Why isn´t art essential to life
…or – what if it is?
a shaft
opening
heavenly/
in the constant flow between us – of coding and de-coding, of combining, re-combining… the narratives we carry – a sudden diamond moment,
/infernal
- beauty,
is it?
seeing, seen & unseen; charcoal and tempera on paper, 200 x 115 cms, 1988; photo by Martin Nauclér
references:
* “‘Do not then insist,’ she said, ‘that what is not fair is of necessity foul, or what is not good evil; or infer that because love is not fair and good he is therefore foul and evil; for he is in a mean between them.’” (Plato, Symposium; Diotima quoted by Socrates) http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/p71sy/symposium.html
*John 1:14 http://12koerbe.de/euangeleion/ioan-01.htm#1
* “Das Wort will ich haben, wo es aufhört und wo es anfängt.” (Hugo Ball, DADA-Manifest 1916) http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/Deutsch/Graphiken/er-manifest.html
*Hugo Ball soundtracks http://www.ubu.com/sound/ball.html
*LAIBACH http://www.laibach.nsk.si/
* VALIE EXPORT; vocal cord video piece displayed at the Venice Biennale 2007 – can’t get any link to it, though…
* Song school in Järna and the work of Pär Ahlbom, Sinikka Mikkola and others
* STARRY NIGHT (excerpt) 6.31 min
a minimalistic improvisation by:
mazen kerbaj / trumpet
the israeli air force / bombs
recorded by mazen kerbaj on the balcony of his flat in beirut, on the night of 15th to 16th of july 2006.
© mazen kerbaj 2006
*”Tous les mouvements naturels de l’âme sont régis par des lois analogues à celles de la pesanteur matérielle. La grâce seule fait exception.”
“Deux forces règnent sur l’univers: lumière et pesanteur.”
“L’amour n’est pas consolation, il est lumière.”
(Simone Weil, La pesanteur et la grâce)
