So happy to have stumbled across this. I can think of no better time to explore it than now, while I am still submerged in The Savage Detectives and am beginning to wonder if I continue to read Bolano until all the texts are exhausted that I might be insane.
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“Breakthrough, the global human rights organization behind America 2049, has been integrating social justice with pop culture since their inception, when they created a hit Indian music single about domestic violence. Since then, they’ve made the Ring the Bell (calling on men and boys to stop violence against women) and ICED (the first 3D social justice-based video game). “Our philosophy is that we want to bring human rights issues to where people are at,” says founder and president Mallika Dett. And Facebook, for better or for worse, is where 500 million active users are at right now.”
via Brave New Virtual World: The Women Behind America 2049 | Bitch Media.
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 electronic music.
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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I climbed up two questionable wooden ladders in a dress and heels at John’s invitation to just sit in the uppermost tower of the puppet chapel and look out long past the farm itself to far away rolling mountains and New York State. He was hoping the wind would be stronger and we might feel the chapel sway in the gusts but there was little more than a light drizzle. I took three quick shots not really meaning to capture anything in particular. Slight blur aside, I love this image.
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The second annual Jim Thorpe Burlesque Festival kicks off tonight with a Gala Fundraiser at the Mauch Chunk Opera House. Here’s what we saw back in October.
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Gregarious Expressions 