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fold forming: dirty work but worth it

Freaking gorgeous! I love these. I’d totally take this class if I wasn’t broke as heck, and it wasn’t on the same day as Arts on Fire here in Scranton. Worth the drive to Harrisburg, I’d think. -ag

“Fold Forming is a technique where sheet metal is folded, worked, and then unfolded. Through this process, it is possible to quickly form the metal into gorgeous 3D shapes and textures.”

via http://www.pacrafts.org/workshops/fold-forming/

May 11, 2011 0

hands upon black earth: solid, sensual, organic, languorous electronic music

A song called Kalimayantra appeared today on my Visions of Zen radio station on Pandora …

“In hands upon black earth, composer and performer bobby cochran has created a collection of songs as diverse as they are connected, eluding simple categorization. Tying the project together is an occult pattern of will, desire and worship, driven by a sincere passion, fueled by a persistent discontent with his own limitations.

Sensual and pensive. Meditative and exultant. Flowing, languorous beats with a hard and unrestrained backbone. Inspired words. Pain and passion. Desire and expectation. A union of love and will.”

via hands upon black earth: solid, sensual, organic, languorous electr onic music.

April 27, 2011 0

I’ve been referring to this same set of “guidelines” with just about every project I’ve initiated or opted to work on since college. I’m finding myself considering their implications once again as we are preparing the first public reading of Avenging Arachne: a Nemesister Fable for May 18.

Nine Principles of a Matriarchal Aesthetic by Heide Gottner-Abendroth*

1. The attempt to change psychic and social reality through the use of modern magic

2. A predetermined framework based upon the structure of matriarchal mythology – in other words, “diversity in unity”

3. Transcendence of the traditional mode of communicating — through collective participation all are simultaneously authors and spectators

4. Total commitment of all participants in this welding together of thinking and feeling and doing in the form of concrete mythological image

5. It cannot be evaluated by and interpreted by outsiders nor sold as a commodity in the art market and later stored away or exhibited in a museum

6. It cannot be subdivided into genres because it cannot be objectified. It breaks down the barriers between art and life and is a complex process of social interaction

7. It adheres to matriarchal rather than patriarchal values; the erotic is the dominant force and not work, discipline renunciation, rebirth is favored over war, a sense of community and sisterly love are preferred to authority, dominance and egotism

8. Social changes brought about will aestheticize all of society and return art to its original role, allowing it to emerge as the most important social activity

9. Matriarchal art is not “art,” rather it is the ability to shape life and thus change it; it is an energy and drive toward the aestheticization of society; it is the center of complex social action

dervied from The Dancing Goddess, 1991.

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April 21, 2011 0

Brainiac Magnet Trio by kittybelle on Etsy

March 30, 2011 0

Theater of Empiricism | Gwydion Suilebhan

LOVE this description. I think it might fits the form of my new play AVENGING ARACHNE very well. Would love to hear the thought of those few of you who are now reading the first draft. -ag

Better, I think, to leave the strings showing: to keep sets simple, revealing the mechanisms that underpin them; to write plays that don’t quite fit together, rather than adhering to conventions of plot and narrative; to under-act, adopting as much as possible the rhythms of natural speech. This “Theater of Empiricism” would treat each performance like an experiment;

via Theater of Empiricism | Gwydion Suilebhan.

(thanks to @Papatola for the essay recommedation via twitter.)

March 3, 2011 1