Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-19 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I want to echo Ana's post below; one statistic that came out two days ago - in the United States, one out of every thirty children will be homeless sometime in his or her life. In a country with such enormous wealth, there is so

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-19 Thread Monika Weiss
...@phil.hhu.de Date: November 16, 2014 at 3:02:21 PM CST To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Subject: Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance Reply-To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au --empyre- soft-skinned space

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-19 Thread Murat Nemet-Nejat
: November 16, 2014 at 3:02:21 PM CST To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Subject: Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance Reply-To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au --empyre- soft-skinned space-- Sorry

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-18 Thread Fereshteh Vaziri
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I always think about the question raised by Alan, How can art heal? I don't know if it can, but it can surely hinder us from going completely down. By expressing our fears and anxiety in our works, by performing them on the stage, by

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-18 Thread William Bain
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Well, once again a very thought provoking discussion forwhich I'm grateful. I wanted to say that powerlessnesscontains or holds power somewhere (far or near). Working (playing) performances, being aware of audience, isbound to touch on a

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-18 Thread Monika Weiss
@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Subject: Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance Reply-To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au --empyre- soft-skinned space-- Sorry for being quite direct: but if you refuse to understand violence

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-18 Thread Monika Weiss
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Healing, placing shrouds over the wounded body of the world… In my native language “shroud’ relates etymologically to a ‘kiss’ as much as it also is about burial. Washing (lava me). Covering, lying down (keimai), enshrouding, touching,

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-18 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Reading Monikas very powerful and intuitive statements and going back to what Alan and others wrote, something struck me: we talk a lot about healing, but suppose we don't need to be healed? I mean the idea of a healthy society is

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-17 Thread Christina Spiesel
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- All, Thank you for this discussion! It comes at a time when I am digesting two documentary films that take on genocide (Indonesia 1966 ) and terrorism in Sierra Leone's civil war (1991-2002). /The Act of Killing/ by Joshua Oppenheimer

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-17 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Christina Spiesel wrote: As testimony to the importance of feeling and the emotions as guides to value -- something very much devalued at the moment as humanities and arts budgets are slashed and education is

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-17 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I lived 32 years in a region, the North of Europe, Sweden, which was, in the Middle Ages, one of the most violent places in Earth. The Vikings, the ancestors of the Norwegian, Danes and Swedes, were feared in the rest of Europe. They come

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-17 Thread Christina Spiesel
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- On 11/17/2014 10:18 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Christina Spiesel wrote: As testimony to the importance of feeling and the emotions as guides to value -- something very much devalued at the moment as humanities and

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-17 Thread PierMartonGmail
= From: Reinhold Görling goerl...@phil.hhu.de Date: November 16, 2014 at 3:02:21 PM CST To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Subject: Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance Reply-To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-17 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- [encryption tests] - reflecting last week's discussion, which started, in my recollection, with Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos stating he would not wish to be here, but wish to be nowhere. His post examined the distinctions of

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-17 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- [encryption tests 2] A question was raised, by Alan Sondheim [Saturday, November 15, 2014] :: How can art, art performance, performance, heal, help one make it through the day, inspire one, against this background of continuous

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-17 Thread Reinhold Görling
To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Subject: Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance Reply-To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au --empyre- soft-skinned space-- Sorry for being quite direct: but if you refuse

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-16 Thread simon
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- a note: David Byrne in /How Music Works/ reminds us that violence can be a form of expression where there is powerlessness: Roger Graef, who has written about the effectiveness of arts programs in UK prisons, believes that violence,

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-16 Thread PierMartonGmail
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- With the St. Louis International Film Festival having started - two films about the death of cinema (Uzumasa Limelight The Congress), in principle worthwhile but I had to walk out… BUT a masterpiece by Volker Schlöndorff, “Diplomacy” (I

Re: [-empyre-] creative powerlessness, expressive violence, performance

2014-11-16 Thread simon
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- On 17/11/14 02:52, PierMartonGmail wrote: the principle “violence as communication” is no help to me. I can easily interpret everything around me as communication (and I DO listen to trees, mountains, animals, no kidding). It is good