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Tag Archives: Art and Revolution
The russian revolution of 1917: The Dada counterpoint
Dada remains within the framework of European weaknesses; it’s still shit, but from now on we want to shit in different colours to adorn the zoo of art with the flags of every consulate. Tristan Tzara, Manifesto of Monsieur Antipyrine … Continue reading
Voices of a revolution: Portugal, 25 of April 1974, Música de intervenção
A people without song are perhaps not a “people”, or at least, they are not more than temporary aggregates of consumers of music. But consumers do not make up a people and if it is in times of intense and … Continue reading
For/from Ursula K. Le Guin
A writer speaks above all for themselves. We thus share the words of the anarchist writer Ursula K. Le Guin, a story, a story of rebellion as departure, self-withdrawal from oppression …
Armand Gatti and the wandering words of rebellion
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships. Antonin Artaud I always believed that by the beauty of words, one could change the world. Armand Gatti His weapon … Continue reading
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Transgressing the threshold between art and revolution
What is art and what relation there is between it and revolutionary politics, anarchism, is a uniquely modern question born of the alienating social divisions of capitalism. To address the matter fully would require a reflection well beyond our present … Continue reading
Architecture beyond truth and falsity: Radicalising feminist interventions in the creation of spaces
Better to live in the provisional than in the definitive. Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space All dissidence, rebellion, revolution has a location, a place. The relationship between the two has been the subject of an ongoing reflection on the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Architecture, Art and Revolution, Donna Haraway, Feminism, Henri Lefebvre, LGBT, Michel Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir
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Olivier de Sagazan and the dancing self
(All sculptures, paintings and photographs by Olivier de Sagazin) For Genouni … All pictorial or plastic work is useless: let it then be a monstrosity that frightens servile minds, and not sweetening to decorate the refectories of animals in human … Continue reading
For John Berger (1926-2017)
For John Berger, for all that he taught us about how to see …
Tapping the rhythms: Moondog
I find the greatest freedom in the stricture of a form that paradoxes abnormality within a norm. I would bow down before just one– one who bows before none. I should know who that one might be who could do … Continue reading
Guy Debord and Giorgio Agamben – Dialogues III: The ethics and politics of cinema
In an intensely rich dialogue, Giorgio Agamben has engaged with the work of Guy Debord in ways comparable to few. With our recent post on football and the society of the spectacle (click here), we share below the third and last … Continue reading →