NOw here is the thing I was stressed, very stressed. Strangers people at shop counters friends were telling me: "Calm down, you don't need to be stressed." And I was answering: " But I am not stressed." Anyone who has seen one hollywood film with a therapy session knows what this means But I am… Continue reading Time, I and schedules
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Year 2 research materials
>>> William Kentridge, The refusal of time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX_Qe2HKuEA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaPnBorIMmc . >>> Thomas Heise, Heimat is ein Raum aus Zeit (2019) https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_170303.php >>> Journal for artistic research: https://www.jar-online.net/exposition/abstract/site-integrity-dynamic-exchange-between-site-artist-device-and-audience >>> Days in between: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/639633/674432/30/50 >>> Virginia Mastrogiannaki, Jargon (2016): https://neon.org.gr/gr/video/virginia-mastrogiannaki-long-durational-performance-gr/ >>> Michelle Hlubinka's Kalendars: https://www.binka.town/binkatown/calendars >>>Theching Hseih: https://www.tehchinghsieh.com/oneyearperformance1980-1981 Art about waiting-and what it takes to endure >>>… Continue reading Year 2 research materials
Elie During
Notes: Floating time (2013) Elie During bio: https://egs.edu/biography/elie-during/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UwblvcMUkI During suggests that time is a dynamical and local dimension of concrete processes rather than a universal clock, a universal dimension of becoming in general (the latter refers to Bergsons idea of time). Time is intrinsically tied to what is happening when it is happening. How… Continue reading Elie During
Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto
Donna Haraway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway Cyborg: cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality and creature of fiction >>> p. 16 Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identitiesseem contradictory, partial, and strategic. Problem Gender, race, and class (socially and historically constituted) cannot provide the basis for belief in “essential” unity >>>… Continue reading Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto
Getting lost in town with a dash of risk
Two days ago I decided to get lost deliberately. Another would write I decided to trust my inner sense of orientation and my ability to communicate with people through language. I wanted to ride my bike to HAN University in Arnhem. I opened google maps on my laptop, took a look at the proposed routes… Continue reading Getting lost in town with a dash of risk
Anne Durfourmantelle, In Praise of Risk
>>> p. 1 Life is a heedless risk taken by us... Today, the principle of precaution has become the norm... Orrather, is there, in life itself, a secret mechanism, a music that is uniquelycapable of displacing existence onto the front line we call desire?... At the instant of decision, risk calls into question our intimaterelationship… Continue reading Anne Durfourmantelle, In Praise of Risk
“this is the end”
. Now that I feel I have put this mess in order I can state "this is the end" all right I will be more precise this is the end of summer yet all the same for me it is dramatic and sad and melancholic Oh, it is just horrible I have to clean every… Continue reading “this is the end”
Rebecca Solnit (2005) A Field Guide to Getting Lost
p. 13 >>> I worry now that many people never disband their armies, never gobeyond what they know. Advertising, alarmist news, technology, incessantbusyness, and the design of public and private space conspire to make it so. p. 15 >>> The simplest answer nowadays for literal gettinglost is * people who get lost aren’t paying attention… Continue reading Rebecca Solnit (2005) A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Posthuman, All too human_Rosi Braidotti
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ7GnwelrM0 What kind of subjects are we in the process of becoming? Convergence of posthumanism and postanthropocentrism What is the human in the humanities? Quick flashback, p. 13-16 Classical idea of what humans should be: bodily perfection in a set of mental, discursive and moral virtues *Protagoras: man is the measure of all things… Continue reading Posthuman, All too human_Rosi Braidotti
The end of history
>>> What is the end of history? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouMs9HeJgM8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfDvdYj0_fA >>> Francis Fukuyama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM6p-15fjBg >>> Noam Chomsky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg3gOFWfpck