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ailsa haxell can i jus txt View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. - See: Terms Teens :: note :: ... texting is now a fact of high school life ... there was a moment during a recent rehearsal when as supervisor while talking to four student on stage regarding the scene all four of them went to their phones ... needless to say I stopped in resignation ... some told me to ban cell phones but in the end the students themselves found the commitment required ...

she wept

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I stood beside my wife as she wept. She had spent the day preparing food. A feast for her father who three days before had entered the spirit world. Incense burned around the dishes, candles lit the altar, Korean funeral songs filled the space, she bowed & wept. His picture framed in black watched over her. She had mentioned once he was a disciplinarian yet as so many of his generation the face was full of great protective warmth. She loosened the rice and filled a spoonful serving then bowed & wept. Her heart was heavy. I slipped my hand under hers but she needed no support she wept. Her bows were light & graceful as if she were the spirit. I moved behind her to rest my hands on her shoulders as a sign of comfort. She wept. We bowed three times three. She wept three times three. The incense sticks became ash. The candles in the sand flickered. The songs finished. There was a sorrowful emptiness. She wept to the end. We walked hand in hand to the room we call home. Layers,

Hamlet Collage Performances

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LaerTes (Peter) fights Hamlet (Pat) with King (Andrew) looking on & valley girl Rose (Lyndsie) peers on from backstage. Picture taken by Erich. Rehearsals are over ... cast is ready to perform ... see you at the show Friday & Saturday @ 7 pm. Tickets at the door: children & seniors free, students $3 & adults $5.

A Skull

The director writes in Directors Notes, "London-born playwright Martin McDonagh is the current enfant terrible of the theatre world." That he is a child of the theatre is undeniable - in all senses. Persephone Theatre's production A Skull in Connemara despite solid acting performances and exquisite production values reveals a playwright revelling in theatrical hijinks and linguistic fireworks leaving me the hope that 'enfant' McDonagh will develop his skills beyond the mid-90's great burst of drafts of seven plays in nine months and eventually grow up. Apparently he agrees: "I just need some quiet time to write, hang out and grow up." ( Time ) Dark, droll, comic dialogue and blood crafted to turn cartoonish violence into art while taking a realistic approach to farcical situations cannot disguise the lack of substance. Entertaining it may be but ultimately the characters who argue endlessly fail to overcome their isolation. Their humanness is mis

Hamlet Collage

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Rehearsals have begun. The Fall production is a project based on the Marowitz Hamlet. HAMLET COLLAGE poses the question how we, who may not even have read Shakespeare's Hamlet, view the everyman Hamlet - the person, the play and the myth. Imagine watching an episode of the Simpsons (the one which contains a parody of Hamlet) and suddenly the Ghost (it is speculated Shakespeare played the ghost) snatches you and drags you into the mind of Hamlet, only you hardly know what is happening. HAMLET COLLAGE cuts & pastes traditional readings, modern interpretations, rewritings and foolish misconceptions into a theatrical collage something close to a subconscious mash-up. Have you been transported into the mind of Hamlet or is Hamlet all in your mind? - See: plays :: note :: ... a complex process ...

Godot in Saskatoon

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These past weekends Saskatoon theatre witnessed a historic moment. Henry Woolf strode across the stage surrounded by a formidable cast of actors who all began their acting studies in Saskatoon under his guidance, including director Del Surjik , and launched a new era for Persephone Theatre. "I agonized over it, I did, but it's a play I always wanted to do. It affected me deeply as a new, young theatre practitioner," Surjik said of Waiting for Godot. "I thought it would deliver an introduction of me to the audience and start our conversation together." ( Star Phoenix ) Staging a twentieth century masterpiece honours the past and challenges the future. More importantly utilizing the gifts of splendid theatre artists within the community and inviting back to their roots those who sought development elsewhere, Persephone recognized and strengthened the deep human connections that sustain and nurture the immediate place of theatre. This particular Waiting for Godot

Godot in Saskatoon

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These past weekends Saskatoon theatre witnessed a historic moment. Henry Woolf strode across the stage surrounded by a formidable cast of actors who all began their acting studies in Saskatoon under his guidance, including director Del Surjik , and launched a new era for Persephone Theatre. "I agonized over it, I did, but it's a play I always wanted to do. It affected me deeply as a new, young theatre practitioner," Surjik said of Waiting for Godot. "I thought it would deliver an introduction of me to the audience and start our conversation together." ( Star Phoenix ) Staging a twentieth century masterpiece honours the past and challenges the future. More importantly utilizing the gifts of splendid theatre artists within the community and inviting back to their roots those who sought development elsewhere, Persephone recognized and strengthened the deep human connections that sustain and nurture the immediate place of theatre. This particular Waiting for Godot

wordle connect

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- See: Language :: note :: ... wordle of converstation @ Second Thoughts ... posted some (what i thought were ironic) comments ... irony was missed ... although the response was quite gentle: "you seem like a broken child of the internet" ... followed later by an oh get it post ... still realized my difficulty in conveying nuances ... still the wordle had a point ... showed who talked the most ... the danger is in some networks most = loudest = (lets say) griefer = remove ... not a representation of the quality of the conversation just graphics of words & we can use/manipulate words ... oh well as long as just talking to myself no problems ...

CCK08

Organize/Narrat(ive)e learning experiment/challenge: how is connectivism related to enabling a participatory pedagogy Pre- Course signed up for Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Online Course visited blog signed up for: SL component & joined google group added dates to Doodle logged in to Moodle CCK08 listened to EdTechTalk #81 & #82 & interview read posts: Planning Page , English Pageflakes , support wiki , Sarah's Musings , Connectivism blog , The Connective uploaded latest SL, visited Chilbo & twittered from there. - See: CCK08 :: note :: ... accept those talking marks/grades/assessment/institutions is an important part of their narrative ... after this pre-course "work" must chip away to principles of personal practice by ruthless selection of info-nodes ... find it difficult to commit (be open) to any process structured/unstructured of "network" whether social, neuronal or conceptual ... live chaos ... love complexity & divers

rubber duck

rubber duck project creative networking - See: Projects :: note :: ... old school post ... years ago many posts were of this link type ... rare now with social bookmarking & tags & microblogging ... a relentless change ...

#3

Acts of Indivisibility ( half sisters sitting on the edge of an empty theatre ) Libby:    Are we the angels? Fanny:   (Sewing wings for the swan)              Only if you trust that which you don't know. Libby:    But we humans hate ourselves. Fanny:   Only the very few trustworthy who dare to wholeheartedly               be in love will . . . Libby:     (interrupting) I just want to be happy Fanny:   Ah happiness ... I have heard, meditate on the difference              between the Important and the Essential,              you will learn something secret. Libby:     I feel I carry the rhythms in my face and hands. Fanny:   Hold here tight. Gather up all the loose bits of memories              and press into new form. Libby:     (struggling & lets the fabric drop) Fanny:    The sun begins in the night and ends in the middle of my              spine. Libby:     And the moon always seems to float wherever she wishes              drifting witho

dansing

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seesons uv th heart from narrativ enigma /rumours uv hurricane by bill bissett dansing a video poem created & read in the morning of august 11, 2008 by (inspired by meeting bill after decades of reading his work) click image to view - See: Video Poems :: note :: ... working with imovie & garageband ... compressing for the web is a serious deterioration of both sound & picture ... hmmm probably nothing new for the experienced ... once a year I play with this form and am surprised at both advancements and growing demands ... moving from the wow factor to the desire for better ...

amaze

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amazements jaguar jumps from narrativ enigma / rumours uv hurricane by bill bissett a video poem created & read in the morning of aug, 9, 2008 by raymon montalbetti (inspired by meeting bill after decades of reading his work) click image to view - See: Video Poems :: note :: ... images of Lake Superior ... was there this time last year ... an awe inspiring lake of mythical spirit ... also visible @ youtube

Don't Say God

Don't Say God by John Livingstone Clark accompanied by Ray Stephanson keyboards & Duane Dorgan percussion a temple reading video by Raymon Montalbetti - See: Video Poems :: note :: ... summertime & diggin ... this is a 2004 reading that never made it to the web ... it has now ...

CMcC

Ain't that the truth (A clearing on the way to the dump. Two cars lay upturned at either side of the road like wrecked sentinels.) Lester: What say ... Cormac: Mornin. Lester: Mornin you aST? Cormac: Down yonder the day is cheatin. Lester: Let me see that there rifle. Cormac: Hold on. What can I do for ye? Lester: You ain't got nothin cept the rifle. Cormac: It's a known fact we's all childs of god. Lester: Stay away from here. Cormac: Sure I can't hep ye? Lester: You're a liar. Cormac: You ain't never married. It's a grief and a heartache and they ain't no reward in it atall. You just raise enemies in ye own house to grow up and cuss ye. Lester: You're crazy and cain't fool me just turn around and get goin. Cormac: You aIN'T needin' a watch are ye? Lester: Do you reckon i need a watch. Git. Cormac: (turning to leave) I jus don't know why people don't want to listen? (Walks off. Long silence.) Ain't that the truth. - Se

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1/? what is blood for 2/? what dies in you 3/? how do you like the war 4/? will you be here next year 5/? do u want 2 b emptee 6/? do you interrogate your impulses ... 'does Beckett strike you as a person who ever interrogated his own economic impulses?' ... 7/? is your id intact 8/? am I an imposter 9/? how to find that which i can't even remember is lost 10/? is it just a look 11/? when does the accident become the condition 12/? are we part of the anger 13/? beyond all help 14/? which irreversible process (decay, history) is too personal ... 15/? what does it mean to finish (Mark DuCharme) ... http://bit.ly/33gPqD 16/? how do you keep the faith - See: Questions :: note :: ... unconsciously asked a couple of questions on identi.ca ... now a discipline a little like Oblique_Chirps ... live the questions was a credo ... now I watch my questions ...

rescue

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- See: Image :: note :: ... a wild few days around here ... high winds, tornado touch downs ... trees falling onto roofs & streets ... above is a picture down the street ... look through the window of the fire truck to see the fallen tree ...

prolonged perception

"And so life is reckoned as nothing. Habitualization devours works, clothes, furniture, one's wife, and the fear of war. "If the whole complex lives of many people go on unconsciously, then such lives are as if they had never been." And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony. The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects 'unfamiliar,' to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged. Art is a way of experiencing the artfulness of an object: the object is not important." ( -- Victor Shklovsky "Art as Technique" ) - See: Artists Speak :: note :: ... wonderful attending the Floyd festival (old link not up-dated) ... youth working in post post-modern ways ...

Chris Ashley hanging

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... imagine my surprise when out of the blue artist Chris Ashley offered to ship a work simply as an act of gratitude for my following his html pieces throughout the years ... asked if i had a request & shocked i replied whatever comes will be appreciated ... ... we don't "know" each other ... have never met ... a sporadic network connection at best ... the last few days he posted another of his gifts hanging ... here's where mine hangs ... above my computer work station flanked by my sons piece done at age 11 ... the reflected light line seems appropriate (to me) ... his recent work may be viewed at David Cunningham Projects in San Francisco & his most recent recent work may be viewed each day on his blog Look, See which links & reviews other work as well ... the last month has been particularly stunning as the daily practice demands & challenges both form & impulse ... daily looking means to see & to see I have discovered is to

fir(la)st

There is the place we know and there is the place we live. This I realized staying the past fifteen years in The Temple situated beyond the CPR tracks, at the bottom of Caswell Hill just off of Louis Riel Trail in Saskatoon on the Canadian prairies. Something I've been reminded of as the walls flake and the roof falls. The Temple windows are a bit high meaning I see mostly sky and trees. Inside there is a story which remains mostly untold and not easily accessible. The Ladies Prayer Room in the basement with the now demolished bathroom, the attic with empty pulleys and asbestos, crumbling steps, fence planks missing, cracked windows and worn pathways speak of age and a relentless drive towards being junked or dispersed. Places vanish precisely because, a few years down the track, there is no 'guardian' left willing to pay the bills for the sake of posterity? There is no concealing the sourcing of alienation or the substance of tradition. Speaking in tongues the space

video poems

free - a video poem of 'I want 2 b emptee' from narrativ enigma / rumours uv hurricane by bill bissett FLaRes - a video poem of 'ECHOGRAPHIES' from The House that HIJACK Built by Adeena Karasick - See: Video Poem :: note :: ... created these past early mornings ... inspired by an Adeena Karasick workshop presentation (not attended) at the recent EVOcative Festival/Conference ... the idea + my wife's discovery of sharing pictures using quicktime movies stimulated me to use the tools lying dormant in the computer ...

365 Days

The Stranger. Camus: When was the last time? Shadow: What? Camus: The last time we talked? Shadow: Yesterday before the storm. Camus: And the last word? Shadow: What are you talking about - we don't talk. Camus: Do you remember then the last word you wrote? Shadow: No. Camus: You didn't even think about it. Shadow: (laughs) My name. How every correspondence ends Camus: Exactly. Shadow: Oh I get what this is about. Camus: Do you? - See: Plays :: note :: ... Suzan-Lori Parks wrote a play a day which inspired a nation-wide grassroots festival ... the published book acknowledges Paul Osher - who said it'd be cool. ...

relations

"We are nothing alone. We cannot exist without reference points. We cannot know ourselves until another knows us. This is why we seek love - not just something to hold, but someone to know us and hold us as just us. Neither can we be together if we do not exist as individuals. Both are needed." "Dialogue is both our existence and what we do. We are beings in our doings." "Our purpose is to stir things up. The stirrings are the living edge of us. Where we leak into others, there we create new life. This is the work of conversation: to create new life. " "Dialogue then is not a mere tool, but the fountain of life. Drink from each other's mouths and ears the stuff of life." "The between is life. The between throws off life. The between lives. The between gives life. We meet in the between. We live in the between. What we do separately is done only to serve the between. The between is life." "Giving is what feeds the creation

non-relations

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... clusters of interaction circulate around a deep, shared core connection & this "work" is where connection is maintained ... ... no place for psychological notions of the biologically tied family ... ... the noise of institutional hierarchies needs to be muted ... ... not easy as the traditional relationship canon demands a kind of cohesive, definable whole that is legitimized as fact & truth ... ... shape shift to negotiate a way to re-present ourselves in a credible manner ... ... link to survival, competition & traditional drives of monetary adherence to security ... ... replace convention with stripped, personalised, intuitive, introspective, living & open-ended actions (authenticity & inspired) ... ... replace status quo, comprehension, ease & predictability with chaotic, disordered and risky variations ... - See: Relationship :: note :: ... towards a manifesto of relations ...

Pressure

She wanted to know what wind was for. On the island which stirred underneath the feet. Or, Does wind wish to be of the earth? Would oceanic be another sister? Is survival interesting as always was & will be? She once found solace for several years. Before she shaved her hair in the heat without wind. The scarf bound tightly a perceived protection. Someone could leave streaklines. Walls do hold the anemometer windows measuring promise. Each day nothing seems to blow. Gentle breezes deceive anyone who faces the other way inland or outing the change of direction. Maybe we're all wind. Whatever that's for. - See: Writing :: note :: ... in a time when no wind blows ...

no title

Did you see the water streaming down the outside walls? Even in the heat of the night when the stillness hums loudest the ceiling cracks appear lost. The water drains down. Down, down, down. A studied run-a-way he could never slip through without scratching the cortical brain tissue. An image thought responding to delirium and drift. Just lie. Hidden in a canoe he criss-crosses sky rivers only to be countered by the vulgar and incoherent family. His brother's mother was a master of glib, good mannered indolence. She canonized deceit. Her marriage was a miscarriage. The run-a-way became animal staking out the path of escape in all its positivity. When do you leave she asked. When do you think - do you think he said. (He knew that resistance was surrender.) He said he was never born he escaped. Wrong. Don't deny your birthright. You always enjoyed suffering she said. Never look for shame in dark pines underwater. He stood high looking out over the river. Map the sandbar and cr

two silences

two silences        the frozen first & last selves             reflections in cracked windows we look through & away        in hesitations & abbreviations              a shredded glaring resistance the framing warps in the heat        paint blisters & curls before              pleading naked exposure the problem with a door are the hinges. - See: Poetry :: note :: ... not to be confused with solitude ...

mythtime

reading of the mythtime "... the wild time ... mythtime surrounds historical time the way the forest and the ocean and the sky surround a village ... the mythtime is self-sustaining, alive and independent of human control ... myth is a richly complex piece of knowledge, like a theorem or a language or a genome: an inheritance too precious to be left, like a trademark or a patented procedure, in the realm of the privately owned ... the mythtime covers for a timeless moment, a familiar human space ..." ( Nine Visits to the Mythworld: Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas ) - See: Terms Artists First Nation :: note :: ... Robert Bringhurst ... Animal and the Human ... we were told ...

Storytellers Unite

Storytellers Unite Traditional meets unconventional at eVOCative festival Ashleigh Mattern The StarPhoenix Monday, June 16, 2008 Saskatoon is storyteller central this summer as the city plays host to two of the industry's conferences and a festival of oral performance. Storytellers from across Canada and around the world will be coming to Saskatoon to attend the eVOCative festival and The Oral, the Written and Other Oral Media conference from June 19 to 21, and the Storytellers of Canada annual conference from July 2 to 6. While the conferences are fine-tuned to the interests of performers and academics working and creating in the field, both conferences have a little something for everyone. In the case of The Oral, the Written and Other Oral Media, main organizer Susan Gingell has also organized a festival of oral performance to complement the conference. Gingell said it was important to her to bring artists and academics together. "Too often (artists and academics) operate

Crow Hop

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The eVOCative Crow Hop at the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company ended with the traditional round dance ... all performers, staff, attending poets, conference organizers, volunteers, supporters & audience linked hand in hand ... the center empty a birthing womb ... just a couple of hours before Joseph Naytowhow had drummed the space awake with a morning song, cleansed the ear with flute breath love and jigged joy energy to welcome all the relations this summer solstice on National Aboriginal Day in honour of "the broad range of contemporary Aboriginal oralities from storytelling and song to poetry, spoken word, and hip hop" (program notes) ... Marie Campbell , reading from her in-progress work, honoured Metis women. Her understated, quiet voice, warm from a story told in Cree about a priest and a women, held authority and reverence but most importantly the words were testaments to women history had unwitnessed. the mixed bloodlines of families, our tribe, our elder

eVOCative cab

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a wonderful eclectic evening in the Oak Room of The Park Town -- eVOCative Performance Cabaret ... the program reads: "The eVOCative cabaret brings to our stage five innovative, politically-engaged & dynamic writers and performers. These artists are influenced by, and follow in, a broad range of traditions from sound poetics and dub to feminist performance art, dramatic monologue, and experimental language poetics - all to remarkable effect. There is no way to encounter the surprising and fluid relationships between oral and written poetries than by experiencing the work of artists like bill bissett, Adeena Karasick, Catherine Kidd, Kaie Kellough and d'bi.young.anitaafrika, and I am so thrilled they are all part of this festival and conference. It's going to be a fabulous , fun night!" ( T.L. Cowan, curator ) Cowan , an international writer/performer herself, served up this delectable feast. Cheekily in a blond wig like something hot off an Entertainment Tonight

meeting bill bissett

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wz 1 of thoz polar bear timez u no all north outside & shimmern inside n i wz 2 listn 2 bill bissett excellent wild i thot standing 4 tickets he came up behind me not sure sew askd who he wz jimmy disappointd i handshaked later he wz at the front so the trikster foold me again he 8 n sang n breethd into th mic buzzd terribul like it didn't recogniz hm 4 a moment we wer all pssssd then were kompleetlee happee invited bill & Adeena to the Temple frends 4 over 20 yrs talkn n konnekting 2gethr while reading they merg in2 each othr nicelee i wz reelee xcited th dreem was 2 dew blew treez n share n love n help b ing creeativ interests peopul 2 meet them freely n prsonal n we did - See: scenik narratif :: note :: ... bill bissett and Adeena Karasick were in Saskatoon for a Festival ... even though they knew nothing of me they found time to visit & share their generous spirits ... am forever grateful ...

Self Referential Play

Self Referential image - See: Tools :: note :: ... word picture generated by wordle ... larger here ...

when there is nothing

when there is nothing ... when articulating the necessity of witnessing a theater act i often choose the phrase "art as nourishment" ... the bread of life ... yet this metaphor of consumption is problematic ... presencing a performance is to encounter a flow/current/process/energy (dancingness) which moves the "I" ... the self by meeting the self breaks down the existential trap of being human ... the personal is stripped bare ... & in the barrenness a lively silent stillness shines (aura) ... there is something ... there is something unutterable ... when there is something theater is presencing dancingness aura ... - See: Theater :: note :: ... thinking about a question regarding feeling left after a performance ...

that which knaws

that which knaws at the soul sleeps alone lives unseen under bleeding nail bitten fingers if the heart is delicate the invisible mending is always visible scar white despair scabs pulsing a self mutilation nerve ends screaming "I" stripped down to self suspicious whispers keep a journal obsessively & fall asleep forget the pain - See: Poetry :: note :: ... that time of year ...

Dramaturgy

... responding to a question on how to tell a political story in the theater ... "Stories ground people in culture, (and remove the alienation that causes aggression) stimulate their imagination, (and therefore improve the capability to change) teach them about themselves and connect them with each other. Stories are a vital element of society. Embrace non-linearity. Let go of the idea of plot. Realtime is non-linear. Tell the story through interaction." ( REALTIME ART MANIFESTO ) ... return to Aristotle's six recognized elements in Drama ... of course rejecting plot & never forgetting imagination ... (theme) = ACTION + (character) = SOURCE + (diction) = imaginative choice & delivery of words = TEXT + (music/rhythm) = melody of voice = SINGINGNESS + (spectacle) = imaginative use of props = DANCINGNESS makes connection ... - See: Theater :: note :: ... the dramaturgy of performance ...

Jayne Wark Lecture

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... attended Public Lecture Dr. Jayne Wark Conceptual Art in Canada: Histories, Geographies and Debates : a lecture offered in tandem with the Mendel's exhibition of Iain Baxter& ... talk described three Canadian conceptual art workers: General Idea , N.E. Thing Co. and NSCAD ... honoured the influence of McLuhan ... explored the interrogations/anti-visual language/idea machine & viral aspects of conceptual art + the methodologies of art production/commodification/capitalism ... lecture was accompanied by a powerpoint slideshow ... concluded with a challenge to "tone up" ... a metaphor to critically examine the historical revisionism surrounding conceptual art, to correct the much neglected documentation of canadian conceptual art and finally how "conceptual art continues to define Canadian contemporary art, and its legacy is being mined by the young artists of today." ... - See: Artists :: note :: ... thanks for the solid intro both dense and cl

Declensions of Light

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Light fascinates me in all its manifestations. I study, experiment, discover, and try to give form to light and set it into motion." (Werner Bauer) - See: Artists :: note :: ... i love the light ... summer evenings bath the temple space golden ... the worst about linking to gallery feeds is the subsequent linkrot ...

Tweet Wheel

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- See: Networking Twitter :: note :: ... couldn't resist the vanity wheel ...

Gurawski's intern

He dreamed. I was assigned to be an intern with Gurawski, a young stage designer with Grotowski. The Theatre of 13 Rows company was in transition moving from Opole to Wrocław and about to be relabeled "Teatr Laboratorium". This I knew but still relished this opportunity to be in the old Opole workspace. As field work Gurawski had taken me to an old castle outside of Cracow leaving me stranded on the roof stripping away plaster to reveal rotten beams. Rain had caused significant damage and it was my job to expose all the potential structural damage. It was dangerous work. Often found myself in precarious positions barely hanging on. The building was deep in a forest and at one point I thought this was some kind of prototype for Brezinka. Returning to Opole I set about sanding the raked stage for an early production which I identified would later become Apocalysis Cum Figuris. Discussing the show with Gurawski he took me through a visualization of the actors. A scene of the ac

Maps

"Inspection and interviews. Close personal observation and talking with long term residents. It's a hard thing, really, to erase a trail. A lot of information can be recovered if you stay at it." "Of course, but nobody has the time for this kind of field-work anymore. That's unfortunate, because this information is what we need, you know. This shows history and how people fit the places they occupy It's about what gets erased and what comes to replace it. These maps reveal the foundations beneath the ephemera." ( from The Mappists in Light Action in the Caribbean by Barry Lopez ) - See: 3Life :: note :: ... maps & time ...

Answer

sent the question: Imagination is .... out to the twitterverse received this answer: imagination is ... copy left not right! ;-) - See: 3Life :: note :: ... openness is the beginning ...

Last Days

"These two concepts, practice and play, taken at their most serious and most spiritual, was what Grotowski gave his life to. " "Grotowski's effects on theatre flow from three ideas that he identified, explored, and attempted to systematize. First, that powerful acting occurs at a meeting place between the personal and the archetypal-in this he continued and deepened the work of Stanislavsky. Second, that the most effective theatre is the "poor theatre" - one with a minimum of accoutrements beyond the presence of the actors. Third, that theatre is intercultural, differentiating and relating performance "truths" in and from many cultures. He explored these ideas over a lifetime of scrupulous work with people, work that was precise, detailed, systematic, physical; a set of practices more than a colloquium of ideas or beliefs. His writings can appear inspirational or opaque. But working with him was another matter altogether. " ( TDR/ Drama Revie

"3Life"

"We all lead three lives, an actual one, an imaginary one, and the one we are not aware of." ( - Thomas Berhard. On the Mountain. p 8 ) My question is how do all these lives entwine and practices which encourage awareness of these lives. Tagged 3life - See: 3Life :: note :: ... responding to Chris : "I'm going to be thinking and reflecting over the next 30 days on this question and I invite you to choose a question and engage in a research project as well." ...

irreal

"The other departure from contemporary English is my use of 'irreal' and 'irreality', which are not English words at all. They are my rendering of the French adjective and noun 'irréel' usually translated as 'unreal' and 'unreality'. but these would be misleading here. Sartre's use of 'irréel' here seems to follow one sense of Husserl's 'irreal' . Since Husserl's term is usually rendered into English as 'irreal', my rendering of Sartre's term preserves the connection. Further, Sartre's 'irréel' does not denote, as 'unreal' seems to, the class of objects that could exist but do not. Rather, an irreal object in this work is an object as imagined by consciousness. This object may be real: the irreal Pierre may be the real Pierre as imaged. Conversely, unreal objects that are never imaged will never be irreal. Finally, Sartre employs the verb 'to irrealize', even opening the wo

Value of theater

North American theater related blogs questioned the value of theater on March 19. The Peter Brook quote which inspired this blogs title holds an answer. "In everyday life, 'if' is a fiction, in the theater 'if' is an experiment. In everyday life, 'if' is an evasion, in the theater 'if' is the truth." ( The Empty Space ) If is the central core of LifE. Experiences creating/witnessing/participating in theater can be healing. Flow , action in rhythm, vibration in space heals the fragmentation of time into a on-going presence of awakened sensibility. Theater plays (pdf link) with space & time educating the imagination to observe equally the predictable and unpredictable universe. Theater is a communion opening us to the mystery which is at the heart of life. To finish the Brook quote which concludes his book: "When we are persuaded to believe in this truth, then the theater and life are one. This is a high aim. It sounds like

Irene van de Mheen

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( via LookSee ) - See: Image Artist :: note :: ... this is a work that might fit into SL ... able to fly around & even into ...

OBE'd

"i found http://www.pseudodictionary.com/OBE - sourced from here - http://tinyurl.com/2chbfm - scroll down to the Dec 13th post on that page " ( twitter ) - See: Social Networks :: note :: ... am a late bloomer ... quick to add & use apps/tools ... mainly lurk slow to network ... was hesitant to ask twitter to find some info on a "geek/tech" word while reading a post but took the plunge ... it was one of the first "friends" who replied with a direct message thus hidden ... the flashy multi posters ignored the request ... there certainly types of friends ... so thanks web friend ...

Arts Education

"1. An interest in a performing art leads to a high state of motivation that produces the sustained attention necessary to improve performance and the training of attention that leads to improvement in other domains of cognition." ( Essay: Arts and Cognition: Findings Hint at Relationships The 2008 Progress Report on Brain Research | via ) & "Thirty-five thousand MFAs a semester, 90 percent of whom never make another work of art." ( The Art Critic: David Hickey | via ) - See: Education Arts :: note :: ... the paradox in these statements reveals the truth about ? ...

Drollic Dream

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- See: Image :: note :: ... Drollic Dream ... a flickr toy ...

double dialogues

"We can interact. We can be performative. We can create. Our meanings are full ... 'of sound and fury' or full of hot air. We can breathe life into our meanings. Meanings inspire; eventually they expire. We can exchange meanings. We can engage in the Dialogue and the circulation of meanings: floating meanings; bouncing to and from the audience; bouncing from and to the screen." ( Double Dialogues: Issue Seven, Winter 2007 On Space : (falling into) the space between the screen and the audience | Stephen Goddard ) - See: Theater Journal :: note :: ... tentatively enter a conversation on distance in the theater: the aesthetics of audience response ...

Highway's Dilemma

"... There's this attitude out there that only native actors can play native roles. But acting - the verb "to act" - means to pretend to be who you are not, so I don't believe in that idea that you have to be a native to play one. Look at [playwright] Morris Panych - and I don't want to say a word against him, because I adore the man - but what if someone were to come up to him and say, "You're only allowed to work with Polish actors?" He wouldn't have much of a career. If someone were to go up to Atom Egoyan and say, "You can work only with Armenian actors," his career would die tomorrow. There's a very real danger of that happening with native writers. And the older I get, the less interested I become in immersing myself in that problem." ( Journey man The nomadic Tomson Highway talks about writing the first Cree opera By Martin Morrow, CBCNews.ca ) - See: Artists - See: Theater :: note :: ... certainly not a ne

Ten Cubed Gallery

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- See: Image Gallery Artists :: note :: ... entered the Ten Cubed Gallery to visit the works of Chris Ashley ... although love the idea of Second Life the virtual gallery fails to create or enrich ... launched by the real world gallery Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery for Innovative Contemporary Artists the traditional web pages give all of the works more vibrancy ... second life feels very secondary ... granted there is the walking a gallery & a spatial effect ... perhaps i need more practice and better equipment ... still second life with the ability to fly and teleport demands fresh new ways of viewing ... would love to fly around works ...

nothing left

I have nothing left to imagine On the place of dreams Or the action of the spheres Of the breathturns. If I once directed a scene of trials The jury is hung. The judgement suspended. - See: Poetry :: note :: ... nothing left to say ...

Prairie Sustainability

"At a school with a locked-away ivorytower board of governors, one can feel hopeless to try to engage real change, Darwish of the Sierra Club told the group. "In my year it was cool to be an activist. It was cool to fuck shit up, but campuses are getting more corporate."" ( The Sheaf | Vol.99 Issue 22/ Jan. 24 2008 | pdf file ) "The Prairies Sustainable Campuses Conference will bring together campus community members from across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta to build a regional network as part of the national movement to institutionalize social and environmental sustainability on campus." ( Prairie Sustainable Campus Conference ) Saskatchewan Education for Sustainable Development Mike Hudema Liela Darwish Rosa Kouri - See: Politics Environment Activism :: note :: ... a rich example of students working on important issues ... wishing to document this ...

blind newsmakers

"Arts and Letters Daily is an example of the pure ``communo-genic'' function. It creates a lens for the cultured, conservative Anglo Saxon, entirely by selecting from other web sites 3 noteworthy articles per day. We notice it at openDemocracy--when it lists one of our pieces we see the traffic spike. Arts and Letters Daily creates its cultural commentary through careful aggregation--it builds it with the smaller lego pieces available elsewhere. The traffic spike that we see from it suggests that Arts and Letters Daily has real credibility amongst its readers: they trust it to take them places worthy of attention. It is a sort of Michelin guide for that tribe. When I click through an A&L Daily article, I arrive at it with all sorts of preconceptions: I arrive at the article not with a mind as a blank slate, but ready to resume my conversation with the cultured right. A&L has framed my reading just as a newspaper's commentary pages does." ( openDemocracy |

6 Word Stories

Lost her. At night he wept. (true story) 6 Word Stories Facebook group - See: Story Facebook :: note :: ... through the myriad of web connections found myself writing a 6 word story ... ivoryfishbone led me there ... the web is what you make it ...

Gaia work

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index.html via kwout - See: Images :: note :: ... though a useful link the image evoked a recent work ...

Wayback Machine

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- See: Technology :: note :: ... this was the last page of a blog which ceased to be serviced years ago ... wayback machine preserves the past ... am thankful & will take the past into a living place ... for how long? ... remembering on this screen is like borrowed word ( McCarthy ) borrowed time with borrowed eyes in a borrowed world ...

post apocalyptic

"All of this like some ancient anointing. So be it. Evoke the forms. Where you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them." ( Cormac McCarthy. The Road. 74 ) - See: Artists :: note :: ... end of delayed term ... redemptive ceremonies must be reenacted even with passion gone ... huge sense of futility ... so be it ...

Tiravanija's gift

"Tiravanija is a Potlatch-Conceptualist. The Native American potlatch is a banquet lasting several days, given by a member of the tribe: artistically speaking, that's what Tiravanija does for his art-world tribe. He cooks, you come; he gives, you take. The word potlatch means "big feed," hence Tiravanija is a "feeder." In the dialect of the Northwest Haida tribe, potlatch also means "killing wealth"; in other words, to give something for free is to undemline wealth. Tiravanija seems to suggest that as wealth is accumulated, fewer and fewer people can enjoy it. To buy means to strike a deal. Things are clearly understood--a stasis occurs. A gift is different. A gift is more mysterious than property. The weight of a gift continually shifts from giver to receiver, creating reciprocal obligations. A gift also involves an emanation of Eros." ( A short history of Rirkrit Tiravanija - Thai artist who cooks meals as installation art Art in America,

Conviviality

"Freedom and dignity will continue to dissolve into an unprecedented enslavement of man to his tools. As an alternative to technocratic disaster, I propose the vision of a convivial society. A convivial society would be the result of social arrangements that guarantee for each member the most ample and free access to the tools of the community and limit this freedom only in favor of another member‚s equal freedom." ( Tools for Conviviality - Ivan Illich ) - See: Terms :: note :: ... reading regarding the use of our tools ... conviviality is a concrete map for a new social order ...

times way

disembodied voices came from the shadows of the abyss light reciting passages snatched randomly spoken quietly ... a songstress underneath the weight of the dreamwords rose to distract the gauze scrim hanging like a torn wedding dress dreaming of love ... a billowed skypath ending at a door blocked by sandbags reminding that no journey may ever begin nor end in death ... the eyes pleaded mercy or rebelled in boredom not daring to share the fears so near to darkness or simply waiting ... for what? - See: Poetry :: note :: ... students work on Mary's Wedding ... Proust Swann's Way voices at home ... we all in our ways search for lost time ...

love is

love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skilfully curled) all worlds - e.e. cummings - See: Poetry :: note :: ... one year ...

looking out

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(Kathryn Green from Recreated exhibition ) - See: Artists :: note :: ... the urge to look out this year ...