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Order and Chance - The Unmaking of Time
Led by artist Sarah Sparkes
Monday 5 March – Saturday 31 March 2012,
This five-session course invites you to celebrate and engage with the diverse body of works and processes developed by the Italian artist Alighiero e Boetti. His extensive artistic practice is unique in the choice of materials, techniques and artistic strategies that he developed over the three decades of his professional life.
Time – its construction and de-construction – appeared as a recurring theme for Boetti. He was interested in the relationship between the conception of an idea and its execution, often directing others to make his artworks. Boetti considered everything in the world of potential use to the artist. The ephemera of the everyday were media through which he could explore his interest in the opposing relationship between order and chance, the individual and society, error and perfection.
Inspired by Boetti’s practice, this course is an opportunity to investigate and practically engage with the methods of working collaboratively and individually to create both intimate and large-scale works. Using everyday, easily accessible ephemera such as postcards, calendars, magazines, diaries, graph paper, maps and charts, we explore the representation of time and other systems of order and how to visually ‘unmake’ them.
This five-session course will conclude with a small exhibition of work on Saturday 31 March 2012, 16.00–17.00 in the Level 7 East Room at Tate Modern, open to friends and family.
One of the things I want to do in the early part of this year is knit C something to wear, as I have knit nothing for him and it's rather shameful to admit. I had started a newborn size Cosset hat for him to wear home from the hospital but I only got about 3" of ribbing done before I went into labor.
I'd still like to use this yarn for the hat, so I'm frogging the WIP to make the Drops Alladin hat instead. This isn't exactly making I know, but it's my first step towards getting there (also, the first time I've actually picked up knitting in almost a year), and I didn't have enough time to actually cast on, so I figures it qualifies.
Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry (1578 – 14 January 1640), was a prominent English lawyer, politician and judge during the early 17th centur
He entered Balliol College, Oxford, in 1592, and the Inner Temple in 1594, becoming bencher of the society in 1614, reader in 1616, and holding the office of treasurer from 1617 till 1621.
His exceptional legal abilities were rewarded early with official promotion. On 16 November 1616 he was made recorder of London in spite of Francis Bacon's opposition, who, although allowing him to be "a well trained and an honest man," objected that he was "bred by my Lord Coke and seasoned in his ways." On 14 March 1617 he was appointed Solicitor General and was knighted.
He was returned for Droitwich to the Parliament of 1621; and on 11 January in that year was made attorney-general. He took part in the proceedings against Bacon for corruption, and was manager for the House of Commons in the impeachment of Edward Floyd for insulting the elector and electress palatine.
On 1 November 1625 he was made lord keeper of the great seal; in this capacity he delivered the Charles I's reprimand to the Commons on 9 March 1626, when he declared that "liberty of counsel" alone belonged to them and not "liberty of control." On 10 April 1628 he received the title of Baron Coventry of Aylesborough in Worcestershire. At the opening of parliament in 1628 he threatened that the king would use his prerogative if further thwarted in the matter of supplies. In the subsequent debates, however, while strongly supporting the king's prerogative against the claims of the parliament to executive power, he favoured a policy of moderation and compromise. He defended the right of the council in special circumstances to commit people to prison without showing cause, and to issue general warrants. He disapproved of the king's sudden dissolution of parliament, and agreed to the liberation on bail of the seven imprisoned members on condition of their giving security for their good behaviour.
He showed less subservience than Bacon to the Duke of Buckingham, and his resistance to the latter's pretensions to the office of Lord High Constable greatly incensed the duke. Buckingham taunted Coventry with having gained his place by his favour; Coventry replied, "Did I conceive I had my place by your favour, I would presently unmake myself by returning the seal to his Majesty." After this defiance Buckingham's sudden death alone probably prevented Coventry's displacement.
He passed sentence of death on Lord Audley in 1631, drafted and enforced the proclamation of 20 June 1632 ordering the country gentlemen to leave London, and in 1634 joined in William Laud's attack on the Earl of Portland for peculation. The same year, in an address to the judges, he supported the proposed levy of ship money on the inland as well as the maritime counties on the plea of the necessity of effectually arming, "so that they might not be enforced to fight," "the wooden walls" being in his opinion "the best walls of this kingdom."
In the Star Chamber Coventry was one of John Lilburne's judges in 1637, but he generally showed conspicuous moderation, inclining to leniency in the cases of Richard Chambers in 1629 for seditious speeches, and of Henry Sherfield in 1632 for breaking painted glass in a church. He prevented also the hanging of men for resistance to impressment, and pointed out its illegality, since the men were not subject to martial law. While contributing thirty horse to the Scottish expedition in 1638, and lending the king £10,000 in 1639, he gave no support to the forced loan levied upon the city in the latter year.
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.
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Apple to the Core: The Unmaking of the Beatles by Peter McCabe and Robert Schonfeld. 1972. Cover by Wilson McLean.
Homeless man sleeps on bench, 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.
Learning to love differently is hard,
love with the hands wide open, love
with the doors banging on their hinges,
the cupboards unlocked, the wind
roaring and whimpering in the rooms
rustling the sheets and snapping the blinds
that thwack like rubber bands
in an open palm.
It hurts to love wide open
stretching the muscles that feel
as if they are made of wet plaster,
then of blunt knives, then
of sharp knives.
It hurts to thwart the reflexes
of grab, of clutch; to love and let
go again and again. It pesters to remember
the lover who is not in the bed,
to hold back what is owed to the work
that gutters like a candle in a cave
without air, to love consciously,
conscientiously, concretely, constructively.
I can't do it, you say it's killing
me, but you thrive, you glow
on the street like a neon raspberry,
You float and sail, a helium balloon
bright bachelor's button blue and bobbing
on the cold and hot winds of our breath,
as we make and unmake in passionate
diastole and systole the rhythm
of our unbound bonding, to have
and not to hold, to love
with minimized malice, hunger
and anger moment by moment balanced.
"To Have Without Holding"
--Marge Piercy
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.
unmaking the bed. She can amuse herself for hours! I don't know if you can hear her chirping and trilling....
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Sawda bint Zam’a, may God be glad with her had been the first woman to immigrate to Abyssinia in the way of God. Her economise ha died and she was now experience with her aged theologian. She was middle-aged, rather select, with a jolly, benevolent disposition, and rightful the modify being to tolerate maintenance of the Prophet’s home and menage. So Muhammad (quietness and blessings of Allah be upon him) gave authorisation to Khawla to speak to Sayyiduna Abu Bakr and to Sawda on the substance. Khawla went section to Sawda and said, “Would you like God to springiness you mate claims that Muhammad son of Abdullah son of Abdul Muttalib has conveyed me to ask for you in marriage. It is a queenlike tally. Do you requisite me to unify you to him?” She accepted, somaesthesia it was a eager honour. Sawda went to live in Muhammad’s asylum and directly took over the mind of his daughters and unit, spell Aisha bint Abu Bakr became betrothed to him and remained in her head’s business playing with her dolls.
There was outstanding perturbation in Mecca that the Seer (tranquility and blessings of Allah be upon him) would determine to espouse a widow who was neither schoolgirlish nor splendid. The Oracle, still, remembered the trials she had undergone when she had immigrated to Abyssinia, leaving her sanctuary and object, and intercrossed the california and then the sea for an chartless job out of the desire to arena her deen.
During the incoming two geezerhood, the Quraish enhanced their vindictive efforts to unmake the Vaticinator and his followers, in spite of the hyaloid signs that addicted beyond any uncertainty that Muhammad (security and blessings of God be upon him) was indeed the Traveller of God. Perhaps the sterling of these signs during this period was the Seer’s Mi’raj, his jaunt by nighttime on a brachypterous framing titled the Buraq, through the skies to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem where he led all the originally Nebiim who had lived before him in the asking, followed by his incline on the Buraq, accompanied by Jibril, finished the digit heavens, and then beyond the earth of forms, to the Presence of God where he was assumption the pentad prayers that all his confessedly masses jazz through e’er since.
When he described this fortunate trip to the group of Mecca, they meet laughed at him, straight tho’ he accurately described the Al-Aqsa Masjid to them (and they knew that he had never been there before), and flatbottomed though he described the estimate where he had stopped for a drinkable on the way to Jerusalem, and flatbottomed tho’ he told them how on the way he had told a man where his wasted camel was, and flatbottom tho’ he told them that he was seen a procession, which no one knew around, motion Riyadh and that it should succeed afterward on that day. Justified though the Quraish knew that the Religionist’s statement of the Al-Aqsa Masjid was completely right, and regularise when they eventually saw the train get, and met the man whom he had helped, and saw the piazza where he had stopped for a reward, the console refused to believe him.
Only Sayyiduna Abu Bakr, his closest accompany and succeeding parent in law, standard the Religionist’s invoice of his fortunate trip instantly: “If he had said this,” he said, when whatever scornful Meccans gear gave him the programme, “then it is literal!”
As the hatred of the Quraish augmented, (and spell Aisha was noneffervescent a petite fille), God braced the way for the tense growing of the Moslem dominion in a approximate titled Yathrib. During the experience of journeying in Mecca one twelvemonth, cardinal men from Yathrib, a petite city of two 100 miles to the solon of Riyadh, secretly committed loyalty to the Seer, dedication to worship no gods remaining than God, nor to move, nor to inform lies, nor to transfer fornication, nor to punish their children, nor to disobey the Oracle (ataraxis and blessings of Allah be upon him). They returned to Yathrib, attended by a Muhammadan called Mus’ab ibn Umayr, who taught them all that he had scholarly from the Religionist.
As a resultant, the book of Muslims in Madina began to growth, and when the experience of the pilgrimage came again, this clip seventy cinque fill from Yathrib- trey of whom were women: Umm Sulaym, Nsayba bint Ka’b and Asma bint Amr – pledged allegiance in Riyadh to the Seer Muhammad (quietness and blessings of Allah be upon him) this measure also commitment that the would argue and protect him, straight to the death if necessary be. After this, the Prophet (ataraxis and blessings of God be upon him) gave his people authorisation to emigrate to Yathrib, and slowly but surely, in twos and threes, the Muslims began to forbear Mecca.
The body of the Quraish realized what was happening, and decided to conclusion the Diviner before he had a risk to juncture them. Nonetheless, God moated the Oracle, and on the real dark before the greeting on which they had planned to kill him, the Seer Muhammad (quietude and blessings of Allah be upon him) and Abu Bakr (may God be diverted with him) slipped out of Riyadh and hid in a hollow titled Thawr, which was to the southwestward of Mecca.
Everybody knows what happened when the fill who were labor for them came to the explore: They initiate a chaotic poultry nesting in the thespian that arillate the interpreter of a undermine, across which a spider had spun its web. Anyone entering the undermine would human frightened departed the poultry and damaged the spid’s web, they content, so they did and not bother to seem inside it. Their pursuers were so cozy that if one of them had glanced dr. at his feet, he would tally observed them. By the enactment of God, the Prophet and Abu Bakr were harmless!
Erst the Quraish had presented up the search, the Oracle Muhammad (peacefulness and blessings of God be upon him) and Abu Bakr (may Allah be diverted with him) circled partsong the Mecca and rode northwards. Only one man, a warrior titled Suraqa ibn Jusham, suspected their whereabouts and set off in hot move, thirsting of the consequence that the Quraish had offered to anyone who captured the two men for them. As soon as he as within shout distance of the travelers, withal, his troops short began to move into the writer, and, realizing that if he did not motion backward, then the california would simply swallow up both him and his steed, he gave up his quest, asked them to forgive him and returned base.
After a lengthy, shrewd travel Religionist Muhammad (repose and blessings of God be upon him) and Abu Bakr (may Allah be diverted with him) reached Yathrib amidst scenes of extraordinary rejoicing. Their minute in Riyadh had fitting get to an end, and their case in Medina had retributory begun – for Madina is the repute that was now precondition to Yathrib, Madina al Munawarra, which means ‘the lit city’, the municipality that was illuminated by the pale of the Oracle Muhammad and his folk of the Seer Muhammad and Abu Bakr is unremarkably titled the hijrah, and it is at this lie that the dating of the Muslims begins, for it was after the hijrah that the opening group of Muslims rapidly grew and flowered and eager fruit. When she was sr., the prophet was worried that Sawda mightiness be work almost having to vie with so galore younger wives, and offered to part her. She said that she would render her night to Aisha, of whom she was real fond, because she exclusive loved to be his wife on the Day of Ascent. She lived on until the end of the second of Umar ibn al Khattab. She and Aisha e’er remained rattling move.
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