"We arrive by an intermediate route, limb after limb, and organ after organ"*

*Tristan Tzara

images: João Figueiredo

12/12: "FORA DO TEMPO, ONIRIA".

" Os olhos fecham-se à travessia. O destino, Oniria. Geografia dos peitos diametralmente abertos. Lugar de uma racionalidade de ontem. Há um momento que é só dos olhos alerta, mais do que algum dia se soube que poderiam estar. Há dois pares de horas em que se é corpo, e um milhar de horas em que não se sabe o que se é. Não te posso desvelar senão na radiação vibrante dos recantos, enquanto és presença que sabe sibilar as dúvidas. Tão longe se sonham estas sensações. Ainda assim, sinto por certa a navegação de Sophia. Sei como se distende entre águas, e que suavidade teve a sua pele jovem. Navega e lembra como só se vive uma vez em cada coração. Ao menos que em cada um se exagere". 

texto: Histórias do Cinema, Godard/Imagem: Fornasetti

walk in the light. there is a fire to ignite.

image: "Fire Walk With Me", 

L.MaKabresku

Matter is plastic in the face of Mind*.

map of girl flesh

* PHILIP K. DICK, Valis


image: Laura Makabresku

you

image: J.Martinez

the revolutionary vitality of reading: disclosure

Voices from the Song of Songs

 

Judy Chicago: 

Judy Chicago (JC): My idea of feminism is a revolutionary transformation of the planet. When people talk aboutliving in a “post-feminist” world, I just laugh. Post-feminist for whom? For somesmall segment of the population in a few countries. But for everyone else, hardly.


JC: The problem now, globally, is that patriarchal societies are destructive, not only to women, but to the globe, to the earth. I think we’re in sort of a race [against time]. What’s going to happen? Is patriarchy going to transform itself? Or is the world going to come to an end? I mean, we can’t keep on this way. We’re not
talking any more just about gender issues. As bell hooks says in Feminism Is for Everybody [hooks, 2000], there are women with patriarchal values and men with feminist values. So what we’re talking about is the [need today for a] revolution of values.

LS: Which leads directly to another question: What insights or approaches do you think feminism has to offer in regard to social justice issues in general?

JC: Feminism is about social justice: social justice for all, the end of sexism, the end ofend of patriarchal oppression. Feminism is a radical social justice movement, with global goals.

Interview to Lester Strong, in October 2002

 

'as musas cegas'

 Esta linguagem é pura. No meio está uma fogueira

e a eternidade das mãos.Esta linguagem é colocada e extrema e cobre, com suas lâmpadas, todas as coisas.

As coisas que são uma só no plural dos nomes.

- E nós estamos dentro, subtis, e tensos

na música*.

"Raga for The Rainy Season" video here
*Herberto Helder
image: L.Makabresku

* 

A pele serve de céu ao coração*.

Jan: For all revolutions, one thing is clear... even if some didn't work, the most important thing is that the best ideas survived. 

The same goes for personal revolts. 

What turns out good, what survives in you, that makes you stronger. 

The Edukators (2004) 

*Luis Miguel Nava

Dunamis

Piero Fornasetti (1913 - 1988)

"O, wonder"

[voice over] 




I will find joy in all I see. 

New World, T.Malick (2005)

"Só por dentro de ti rebentam flores"*

e um corpo em movimento continua a ser a mais perfeita morada para tecer estórias, teorias, efabulações. ao mesmo tempo que esse corpo se dá ao visível, oferece, num hálito sustido, o frémito da incandescência aos nossos cílios e células. 

os músculos, antes contraídos de hesitações, dilatam agora a precisão do incerto

© rizo dorothy

*(título) António Franco Alexandre

observância. abertura.silêncio.

Uma janela ser-me-á suficiente

uma janela para o momento da consciência, 

da observância e do silêncio.

texto: Forugh Farrokhzad/imagem: L. Wierzbowski

"Até de olhos fechados se pressente o brilho das coisas quietas, as idas e vindas, os êmbolos, a inquieta vibração de estarem vivas"*.

image: Nirrimi

 - *Rosa Maria Martelo- 

back to basics/remix/phantasia

 

Skinner Releasing Technique™ (SRT) is the pioneering approach to dancing that has evolved from the simple principle that when we are letting go of habitual holding patterns we can move more freely, articulately and powerfully. 

'Skinner Releasing is a dance technique that has the same objectives as other concert dance techniques: alignment, flexibility, strength, speed, dynamic range, musicality, and control of nuance. This technique, however, is a system of kinesthetic training that refines the perception and performance of movement. Images are given which are metaphors of kinesthetic experience of technical principles.  

The poetic imagery kindles the imagination, 

thereby integrating technique with creative process' . Joan Skinner, May 2005 .

Gus Gus - Changes Come

 

 

images: /T.Flach/J.Martinez/A.Leppälä

liquid times

"Nowadays we are held together by short term projects, moving constantly from one project to another – what model of time can be derived from such experience? I suggest ‘pointillist’ time. Much like canvasses of Sisley, Seurat or Signac, which consist of points only, no broad brushstrokes and no continuities. That is, though, as far as the analogy goes, because in pointillist paintings you have pre-designed and in-built meaningful configurations. However, in liquid modern life configurations are not given beforehand. They are just randomly scattered points: episodes, fragments - but of what whole? 

Living though the moment, one point in time, you can not be sure to what configuration you will eventually belong when scrutinized retrospectively […] Some points, though, are known to be ‘Big Bangs’. The original Big Bang, the birth of the universe. We know a lot about what happened in a fraction of a second after – but nothing whatsoever about before, There were no ways to predict that a universe will be born in the next fraction of a second. And so in liquid-modern life. Each ‘time point’ could be a big bang; could be, potentially, the ultimate experience, the great beginning, the moment of ‘being born again’ – but there is no way one can be sure in advance that this indeed will happen, and in this moment, not another.”

text: Zygmunt Bauman/image: J.Martinez

ad- (Latin: prefix; to, a direction toward, addition to, near; at); carries the idea of "in the direction of"

"If human beings were or had to be this or that substance, this or that destiny, no ethical experience would be possible. This does not mean, however, that humans are not, and do not have to be, something, that they are simply consigned to nothingness and therefore can freely decide whether to be or not to be, to adopt or not to adopt this or that destiny (nihilism and decisionism coincide at this point). There is in effect something that humans are and have to be, but this is not an essence nor properly a thing: It is the simple fact of one’s own existence as possibility or potentiality"

- Giorgio Agamben.

(imagens: entre ccb e serralves)

Open your eyes and carry on: et videndum et agendum est

 

She had in the tranquility of her body
A little snowball the color of an eye
She had on her shoulders
A spot of silence a spot of rose
A lid on her breast
Her hands and supple singing arches
shattered the light

(Paul Eluard/Image: E.Usdin)

 

Endless Spring

Durante um instante visitou-me um crepúsculo cuja profundidade

   não me pertence.

Senta-te no meio das ruínas, senta-te com doçura no meio ou 
à beira das ruínas. 

  São nossas única propriedade e eu começo a distinguir algumas sementes e láudano e certos coágulos obedientes ao exercício da luz.

(texto:António Gamoneda/imagem: Inês d'Orey)

 

("Girl With a White Dog", Lucian Freud)

Yes, to go towards… dust as towards the absolute, to go towards the dust of the absolute…

Nancy, Jean-Luc. "The real outside is "at the heart" of the inside: Interview." in: ATOPIA. 2007.

clarity [from Latin clāritās, from clārus clear]

En un muro blanco dibujas las alegorías del reposo, y es siempre una reina loca que yace bajo la luna sobre la triste hierba del viejo jardín. 

Pero no hables de los jardines, no hables de la luna, no hables de la rosa, no hables del mar. 

Habla de lo que sabes. Habla de lo que vibra en tu médula y hace luces y sombras en tu mirada, habla del dolor incesante de tus huesos, habla del vértigo, habla de tu respiración, de tu desolación, de tu traición. 

Es tan oscuro, tan en silencio el proceso a que me obligo. 

Oh habla del silencio.

texto: Alejandra Pizarnik

imagens: The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick

"As soon as a man comes along who has something primitive about him, so that he does not say: one must take the world as it is (...) but who says: However the world is, I shall stay with my original nature, which I am not about to change to suit what the world regards as good; the moment this word is pronounced, a metamorphosis takes place in the whole of existence" 

texto: Kafka (+Pessoa)

imagem: ©vera.

172 sugestions to a body/NOSCE TE IPSUM – III

Nesse âmago  tenho a estranha impressão de que não pertenço ao gênero humano. (33)

Comprazo-me com a harmonia difícil dos ásperos contrários. (34)

Minha essência é inconsciente de si própria e por isso me obedeço cegamente. (34)

Não gosto é quando pingam limão nas minhas profundezas e fazem com que me contorça toda. Os fatos da vida são o limão na ostra? Será que a ostra dorme? (36)

A verdade está em alguma parte: mas é inútil pensar. 

Não a descobrirei e no entanto vivo dela. (37)

Estou me fazendo. 

Eu me faço até chegar ao caroço. (47)

Texto: Clarice Lispector

Endodermis

Buetti

Micro-deslocações

Vá para fora

cá

DENTRO

Música: Mount Kimbie-Carbonated
Imagens: Rui Horta

"Wonder. Go on and wonder." — William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury)

Trajectum Lumen-ou de como (se) procurar através de feixes nocturnos, divergentes e convergentes

É durante a noite que é belo acreditar na luz*.

*Rostand , Jean
imagem: B.Krueger   

"La rebelión consiste en mirar una rosa hasta 
pulverizarse

los ojos"*

texto: Alejandra Pizárnik/Imagens: M.Durow/música (link) Ryuichi Sakamoto

NOSCE TE IPSUM – II (Clarice Lispector)

Transfiguro a realidade e então outra realidade, sonhadora e sonâmbula, me cria.

Assim como me lanço no traço de meu desenho, este é um exercício de vida sem  planejamento. 

O mundo não tem ordem visível e eu só tenho a ordem da respiração. 

Deixo-me acontecer. 

Radiohead - Reckoner & imagens "De Battre Mon Coeur S'Est Arreté"

musical gnosis: Gnossienne 1 de Erik Satie

"The word appears to be derived from "gnosis"; Satie was involved in gnostic sects and movements at the time that he began to compose the Gnossiennes". 

"Among the comments written above the score are the expressions 'Du bout de la pensée' (from the tip of the thought) and 'Postulez en vous même' (wonder about yourself)". 

Sub-Flare

images: Anna Karina in "Alphaville" & Laurent Champoussin

Alphaville: "Il suffit d’avancer pour vivre/D’aller droit devant soi/Vers tout ce que l’on aime/Devant soi la route est légère/Et s’ouvre sur tous les rivages"

«Voir le monde comme je suis, non comme il est.»

*[ Paul Eluard ]

Empty Space Dance

Ela anunciava oráculos de antemanhãs. 

As nevruras da sua pele acendiam os trabalhos lunares.

vera.

Pina Baush: Vollmond (Full Moon)

"Here and now-can you explain here and now"

D.Buetti

Turbo, turbinis

"The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain, by fear, nor to exact obedience, but contrariwise, to free every man from fear, that he may live in all possible security; in other words, to strengthen his natural right to exist and work without injury to himself or others. No, the object of government is not to change men from rational beings into beasts or puppets, but to enable them to develope their minds and bodies in security, and to employ their reason unshackled; neither showing hatred, anger, or deceit, nor watched with the eyes of jealousy and injustice. In fact, the true aim of government is liberty."

Benedict de Spinoza, A Theologico-Political Treatise (1670), Chapter XX

Image: film "Des Hommes et Des Dieux"