'procuro o vento insular, as forças terrestres, a finíssima luz privada das pálpebras'.

título:Vasco Gato (poesia)
imagens: E.Ozsahin

"se eu me concentrar num fragmento do tempo/não é hoje, nem amanhã/mas se eu me concentrar num fragmento do tempo/agora,/esse fragmento revelará todo o tempo"

Photo by Emir Ozsahin

*Maria Gabriela Llansol (1999: 66-67)

"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)