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Tag Archives: Art and Revolution
The art of charlie hebdo
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire … we should call every truth fake which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. Friedrich Nietzsche Notre ressort est de dénoncer la bêtise en faisant rire. Cabu … Continue reading
For Charlie Hebdo
Profanation … neutralises what it profanes. Once profaned, that which was unavailable and separate loses its aura and is returned to use … [It] deactivates the apparatuses of power and returns to common use the spaces that power had seized. … Continue reading
The songs of anarchy: spain
Anarchism in spain, from its beginnings in the later half of the 19th century until the revolution/civil war of 36-39, was to be found in an extraordinary wealth of expressions: among them song. We share in this post what came … Continue reading
A cinema a hundred years young: Charlie Chaplin
Chaplin made his first appearance in cinema in 1914, in the film Making a Living. What followed would be the work of one of the most creative artists of the last century; a creativity not only to be understood in … Continue reading
For Charlie Haden
The music in this album is dedicated to creating a better world; a world without war and killing, without poverty and exploitation; a world where men of all governments realize the vital importance of life and strive to protect rather … Continue reading
The lyricism of revolution: José Afonso
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. Theodor Adorno If creation is the constitution of new spaces and times, as Gilles Deleuze once said, then the creativity of music and that of politics, if not the same, … Continue reading
Nuit et Brouillard: For Alain Resnais
In memory of Alain Resnais who died this last March the 3rd … In 1933, Walter Benjamin could write of the technology of war unleashed upon those who fought during WWI, that it destroyed human experience, the very thing which … Continue reading
Amidst the art of May 68: L’Atelier Populaire de Paris
Une action revolutionaire dans la culture ne saurait avoir pour but de traduire ou d’expliquer la vie, mais de l’élargir. Guy Debord L’œuvre d’art à venir, c’est la construction d’une vie passionnante. Raoul Vaneigem A l’atelier populaire, c’est un climat … Continue reading
Bête et méchant: François Cavanna
La liberté consiste à faire tout ce que permet la longueur de la chaîne. François Cavanna François Cavanna, journalist, writer, artist, used the pen of satire and irony against all the "cons" that his times brought forward. And for many, … Continue reading
From Espai en Blanc: El Pressentiment
Born in 2002 in Barcelona, walking between critical thought and activism, the Espai en Blanc collective has elaborated creative forms of political intervention that we have been late to share. Below is the ongoing El Pressentiment …