several types of power—river power, the political and cultural power of the city, and the onsite electrical plant—this work renders internal the external play of power.
Presented by Northern Lights.mn
Photograph Patrick Kelley, courtesy Northern Lights.mn
The painting is by F.C. Yohn depicting a heroic scene outside Fort Moultrie, South Carolina on June 28, 1776. Sergeant William Jasper was an American soldier in the Revolutionary War, serving in the 2nd South Carolina Regiment and fighting against the British. During the Battle of Sullivan’s Island, the flag of South Carolina was shot down by a British shell. Jasper ran out of the fort, grabbed the flag, and raised it again on a temporary staff. He held the flag under enemy fire until a new staff was installed. For his courage, he was given a sword by Governor John Rutledge and offered an officer’s commission, which he declined. He died in 1779 during the Siege of Savannah, while trying to rescue another flag.
“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something . . .” Edward Everett Hale.
“So long as we think of ourselves as reflecting honest beliefs, a nation of individuals fearlessly determined to protect all that we hold dear – then our American Way of Life will prosper.
“But if individualism is ever replaced by dull passivity we will have lost one of our most cherished possessions. ‘I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. . .’ wrote Edward Everett Hale. If we neglect this great heritage of freedom – so dearly purchased – we shall fail to meet the true challenge of our time.” [From the ad copy]
[Note: What was true in 1961, is even truer today. Our destiny is truly in our hands, as we bear witness to lies and appalling behavior becoming the norm among leaders who should know better.]
"Cows to many people are a metaphor for mindless passivity, as they appear to graze seemingly oblivious to the world around them. Yet behind this placid facade cows feel pain, fear and anxiety and they worry about the future, they have emotions, form friendships, bear grudges and in the right circumstances they feel happiness and experience pleasure, they have long memories and just like us they are capable of learning from each other, have individual personalities and cognitive abilities: in short they are sentient. There is much scientific and anecdotal evidence that shows us that underneath their docility is a thinking, feeling, aware being". Jennifer Viegas
Living in Transit: The Thinkers of a World in Turmoil
War looms over Europe, uncertainty seeps into everyday life, and the weight of history presses upon the present. The world is burning, and yet—there are those who seek understanding, those who bury themselves in the quiet refuge of books, the dim glow of libraries, the solitude of knowledge.
This series captures the introspective minds of young academic women—readers, thinkers, seekers. They wander through old university halls, their fingers tracing the spines of forgotten books, pulling out volumes of poetry, philosophy, and psychology. They drink coffee, they drink tea, they stay up late with ink-stained fingers, trying to decipher the world through words.
They turn to Simone Weil for moral clarity, Hannah Arendt for political insight, Rilke for existential wisdom. They read Baudrillard to untangle the illusions of modernity, Byung-Chul Han to understand society’s exhaustion, Camus to grasp the absurdity of it all. They devour Celan’s poetry, searching for beauty in catastrophe.
But they do not just read—they reflect, they question, they write. Their world is one of quiet resistance, an intellectual sanctuary amidst the chaos. In their solitude, they are not alone. Across time, across history, across the pages they turn, they are in conversation with those who, too, have sought meaning in troubled times.
This is a series about thought in transit—about seeking, reading, questioning, about the relentless pursuit of knowledge when the world feels on the brink.
Where the Thinkers Go
They gather where the dust has settled,
where books whisper in the hush of halls.
Pages thin as breath, torn at the edges,
cradling centuries of questions.
They drink coffee like it’s ink,
trace words like constellations,
follow Rilke into the dusk,
where solitude hums softly in the dark.
Outside, the world is fraying—
war threading through the seams of cities,
the weight of history pressing forward.
Inside, they turn pages, searching
for answers, for solace, for fire.
And somewhere between the lines,
between time-stained margins and fading ink,
they find the ghosts of others who
once sought, once wondered, once read—
and they do not feel alone.
Three Haikus
Night falls on paper,
books stacked like silent towers,
thoughts burn in the dark.
Tea cools in the cup,
a poem lingers on lips,
war rumbles beyond.
Footsteps in silence,
the scent of old ink and dust,
pages turn like ghosts.
ooOOOoo
Reading as Resistance
These young women do not read passively. They underline, they take notes, they write in the margins. They challenge the texts and themselves. They read because the world demands it of them—because, in a time of conflict and uncertainty, thought itself is an act of resistance.
Their books are worn, their pages stained with coffee, their minds alive with the urgency of understanding.
1. Political Thought, Society & Liberation
Essays, theory and critique on democracy, power and resistance.
Chantal Mouffe – For a Left Populism (rethinking democracy through radical left-wing populism)
Nancy Fraser – Cannibal Capitalism (an urgent critique of capitalism’s role in the destruction of democracy, the planet, and social justice)
Étienne Balibar – Citizenship (rethinking the idea of citizenship in an era of migration and inequality)
Silvia Federici – Caliban and the Witch (a feminist Marxist analysis of capitalism and gender oppression)
Didier Eribon – Returning to Reims (a deeply personal sociological reflection on class and identity in contemporary Europe)
Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt – Empire (rethinking global capitalism and resistance from a leftist perspective)
Thomas Piketty – Capital and Ideology (a profound analysis of wealth distribution, inequality, and the future of economic justice)
Mark Fisher – Capitalist Realism (on why it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism)
2. Feminist & Queer Theory, Gender & Body Politics
Texts that redefine identity, gender, and liberation in the 21st century.
Paul B. Preciado – Testo Junkie (an autobiographical, philosophical essay on gender, hormones, and biopolitics)
Judith Butler – The Force of Nonviolence (rethinking ethics and resistance beyond violence)
Virginie Despentes – King Kong Theory (a raw and radical take on sex, power, and feminism)
Amia Srinivasan – The Right to Sex (rethinking sex, power, and feminism for a new generation)
Laurent de Sutter – Narcocapitalism (on how capitalism exploits our bodies, desires, and emotions)
Sara Ahmed – Living a Feminist Life (a deeply personal and political exploration of what it means to be feminist today)
3. Literature & Poetry of Resistance, Liberation & Exile
European novels, poetry and literature that embrace freedom, revolution, and identity.
Annie Ernaux – The Years (a groundbreaking memoir that blends personal and collective history, feminism, and social change)
Olga Tokarczuk – The Books of Jacob (an epic novel about alternative histories, belief systems, and European identity)
Édouard Louis – Who Killed My Father (a deeply political and personal exploration of class struggle and masculinity)
Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other (a polyphonic novel on race, gender, and identity in contemporary Europe)
Maggie Nelson (though American, widely read in European academia) – On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (a poetic, intellectual meditation on freedom and constraint)
Benjamín Labatut – When We Cease to Understand the World (a deeply philosophical novel on science, war, and moral responsibility)
Michel Houellebecq – Submission (controversial but widely read as a dystopian critique of political passivity in Europe)
4. Ecology, Anti-Capitalism & Posthumanism
Texts that explore the intersections of nature, economics, and radical change.
Bruno Latour – Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (rethinking ecology and politics in a world of climate crisis)
Andreas Malm – How to Blow Up a Pipeline (on the ethics of radical environmental resistance)
Emanuele Coccia – The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture (rethinking human and non-human coexistence)
Isabelle Stengers – Another Science is Possible (rethinking knowledge and resistance in an era of corporate science)
Kate Raworth – Doughnut Economics (rethinking economic models for social and ecological justice)
Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble (rethinking coexistence and posthumanist futures)
The Future of Thought
These are not just books; they are weapons, tools, compasses. These women read not for escapism, but for resistance. In a time of political upheaval, climate catastrophe, and rising authoritarianism, they seek alternative visions, radical possibilities, and new ways of imagining the world.
Their books are annotated, their margins filled with questions, their reading lists always expanding. Knowledge is not just power—it is revolution.
Modern Monoliths migrating investigates the power-laden language dictating public and private space. Here, phone booths, designed for private conversation in a public place, become a repository for speech between unknown parties. Inside each booth, sloganeering voices articulate force, reward, and persuasion, showing how power is historically established and maintained. It is short, repetitive, and persuasive, yet accompanied by a subversive, whispered voice. In juxtaposition to the traditional active participation of phone booths, audience agency is undermined through a forced passivity, mirroring public and private tensions and intersections.
Geographically placed at the convergence of several types of power—river power, the political and cultural power of the city, and the onsite electrical plant—this work renders internal the external play of power.
Presented by Northern Lights.mn
Photograph Patrick Kelley, courtesy Northern Lights.mn
Modern Monoliths migrating investigates the power-laden language dictating public and private space. Here, phone booths, designed for private conversation in a public place, become a repository for speech between unknown parties. Inside each booth, sloganeering voices articulate force, reward, and persuasion, showing how power is historically established and maintained. It is short, repetitive, and persuasive, yet accompanied by a subversive, whispered voice. In juxtaposition to the traditional active participation of phone booths, audience agency is undermined through a forced passivity, mirroring public and private tensions and intersections.
Geographically placed at the convergence of several types of power—river power, the political and cultural power of the city, and the onsite electrical plant—this work renders internal the external play of power.
Presented by Northern Lights.mn
Photograph Patrick Kelley, courtesy Northern Lights.mn
Living in Transit: The Thinkers of a World in Turmoil
War looms over Europe, uncertainty seeps into everyday life, and the weight of history presses upon the present. The world is burning, and yet—there are those who seek understanding, those who bury themselves in the quiet refuge of books, the dim glow of libraries, the solitude of knowledge.
This series captures the introspective minds of young academic women—readers, thinkers, seekers. They wander through old university halls, their fingers tracing the spines of forgotten books, pulling out volumes of poetry, philosophy, and psychology. They drink coffee, they drink tea, they stay up late with ink-stained fingers, trying to decipher the world through words.
They turn to Simone Weil for moral clarity, Hannah Arendt for political insight, Rilke for existential wisdom. They read Baudrillard to untangle the illusions of modernity, Byung-Chul Han to understand society’s exhaustion, Camus to grasp the absurdity of it all. They devour Celan’s poetry, searching for beauty in catastrophe.
But they do not just read—they reflect, they question, they write. Their world is one of quiet resistance, an intellectual sanctuary amidst the chaos. In their solitude, they are not alone. Across time, across history, across the pages they turn, they are in conversation with those who, too, have sought meaning in troubled times.
This is a series about thought in transit—about seeking, reading, questioning, about the relentless pursuit of knowledge when the world feels on the brink.
Where the Thinkers Go
They gather where the dust has settled,
where books whisper in the hush of halls.
Pages thin as breath, torn at the edges,
cradling centuries of questions.
They drink coffee like it’s ink,
trace words like constellations,
follow Rilke into the dusk,
where solitude hums softly in the dark.
Outside, the world is fraying—
war threading through the seams of cities,
the weight of history pressing forward.
Inside, they turn pages, searching
for answers, for solace, for fire.
And somewhere between the lines,
between time-stained margins and fading ink,
they find the ghosts of others who
once sought, once wondered, once read—
and they do not feel alone.
Three Haikus
Night falls on paper,
books stacked like silent towers,
thoughts burn in the dark.
Tea cools in the cup,
a poem lingers on lips,
war rumbles beyond.
Footsteps in silence,
the scent of old ink and dust,
pages turn like ghosts.
ooOOOoo
Reading as Resistance
These young women do not read passively. They underline, they take notes, they write in the margins. They challenge the texts and themselves. They read because the world demands it of them—because, in a time of conflict and uncertainty, thought itself is an act of resistance.
Their books are worn, their pages stained with coffee, their minds alive with the urgency of understanding.
1. Political Thought, Society & Liberation
Essays, theory and critique on democracy, power and resistance.
Chantal Mouffe – For a Left Populism (rethinking democracy through radical left-wing populism)
Nancy Fraser – Cannibal Capitalism (an urgent critique of capitalism’s role in the destruction of democracy, the planet, and social justice)
Étienne Balibar – Citizenship (rethinking the idea of citizenship in an era of migration and inequality)
Silvia Federici – Caliban and the Witch (a feminist Marxist analysis of capitalism and gender oppression)
Didier Eribon – Returning to Reims (a deeply personal sociological reflection on class and identity in contemporary Europe)
Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt – Empire (rethinking global capitalism and resistance from a leftist perspective)
Thomas Piketty – Capital and Ideology (a profound analysis of wealth distribution, inequality, and the future of economic justice)
Mark Fisher – Capitalist Realism (on why it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism)
2. Feminist & Queer Theory, Gender & Body Politics
Texts that redefine identity, gender, and liberation in the 21st century.
Paul B. Preciado – Testo Junkie (an autobiographical, philosophical essay on gender, hormones, and biopolitics)
Judith Butler – The Force of Nonviolence (rethinking ethics and resistance beyond violence)
Virginie Despentes – King Kong Theory (a raw and radical take on sex, power, and feminism)
Amia Srinivasan – The Right to Sex (rethinking sex, power, and feminism for a new generation)
Laurent de Sutter – Narcocapitalism (on how capitalism exploits our bodies, desires, and emotions)
Sara Ahmed – Living a Feminist Life (a deeply personal and political exploration of what it means to be feminist today)
3. Literature & Poetry of Resistance, Liberation & Exile
European novels, poetry and literature that embrace freedom, revolution, and identity.
Annie Ernaux – The Years (a groundbreaking memoir that blends personal and collective history, feminism, and social change)
Olga Tokarczuk – The Books of Jacob (an epic novel about alternative histories, belief systems, and European identity)
Édouard Louis – Who Killed My Father (a deeply political and personal exploration of class struggle and masculinity)
Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other (a polyphonic novel on race, gender, and identity in contemporary Europe)
Maggie Nelson (though American, widely read in European academia) – On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (a poetic, intellectual meditation on freedom and constraint)
Benjamín Labatut – When We Cease to Understand the World (a deeply philosophical novel on science, war, and moral responsibility)
Michel Houellebecq – Submission (controversial but widely read as a dystopian critique of political passivity in Europe)
4. Ecology, Anti-Capitalism & Posthumanism
Texts that explore the intersections of nature, economics, and radical change.
Bruno Latour – Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (rethinking ecology and politics in a world of climate crisis)
Andreas Malm – How to Blow Up a Pipeline (on the ethics of radical environmental resistance)
Emanuele Coccia – The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture (rethinking human and non-human coexistence)
Isabelle Stengers – Another Science is Possible (rethinking knowledge and resistance in an era of corporate science)
Kate Raworth – Doughnut Economics (rethinking economic models for social and ecological justice)
Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble (rethinking coexistence and posthumanist futures)
The Future of Thought
These are not just books; they are weapons, tools, compasses. These women read not for escapism, but for resistance. In a time of political upheaval, climate catastrophe, and rising authoritarianism, they seek alternative visions, radical possibilities, and new ways of imagining the world.
Their books are annotated, their margins filled with questions, their reading lists always expanding. Knowledge is not just power—it is revolution.
“Peace is not just about the absence of conflict; it’s also about the presence of justice. Martin Luther King Jr. even distinguished between “the devil’s peace” and God’s true peace. A counterfeit peace exists when people are pacified or distracted or so beat up and tired of fighting that all seems calm. But true peace does not exist until there is justice, restoration, forgiveness. Peacemaking doesn’t mean passivity. It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice, the act of disarming evil without destroying the evildoer, the act of finding a third way that is neither fight nor flight but the careful, arduous pursuit of reconciliation and justice. It is about a revolution of love that is big enough to set both the oppressed and the oppressors free.”
― Shane Claiborne, Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals
Hi! Tired of seeing the passivity of people about what is happening on our world, our countries and the neighbourhood and worried about getting a better world for our families and childrens, I joined Avaaz.org. I want to give my sand grain and help to better this world!
In November 2013, nearly a year to the day of the beginning of construction, "a year and one day" stands proud and tall on the grounds of Longue Vue House and Gardens in New Orleans, Louisiana. Created to slowly be overgrown with plant-life (both indigenous and invasive) and deteriorate with time, this site-specific time-based artwork continues to evolve. Step inside this tomb and contemplate the cycle of life and death. Light filters through a water prism in the ceiling to create a place of passivity.
Unlike a conventionally-carved pumpkin, which can only be appreciated when viewed from one specific direction, Metataxis in Obloquy Revisited engages in a dialogue with the viewer from all directions; it is embedded in the same three-dimensional space of which the viewer is an essential part. Thus, in a real and profound sense, the pumpkin gazes at its beholder in no less degree than the beholder gazes at the pumpkin. In contrast to the passivity of the traditionally-carved pumpkin, Metataxis in Obloquy Revisited engages in a conspiratorial interaction with its beholder, actively transforming the space in which both co-exist. The transactional matrix becomes charged with active, multidirectional force vectors completely alien to all previous human-squash interchanges.
Modern Monoliths migrating investigates the power-laden language dictating public and private space. Here, phone booths, designed for private conversation in a public place, become a repository for speech between unknown parties. Inside each booth, sloganeering voices articulate force, reward, and persuasion, showing how power is historically established and maintained. It is short, repetitive, and persuasive, yet accompanied by a subversive, whispered voice. In juxtaposition to the traditional active participation of phone booths, audience agency is undermined through a forced passivity, mirroring public and private tensions and intersections.
Geographically placed at the convergence of several types of power—river power, the political and cultural power of the city, and the onsite electrical plant—this work renders internal the external play of power.
Presented by Northern Lights.mn
Photograph Patrick Kelley, courtesy Northern Lights.mn
Although they had young calves with them, and although they were keeping an eye on us, the cattle clearly weren't disturbed by us. We were told that these old breeds are much more comfortable around humans and dogs than modern breeds which don't need to be and where breeding has tended to focus more on productive elements. Passivity which was important in days when cattle lived in closer proximity to humans than they do now.
Modern Monoliths migrating investigates the power-laden language dictating public and private space. Here, phone booths, designed for private conversation in a public place, become a repository for speech between unknown parties. Inside each booth, sloganeering voices articulate force, reward, and persuasion, showing how power is historically established and maintained. It is short, repetitive, and persuasive, yet accompanied by a subversive, whispered voice. In juxtaposition to the traditional active participation of phone booths, audience agency is undermined through a forced passivity, mirroring public and private tensions and intersections.
Geographically placed at the convergence of several types of power—river power, the political and cultural power of the city, and the onsite electrical plant—this work renders internal the external play of power.
Presented by Northern Lights.mn
Photograph Patrick Kelley, courtesy Northern Lights.mn
Modern Monoliths migrating investigates the power-laden language dictating public and private space. Here, phone booths, designed for private conversation in a public place, become a repository for speech between unknown parties. Inside each booth, sloganeering voices articulate force, reward, and persuasion, showing how power is historically established and maintained. It is short, repetitive, and persuasive, yet accompanied by a subversive, whispered voice. In juxtaposition to the traditional active participation of phone booths, audience agency is undermined through a forced passivity, mirroring public and private tensions and intersections.
Geographically placed at the convergence of several types of power—river power, the political and cultural power of the city, and the onsite electrical plant—this work renders internal the external play of power.
Presented by Northern Lights.mn
Photograph Patrick Kelley, courtesy Northern Lights.mn
www.recyclart.org/2012/11/tell-a-vision/
Big, bulky floor model rear projection televisions are quickly slipping into the American past. Using the dissected parts of these monsters came with an initial fascination of their abilities to magnify and distort. The front screens of these televisions are called Fresnel lenses. These lenses are grooved like a record, creating magnification from one angle and obscuring the view from another. The optical surface distorts the painting on the lens and objects inside the shadowbox, requiring the viewer to perceive the images from multiple vantage points.
Unlike a television which encourages passivity, these works necessitate the viewer to be an active participant in the visual experience. They elicit a call to action in which the tiniest parts of life are being praised as wondrous. A passion for finding ways to re-use society’s discards for evoking imagination, fascination and beautification is shared through this work.
++ More information at Linda Erzinger website !
Idea sent by Linda Erzinger !
Papua New Guinea’s Unemployed Youth Say the Future They Want Begins With Them
By Catherine Wilson
MADANG, Papua New Guinea, July 20, 2015 (IPS)—
Zibie Wari, a former teacher and founder of the Tropical Gems grassroots youth group in the town of Madang on the north coast of Papua New Guinea, has seen the hopes of many young people for a decent future quashed by the impacts of corruption and unfulfilled promises of development.
(LEYENDA EN ESPAÑOL)
Para el movimiento Tropical Gems, el liderazgo comienzo por rechazar la pasividad y asumir la responsabilidad y tener iniciativa para mejorar su propia situación, la de otros y la de la comunidad. Crédito: Catherine Wilson/IPS.
El futuro de los jóvenes empieza por ellos en Papúa Nueva Guinea
Por Catherine Wilson
MADANG, Papúa Nueva Guinea, 12 ago 2015 (IPS) - El maestro Zibie Wari fundó la organización Tropical Gems en la ciudad de Madang, en la costa norte de Papúa Nueva Guinea, después de años de ser testigo de cómo un gran número de jóvenes perdía las esperanzas de tener un futuro por culpa de la corrupción y de las promesas incumplidas de futuro.
(www.ipsnoticias.net/2015/08/el-futuro-de-los-jovenes-empi...)
Modern Monoliths migrating investigates the power-laden language dictating public and private space. Here, phone booths, designed for private conversation in a public place, become a repository for speech between unknown parties. Inside each booth, sloganeering voices articulate force, reward, and persuasion, showing how power is historically established and maintained. It is short, repetitive, and persuasive, yet accompanied by a subversive, whispered voice. In juxtaposition to the traditional active participation of phone booths, audience agency is undermined through a forced passivity, mirroring public and private tensions and intersections.
Geographically placed at the convergence of several types of power—river power, the political and cultural power of the city, and the onsite electrical plant—this work renders internal the external play of power.
Presented by Northern Lights.mn
Photograph Patrick Kelley, courtesy Northern Lights.mn
Inundated as I've been by reports of Trump's incompetence, his self-contradictions and his idiotic tweets, I can't help but remember the atmosphere that reigned before the election, when the media, or at least the liberal-leaning media, took an apparently sensible approach to invalidating such an incendiary, seemingly self-destructive target: meticulously report all evidence of his misconduct, as if simply stating the truth would be enough to curtail his rise to power. But it wasn't enough then, and yet the approach to Trump coverage hasn't changed. It would seem then that we have to admit just how fundamentally the political landscape has changed, that we now operate in an arena where mere rational denouncements cannot hope to disturb ... whatever force it is that sustains Trump and the fervor of his supporters. Not that we should abandon fact-based reporting, just that a different way of wielding the truth is needed. Otherwise, the same passivity that emerged from believing in the inevitability of his failure will persist as we wait for him to collapse under the weight of his misconduct, for the straw that will, that must (right?) break his back.
First Thursday Performance by Jax Gise, “Unwitting Witness," a body of new work exploring the passivity of presence and the act of seeing. Manuel Izquierdo Gallery. February 3, 2011. Photo: Craig Sietsma ’14.
Modern Monoliths migrating investigates the power-laden language dictating public and private space. Here, phone booths, designed for private conversation in a public place, become a repository for speech between unknown parties. Inside each booth, sloganeering voices articulate force, reward, and persuasion, showing how power is historically established and maintained. It is short, repetitive, and persuasive, yet accompanied by a subversive, whispered voice. In juxtaposition to the traditional active participation of phone booths, audience agency is undermined through a forced passivity, mirroring public and private tensions and intersections.
Geographically placed at the convergence of several types of power—river power, the political and cultural power of the city, and the onsite electrical plant—this work renders internal the external play of power.
Presented by Northern Lights.mn
Photograph Patrick Kelley, courtesy Northern Lights.mn
www.cagnz.org/overcome-satans-temptation-twice.html
God’s Word Helped Me Overcome Satan’s Temptation Twice
By Sun Yue
One day, my mother-in-law told me delightedly that the Lord Jesus has returned in flesh. Afterward, she invited other sisters to testify to me patiently about God’s work of the last days. Through their fellowship, I knew that Almighty God is the second coming of the Lord Jesus. So, I gaily accepted God’s new work.God’s Word Helped Me Overcome Satan’s Temptation Twice God’s word was so attractive that once I had the time, I would read it and learn to sing hymns. The more I read God’s word, the greater energy I had to believe in God, the sweeter I felt at heart, and the more released my spirit was. I couldn’t say how happy I was in my heart!...
Two days later, the sister who was watering me came for a visit. I told her, “My eye would hurt severely once I read this book. You’d better take it away and give it to others. I really can’t read it.” After hearing my words, she fellowshiped with me patiently, “Sister, we’re fortunate to catch up with the work of true God. Satan and the evil spirits won’t possibly let us go and follow true God to be saved. Especially when we have just accepted God’s new work and haven’t understood much of all the truths expressed by God, this is the chance that Satan will easily take advantage of to disturb our reading God’s word and destroy our normal relationship with God. God’s word says: ‘The work of the Holy Spirit is a form of proactive guidance and positive enlightenment. It does not allow people to be passive. It brings them solace, gives them faith and resolve and it enables them to pursue being made perfect by God. When the Holy Spirit works, people are able to actively enter; they are not passive or forced, but are proactive.’ ‘The work of the Holy Spirit is proactive progress, while the work of Satan is regression and passivity, disobedience toward God, opposition to God, loss of faith in God, and unwillingness to even sing songs or get up and dance. That which comes from the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit is not forced upon you, but is especially natural. If you follow it, you will have the truth, and if you don’t, then afterward there will be reproach. If it is the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit, then nothing you do will be interfered with or constrained, you will be set free, there will be a path to practice in your actions, and you will not be subject to any restraints, and be able to act upon the will of God. The work of Satan brings many things that cause interference to you, it makes you unwilling to pray, too lazy to eat and drink the words of God, and undisposed to live the life of the church, and it estranges you from the spiritual life’ (‘The Work of the Holy Spirit and the Work of Satan’). God’s word tells us clearly the manifestations of the work of the Holy Spirit and the work of Satan. The work of the Holy Spirit is completely positive, particularly natural and soft, without forcing man to do this or that; when the Holy Spirit moves man and enlightens man, man will feel liberated in spirit and his relationship with God will be more and more normal. Whereas the work of Satan is absolutely negative, aimed at disturbing and destroying our normal relationship with God; and Satan always does this through great force, distracting our mind from quieting ourselves to read God’s word or become close to God. Gradually, we stay away from God and betray God; this is Satan’s base purpose. Just like the environment you encounter today: Your eye hurts, this is out of Satan’s disturbance. Satan wants to force us to quit reading God’s word, so that we may stay away from God and betray God. We should see things from a spiritual perspective, increase our discernment, and see through Satan’s trick.”
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In 1927, Aldous Huxley asserted that technology, while allowing for the mass production and distribution of information and ideas, had in fact created an “atmosphere of passivity” where our natural “play instinct” was dulled by the repetition of “imbecile ideas” and “vulgarity in art.”
Modern Monoliths migrating investigates the power-laden language dictating public and private space. Here, phone booths, designed for private conversation in a public place, become a repository for speech between unknown parties. Inside each booth, sloganeering voices articulate force, reward, and persuasion, showing how power is historically established and maintained. It is short, repetitive, and persuasive, yet accompanied by a subversive, whispered voice. In juxtaposition to the traditional active participation of phone booths, audience agency is undermined through a forced passivity, mirroring public and private tensions and intersections.
Geographically placed at the convergence of several types of power—river power, the political and cultural power of the city, and the onsite electrical plant—this work renders internal the external play of power.
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Happiness doesn't exist on the far side of distant mountains....
It is within you, yourself. Not you, however, sitting in idle passivity...
It is to be found in the vibrant dynamism of your own life as you struggle to challenge...
and overcome one obstacle after another...
as you clamber up a perilous ridge in pursuit of that which lies beyond.
this is a sign on a big boarded up bit of space down at the end of my road. i like it because of the use of language giving idea of plants being 'active', compared to their often assumed passivity/staticness. i think japanese knotweed perhaps demonstrates well how active plants can be - there is/was a streelight on the pavement outside this space, and i saw some of the japanese knotweed growing from its maintenance door - probably having rooted under the pavement a couple of metres and up into the streetlamp housing. plants can move quite some distance and quite swiftly sometimes. and the big double padlocked chain reinforces the sense of how 'active/strong/dangerous' the plant is, in the attempts to contain it.
The Anchor of Reality
All those going through a storm need to be engaged in the process. No one is promised a magical escape clause. Passivity is faith's enemy. It isn't an acceptable option to fold our arms and wait for the storm to pass. It may mean some hard work. It may require humbling yourself before God and others. It might mean a season of counseling where a trained, compassionate individual helps you reorder your life. You may be required to admit several wrong actions and seek reconciliation as you make restitution. Whatever the case, you'll need to be involved. Reality mandates that type of mature response. It's part of throwing the anchor of reality and trusting God to bring you to shore. The best plan for surviving a storm is preparation. No seasoned fishermen or responsible ship captain sets across the open sea without a thorough knowledge of the vessel's equipment and without making sure all is in proper working order. They rarely leave without having first spent sufficient time going over the navigation charts—studying the weather patterns and acquainting themselves with dangerous passages. And they never leave port without anchors. That's for certain. No one wants to be shipwrecked. But the reality is, it happens, not only on the open sea, but also in life.bThe secret of survival is what you do ahead of time in calmer waters. If your life is storm-free as you read this book, I urge you to take advantage of this peaceful lull. Spend time in God's Word. Study the inspired charts He has given you for the journey of life. Deepen your walk with Him through prayer and personal worship. Then, when the inevitable winds of adversity begin to blow—and they most certainly will blow—you'll be ready to respond in faith, rather than fear. Don't wait. Check those anchors while it's smooth sailing. You'll be glad you did. The secret of survival is what you do in calmer waters. Stay focused on God's Word.
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Excerpted from Charles R. Swindoll, Great Days With The Great
✨ Light and darkness, used to represent or refer to duality, to everything that exists in the universe.
The two opposite and complementary fundamental forces, found in all of us and in all things.
The feminine principle, earth, darkness, passivity and absorption.
The masculine principle, the sky, the light, the activity.
There is no light without darkness, there is no happiness without sadness .. we live in a world of duality✨
✨ Light and darkness, to represent or refer to duality, to everything that exists in the universe.
The two opposite and complementary fundamental forces, which are found in all of us and in everything.
The feminine principle, earth, darkness, passivity and absorption.
The masculine principle, the sky, the light, the activity.
There is no light without darkness, there is no happiness without sadness .. we live in a world of duality✨
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Augusto Poliche , Joaquín Olea
"Cows to many people are a metaphor for mindless passivity, as they appear to graze seemingly oblivious to the world around them. Yet behind this placid facade cows feel pain, fear and anxiety and they worry about the future, they have emotions, form friendships, bear grudges and in the right circumstances they feel happiness and experience pleasure, they have long memories and just like us they are capable of learning from each other, have individual personalities and cognitive abilities: in short they are sentient. There is much scientific and anecdotal evidence that shows us that underneath their docility is a thinking, feeling, aware being". Jennifer Viegas.