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This building was designed by architect Mario Fiorentino and built in the late Seventies for the Istituto Autonomo Case Popolari (IACP), a public dwelling institute.
The building is composed by two parallel 980 meters long apartment slabs, separated by the internal circulation system and public spaces.
For its huge dimensions, the 5900 inhabitants have to face many problems, such as alienation, social discomfort and micro-criminality.
Dolor del alma: tañe silenciosa una campana mientras la mar sacrifica sus lágrimas. Más allá de los cielos, los ángeles se derrumban tras la pérdida de sus alas. Quebranto. La sutileza del vacío reclama sus mártires; una mirada sin destino se acomoda en las brozas del nido doliente. Quebranto.
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Waiting
This interplay of colours in this photo visually highlight the man while creating a sense of isolation and melancholy. The warmth of yellow contrasts with cooler tones of red and green, hinting at the individual's detachment and alienation within the vibrant scene.
The man's solitude in the bustling car park symbolises the existential condition of being alone and grappling with isolation and meaninglessness. The empty space around him embodies existential angst—the individual's struggle for significance within an indifferent world. Additionally, juxtaposing the figure against symbols of consumerism (the vending machine and car) underscores the emptiness of material pursuits, and the existential void that remains despite the distractions of modern life.
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A Dani war chief passes through the oval courtyard of a traditional fortress-like compound as he prepares for a ritualized mock battle that is about to take place high in a remote corner of West Papua's central highlands, 1600m/5200ft above sea level - Grand Valley of the Balim River, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Digital film scan, shot with a Pentax point-and-shoot pocket camera directly under the noonday sun, circa 1996.
Battle Dress
He is adorned with a large decorated bib of nassa (snail) shells, an upturned boar’s tusk nose piece, rare bird-of-paradise plumes and other feathers, a bailer shell chest piece (with smaller shell pieces attached to a tightly woven bush-twine neck band of cowrie shells), an ornamental wristband of finely woven pandanus fibres, arm bands of dog fur, and the iconic long koteka or penis gourd – all part of traditional Dani ornamentation and battle dress. His forehead is smeared with a thick layer of charcoal-blackened pig grease.
Ritualized Warfare
Many Dani elders in the valley today were once engaged in an elaborate system of ritualized warfare, organized around changing political alliances and large shifting confederations across the Grand Valley. War was embedded in Dani culture as a constant and immediate part of everyday life. Brawls, feuds, and wars would begin with conflicts between individuals that would escalate to prolonged intergroup fighting.
Much of the fighting ended in the 1960's under an enforced Indonesian government pacification programme, although it is likely that certain forms of traditional fighting still occurred in isolated pockets of the region up to the late 1990's. Most fighting is now expressed through mock combat rituals that includes women and children in some of the ritualized running patterns.
Trembling on the Edge of Change
The Grand Valley Dani are accomplished gardeners and pig farmers with a sophisticated neolithic (late Stone Age) culture and technology that anthropologists see as "trembling on the edge of change.” Accelerated contact with the outside world is inevitable. The road up from the coast to the highlands and beyond has been under construction for more than two decades and is near completion. Little has been done to prepare indigenous Papuans for the inundation of permanent Asian migrants from other over-populated islands (especially Java) under Indonesia’s official state-sponsored transmigration resettlement programme.
Alienation of the land to foreign mining interests, organized tourism, the advent of cash and alcohol, and expanding state intrusion into indigenous Papuan affairs - all pose a serious challenge to the traditional Papuan way of life and very survival as an independent and culturally distinct indigenous nation.
Repression and Resistance
Indonesian state control in West Papua is particularly reminiscent of earlier times in the Americas and elsewhere when aboriginal peoples were contained through a colonization strategy of political subjugation and cultural assimilation. Indigenous Papuan resistance in the highlands has taken several forms, ranging from mass protests and sporadic hostage-taking to low-level guerrilla warfare and a loosely organized yet persistent political movement for separation and the creation of an independent Papuan state within Indonesia.
At the time of this photoshoot (February 1996), indigenous insurgents of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) had abducted 12 European and Indonesian nationals on a biodiversity research expedition to the highlands in an adjoining tribal region just 70 kilometres away, roughly five days by foot. They were held as hostages in the mountainous forests, moving across rugged ridges and deep river valleys from one makeshift prison camp to another as members of the International Red Cross tried unsuccessfully to mediate the crisis.
Papuan insurgents conducted the raid with bows and arrows and a handful of guns. Indonesian Army Special Forces ultimately launched a militarized hostage rescue operation with helicopter gunships and crack counter-insurgency troops with limited success. The controversial South African mercenary group, Executive Outcomes, provided both training and operational advice. Two of the hostages were executed during the struggle. Organized Papuan resistance continues to this day.
First Contact
The indigenous peoples of West Papua migrated from southeast Asia and the Australian continent about 30,000 to 50,000 years ago during the Ice Age when sea levels were lower and distances between islands were shorter. Western "first contact” with West Papua's Grand Valley Dani was established in 1938 during American-led botanical and zoological expeditions to the central highlands, less than sixty years before this photograph was taken.
About 50,000 Dani now live in small compound clusters or settlements scattered across the fertile and densely-populated "Grand Valley" of the Balim River (about 40 miles long by 10 miles wide) in West Papua's central highlands.
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Ethnographic efforts at demystifying Dani Neolithic cultural practices and ritualized warfare in the region are associated with the early ground-breaking 1961 Harvard-Peabody Expedition. They include anthropologist Karl Heider’s accounts in “The Dugum Dani: A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea,” Aldine Publishing (1970) and “Grand Valley Dani: Peaceful Warriors” (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology), Wadsworth Publishing (1996); also filmmaker Robert Gardner’s classic ethnographic documentary, “Dead Birds” (1965); and Peter Matthiessen’s “Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea,” Viking Press (1962).
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L'arrivée du téléphone portable dans l'ensemble des foyers, au tournant des années 2000 a soulevé beaucoup d'interrogations, critiques mais aussi paniques morales. D'aucuns nous promettaient jusqu'à la disparition de la langue française et la chute vertigineuse et irrémédiable de la jeunesse. Comme quoi... D'autres, jadis,firent le même genre de coups pour les jeux de rôle, les jeux vidéo, le rock'n'roll et même les romans policiers y eurent droit en leur temps.
Mais de toutes les critiques que ces aimables briques de jadis eurent à répondre, il y en a une dont la saillance s'est accrue avec l'arrivée des smartphones.
La question de l'aliénation du travailleur jusque dans ses vacances et son temps libre. Que ce soit par appel, SMS ou mail,, messagerie instantanée ou notifications facebook, il est devenu compliqué de s'accorder un temps à soi, hors du champ gravitationnel du travail Sans même parler de la conception-même de ces bijoux de technologies turbinant aux terres rares, qui poussent à la surutilisation.
Quand nous voyons un quidam rivé à son smartphone. ..est-il en temps libre ou en temps contraint ?
Vous avez quatre heures...
...on devrait prêter plus souvent l'oreille aux observations des marxistes. :-))
Pripyat/При́п'ять/При́пять - Kyiv Oblast - Ukraine
Pripyat is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine, near the border with Belarus.
Named after the nearby Pripyat River, Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970, the ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Union, to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and had grown to a population of 49,360 by the time it was evacuated, a few days after the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
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Circus Under the Cupola. An Exhibition by Ieva Epnere
From 4 June to 1 August 2021, the Cupola Hall of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga (Jaņa Rozentāla laukums 1) will host Ieva Epnere’s exhibition “Circus Under the Cupola”.
Her exhibition, Circus Under the Cupola, is based on photographs of the Riga Circus made over the period of 2004–2008. The legendary Riga Circus was closed in 2016, Ieva Epnere’s series of photographs suddenly acquired a conclusion
In 2019/2020, the artist had the opportunity to live and work in Berlin. Her book Rīgas cirks (Riga Circus) was developed un published during Ieva Epnere’s fellowship with the Artists-in-Berlin Programme of the DAAD (Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD*).
In her exhibition Circus Under the Cupola, Ieva Epnere imbues a documentary approach with metaphoric radiance. Personal experience led the artist to research cultural history and read literature about circus, uncovering the genre’s legacy and continuity. For centuries people have marvelled at tightrope walkers, jugglers, jokers, trapeze artists, at the intensity and endurance of their creative power, their total dedication to work. Comedians are part of the circus phenomenon.
In her new video piece, together with actress Guna Zariņa and artist Kirils Ēcis, Ieva Epnere reflects on creative personality’s space of freedom and existence. Historically, many artists have identified themselves with circus performers – people who live on the margins. The outward brilliance and magnificent spectacle may conceal melancholia and alienation. The video was produced at a time when all cultural venues were closed. The Cherry Orchard was sacrificed. We may recall, that French painter Henri Matisse, being bedridden, cut out bold collages of acrobats symbolising movement.
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The source of numerous psychic disturbances and difficulties occasioned by man's progressive alienation from his instinctual foundation, i.e., by his uprootedness and identification with his conscious knowledge of himself, by his concern with consciousness at the expense of the unconscious. The result is that modern man can know himself only in so far as he can become conscious of himself--his consciousness therefor orients itself chiefly by observing and investigating the world around him, and it is to its peculiarities that he must adapt his psychic and technical resources. This task is so exacting, and its fulfillment so advantageous, that he forgets himself in the process, losing sight of his instinctual nature and putting his own conception of himself in place of his real being. In this way he slips imperceptibly into a purely conceptual world where the products of his conscious activity progressively replace reality. Separation from his instinctual nature inevitably plunges civilized man into the conflict between conscious and unconscious, spirit and nature, knowledge and faith, a split that becomes pathological the moment his consciousness is no longer able to neglect or suppress his instinctual side.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle commented on the current situation:
“This moment humanity is experiencing can be seen as a door or a hole.” The decision to fall in the hole or walk through the door is up to you. If you consume the news 24 hours a day, with negative energy, constantly nervous, with pessimism, you will fall into this hole, but if you take the opportunity to look at yourself, to rethink life and death, to take care of yourself and others, then you will walk through the portal.
Take care of your home. Take care of your body. Connect with your spiritual home. When you take care of yourself, you take care of everyone at the same time.
Do not underestimate the spiritual dimension of this crisis. Take the perspective of an eagle that sees everything from above with a broader view. There is a social question in this crisis, but also a spiritual question. The two go hand in hand. Without the social dimension, we fall into fanaticism. Without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and futility.
Are you ready to face this crisis? Grab your toolbox and use all the tools at your disposal.
Learn resistance from the example of Indian and African peoples: we have been and are exterminated, but we never stopped singing, dancing, lighting a fire, and rejoicing.
Don’t feel guilty for feeling blessed in these troubled times. Being sad or angry doesn’t help at all. Resistance is resistance through joy!
You have the right to be strong and positive. And there’s no other way to do it than to maintain a beautiful, happy, bright posture. This has nothing to do with alienation (ignorance of the world). It’s a resistance strategy. When we cross the threshold, we have a new worldview because we face our fears and difficulties. This is all you can do now:
– Serenity in the storm
– Keep calm, pray every day
– Make a habit of meeting the sacred every day.– Show resistance through art, joy, trust, and love.
Ya Nur
Ya Jabbar
"Tüchersfeld is a church village in the Püttlach valley in Franconian Switzerland and belongs to the town of Pottenstein.
Due to the prominent rocks (sponge reefs in cone karst shapes) of a meander cutoff hill, which emerged as the result of the uplifting of the Franconian Jura in the Late Tertiary and the deposition of a thick bed of sand in the Upper Cretaceous, and its timber-framed-houses, which appear in places to be glued onto the rocks, Tüchersfeld is a symbol of Franconian Switzerland and has also been portrayed on postage stamps of the Deutsche Post. Until the Thirty Years' War there were two castles here, the Upper and Lower Castles, the latter was recorded in 1269 as a fortress that had already been in existence for a long time.
The Franconian Switzerland Museum is housed in the old Judenhof ("Jews Court"), a group of 17th- and 18th-century buildings built by Jews on the grounds of the Lower Castle and inhabited until 1860 by 18 Jewish families, and restored in 1978–1982. Of particular note is the synagogue from the second half of the 18th century (around 1763) with its simple Late Baroque stucco work on the ceiling; of the original decoration little can be seen after decades of alienation.
The Catholic chapel of ease, the Church of the Sacred Heart, was built in 1950-51 thanks to a foundation; with the tower it is attached to another building. Behind the altar is a painting by Otelia Kraszewska (Gößweinstein) depicting Christ in a white robe as he turns to people of different ages. On the side altar is a painting by Anna Maria, Baroness of Oer (Gößweinstein) which shows the Madonna and Child. The ceiling murals, included one of the Lamb of God and the Four Evangelists. The statues in the gallery and the Stations of the Cross are sculpted by Giovanni Bruno (Gößweinstein).
On 1 January 1972, the municipality of Tüchersfeld was dissolved and its territory was incorporated into the boroughs of Pottenstein and Gößweinstein (the hamlets of Hühnerloh and Kohlenstein).
Upper Franconia (German: Oberfranken) is a Regierungsbezirk (administrative [Regierungs] region [bezirk]) of the state of Bavaria, southern Germany. It forms part of the historically significant region of Franconia, the others being Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia, which are all now part of the German Federal State of Bayern (Bavaria).
With more than 200 independent breweries which brew approximately 1000 different types of beer, Upper Franconia has the world's highest brewery-density per capita. A special Franconian beer route (Fränkische Brauereistraße) runs through many popular breweries.
The administrative region borders on Thuringia (Thüringen) to the north, Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) to the west, Middle Franconia (Mittelfranken) to the south-west, and Upper Palatinate (Oberpfalz) to the south-east, Saxony (Sachsen) to the north-east and the Czech Republic to the east.
After the founding of the Kingdom of Bavaria the state was totally reorganized and, in 1808, divided into 15 administrative government regions (German: Regierungsbezirke (singular Regierungsbezirk)), in Bavaria called Kreise (singular: Kreis). They were created in the fashion of the French departements, quite even in size and population, and named after their main rivers.
In the following years, due to territorial changes (e. g. loss of Tyrol, addition of the Palatinate), the number of Kreise was reduced to 8. One of these was the Mainkreis (Main District). In 1837 king Ludwig I of Bavaria renamed the Kreise after historical territorial names and tribes of the area. This also involved some border changes or territorial swaps. Thus the name Mainkreis changed to Upper Franconia.
Next to the former episcopal residence city of Bamberg, the capital Bayreuth, the former residence city of Coburg and the classicist centre of Hof, as well as the towns of Lichtenfels, Kronach, Gößweinstein and Kulmbach, the Weißenstein Palace, Banz Abbey and the Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, the scenic attractions of the River Main and the low mountain ranges of the Fichtel Mountains with the town of Wunsiedel and the Franconian Forest belong among the region's major tourist attractions. There are also numerous spas like Bad Rodach, Bad Steben, Bad Staffelstein, Bad Berneck and Bad Alexandersbad." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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Boyhood series is a narrative visual confession which maps both personal and mediated experiences. Boyhood is a time in our life when we begin to discover ourselves through inner dialogues and explore our self identity. We connect with everything around us, begin to discover and close in on ourselves. We create isolated places where we feel safe from all the hustle and bustle around us. Even so, a form of alienation can be poetically and visually beautiful. I offer the viewer a look at the emotionally unfinished stories. I create images that appear to be stills from a film as untold stories. What led to this situation and what will happen next is a question for all of us, which I am looking for an answer to.
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Opulent and festive.
Another Christmas gone, another year will start in a few days.
Technology evolving at an unbelievable pace, it was never easier to communicate, all is faster, not fast enough, call me, text me, skype me, email me... and yet more and more lonely people, alienation, families dispersed...
Wishing you well, and thank you, M, (*_*)
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What is Kiemo Galerija or the Courtyard Gallery?
Kiemo Galerija, is a courtyard in Kaunas that has been transformed into an alternative art space.
Originally this was set up Vytenis Jakas with a few art pieces inspired by the Jewish residents that used to live here during the interwar period.
It challenged the idea of "home", whether it is a space with a lock and key or a community, and how modernisation has alienated societies and neighbours.
But, over time, the street art yard has expanded and invites local artisans and street artists from around the world to take part.
Walking inside Kiemo Galerija is almost like entering an alternate reality, where anything is possible.
Art Illusions, ghosts from the past, famous characters, colourful murals and protest pieces cover the walls making it an interactive creative space enjoyed by anyone who visits.
The history of Kiemo Gallery
The Kiemo Galerija was started by Vytenis Jakas who moved into the residential space above the courtyard.
He was annoyed about the lack of community spirit in the area. What used to be a thriving community of people who all knew each other, turned into residents living separate lives with a nod or a quick hello. It also was used as free parking and there was lots of litter that was taking up the area.
And, the project worked. Over time, it slowly eroded the alienation between them and brought the community together. To understand each other and make an effort to connect.
It also helped clean up the area and stopped so much rubbish from being dumped.
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Boyhood series is a narrative visual confession which maps both personal and mediated experiences. Boyhood is a time in our life when we begin to discover ourselves through inner dialogues and explore our self identity. We connect with everything around us, begin to discover and close in on ourselves. We create isolated places where we feel safe from all the hustle and bustle around us. Even so, a form of alienation can be poetically and visually beautiful. I offer the viewer a look at the emotionally unfinished stories. I create images that appear to be stills from a film as untold stories. What led to this situation and what will happen next is a question for all of us, which I am looking for an answer to.