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2 April 2008
Doris Salcedo’s "Shibboleth" is a bick crack in the floor of the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall.
On the one hand, just making a big hole in the floor of the museum seems to be more or less the height of Capitalistic, wretched excess. On the other hand, it actually works visually. The point is about racism as a chasm which divides modern societies, so a big tear in the floor of a major cultural insitution is not a bad way to illustrate that.
If you look closesly at the photo, you should be able to see the chain link that she used to construatc the crack. Her materials are visible, I think not at all by accident. Yes, racism looks like a giant desctrictuve natural force tearing things up, but that's not exactly true. It's actually carefully constructed. We made racism and we can unmake it, just like the Tate will repair it's floors in 4 days time.
Thus, the work shows not only the terrible destructiveness of racism, but emphasies that it's man-made and can be undone. So I like the piece on that level.
I do wonder, though, if pieces like this actually need to be made, or if you can just pretend they exist and talk about them as if they do?
On the other hand, the hall was full of people looking at, interacting with and thinking about the issues raised by this piece. Neat.
Semi-panoramic view of the U.S. 169/212 abandoned Scenic Overlook and Wayside near Flying Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. This is a combination of three shots that were stitched together in ArcSoft Panorama Maker 4.
"Arson is his vocation. Self-immolation is just for fun."
*ahem*
ARSON DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY
ARSONISTS GENERALLY DO NOT LIKE TO BURN THEMSELVES TO DEATH.
Well, I guess it's better than the original idea for this figure, "Buddhist Protester."
Anyway, the Arsonist was one of a very small number of figures who could wipe out locations. For obvious reasons. He's actually fully-sculpted under all that fire, but I've never taken the time to break it off and see.
“Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This started as a grab-shot from the rear seat of a moving car. When I went back on foot the following day the sky and the light wasn't the same. The texture is taken from a scan of the back of an late C19 stereoview.
Providence, RI • March 5, 2022.
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (20 NorthMain Street): Variance: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability exhibition.
Democracy at Work (1989-1991), David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992).
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Homeless men sleep on benches while a woman lies unprotected on the grass, not far from the impromptu commemorative site dedicated to the passing of politician Jack Layton. Candles, flowers, oranges, orange crush drinks and emotional chalk messages cover the walls and sidewalk of Toronto City Hall in memory of Jack Layton, Leader of the NDP. Even with this bounty so close at hand, the homeless leave it untouched. The sans-abris surround the site like sleeping sentries, an irony perhaps as Jack had once written a book entitled, "Homelessness: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis?" With it, he helped increase public awareness of the problem and went on to establish homeless shelters in Toronto. This was an urgent reminder that the problem still exists and needs to be addressed. Unfortunately, not many of the thousands who came to pay their respects saw this scene, as by daylight the homeless have disappeared from the city hall, to once again wander unnoticed and shunned among the crowds.
Jack Layton Died Today© Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto.com '11. Aug.22, 2011.
Esta reinterpretación es un aporte de mi colega Victoria Miyares ;-)
1919, Paris
Private Collection, Paris
reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa
with added mustache, goatee, and title
19.7 x 12.4 cm
Son titre est à la fois un homophone du mot anglais "look" et un allographe que l'on peut ainsi prononcer : "elle a chaud au cul.
L.H.O.O.Q. au Centre Pompidou.
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Otros trabajos de Marcel Duchamp.
L.H.O.O.Q. est une œuvre d'art de 1919 de l’artiste Marcel Duchamp, parodiant La Joconde de Léonard de Vinci. Son titre est à la fois un homophone du mot anglais LOOK et un allographe que l'on peut ainsi prononcer : « elle a chaud au cul ». www.centrepompidou.fr/cpv/ressource.action?param.id=FR_R-...
Around the world, novelists are constantly rewriting history. Juan Gabriel Vasquez has questioned received versions of the history of Colombia in both The Informers and The Secret History of Costaguana, each time prompting a national re-examination of his country’s identity. Elif Shafak’s work blends both Western and Eastern traditions of storytelling to give voice to those who are often unheard in official narratives, whilst Hisham Matar’s own childhood in Libya has shaped the way in which he approaches his fiction. They talk to writer and translator Amanda Hopkinson about the peculiar ways in which writers can make and unmake history.
1. Life means suffering.
To live means to suffer, because the human nature is not perfect and neither is the world we live in. During our lifetime, we inevitably have to endure physical suffering such as pain, sickness, injury, tiredness, old age, and eventually death; and we have to endure psychological suffering like sadness, fear, frustration, disappointment, and depression. Although there are different degrees of suffering and there are also positive experiences in life that we perceive as the opposite of suffering, such as ease, comfort and happiness, life in its totality is imperfect and incomplete, because our world is subject to impermanence. This means we are never able to keep permanently what we strive for, and just as happy moments pass by, we ourselves and our loved ones will pass away one day, too.
2. The origin of suffering is attachment.
The origin of suffering is attachment to transient things and the ignorance thereof. Transient things do not only include the physical objects that surround us, but also ideas, and -in a greater sense- all objects of our perception. Ignorance is the lack of understanding of how our mind is attached to impermanent things. The reasons for suffering are desire, passion, ardour, pursuit of wealth and prestige, striving for fame and popularity, or in short: craving and clinging. Because the objects of our attachment are transient, their loss is inevitable, thus suffering will necessarily follow. Objects of attachment also include the idea of a "self" which is a delusion, because there is no abiding self. What we call "self" is just an imagined entity, and we are merely a part of the ceaseless becoming of the universe.
3. The cessation of suffering is attainable.
The cessation of suffering can be attained through nirodha. Nirodha means the unmaking of sensual craving and conceptual attachment. The third noble truth expresses the idea that suffering can be ended by attaining dispassion. Nirodha extinguishes all forms of clinging and attachment. This means that suffering can be overcome through human activity, simply by removing the cause of suffering. Attaining and perfecting dispassion is a process of many levels that ultimately results in the state of Nirvana. Nirvana means freedom from all worries, troubles, complexes, fabrications and ideas. Nirvana is not comprehensible for those who have not attained it.
4. The path to the cessation of suffering.
There is a path to the end of suffering - a gradual path of self-improvement, which is described more detailed in the Eightfold Path. It is the middle way between the two extremes of excessive self-indulgence (hedonism) and excessive self-mortification (asceticism); and it leads to the end of the cycle of rebirth. The latter quality discerns it from other paths which are merely "wandering on the wheel of becoming", because these do not have a final object. The path to the end of suffering can extend over many lifetimes, throughout which every individual rebirth is subject to karmic conditioning. Craving, ignorance, delusions, and its effects will disappear gradually, as progress is made on the path.