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Tag Archives: Art and Revolution
Metamorphoses of Occupy
History is the subject of a structure whose site is not homogeneous, empty time, but time filled by the presence of the now. The awareness that they are about to make the continuum of history explode is characteristic of the … Continue reading
The resistance of bodies: The photography of Antoine d’Agata
Le désir demeure en nous comme un défi au monde même qui lui dérobe infiniment son objet. Georges Bataille … to take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt. Susan Sontag … Continue reading
La rage de Keny Arkana
In celebration of the rebel music and poetry of Keny Arkana … La lutte ne suffit pas. Il faut pouvoir créer quelque chose de nouveau. Je te parle d’autogestion et de révolution des mentalités pour accéder au bonheur. Parce que c’est … Continue reading
The fear of chalk: Alex Shaefer
The artist Alex Schaefer has recently put to the test the limits of freedom of expression, limits revealed to be all too present. The prohibition on chalking and the violence used against it (Occupy LA) however show far more than … Continue reading
American Autumn
From Occudoc.org, a documentary about Occupy …
The Anarchist Cinema of a Revolution: 1936-1938
The collectivization of the economy during the spanish republic’s struggle against Franco’s nationalist uprising would in areas under anarchist control, lead to the emergence of a collectivised anarchist film production and distribution. The films, and the literature that speaks of … Continue reading
The Poetic Imagery of Yiannis Biliris
… a photograph is not only an image, an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real … Susan Sontag The photography and video of Yiannis Bilris of the protests/insurrection … Continue reading
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The Poetry and Music of Pablo Hasél
When we write or when we read, it is easy to forget that the beginning is not the word, but the scream. Faced with the mutilation of human lives by capitalism, a scream of sadness, a scream of horror, a … Continue reading
15M: Okupations and Situations
One road is open, more open than ever, to help bring about revolution and the collapse of the present system: to begin on a small scale, and voluntarily, immediately, on all sides, you are called, you and your … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Art and Revolution, Okupations, spain, Spanish Revolution
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Creating Revolution: 15M through images
Documentary photography and film do not represent; indeed, no art does. It creates perspectives of worlds, worlds, openning possibilities, ways to be in world. The creation is but partially that of the director; there is also the unveiling eye of the … Continue reading →