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Tag Archives: Art and Revolution
Rebellious graffiti, testimonial photography: Art against austerity in greece
Greece … is a laboratory in which the resistance of a population to authoritarian governance can be measured. Maurizio Lazzarato, Governing by Debt The task of art is not to change reality but to show and evoke it. The mimetic … Continue reading
Between seeing like a man and seeing like an animal: Sebastião Salgado’s “Genesis”
Sebastião Salgado’s most recent photographic work turns away from his now more traditional themes – e.g. labour, migration, war and genocide … what may be summarised as a concern with the violent dramas of the human condition – to capture … Continue reading
La vie appelle la vie: The animated poetry of Frédéric Back
Libérer la vie, libérer la vie des prisons … c’est ça resister. Gilles Deleuze, Abécédaire Art for me is just a natural reaction. I just try to share this reaction to what I love, and want to share. The pleasure is … Continue reading
For Eduardo Galeano
The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta. Eduardo Galeano, Walking Words She is on the horizon. I walk … Continue reading
Cinema America Occupato (Rome): The okupation of culture
Okupations are often conceived of as the taking and creation of spaces, spaces that then serve to satisfy immediate needs. We think of houses, factories, land, and so on. But okupations are also, and perhaps above all else, spaces for … Continue reading
Poetry by Nawal Ziani
Nawal Ziani is a poet and writer who lives in Tangier. Her work sings of the violence of patriarchy and custom, of the beauty of the forgotten everyday and of the freedom of love. Below we share what we hope … Continue reading
A poet of the working class: Philip Levine
The poet Philip Levine once wrote of the American experience that it “is to return and discover one cannot even find the way, for the streets abruptly end, replaced by freeways, the houses have been removed for urban renewal that … Continue reading
An anarchist cinema: Jean Vigo
Freedom is lived in the body. And the cinema of Jean Vigo is a celebration of that freedom. In À propos de Nice, Vigo’s first film, the dancers of Carnival are contrasted with the self-conscious and tedious bodies of bourgeois … Continue reading
A cinema of resistance: René Vautier
Not so long ago, the earth numbered two thousand million inhabitants: five hundred million men, and one thousand five hundred million natives. The former had the Word; the others had the use of it. … It came to an end; … Continue reading
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The art of the violence of sovereignty: The refugee as the face of exception of our time
Francisco Goya, Saturn devouring his son (1819-1823) If Theodor Adorno could once state that after Auschwitz, to write poetry is barbaric, how much greater the violence of pictorially and plastically representing the horrors of the same event, and of nazi … Continue reading →