Following an interview on: http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/about-bot-interview-katie-rose-pipkin I bumped into – http://www.ifyoulived.org/ Clicked refresh. Something wanted to do one thing or another. Had a look at the code. Supposed to pick images from a folder called scrap. Hummm.. An interesting sensation, no? My mind is, perhaps too heavily, into questions of performance, action, operation and intervals between […]
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Following recent Palestine oriented adventures, and a chat with a friend, am considering to take the wondering from IF citizenship into a possible TV documentary. Nutshell? Lets question citizenship from ownership point of view. We have net citizenship, state citizenship, digital citizenship, etc. – and a fair few people who need one of these but […]
On the flight from Kiev to Palestine (aka Israel, the state organisation for zionist and jewish communities of Palestine) I sat next to a couple that told me they are just back from a “roots tour” in the Ukraine. Roots tour, I asked surprised. What do you mean? The obliged readily to explain. Explaining is […]
I have been arguing(?) has some connection or links with being a Being in between. An interval that operates dysfunctionaly towards itself. Hence art objects are not functional in the survival and purposeful sense – they seem to be beyond the mere desire to survive. Artistic practices operate beyond being non-functional, as say do a […]
Hilary Ben seem to have made a most persuasive speech for uk to join the bombing fest in Syria. (even the telegraph seems impressed by Hillary’s words, declaring him a “true” leader.) A few thoughts re holes in the arguments he presented: – Labour has always been happy to join wars for just causes. eg […]
Am working from if rain if time? here are just a few initial links: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=1879.0 http://www.wired.com/2011/08/how-fast-is-falling-rain/ http://www.nature.com/news/2009/012345/full/news.2009.705.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_season http://www.drippytheraindrop.com/DrippysWorldTrialStories/ToMountainsAndBack/Entry.htm http://education.nh.gov/spotlight/ccss/documents/text-raindrop.pdf
One of the things am rather interested while in Palestine is to check for links and possible seeming similarities that cross the sectarian divides. An element that pops up during this visit is people saying stuff, me not laughing, and them saying “its supposed to be a joke”. I can not tell a joke to […]
One element shared among communities I been through in west asia (jordan, palestine, egypt), seems to to be violence. Since people Say, and I think they rather hope indeed, that they aren’t violent, and at a time I can perceive physically aggressive activities all around, am kind of getting a sense of brutalisation aesthetics. People […]
On way to Umm el Fahem art gallery Via skateboarding the 77.7km between the airport and the town of Umm el Fahem. A few basic definitions to palestine oriented vocabulary: The place commonly known as “israel” = palestine. The p[lace commonly known as palestine/west-bank = palestine. Am not dernying the exsitance of various communities, structures […]
Was attempting to think about brutalisation recently. So kind of naturally veered off into Beuyes’ and I like america and america likes me. With the coyote being as a Being of resonance from past and into the future of a violence america/usa has not actually consciously interacted with. The violence of the colonisers brutalised them […]
Here is a bit of an expression – lets do a calculation! 2 + 1 = 3 -> that is a calculation. lets do a bit of computation? if 2 + 1 = 3 then call this “my computation” else call this “other computation” Now – What’s wondering got to do with this? Wonderment? lets […]
When a DNA might be metaphorical, perhaps its a repetition of acts of same type. When the tories of 90’s kept and justified keeping a prisoner in chains while she was giving birth, people got a bit upset realised the conservatives are a nasty party. A rather more contemporary version is cruelty to the Outsider? […]
Theory, in my view, tends to be jailed in some minds within a dualistic frame. Theory and practice. We might produce a theory of a given subject X, and then supposed to “prove” the theory in practice. Say a theory of X might be: X used to be Z, it is in time Z + […]
There seem to be a tentative possible link between capitalisation and occupation in the sense of control, seizure possession and extraction of “values”. Occupation as a seizure of time/land and using that to control the property that one got a hold of? I think there is an implicit violence in the act of getting the […]
Lego refused selling some of its bricks to ai weiwei saying the rather not get linked with politics? (Or perhaps the meant politics critical of china? So some people who already have some of the lego bricks, decided to donate their bricks to ai. When people decide to boycott lego’s products, do they not make […]
Last night some footie supporters seem to have pinned something I couldn’t, in a very few words and communicable way: “£64 a ticket, but without fans, football is not worth a penny”. Could this not be: “£X an art? without audiences, art does not worth a penny.” or “£x for a social-network/search-engine’s etc. shares? Without […]
Am wondering whether it can be argued that #art is a question of how wonders can be/live-and-die-and-evolve in all, or towards the most/lot of, human/organisms/beings endeavours?