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The Quran describes the oppressor or tyrant as "deaf, dumb and blind", which is essentially the spiritual reality of the tyrant. He cannot hear the cries of his victims; he cannot communicate with those he oppresses because he imperiously views them as representatives of a lower order of being than himself, and thus as mere commodities to be exploited or, even worse, as plagues to be cleansed; and he cannot see the harm he does. Aristotle (d. 322 BC) reminds us that all tyrants invariably surround themselves with sycophants because they cannot bear the truth. But the tyrant also needs these sycophants because he demands tacit approval of his beliefs and actions, and most of all he fears an honest and critical view of himself. The more the tyrant's power grows, the less he tolerates dissent. What is true of the tyrant is also true of the tyrannical nation. He demands that everyone agree with him and affirm his position because he cannot see, hear or speak to anyone but himself. He believes that his vision is clear, his understanding is unsurpassed, and his words, and only his words, are worthy of utterance or consideration. As human beings, only through others can we truly see ourselves, hear ourselves and talk to ourselves; but in his fixation on himself the tyrant is totally incapable of such reflection.
(Hamza Yusuf. Introduction to the "The prayer of the oppressed")
Soundtrack: Flesh Field - "voice of dissent"
"...So just give in
And follow the drones
A nation of consumption
Shouldnt challenge its role
Just believe, and fall in line
Freedom is a privilege
Thats been left behind ..."
in an age of terrorism, violence, hate and ignorance, people seem to think about protecting our freedom by taking it away piece by piece for the sake of "security". Mesmerized and numb amidst the endless stream of entertainment provided by mass media, we watch in apathy how people turn our society of freedom into a society of oppression, control, surveillance and fear. And so far, we do not really care... Some days ago, German government has agreed upon a law to force telecommunication companies into long-term retention of all sorts of communication data for the sake of "fighting terrorism", and the next steps already are clearly outlined: Preventive surveillance, a "trojan horse" software developed by government and security services in order to have hidden access to personal computers while they're online, massive use of biometrical data (fingerprints, ...) in personal ID cards and passports and so on... we're merrily building "1984"...
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I'm on watch here
So close your eyes and get some rest
I'm here to watch your heart
It's been faulty from the start
I'm the ribs in your chest
I'm not an angel
I never mean to make you cry
Jumping through my hoops
With dissention in the troops
And a smile and a sigh
What's that over your shoulder?
Fear of getting older
Stay with me
Sing me a love song
From your heart or from the phonebook
It don't matter to me
I'm am apple, you're the tree
I won't fall when you're shook
What's that over your shoulder?
Fear of getting older
Stay with me
It ends with a kiss
It ends with a tear
It ends with the lights out
Bathed in our fears
Tell me nonsense
I don't want sincere
I saw the lightning
Cut through the last winter sky of the year
Stay with me
Keep with me
One of the many placards and signs carried by participants in the 400,000 strong Women's March against Donald Trump in New York City on January 21st, 2017 through the streets of mid-town Manhattan.
Shot with the Olympus E-M1, 75mm F1.8.
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The Cathedral of Our Lady (Dutch: Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Antwerp, Belgium. Today's see of the Diocese of Antwerp started in 1352 and, although the first stage of construction was ended in 1521, has never been 'completed'. In Gothic style, its architects were Jan and Pieter Appelmans. It contains a number of significant works by the Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens, as well as paintings by artists such as Otto van Veen, Jacob de Backer and Marten de Vos.
The belfry of the cathedral is included in the Belfries of Belgium and France entry in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
The first Christian missionaries arrived in the 7th century. The first parish church dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul was constructed in the current Sint Michielsstraat. After the Viking raids in 836, the church was damaged and restored, and subsequently dedicated to Saint Michael. In the 10th century, a group of 12 secular canons were connected to this church. They would dedicate all of their time to the Liturgy of the Hours, and mainly opposed the beliefs of the established Roman Catholic Church.
Upon hearing of their dissent behavior, the bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai (to which Antwerp belonged at the time) then sent Norbert of Xanten to discipline them. In 1124, Norbert of Xanten convinces 4 of the secular canons to start a norbertine abbey and thus the parish church becomes a monastery church, known as St. Michael's Abbey. The 8 other secular canons prefer to keep their freedom and move to a different location, a chapel dedicated to Our Lady, the Virgin Mary.
This chapel becomes Antwerp's new parish church, and is located between the Saint Michael residential area, and an older settlement around the area of Het Steen.
Becoming more popular, the chapel is demolished and replaced by a much bigger romanesque church. The three-aisled nave corresponded in width to the cathedral's current central aisle, the inner and partly the middle aisles. The cloverleaf-shaped eastern section with a full aisle had a width of no less than 42 m. In 1294, the church gets a novum opus extension, indicating the first signs of gothic architecture.
the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope, that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow :-)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2002
HBW!! HGGT!! Justice Matters!
leaf, hemlock bluffs nature preserve, cary, north carolina
Surely, one might think this lonely place,
a frozen wasteland filled with silent echoes.
The myth quietly concluded from illusion of surface.
One simply need only peer inside the texture of ice.
Within crevices and cracks, a strange inner world of life
slowly breathing, beating, swimming and swirling.
For seeds of dissent spring loudly within the frozen shore.
Continuing the "Nature on Ice" series. Having late night fun with more experimentation inspired by the effects of ice, colored light and perhaps my recent efforts into oil painting.
Thanks for the favs and kind compliments. They are much appreciated!
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Cambiar el mundo, amigo Sancho, que no es locura ni utopía, sino justicia.
Falsa cita de Don Quijote, muy extendida.
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Changer le monde, ami Sancho, n’est ni folie ni utopie, c’est de la justice.
Fausse citation du Quichotte très répandue.
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De hecho dicen los estudiosos y estadísticos que Cervantes no utilizó en el Quijote ni una sola vez la palabra “utopía”
En fait, les critiques et les statisticiens dissent que Cervantès n’a jamais utilisé le terme utopie.
The what ifs' continue to haunt me throughout my life.
Thanks so much everyone for allowing me to keep my sanity through my photography!! :-)
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→ Contour - SU! . Succubus
→ Ears - Swallow . Gauged
→ Tattoo - Lilithe' . Eris
→ Body - Ebody . Reborn
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Church, House of God, where the immanent and the transcendent meet, bridging Heaven and Earth. The Anglicans never had the village of Markyate (Hertfordshire) to themselves. There always were dissenters. This is the venue of the Baptists, one of the old fruits of the Reformation. Today, people do no longer need to "dissent". They are free to stay away and ignore the ecclesial show. Most (more than 90%) of our about 3000 villagers do that. That does not necessarily mean that they ignore "spirituality", they just manage their own approach. Fuji X-E2 plus Pergear 10/5.6 fish-eye lens.
My gurl, she is a beast. (100 series LC)
Thanks to many people at these fine shops:
Sierra Expeditions
4x4 Labs
Dissent offroad
Toyo West
Faces of the people assembling to march on Trump Tower in New York City - 400,000 strong, January 21st, 2017. Shot on the steps of the New York Public Library at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue with the Olympus E-M1, 75mm, f1.8 lens.
The Cathedral of Our Lady (Dutch: Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Antwerp, Belgium. Today's see of the Diocese of Antwerp started in 1352 and, although the first stage of construction was ended in 1521, has never been 'completed'. In Gothic style, its architects were Jan and Pieter Appelmans. It contains a number of significant works by the Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens, as well as paintings by artists such as Otto van Veen, Jacob de Backer and Marten de Vos.
The belfry of the cathedral is included in the Belfries of Belgium and France entry in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
The first Christian missionaries arrived in the 7th century. The first parish church dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul was constructed in the current Sint Michielsstraat. After the Viking raids in 836, the church was damaged and restored, and subsequently dedicated to Saint Michael. In the 10th century, a group of 12 secular canons were connected to this church. They would dedicate all of their time to the Liturgy of the Hours, and mainly opposed the beliefs of the established Roman Catholic Church.
Upon hearing of their dissent behavior, the bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai (to which Antwerp belonged at the time) then sent Norbert of Xanten to discipline them. In 1124, Norbert of Xanten convinces 4 of the secular canons to start a norbertine abbey and thus the parish church becomes a monastery church, known as St. Michael's Abbey. The 8 other secular canons prefer to keep their freedom and move to a different location, a chapel dedicated to Our Lady, the Virgin Mary.
This chapel becomes Antwerp's new parish church, and is located between the Saint Michael residential area, and an older settlement around the area of Het Steen.
Becoming more popular, the chapel is demolished and replaced by a much bigger romanesque church. The three-aisled nave corresponded in width to the cathedral's current central aisle, the inner and partly the middle aisles. The cloverleaf-shaped eastern section with a full aisle had a width of no less than 42 m. In 1294, the church gets a novum opus extension, indicating the first signs of gothic architecture.
Cordão do Boi Tolo is a carnival street group created after a dissent from the other group Cordão do Boitatá. For me is the best irreverence carnival group. They start playing in the morning from downtown and goes by the street to Ipanema beach were they finally finish already at night!!!! More than 12 hours walking and playing music! About a 14 km route!
Portugal
This is a patchwork of several shots. The trick was to lighten up the front scene with a Speedligt 580 EXII. I was not really able to get the sharpness on my object and I had to flash all around me. I did learn a whole lot out of this shot and will do some light painting in the future. It’s just wonderful how you can make a scene alive with a dissent flashlight.
Hope you like it :-)
The Cathedral of Our Lady (Dutch: Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Antwerp, Belgium. Today's see of the Diocese of Antwerp started in 1352 and, although the first stage of construction was ended in 1521, has never been 'completed'. In Gothic style, its architects were Jan and Pieter Appelmans. It contains a number of significant works by the Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens, as well as paintings by artists such as Otto van Veen, Jacob de Backer and Marten de Vos.
The belfry of the cathedral is included in the Belfries of Belgium and France entry in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
The first Christian missionaries arrived in the 7th century. The first parish church dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul was constructed in the current Sint Michielsstraat. After the Viking raids in 836, the church was damaged and restored, and subsequently dedicated to Saint Michael. In the 10th century, a group of 12 secular canons were connected to this church. They would dedicate all of their time to the Liturgy of the Hours, and mainly opposed the beliefs of the established Roman Catholic Church.
Upon hearing of their dissent behavior, the bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai (to which Antwerp belonged at the time) then sent Norbert of Xanten to discipline them. In 1124, Norbert of Xanten convinces 4 of the secular canons to start a norbertine abbey and thus the parish church becomes a monastery church, known as St. Michael's Abbey. The 8 other secular canons prefer to keep their freedom and move to a different location, a chapel dedicated to Our Lady, the Virgin Mary.
This chapel becomes Antwerp's new parish church, and is located between the Saint Michael residential area, and an older settlement around the area of Het Steen.
Becoming more popular, the chapel is demolished and replaced by a much bigger romanesque church. The three-aisled nave corresponded in width to the cathedral's current central aisle, the inner and partly the middle aisles. The cloverleaf-shaped eastern section with a full aisle had a width of no less than 42 m. In 1294, the church gets a novum opus extension, indicating the first signs of gothic architecture.
Church Street. "Temperance Halls" such as this mid-19th century example were part of the Temperance Movement in the UK and usually aimed at the working class. Mostly run by Nonconformist churches (the Protestant Left if you want) they agitated against the sale and use of alcohol ("teetotalism"). Chesham in the 16th century was a centre of religious dissent. The established church authorities (and later what was to become the Anglican Church) reacted with violence. The Amersham Martyrs in the early 1500s were burned at the stake because they dared to pray and read the Bible in English (not in Latin). Thomas Harding was also burned at the stake, here in Chesham in 1532, because he dared to doubt the "real presence" in the sacrament of Holy Communion (the dogma that the wine and the bread consumed were actually and "really" the flesh and the blood of Christ). Shall we add the mass murder of the 30 Years War between Protestants and Catholics a century later that wiped out about a third of the central European population? The West is appalled these days by the atrocities committed by the Taliban. But violence meted out in the name of religion is not unknown to the West. We just need to look back long enough.
Protesters gather to exercise their sacred & cherished rights to peacefully assemble & freedom of speech in protesting the demagogue elect to the highest office of the land.
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ALBANIA
Albanian Trilogy: A Series of Devious Stratagems
Armando Lulaj
Commissioner: Ministry of Culture. Curator: Marco Scotini. Deputy Curator: Andris Brinkmanis. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale
ANDORRA
Inner Landscapes
Roqué, Joan Xandri
Commissioner: Henry Périer. Deputy Commissioner: Joana Baygual, Sebastià Petit, Francesc Rodríguez
Curator: Paolo de Grandis, Josep M. Ubach. Venue: Spiazzi, Castello 3865
ANGOLA
On Ways of Travelling
António Ole, Binelde Hyrcan, Délio Jasse, Francisco Vidal, Nelo Teixeira
Commissioner: Ministry of Culture, Rita Guedes Tavares. Curator: António Ole. Deputy Curator: Antonia Gaeta. Venue: Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello - Palazzo Pisani, San Marco 2810
ARGENTINA
The Uprising of Form
Juan Carlos Diste´fano
Commissioner: Magdalena Faillace. Curator: Mari´a Teresa Constantin. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale – Sale d’Armi
ARMENIA, Republic of
Armenity / Haiyutioun
Haig Aivazian, Lebanon; Nigol Bezjian, Syria/USA; Anna Boghiguian Egypt/Canada; Hera Büyüktasçiyan, Turkey; Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, Argentina/Germany; Rene Gabri & Ayreen Anastas, Iran/Palestine/USA; Mekhitar Garabedian, Belgium; Aikaterini Gegisian, Greece; Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Italy; Aram Jibilian, USA; Nina Katchadourian, USA/Finland; Melik Ohanian, France; Mikayel Ohanjanyan, Armenia/Italy; Rosana Palazyan, Brazil; Sarkis, Turkey/France; Hrair Sarkissian, Syria/UK
Commissioner: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia. Deputy Commissioner: Art for the World, Mekhitarist Congregation of San Lazzaro Island, Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in Italy, Vartan Karapetian. Curator: Adelina Cüberyan von Fürstenberg. Venue: Monastery and Island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni
AUSTRALIA
Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time
Fiona Hall
Commissioner: Simon Mordant AM. Deputy Commissioner: Charles Green. Curator: Linda Michael. Scientific Committee: Simon Mordant AM, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Max Delany, Rachel Kent, Danie Mellor, Suhanya Raffel, Leigh Robb. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
AUSTRIA
Heimo Zobernig
Commissioner: Yilmaz Dziewior. Curator: Yilmaz Dziewior. Scientific Committee: Friends of the Venice Biennale. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
AZERBAIJAN, Republic of
Beyond the Line
Ashraf Murad, Javad Mirjavadov, Tofik Javadov, Rasim Babayev, Fazil Najafov, Huseyn Hagverdi, Shamil Najafzada
Commissioner: Heydar Aliyev Foundation. Curators: de Pury de Pury, Emin Mammadov. Venue: Palazzo Lezze, Campo S.Stefano, San Marco 2949
Vita Vitale
Edward Burtynsky, Mircea Cantor, Loris Cecchini, Gordon Cheung, Khalil Chishtee, Tony Cragg, Laura Ford, Noemie Goudal, Siobhán Hapaska, Paul Huxley, IDEA laboratory and Leyla Aliyeva, Chris Jordan with Rebecca Clark and Helena S.Eitel, Tania Kovats, Aida Mahmudova, Sayyora Muin, Jacco Olivier, Julian Opie, Julian Perry, Mike Perry, Bas Princen, Stephanie Quayle, Ugo Rondinone, Graham Stevens, Diana Thater, Andy Warhol, Bill Woodrow, Erwin Wurm, Rose Wylie
Commissioner: Heydar Aliyev Foundation. Curators: Artwise: Susie Allen, Laura Culpan, Dea Vanagan. Venue: Ca’ Garzoni, San Marco 3416
BELARUS, Republic of
War Witness Archive
Konstantin Selikhanov
Commissioner: Natallia Sharanhovich. Deputy Commissioners: Alena Vasileuskaya, Kamilia Yanushkevich. Curators: Aleksei Shinkarenko, Olga Rybchinskaya. Scientific Committee: Dmitry Korol, Daria Amelkovich, Julia Kondratyuk, Sergei Jeihala, Sheena Macfarlane, Yuliya Heisik, Hanna Samarskaya, Taras Kaliahin, Aliaksandr Stasevich. Venue: Riva San Biagio, Castello 2145
BELGIUM
Personnes et les autres
Vincent Meessen and Guests, Mathieu K. Abonnenc, Sammy Baloji, James Beckett, Elisabetta Benassi, Patrick Bernier & Olive Martin, Tamar Guimara~es & Kasper Akhøj, Maryam Jafri, Adam Pendleton
Commissioner: Wallonia-Brussels Federation and Wallonia-Brussels International. Curator: Katerina Gregos. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
COSTA RICA
"Costa Rica, Paese di pace, invita a un linguaggio universale d'intesa tra i popoli".
Andrea Prandi, Beatrice Gallori, Beth Parin, Biagio Schembari, Carla Castaldo, Celestina Avanzini, Cesare Berlingeri, Erminio Tansini, Fabio Capitanio, Fausto Beretti, Giovan Battista Pedrazzini, Giovanni Lamberti, Giovanni Tenga, Iana Zanoskar, Jim Prescott, Leonardo Beccegato, Liliana Scocco, Lucia Bolzano, Marcela Vicuna, Marco Bellagamba, Marco Lodola, Maria Gioia dell’Aglio, Mario Bernardinello, Massimo Meucci, Nacha Piattini, Omar Ronda, Renzo Eusebi, Tita Patti, Romina Power, Rubens Fogacci, Silvio di Pietro, Stefano Sichel, Tino Stefanoni, Ufemia Ritz, Ugo Borlenghi, Umberto Mariani, Venere Chillemi, Jacqueline Gallicot Madar, Massimo Onnis, Fedora Spinelli
Commissioner: Ileana Ordonez Chacon. Curator: Gregorio Rossi. Venue: Palazzo Bollani
CROATIA
Studies on Shivering: The Third Degree
Damir Ocko
Commissioner: Ministry of Culture. Curator: Marc Bembekoff. Venue: Palazzo Pisani, S. Marina
CUBA
El artista entre la individualidad y el contexto
Lida Abdul, Celia-Yunior, Grethell Rasúa, Giuseppe Stampone, LinYilin, Luis Edgardo Gómez Armenteros, Olga Chernysheva, Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo
Commissioner: Miria Vicini. Curators: Jorge Fernández Torres, Giacomo Zaza. Venue: San Servolo Island
CYPRUS, Republic of
Two Days After Forever
Christodoulos Panayiotou
Commissioner: Louli Michaelidou. Deputy Commissioner: Angela Skordi. Curator: Omar Kholeif. Deputy Curator: Daniella Rose King. Venue: Palazzo Malipiero, Sestiere San Marco 3079
CZECH Republic and SLOVAK Republic
Apotheosis
Jirí David
Commissioner: Adam Budak. Deputy Commissioner: Barbara Holomkova. Curator: Katarina Rusnakova. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
ECUADOR
Gold Water: Apocalyptic Black Mirrors
Maria Veronica Leon Veintemilla in collaboration with Lucia Vallarino Peet
Commissioner: Andrea Gonzàlez Sanchez. Deputy Commissioner: PDG Arte Communications. Curator: Ileana Cornea. Deputy Curator: Maria Veronica Leon Veintemilla. Venue: Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà, Castello 3701
ESTONIA
NSFW. From the Abyss of History
Jaanus Samma
Commissioner: Maria Arusoo. Curator: Eugenio Viola. Venue: Palazzo Malipiero, campo San Samuele, San Marco 3199
EGYPT
CAN YOU SEE
Ahmed Abdel Fatah, Gamal Elkheshen, Maher Dawoud
Commissioner: Hany Al Ashkar. Curator: Ministry of Culture. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
FINLAND (Pavilion Alvar Aalto)
Hours, Years, Aeons
IC-98
Commissioner: Frame Visual Art Finland, Raija Koli. Curator: Taru Elfving. Deputy Curator: Anna Virtanen. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
FRANCE
revolutions
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
Commissioner: Institut français, with Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication. Curator: Emma Lavigne. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
GEORGIA
Crawling Border
Rusudan Gobejishvili Khizanishvili, Irakli Bluishvili, Dimitri Chikvaidze, Joseph Sabia
Commissioner: Ana Riaboshenko. Curator: Nia Mgaloblishvili. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale – Sale d’Armi
GERMANY
Fabrik
Jasmina Metwaly / Philip Rizk, Olaf Nicolai, Hito Steyerl, Tobias Zielony
Commissioner: ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) on behalf of the Federal Foreign Office. Deputy Commissioner: Elke aus dem Moore, Nina Hülsmeier. Curator: Florian Ebner. Deputy Curator: Tanja Milewsky, Ilina Koralova. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
GREAT BRITAIN
Sarah Lucas
Commissioner: Emma Dexter. Curator: Richard Riley. Deputy Curator: Katrina Schwarz. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
GRENADA *
Present Nearness
Oliver Benoit, Maria McClafferty, Asher Mains, Francesco Bosso and Carmine Ciccarini, Guiseppe Linardi
Commissioner: Ministry of Culture. Deputy Commissioner: Susan Mains. Curator: Susan Mains. Deputy Curator: Francesco Elisei. Venue: Opera don Orione Artigianelli, Sala Tiziano, Fondamenta delle Zattere ai Gesuati, Dorsoduro 919
GREECE
Why Look at Animals? AGRIMIKÁ.
Maria Papadimitriou
Commissioner: Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs. Curator: Gabi Scardi. Deputy Curator: Alexios Papazacharias. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
BRAZIL
So much that it doesn't fit here
Antonio Manuel, André Komatsu, Berna Reale
Commissioner: Luis Terepins. Curator: Luiz Camillo Osorio. Deputy Curator: Cauê Alves. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
CANADA
Canadassimo
BGL
Commissioner: National Gallery of Canada, Marc Mayer. Deputy Commissioner: National Gallery of Canada, Yves Théoret. Curator: Marie Fraser. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
CHILE
Poéticas de la disidencia | Poetics of dissent: Paz Errázuriz - Lotty Rosenfeld
Paz Errázuriz, Lotty Rosenfeld
Commissioner: Antonio Arèvalo. Deputy Commissioner: Juan Pablo Vergara Undurraga. Curator: Nelly Richard. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale - Artiglierie
CHINA, People’s Republic of
Other Future
LIU Jiakun, LU Yang, TAN Dun, WEN Hui/Living Dance Studio, WU Wenguang/Caochangdi Work Station
Commissioner: China Arts and Entertainment Group, CAEG. Deputy Commissioners: Zhang Yu, Yan Dong. Curator: Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation. Scientific Committee: Fan Di’an, Zhang Zikang, Zhu Di, Gao Shiming, Zhu Qingsheng, Pu Tong, Shang Hui. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale – Giardino delle Vergini
GUATEMALA
Sweet Death
Emma Anticoli Borza, Sabrina Bertolelli, Mariadolores Castellanos, Max Leiva, Pier Domenico Magri, Adriana Montalto, Elmar Rojas (Elmar René Rojas Azurdia), Paolo Schmidlin, Mónica Serra, Elsie Wunderlich, Collettivo La Grande Bouffe
Commissioner: Daniele Radini Tedeschi. Curators: Stefania Pieralice, Carlo Marraffa, Elsie Wunderlich. Deputy Curators: Luciano Carini, Simone Pieralice. Venue: Officina delle Zattere, Dorsoduro 947, Fondamenta Nani
HOLY SEE
Commissioner: Em.mo Card. Gianfranco Ravasi, Presidente del Pontificio Consiglio della Cultura. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale – Sale d’Armi
HUNGARY
Sustainable Identities
Szilárd Cseke
Commissioner: Monika Balatoni. Deputy Commissioner: István Puskás, Sándor Fodor, Anna Karády. Curator: Kinga German. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
ICELAND
Christoph Büchel
Commissioner: Björg Stefánsdóttir. Curator: Nína Magnúsdóttir. Venue: to be confirmed
INDONESIA, Republic of
Komodo Voyage
Heri Dono
Commissioner: Sapta Nirwandar. Deputy Commissioner: Soedarmadji JH Damais. Curator: Carla Bianpoen, Restu Imansari Kusumaningrum. Scientific Committee: Franco Laera, Asmudjo Jono Irianto, Watie Moerany, Elisabetta di Mambro. Venue: Venue: Arsenale
IRAN
Iranian Highlights
Samira Alikhanzaradeh, Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar, Jamshid Bayrami, Mohammed Ehsai
The Great Game
Lida Abdul, Bani Abidi, Adel Abidin, Amin Agheai, Ghodratollah Agheli, Shahriar Ahmadi, Parastou Ahovan, Farhad Ahrarnia, Rashad Alakbarov, Nazgol Ansarinia, Reza Aramesh, Alireza Astaneh, Sonia Balassanian, Mahmoud Bakhshi, Moakhar Wafaa Bilal, Mehdi Farhadian, Monir Farmanfarmaian, Shadi Ghadirian, Babak Golkar, Shilpa Gupta, Ghasem Hajizadeh, Shamsia Hassani, Sahand Hesamiyan, Sitara Ibrahimova, Pouran Jinchi, Amar Kanwar, Babak Kazemi, Ryas Komu, Ahmad Morshedloo, Farhad Moshiri, Mehrdad Mohebali, Huma Mulji, Azad Nanakeli, Jamal Penjweny, Imran Qureshi, Sara Rahbar, Rashid Rana, T.V. Santhosh, Walid Siti, Mohsen Taasha Wahidi, Mitra Tabrizian, Parviz Tanavoli, Newsha Tavakolian, Sadegh Tirafkan, Hema Upadhyay, Saira Wasim
Commissioner: Majid Mollanooruzi. Deputy Commissioners: Marco Meneguzzo, Mazdak Faiznia. Curators: Marco Meneguzzo, Mazdak Faiznia. Venue: Calle San Giovanni 1074/B, Cannaregio
IRAQ
Commissioner: Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq (RUYA). Deputy Commissioner: Nuova Icona - Associazione Culturale per le Arti. Curator: Philippe Van Cauteren. Venue: Ca' Dandolo, San Polo 2879
IRELAND
Adventure: Capital
Sean Lynch
Commissioner: Mike Fitzpatrick. Curator: Woodrow Kernohan. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale - Artiglierie
ISRAEL
Tsibi Geva | Archeology of the Present
Tsibi Geva
Commissioner: Arad Turgem, Michael Gov. Curator: Hadas Maor. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
ITALY
Ministero dei Beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo - Direzione Generale Arte e Architettura Contemporanee e Periferie Urbane. Commissioner: Federica Galloni. Curator: Vincenzo Trione. Venue: Padiglione Italia, Tese delle Vergini at Arsenale
JAPAN
The Key in the Hand
Chiharu Shiota
Commissioner: The Japan Foundation. Deputy Commissioner: Yukihiro Ohira, Manako Kawata and Haruka Nakajima. Curator: Hitoshi Nakano. Venue : Pavilion at Giardini
KENYA
Creating Identities
Yvonne Apiyo Braendle-Amolo, Qin Feng, Shi Jinsong, Armando Tanzini, Li Zhanyang, Lan Zheng Hui, Li Gang, Double Fly Art Center
Commissioner: Paola Poponi. Curator: Sandro Orlandi Stagl. Deputy Curator: Ding Xuefeng. Venue: San Servolo Island
KOREA, Republic of
The Ways of Folding Space & Flying
MOON Kyungwon & JEON Joonho
Commissioner: Sook-Kyung Lee. Curator: Sook-Kyung Lee. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
KOSOVO, Republic of
Speculating on the blue
Flaka Haliti
Commissioner: Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports. Curator: Nicolaus Schafhausen. Deputy Curator: Katharina Schendl. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale - Artiglierie
LATVIA
Armpit
Katrina Neiburga, Andris Eglitis
Commissioner: Solvita Krese (Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art). Deputy Commissioner: Kitija Vasiljeva. Curator: Kaspars Vanags. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale
LITHUANIA
Museum
Dainius Liškevicius
Commissioner: Vytautas Michelkevicius. Deputy Commissioner: Rasa Antanaviciute. Curator: Vytautas Michelkevicius. Venue: Palazzo Zenobio, Fondamenta del Soccorso 2569, Dorsoduro
LUXEMBOURG, Grand Duchy of
Paradiso Lussemburgo
Filip Markiewicz
Commissioner: Ministry of Culture. Deputy Commissioner: MUDAM Luxembourg. Curator: Paul Ardenne. Venue: Cà Del Duca, Corte del Duca Sforza, San Marco 3052
MACEDONIA, Former Yugoslavian Republic of
We are all in this alone
Hristina Ivanoska and Yane Calovski
Commissioner: Maja Nedelkoska Brzanova, National Gallery of Macedonia. Deputy Commissioner: Olivija Stoilkova. Curator: Basak Senova. Deputy Curator: Maja Cankulovska Mihajlovska. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale - Sale d’Armi
MAURITIUS *
From One Citizen You Gather an Idea
Sultana Haukim, Nirmal Hurry, Alix Le Juge, Olga Jürgenson, Helge Leiberg, Krishna Luchoomun, Neermala Luckeenarain, Kavinash Thomoo, Bik Van Der Pol, Laure Prouvost, Vitaly Pushnitsky, Römer + Römer
Commissioner: pARTage. Curators: Alfredo Cramerotti, Olga Jürgenson. Venue: Palazzo Flangini - Canareggio 252
MEXICO
Possesing Nature
Tania Candiani, Luis Felipe Ortega
Commissioner: Tomaso Radaelli. Deputy Commissioner: Magdalena Zavala Bonachea. Curator: Karla Jasso. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale – Sale d’Armi
MONGOLIA *
Other Home
Enkhbold Togmidshiirev, Unen Enkh
Commissioner: Gantuya Badamgarav, MCASA. Curator: Uranchimeg Tsultemin. Scientific Committee: David A Ross, Boldbaatar Chultemin. Venue: European Cultural Centre - Palazzo Mora
MONTENEGRO
,,Ti ricordi Sjecaš li se You Remember "
Aleksandar Duravcevic
Commissioner/Curator: Anastazija Miranovic. Deputy Commissioner: Danica Bogojevic. Venue: Palazzo Malipiero (piano terra), San Marco 3078-3079/A, Ramo Malipiero
MOZAMBIQUE, Republic of *
Theme: Coexistence of Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Mozambique
Mozambique Artists
Commissioner: Joel Matias Libombo. Deputy Commissioner: Gilberto Paulino Cossa. Curator: Comissariado-Geral para a Expo Milano 2015. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale
NETHERLANDS, The
herman de vries - to be all ways to be
herman de vries
Commissioner: Mondriaan Fund. Curators: Colin Huizing, Cees de Boer. Venue: Pavilion ar Giardini
NEW ZEALAND
Secret Power
Simon Denny
Commissioner: Heather Galbraith. Curator: Robert Leonard. Venue: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Marco Polo Airport
NORDIC PAVILION (NORWAY)
Camille Norment
Commissioner: OCA, Office for Contemporary Art Norway. Curator: Katya García-Antón. Deputy Curator: Antonio Cataldo. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
PERU
Misplaced Ruins
Gilda Mantilla and Raimond Chaves
Commissioner: Armando Andrade de Lucio. Curator: Max Hernández-Calvo. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale – Sale d’Armi
PHILIPPINES
Tie a String Around the World
Manuel Conde, Carlos Francisco, Manny Montelibano, Jose Tence Ruiz
Commissioner: National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Felipe M. de Leon Jr. Curator: Patrick D. Flores. Venue: European Cultural Centre - Palazzo Mora
POLAND
Halka/Haiti. 18°48’05”N 72°23’01”W
C.T. Jasper, Joanna Malinowska
Commissioner: Hanna Wróblewska. Deputy Commissioner: Joanna Wasko. Curator: Magdalena Moskalewicz. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
PORTUGAL
I Will Be Your Mirror / poems and problems
João Louro
Commissioner/Curator: María de Corral. Venue: Palazzo Loredan, campo S. Stefano
ROMANIA
Adrian Ghenie: Darwin’s Room
Adrian Ghenie
Commissioner: Monica Morariu. Deputy Commissioner: Alexandru Damian. Curator: Mihai Pop. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
Inventing the Truth. On Fiction and Reality
Michele Bressan, Carmen Dobre-Hametner, Alex Mirutziu, Lea Rasovszky, Stefan Sava, Larisa Sitar
Commissioner: Monica Morariu. Deputy Commissioner: Alexandru Damian. Curator: Diana Marincu. Deputy Curators: Ephemair Association (Suzana Dan and Silvia Rogozea). Venue: New Gallery of the Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice
RUSSIA
The Green Pavilion
Irina Nakhova
Commissioner: Stella Kesaeva. Curator: Margarita Tupitsyn. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
SERBIA
United Dead Nations
Ivan Grubanov
Commissioner: Lidija Merenik. Deputy Commissioner: Ana Bogdanovic. Curator: Lidija Merenik. Deputy Curator: Ana Bogdanovic. Scientific Committee: Jovan Despotovic. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
SAN MARINO
Repubblica di San Marino “ Friendship Project “ China
Xu De Qi, Liu Dawei, Liu Ruo Wang, Ma Yuan, Li Lei, Zhang Hong Mei, Eleonora Mazza, Giuliano Giulianelli, Giancarlo Frisoni, Tony Margiotta, Elisa Monaldi, Valentina Pazzini
Commissioner: Istituti Culturali della Repubblica di San Marino. Curator: Vincenzo Sanfo. Venue: TBC
SEYCHELLES, Republic of *
A Clockwork Sunset
George Camille, Léon Wilma Loïs Radegonde
Commissioner: Seychelles Art Projects Foundation. Curators: Sarah J. McDonald, Victor Schaub Wong. Venue: European Cultural Centre - Palazzo Mora
SINGAPORE
Sea State
Charles Lim Yi Yong
Commissioner: Paul Tan, National Arts Council, Singapore. Curator: Shabbir Hussain Mustafa. Scientific Committee: Eugene Tan, Kathy Lai, Ahmad Bin Mashadi, June Yap, Emi Eu, Susie Lingham, Charles Merewether, Randy Chan. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale – Sale d’Armi
SLOVENIA, Republic of
UTTER / The violent necessity for the embodied presence of hope
JAŠA
Commissioner: Simona Vidmar. Deputy Commissioner: Jure Kirbiš. Curators: Michele Drascek and Aurora Fonda. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale - Artiglierie
SPAIN
Los Sujetos (The Subjects)
Pepo Salazar, Cabello/Carceller, Francesc Ruiz, + Salvador Dalí
Commissioner: Ministerio Asuntos Exteriores. Gobierno de España. Curator: Marti Manen. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
Origini della civiltà
Narine Ali, Ehsan Alar, Felipe Cardeña, Fouad Dahdouh, Aldo Damioli, Svitlana Grebenyuk, Mauro Reggio, Liu Shuishi, Nass ouh Zaghlouleh, Andrea Zucchi, Helidon Xhixha
Commissioner: Christian Maretti. Curator: Duccio Trombadori. Venue: Redentore – Giudecca, San Servolo Island
SWEDEN
Excavation of the Image: Imprint, Shadow, Spectre, Thought
Lina Selander
Commissioner: Ann-Sofi Noring. Curator: Lena Essling. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale
SWITZERLAND
Our Product
Pamela Rosenkranz
Commissioner: Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Sandi Paucic and Marianne Burki. Deputy-Commissioner: Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Rachele Giudici Legittimo. Curator: Susanne Pfeffer. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
THAILAND
Earth, Air, Fire & Water
Kamol Tassananchalee
Commissioner: Chai Nakhonchai, Office of Contemporary Art and Culture (OCAC), Ministry of Culture. Curator: Richard David Garst. Deputy Curator: Pongdej Chaiyakut. Venue: Paradiso Gallerie, Giardini della Biennale, Castello 1260
TURKEY
Respiro
Sarkis
Commissioner: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts. Curator: Defne Ayas. Deputy Curator: Ozge Ersoy. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale – Sale d’Armi
TUVALU
Crossing the Tide
Vincent J.F. Huang
Commissioner: Taukelina Finikaso. Deputy Commissioner: Temate Melitiana. Curator: Thomas J. Berghuis. Scientific Committee: Andrea Bonifacio. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale
UKRAINE
Hope!
Yevgenia Belorusets, Nikita Kadan, Zhanna Kadyrova, Mykola Ridnyi & SerhiyZhadan, Anna Zvyagintseva, Open Group, Artem Volokitin
Commissioner: Ministry of Culture. Curator: Björn Geldhof. Venue: Riva dei Sette Martiri
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
1980 – Today: Exhibitions in the United Arab Emirates
Abdullah Al Saadi, Abdul Qader Al Rais, Abdulraheem Salim, Abdulrahman Zainal, Ahmed Al Ansari, Ahmed Sharif, Hassan Sharif, Mohamed Yousif, Mohammed Abdullah Bulhiah, Mohammed Al Qassab, Mohammed Kazem, Moosa Al Halyan, Najat Meky, Obaid Suroor, Salem Jawhar
Commissioner: Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation. Curator: Hoor Al Qasimi. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale – Sale d'Armi
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Joan Jonas: They Come to Us Without a Word
Joan Jonas
Commissioner: Paul C. Ha. Deputy Commissioner: MIT List Visual Arts Center. Curators: Ute Meta Bauer, Paul C. Ha. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
URUGUAY
Global Myopia II (Pencil & Paper)
Marco Maggi
Commissioner: Ricardo Pascale. Curator: Patricia Bentancour. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
VENEZUELA, Bolivarian Republic of
Te doy mi palabra (I give you my word)
Argelia Bravo, Félix Molina (Flix)
Commissioner: Oscar Sotillo Meneses. Deputy Commissioner: Reinaldo Landaeta Díaz. Curator: Oscar Sotillo Meneses. Deputy Curator: Morella Jurado. Scientific Committee: Carlos Pou Ruan. Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
ZIMBABWE, Republic of
Pixels of Ubuntu/Unhu: - Exploring the social and cultural identities of the 21st century.
Chikonzero Chazunguza, Masimba Hwati, Gareth Nyandoro
Commissioner: Doreen Sibanda. Curator: Raphael Chikukwa. Deputy Curator: Tafadzwa Gwetai. Scientific Committee: Saki Mafundikwa, Biggie Samwanda, Fabian Kangai, Reverend Paul Damasane, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Stephen Garan'anga, Dominic Benhura. Venue: Santa Maria della Pieta
ITALO-LATIN AMERICAN INSTITUTE
Voces Indígenas
Commissioner: Sylvia Irrazábal. Curator: Alfons Hug. Deputy Curator: Alberto Saraiva. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale
ARGENTINA
Sofia Medici and Laura Kalauz
PLURINATIONAL STATE OF BOLIVIA
Sonia Falcone and José Laura Yapita
BRAZIL
Adriana Barreto
Paulo Nazareth
CHILE
Rainer Krause
COLOMBIA
León David Cobo,
María Cristina Rincón and Claudia Rodríguez
COSTA RICA
Priscilla Monge
ECUADOR
Fabiano Kueva
EL SALVADOR
Mauricio Kabistan
GUATEMALA
Sandra Monterroso
HAITI
Barbara Prézeau Stephenson
HONDURAS
Leonardo González
PANAMA
Humberto Vélez
NICARAGUA
Raúl Quintanilla
PARAGUAY
Erika Meza
Javier López
PERU
José Huamán Turpo
URUGUAY
Gustavo Tabares
Ellen Slegers
001 Inverso Mundus. AES+F
Magazzino del Sale n. 5, Dorsoduro, 265 (Fondamenta delle Zattere ai Saloni); Palazzo Nani Mocenigo, Dorsoduro, 960
May 9th – October 31st
Organization: VITRARIA Glass + A Museum
Catalonia in Venice: Singularity
Cantieri Navali, Castello, 40 (Calle Quintavalle)
May 9th - November 22nd
Organization: Institut Ramon Llull
venezia2015.llull.cat
Conversion. Recycle Group
Chiesa di Sant’Antonin, Castello (Campo Sant’Antonin)
May 6th - October 31st
Organization: Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Dansaekhwa
Palazzo Contarini-Polignac, Dorsoduro, 874 (Accademia)
May 7th – August 15th
Organization: The Boghossian Foundation
Dispossession
Palazzo Donà Brusa, Campo San Polo, 2177
May 9th - November 22nd
Organization: European Capital of Culture Wroclaw 2016
wroclaw2016.pl/biennale/
EM15 presents Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf
Arsenale Docks, Castello, 40A, 40B, 41C
May 6th - July 26th
Organization: EM15
Eredità e Sperimentazione
Grand Hotel Hungaria & Ausonia, Viale Santa Maria Elisabetta, 28, Lido di Venezia
May 9th - November 22nd
Organization: Istituto Nazionale di BioArchitettura - Sezione di Padova
Frontiers Reimagined
Palazzo Grimani, Castello, 4858 (Ramo Grimani)
May 9th - November 22nd
Organization: Tagore Foundation International; Polo museale del Veneto
Glasstress 2015 Gotika
Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, San Marco, 2847 (Campo Santo Stefano); Chiesa di Santa Maria della Visitazione, Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli, Dorsoduro, 919 (Zattere); Fondazione Berengo, Campiello della Pescheria, 15, Murano;
May 9th — November 22nd
Organization: The State Hermitage Museum
Graham Fagen: Scotland + Venice 2015
Palazzo Fontana, Cannaregio, 3829 (Strada Nova)
May 9th - November 22nd
Organization: Scotland + Venice
Grisha Bruskin. An Archaeologist’s Collection
Former Chiesa di Santa Caterina, Cannaregio, 4941-4942
May 6th – November 22nd
Organization: Centro Studi sulle Arti della Russia (CSAR), Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Helen Sear, ... The Rest Is Smoke
Santa Maria Ausiliatrice, Castello, 450 (Fondamenta San Gioacchin)
May 9th - November 22nd
Organization: Cymru yn Fenis/Wales in Venice
Highway to Hell
Palazzo Michiel, Cannaregio, 4391/A (Strada Nova)
May 9th - November 22nd
Organization: Hubei Museum of Art
Humanistic Nature and Society (Shan-Shui) – An Insight into the Future
Palazzo Faccanon, San Marco, 5016 (Mercerie)
May 7th – August 4th
Organization: Shanghai Himalayas Museum
In the Eye of the Thunderstorm: Effervescent Practices from the Arab World & South Asia
Dorsoduro, 417 (Zattere)
May 6th - November 15th
Organization: ArsCulture
Italia Docet | Laboratorium- Artists, Participants, Testimonials and Activated Spectators
Palazzo Barbarigo Minotto, San Marco, 2504 (Fondamenta Duodo o Barbarigo)
May 9th – June 30th; September 11st – October 31st
Organization: Italian Art Motherboard Foundation (i-AM Foundation)
www.venicebiennale-italiadocet.org
Jaume Plensa: Together
Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
May 6th – November 22nd
Organization: Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore Benedicti Claustra Onlus
Jenny Holzer "War Paintings"
Museo Correr, San Marco, 52 (Piazza San Marco)
May 6th – November 22nd
Organization: The Written Art Foundation; Museo Correr, Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
correr.visitmuve.it
Jump into the Unknown
Palazzo Loredan dell’Ambasciatore, Dorsoduro, 1261-1262
May 9th – June 18th
Organization: Nine Dragon Heads
9dh-venice.com
Learn from Masters
Palazzo Bembo, San Marco, 4793 (Riva del Carbon)
May 9th – November 22nd
Organization: Pan Tianshou Foundation
pantianshou.caa.edu.cn/foundation_en
My East is Your West
Palazzo Benzon, San Marco, 3927
May 6th – October 31st
Organization: The Gujral Foundation
Ornamentalism. The Purvitis Prize
Arsenale Nord, Tesa 99
May 9th – November 22nd
Organization: The Secretariat of the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2015
www.purvisabalva.lv/en/ornamentalism
Path and Adventure
Arsenale, Castello, 2126/A (Campo della Tana)
May 9th – November 22nd
Organization: The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau; The Macao Museum of Art; The Cultural Affairs Bureau
Patricia Cronin: Shrine for Girls, Venice
Chiesa di San Gallo, San Marco, 1103 (Campo San Gallo)
May 9th – November 22nd
Organization: Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects
curatorialprojects.brooklynrail.org
Roberto Sebastian Matta. Sculture
Giardino di Palazzo Soranzo Cappello, Soprintendenza BAP per le Province di Venezia, Belluno, Padova e Treviso, Santa Croce, 770 (Fondamenta Rio Marin)
May 9th – November 22nd
Organization: Fondazione Echaurren Salaris
www.fondazioneechaurrensalaris.it
www.maggioregam.com/56Biennale_Matta
Salon Suisse: S.O.S. Dada - The World Is A Mess
Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, Dorsoduro, 810 (Campo Sant'Agnese)
May 9th; June 4th - 6th; September 10th - 12th; October 15th - 17th; November 19th – 21st
Organization: Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
Sean Scully: Land Sea
Palazzo Falier, San Marco, 2906
May 9th – November 22nd
Organization: Fondazione Volume!
Sepphoris. Alessandro Valeri
Molino Stucky, interior atrium, Giudecca, 812
May 9th – November 22nd
Organization: Assessorato alla Cultura del Comune di Narni(TR); a Sidereal Space of Art; Satellite Berlin
Tesla Revisited
Palazzo Nani Mocenigo, Dorsoduro, 960
May 9th – October 18th
Organization: VITRARIA Glass + A Museum
The Bridges of Graffiti
Arterminal c/o Terminal San Basilio, Dorsoduro (Fondamenta Zattere al Ponte Lungo)
May 9th - November 22nd
Organization: Associazione Culturale Inossidabile
The Dialogue of Fire. Ceramic and Glass Masters from Barcelona to Venice
Palazzo Tiepolo Passi, San Polo, 2774
May 6th - November 22nd
Organization: Fundaciò Artigas; ArsCulture
The Question of Beings
Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà, Castello, 3701
May 9th - November 22nd
Organization: Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (MoCA, Taipei)
The Revenge of the Common Place
Università Ca' Foscari, Ca' Bernardo, Dorsoduro, 3199 (Calle Bernardo)
May 9th – September 30th
Organization: Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University Brussels-VUB)
The Silver Lining. Contemporary Art from Liechtenstein and other Microstates
Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, Dorsoduro, 810 (Campo Sant'Agnese)
October 24th – November 1st
Organization: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
The Sound of Creation. Paintings + Music by Beezy Bailey and Brian Eno
Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello, Palazzo Pisani, San Marco, 2810 (Campo Santo Stefano)
May 7th - November 22nd
Organization: ArsCulture
The Union of Fire and Water
Palazzo Barbaro, San Marco, 2840
May 9th - November 22nd
Organization: YARAT Contemporary Art Organisation
Thirty Light Years - Theatre of Chinese Art
Palazzo Rossini, San Marco, 4013 (Campo Manin)
May 9th - November 22nd
Organization: GAC Global Art Center Foundation; The Guangdong Museum of Art
Tsang Kin-Wah: The Infinite Nothing, Hong Kong in Venice
Arsenale, Castello, 2126 (Campo della Tana)
May 9th - November 22nd
Organization: M+, West Kowloon Cultural District; Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Under the Surface, Newfoundland and Labrador at Venice
Galleria Ca' Rezzonico, Dorsoduro, 2793
May 9th - November 22nd
Organization: Terra Nova Art Foundation
tnaf.ca
Ursula von Rydingsvard
Giardino della Marinaressa, Castello (Riva dei Sette Martiri)
May 6th - November 22nd
Organization:Yorkshire Sculpture Park
We Must Risk Delight: Twenty Artists from Los Angeles
Magazzino del Sale n. 3, Dorsoduro, 264 (Zattere)
May 7th - November 22nd
Organization: bardoLA
Wu Tien-Chang: Never Say Goodbye
Palazzo delle Prigioni, Castello, 4209 (San Marco)
May 9th - November 22nd
Organization: Taipei Fine Arts Museum of Taiwan
Zutphen - Lombardsteeg
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Today is the 7th day of Valentine's month of February, with a new work from me.
ABBA - Ode To Freedom (Lyric Video)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtNJybve8j4
Freedom
Freedom will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.
I have as much right
As the other fellow has
To stand
On my two feet
And own the land.
I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
Freedom
Is a strong seed
Planted
In a great need.
I live here, too.
I want my freedom
Just as you.
Langston Hughes
There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect, I humbly dissent. I am not being brave, I'm a decent human being... Love is a human experience, not a political statement
Anne Hathaway
But laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man may present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Albert Einstein
Freedom is like a bag of sand. If there is a hole anywhere in the bag, all the sand will run out. If any group of our people are denied their rights, sooner or later all groups stand to lose their rights. All the freedom will run out.
Robert Patterson
Every subject's duty is the kings;
but every subject's soul is his own.
William Shakespeare
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe, and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
2022 has been a bit of a mixed bag for butterflies. It seems to have been a bumper year for some species like Holly Blues and Wall Browns, and on 13 August I had a Dark Green Fritillary in my garden, which I hadn't previously seen within 10 miles. Yet things like Purple Hairstreak have been almost non-existent locally this year. Red Admirals and Painted Ladies are thankfully in good numbers this year. They do not (usually) overwinter in Britain so their numbers are dependent on two things. First a good influx from the Continent in early spring. And second good survival rates of the caterpillars of the spring immigrant parents. Painted Lady caterpillars feed on thistles but the adults feed on a range of nectar-rich flowers. In the autumn most of the British Painted Ladies make the return journey back to North Africa. I photographed this freshly-emerged individual nectaring on Creeping Thistle near home this morning.
The earliest published butterfly book in Britain was by James Petiver in 1699 (Before Petiver butterflies had no English names) and he came up with the name Painted Lady, which has been with us ever since. The only real dissent came about a hundred years later in 1795 when William Lewin proposed "the Thistle" as a direct translation of its scientific name (cardui) on which its caterpillars feed. Fortunately Lewin's name didn't catch on and Petiver's beautifully evocative name endured. The first part of the Scientific name is Vanessa, and was given by Fabricius in 1807 after a title character in Jonathan Swift's poem; Cadenus and Vanessa.
Welcome to the rougier of North Aveyron, Villecomtal, the “Villa Comtalis”:
Fondé vers 1295 par Henri II, comte de Rodez, il fut bâti le long d’une voie desservant la vallée du Dourdou suivant un plan en damier dressé par un architecte de la cathédrale ruthénoise. En 1329, un arrêt de la Cour en Parlement de Paris, donne en toute propriété à Béatrix, fille aînée de Raymond II et épouse de Bertrand de La Tour d’Auvergne, la ville de Villecomtal et son mandement en compensation d’une rente annuelle comprise dans sa part d’héritage. La seigneurie, vendue aux de Rolland, noblesse très ancienne, resta dans cette famille jusqu’au XVIème siècle. Après divers possesseurs, elle fut apportée en dot à la maison de Nattes par Marie de Rességuier.
Il ne reste du bâtiment primitif que le donjon, le corps de logis; mais ces deux derniers modifiés pour les besoins des religieuses ne présentent plus aucun caractère de ce qu’ils pouvaient être à l’origine. Vers 1437, aux frais de la population, le village fut ceinturé d’une muraille longue d’environ 400 mètres, haute, par endroits, de 8 mètres. Le château fut construit à la même époque par Pierre de Rolland, Sénéchal de Castres.
La congrégation des sœurs de l’Union fit l’acquisition du château en 1850 pour le transformer en couvent et en pensionnat pour jeunes filles.
Depuis quelques années, la bâtisse devenue propriété de la commune a été revendue à un particulier. Deux portes fortifiées s’ouvraient sur la rue Droite, artère principale du bourg : “lo portal haut” et « lo portal bas » qui seul subsiste bien que très profondément modifié par l’adjonction d’un campanile achevé en 1785. Situé sur un passage, Villecomtal offrait de nombreuses auberges et écuries aux voyageurs et marchands.
L’église saint Barthélémy fut construite entre 1700 et 1715 afin de doter le village d’un lieu de culte intra-muros. A la fin des travaux, l’édifice avait la forme d’une croix latine et le clocher en peigne à cinq cloches, se trouvait sur l’un des côtés. Au XIXème, elle connaît de grands changements : la boiserie du chœur, la chaire et la table de communion sont refaites et les deux chapelles latérales sont agrandies vers la façade (d’où sa forme actuelle rectangulaire).
En 1900, le clocher est reconstruit au chevet de l’église.
Un épisode important de la vie religieuse qui débutera en 1801, à la signature du Concordat et qui perdurera jusqu’en 1931. En effet, Villecomtal fut «La Petite Rome» de «La Petite Eglise». Ses adeptes étaient alors appelés «Les Enfarinés».
Pour bien comprendre ce que fut le schisme anticoncordataire, il faut remonter à La Constitution Civile du Clergé promulguée le 12 juillet 1790 qui, entre autres dispositions, déclarait l’Eglise de France hors de l’autorité du Pape.En raison de l’imbrication des convictions religieuses et politiques de l’époque, mais aussi de la condamnation prononcée par Rome, la situation ne fut nette qu’après l’abolition de la royauté le 10 août 1792.Quatre vingt un évêques, réfugiés à l’étranger, organisèrent des réseaux clandestins autour d’hommes de confiance et par ce moyen administrèrent leur diocèse contre les prélats « jureurs » nommés par le gouvernement révolutionnaire.
En Aveyron, sous l’impulsion de Monseigneur Colbert de Seignelay, évêque de Rodez, la résistance à La Constitution Civile du Clergé fut active. La « Société Ecclésiastique » composée de prêtres réfractaires, dont à Villecomtal les abbés Delhom et Régis, fut une de ces cellules dirigées de Londres où l’évêque s’était réfugié.
En 1800, la nécessité de normaliser les relations diplomatiques avec le Vatican et de remettre de l’ordre dans l’Eglise de France se fit de plus en plus pressante et une négociation fut engagée entre Bonaparte, Premier Consul, et le cardinal Spina, envoyé spécial de Pie VII, pour aboutir en 1801 au Concordat promulgué à Paris en 1802. Trente cinq évêques anticonstitutionnels, dont celui de Rodez, tous résidant hors de France, en refusèrent les dispositions et entrèrent en dissidence contre Pie VII qui leur demandait de démissionner. Ils se servirent de leurs réseaux pour lutter contre le Concordat et l’administration de leur diocèse par les nouveaux promus. En Rouergue, de nombreux ecclésiastiques suivirent les consignes données par l’ex-évêque Colbert de Seignelay démis par le Vatican. A Villecomtal, les abbés Delhom et Régis se distinguèrent par leur zèle anticoncordataire au point qu’ils furent considérés comme les pontifes de « La Petite Eglise », autre nom donné à la dissidence du Rouergue.
Le rétablissement de la royauté en 1814/1815 et l’abolition du Concordat en 1905 ne changèrent pas l’attitude de « la Petite Eglise » qui sous le nom « La Petite Eglise Vieille Catholique » comptent de nos jours quelques milliers de fidèles en France et surtout à l’étranger : Europe, Afrique, Amérique. Plus de 24 paroisses aveyronnaises et 3 dans le Cantal adhérèrent à ce mouvement.
Leurs fidèles vinrent en grand nombre, jusqu’à un millier d’après les rapports de la police, assister aux messes célébrées à Villecomtal par l’abbé Delhom au lieu-dit « Le Taulan » et l’abbé Régis à « Los Topis ».
On les nommait « Les Enfarinés » car à l’instar des us de l’Ancien Régime, dont ils se réclamaient, sans pour autant qu’on puisse les considérer comme des royalistes avérés, les hommes dénouaient leurs cheveux qu’ils portaient longs et les poudraient avec de la farine (faute de poudre de riz) pour assister aux offices religieux. Les femmes vêtues de noir, portaient un bonnet à mentonnière, un scapulaire autour du cou et un grand chapelet de buis autour de la taille. Après le décès des derniers prêtres schismatiques, elles firent perdurer La Petite Eglise en organisant de pieuses réunions qui servaient de messe.
Le dernier fidèle en Rouergue est mort en 1931, dans un village voisin de Villecomtal en prononçant les dernières paroles « Soy Enfarinat »
Association “Terre des enfarinés”
Liens externes:
Les enfarinés sur Wikipédia
Le « Masque Rouge »
Dans les année 1946/1947, des paysans et notamment des marchands de bestiaux, de retour des foires locales, se faisaient agresser par un homme portant une cagoule ou un foulard rouge qui dissimulait son visage, le dos voûté, avec un accent étranger avéré ou simulé, qui les menaçait avec une mitraillette pour les dépouiller de l’argent gagné lors de la vente de leurs bêtes .L’homme dit « le masque rouge » connaissait parfaitement la région et arrivait à semer les gendarmes qui le poursuivaient. En effet, le masque rouge ne rentrait pas chez lui après avoir commis son larcin mais revenait à la foire où ses pas se mêlaient aux milliers d’autres.
Le masque rouge n’a jamais été arrêté ni identifié. Beaucoup d’hypothèses et de versions populaires ont couru à ce sujet mais en vain. Il faut quand même souligner, à sa décharge, qu’il n’a jamais utilisé sa mitraillette qui lui servait seulement à impressionner ses victimes.
Source Villecomtal.fr
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Founded around 1295 by Henri II, Count of Rodez, it was built along a road serving the Dourdou valley following a checkerboard plan drawn up by an architect of the Ruthenian cathedral. In 1329, a judgment of the Court in the Parliament of Paris, gives in full ownership to Béatrix, eldest daughter of Raymond II and wife of Bertrand de La Tour d'Auvergne, the town of Villecomtal and his mandate in compensation for an annual annuity included in its share of inheritance. The seigneury, sold to the de Rolland, a very old nobility, remained in this family until the 16th century. After various owners, it was brought as a dowry to the house of Nattes by Marie de Rességuier.
All that remains of the original building is the keep, the main building; but these last two modified for the needs of the nuns no longer present any character of what they might have been originally. Around 1437, at the expense of the population, the village was surrounded by a wall about 400 meters long and, in places, 8 meters high. The castle was built at the same time by Pierre de Rolland, Sénéchal de Castres.
The congregation of the Sisters of the Union acquired the castle in 1850 to transform it into a convent and boarding school for young girls.
In recent years, the building that has become the property of the municipality has been sold to an individual. Two fortified gates opened onto rue Droite, the town's main artery: “lo portal haut” and “lo portal bas” which alone remains although very profoundly modified by the addition of a campanile completed in 1785. Located on a hill Passage, Villecomtal offered many inns and stables to travelers and merchants.
Saint Bartholomew's Church was built between 1700 and 1715 to provide the village with an intramural place of worship. At the end of the work, the building had the shape of a Latin cross and the comb bell tower with five bells was on one side. In the 19th century, it underwent great changes: the woodwork of the choir, the pulpit and the communion table were redone and the two side chapels were enlarged towards the facade (hence its current rectangular shape).
In 1900, the bell tower was rebuilt at the apse of the church.
An important episode in religious life which began in 1801, when the Concordat was signed, and which lasted until 1931. Indeed, Villecomtal was "La Petite Rome" of "La Petite Eglise". Its followers were then called "Les Enfarinés".
To fully understand what the anticoncordat schism was, we must go back to La Constitution Civile du Clergé promulgated on July 12, 1790 which, among other provisions, declared the Church of France outside the authority of the Pope. religious and political convictions of the time, but also the condemnation pronounced by Rome, the situation was not clear until after the abolition of the kingship on August 10, 1792.Four twenty-one bishops, refugees abroad, organized clandestine networks around men of confidence and by this means administered their diocese against the prelates "jurors" appointed by the revolutionary government.
In Aveyron, under the leadership of Monsignor Colbert de Seignelay, Bishop of Rodez, resistance to La Constitution Civile du Clergé was active. The "Ecclesiastical Society" made up of refractory priests, including in Villecomtal the abbots Delhom and Régis, was one of those cells led from London where the bishop had taken refuge.
In 1800, the need to normalize diplomatic relations with the Vatican and to restore order in the Church of France became more and more urgent and a negotiation was initiated between Bonaparte, First Consul, and Cardinal Spina, envoy. special of Pius VII, to end in 1801 in the Concordat promulgated in Paris in 1802. Thirty-five unconstitutional bishops, including that of Rodez, all residing outside France, refused its provisions and entered into dissent against Pius VII who asked them to resign. They used their networks to fight against the Concordat and the administration of their diocese by the newly promoted. In Rouergue, many ecclesiastics followed the instructions given by ex-bishop Colbert de Seignelay, dismissed by the Vatican. In Villecomtal, the abbots Delhom and Régis were distinguished by their anti-concordance zeal to the point that they were considered the pontiffs of "La Petite Eglise", another name given to the dissidence of Rouergue.
The reestablishment of the kingship in 1814/1815 and the abolition of the Concordat in 1905 did not change the attitude of “la Petite Eglise” which under the name “La Petite Eglise Vieille Catholique” now has a few thousand faithful in France. and especially abroad: Europe, Africa, America. More than 24 parishes in Aveyron and 3 in Cantal joined this movement.
Their faithful came in large numbers, up to a thousand according to police reports, to attend the masses celebrated in Villecomtal by Father Delhom at a place called "Le Taulan" and Father Régis at "Los Topis" .
They were called "Les Enfarinés" because, like the habits of the Ancien Régime, which they claimed to be, without being able to consider them as proven royalists, the men untied their hair which they wore long and Powder them with flour (lack of rice powder) to attend religious services. The women, dressed in black, wore a chin-cup, a scapular around the neck and a large boxwood rosary around the waist. After the death of the last schismatic priests, they continued La Petite Eglise by organizing pious meetings which served as mass.
The last faithful in Rouergue died in 1931, in a neighboring village of Villecomtal, pronouncing the last words "Soy Enfarinat"
Association “Terre des enfarinés”
External links:
Flouries on Wikipedia
The "Red Mask"
In the years 1946/1947, peasants and in particular cattle dealers, returning from local fairs, were attacked by a man wearing a balaclava or a red scarf who concealed his face, his back arched, with a recognized foreign accent or simulated, which threatened them with a submachine gun to strip them of the money earned from the sale of their animals. The man called "the red mask" knew the region perfectly and managed to sow the gendarmes who were pursuing him. Indeed, the red mask did not return home after having committed the theft but returned to the fair where his footsteps mingled with thousands of others.
The red mask has never been arrested or identified. Many hypotheses and popular versions have been circulated about this, but to no avail. It should be noted, in his defense, that he never used his submachine gun, which he used only to impress his victims.
Source Villecomtal.fr
With each snow storm the piles of snow that fall from our roof get larger and larger. And with the more seasonably cold weather we've had recently, the dogs' reluctance to go outside grows and grows. Here's Pokey, giving me the stinkeye, while he just sits in the path to the door, rather than go out into the yard to do his business. Not sure what he's complaining about; I'm the one who had to shovel all of that!
~ Sea sand and sun ~
When everything around is trouble and torment turbulence and tease
nothing can be found in chaos and dissent deeper and free
step out and turn around,let your mind ascend,
close your eyes and feel sea sand and sun...
When everything is found to fall to discontent,distress and worries
when nothing is as sound and all the bare intent disperse away..
fall in the background let your heart go on ascend
and close your eyes and feel sea sand and sun..
Escape into Del Mar Dream
Ukrainian flag and sunflower lapel pin from Dissent Pins. Designed by Vika-Vita with profits going to Ukraine relief organizations.
Tune: Cafe Del Mar - Arnica Montana Sea Sand And Sun
Hands in the sand,
Feet in the sea
Facing the sun,
An empty mind
A free body
Sea, sand and sun.
When everything around is trouble and torment turbulence and tease
nothing can be found in chaos and dissent deeper and free
step out and turn around, let your mind ascend,
close your eyes and feel sea sand and sun...
when everything is found to fall to discontent, distress and worries
when nothing is as sound and all the bare intent disperse away.
fall in the background let your heart go on ascend
and close your eyes and feel sea sand and sun.
Hands in the sand,
Feet in the sea
Facing the sun,
An empty mind
A free body
Sea, sand and sun........
Read an insightful article this morning discussing the extreme polarization of political beliefs. So-called identity politics has largely replaced results-based support for politicians. So long as your candidate agrees with your line of thinking, it matters less and less how they actually perform. Unfortunately this thinking is a poor way govern. It's manifested in congress where entrenched thinking results in continual stalemates. Compromise is equated with acquiescence and makes legislation near impossible. There's an almost universal frustration with the whole process, but no end in sight. The impending election offers no real hope. No matter the outcome, the battle lines have been firmly drawn. The opposition to whichever candidate or party comes out on top will only intensify.
This scene presented me with a dramatic metaphor for the current state of politics. Looking through the myriad of criss-crossing fence lines as the last glimmer of daylight being squeezed out of existence by the encroaching darkness. And that narrow gap in the fence representing the ever-diminishing hope to escape destiny.
On the trail to Chauki, Uttarakhand, India. Trek Day 19
Let me guide you on an Inn-to-Inn Guided Canoe Trip to the south of France
Trip notes begin here: House Light Blog - Himalayan Trek
This day is here: House Light Blog - Snow Blindness and Dissent
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Today is the 8th day of Valentine's month of February, and I have chosen to dedicate my love to nature and all the beauty and life it gives us.
FLOWERS CAN DANCE!!! Amazing nature/ Beautiful blooming flower time lapse video
Artur Homan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryUxrFUk6MY
Freedom
Freedom will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.
I have as much right
As the other fellow has
To stand
On my two feet
And own the land.
I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
Freedom
Is a strong seed
Planted
In a great need.
I live here, too.
I want my freedom
Just as you.
Langston Hughes
There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect, I humbly dissent. I am not being brave, I'm a decent human being... Love is a human experience, not a political statement
Anne Hathaway
But laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man may present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Albert Einstein
Freedom is like a bag of sand. If there is a hole anywhere in the bag, all the sand will run out. If any group of our people are denied their rights, sooner or later all groups stand to lose their rights. All the freedom will run out.
Robert Patterson
Every subject's duty is the kings;
but every subject's soul is his own.
William Shakespeare
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe, and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
William Wordsworth
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Robert Frost
We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Native American Proverb
Choose only one master—nature.
Rembrandt
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
Henry David Thoreau
There's a whole world out there, right outside your window. You'd be a fool to miss it.
Charlotte Eriksson
FLOWERS CAN DANCE!!! Amazing nature/ Beautiful blooming flower time lapse video
Artur Homan
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe, and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
Nice weather, sunny and a gentle breeze:) Varanger moor, a very quiet place if you hate or want to go away from the big cities:)
Generally, I try to stay out of politics in Second Life. They cause a great deal of dissention and pain for many; and this cycle is an absolute tire fire.
There are so many questions for so many people.
Personally, I wonder if my rights will be taken away. If my marriage will still be valid in the next four years. I worry for a great many people who have already experienced violence and hatred.
For these reasons, and so many more - I offer my support and acceptance - I am a safe space for those in need or in danger.
There is so much more I can say on this, but Berry has put it all beautifully. Go visit her and see what she said so much more eloquently than I could hope to.
(this ramble was pre-coffee. I reserve the right to edit my words as I realize I can't keep a coherent thought in my head for 90 consecutive seconds)
From the 50501 protest in Denver, Colorado. The U.S. flag code (which is not legally enforceable, BTW), specifically says that the flag is not to be inverted “except as a signal of dire distress in instance of extreme danger to life or property.” I think what's currently going on in America certainly qualifies.
© Web-Betty: digital heart, analog soul
🇬🇧 A toyshop window bursting with color and innocence, next to a blunt cry scribbled on the wall: “Legalize Ganja.”
A strange urban collage — half advertisement, half subversion.
The clown grins. The toys smile. The wall speaks louder.
→ Second image in the series Seen Through the Window
→ A visual pause between irony, childhood and dissent
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🇫🇷 Une vitrine pleine d’innocence et de couleurs… collée à un mur qui gribouille sans détour : « Legalize Ganja ».
Un collage urbain étrange — moitié publicité, moitié subversion.
Le clown sourit. Les jouets aussi. Mais le mur parle plus fort.
→ Deuxième image de la série Vu par la fenêtre
→ Une respiration visuelle entre ironie, enfance et contestation