Saturday 12 May 2012
Tuesday 8 May 2012
Marwencol
Very impressed by the well wrought, thoughtful documentary Marwencol:
Get the documentary and witness the continuing saga at http://www.marwencol.com/
To me, this is everything art should be.
Get the documentary and witness the continuing saga at http://www.marwencol.com/
To me, this is everything art should be.
The Mercurial Nature of Literature
Read an interesting lecture by Italo Calvino yesterday entitled 'Cybernetics and Ghosts', regarding what I see as the kabbalistic nature of literature. The lecture looks at the dual aspect of literature, on the one hand absolute, finite, and definable by mathematics (Calvino demonstrates how a computer could one day replace the author) but then, on the other, our gateway to the infinite, ever broadening it's range of knowledge and understanding. Much like our own consciousness. Calvino concludes on a note that perhaps, by reconciling these differences within literature, we might breach the labyrinthine confines of our own limitations.
What stuck me after reading this essay, was how this dichotomy between the known (absolute) and the unknown (infinite) finds it's way into all form human endeavour be it, art, literature, horseback riding, hunting, farming, etc. In fact, I see human beings to be the anomaly whose very existence embodies this dichotomy, and that is exactly why anything we do can be distilled into an expression of this duality, whether conscious or not. There are many ideas of how we became this way; bicamerality, an evolving consciousness, the forbidden fruit, or, as implied my link earlier, the random exactitude of lightning....
What stuck me after reading this essay, was how this dichotomy between the known (absolute) and the unknown (infinite) finds it's way into all form human endeavour be it, art, literature, horseback riding, hunting, farming, etc. In fact, I see human beings to be the anomaly whose very existence embodies this dichotomy, and that is exactly why anything we do can be distilled into an expression of this duality, whether conscious or not. There are many ideas of how we became this way; bicamerality, an evolving consciousness, the forbidden fruit, or, as implied my link earlier, the random exactitude of lightning....
Tuesday 17 April 2012
Memories
I was trying to find some YouTube posting from Steven Jesse Bernstein's "Prison" so that I could share them on Facebook without legal repurcusions but, everyone of them had these really bad videos accompanying them or they were simply bastardized versions of the original recordings. I managed to find this one of Bernstein's "The Sport". It didn't even have Fisk's musical accompaniment but, that was fine by me:
Whenever I listen to these recordings I'm reminded of my self destructive turn in Montreal; Staggering around the city with all this complex dark inner turmoil, and poorly externalizing or expressing it since I lacked the skill to do so at the time. I remember finding comfort in Bernstein's ability to give voice to those dark currents that ran through me. Luckily for me, I wasn't overtaken by them as he unfortunately had been.
Whenever I listen to these recordings I'm reminded of my self destructive turn in Montreal; Staggering around the city with all this complex dark inner turmoil, and poorly externalizing or expressing it since I lacked the skill to do so at the time. I remember finding comfort in Bernstein's ability to give voice to those dark currents that ran through me. Luckily for me, I wasn't overtaken by them as he unfortunately had been.
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