Cheers Joel - interesting link you made there. Mmm, on the subject of the body, the animal body - when I think about how other animals (let alone human on human) are taken for granted by us, as if they were a piece of inert rock, literally controlled, like robots, or glove puppets. As if they are animations in a game, or a pair of socks - when I think how we take this for granted - how we exercise a power so supreme over them - like gods - quite dirty, grubby gods - how we manipulate their bodies through selective breeding, as if something like THE BIBle said it was OK to do that, that a god in the sky, Jehovah, told Adam that we could do as we pleased, that this was OK, to use them for our pleasure and sport - for the taste - the juice running down our lips , In Ur, - the joy of owning a certain breed of dog - tiny little legs of a sausage dog - flat faced pug to look chic in the sleeves of a mandarin, or on the lap of a Hollywood diva, or some chav from Solihull, Kensington of Quebec - how we experiment on them, because we can, in cages, bred in tiny cages in China, in America, for the taste of the bacon - we differentiate - our dogs get pride of place - a pig, as intelligent and as sociable as any dog - gets bred bred bred for ever Amen and the bacon grease - The brutalised bodies of factory farm workers and meat workers, slaughter men, underpaid and themselves brutalised to brutalise in turn the chunks of living flesh they process through - for the profit of the owners and the shareholders - mmmmm - what bodies, what bodies, what bodies,
and the war we wreak on our fellow humans, will never ever ever stop, until we treat other species with the respect they deserve - that is, as fellow beings on this "existential adventure” (Anat Pick - Creaturely Poetics) It makes me so sad, and I urge you all to think and feel this one through, please please think about it, S On 18 Jul 2014, at 17:39, Joel Weishaus <[email protected]> wrote: > Simon; > > The bottom photo, B&W, grainy, figures zombi-like, even Butoh-like. Something > timeless here, out-of-time. Art. > > -Joel > > > On 7/18/2014 2:10 AM, Simon Mclennan wrote: >> "Butoh gropes beneath the overlay of socialisation and cultural >> authoritarianism for >> 'the body that has been robbed'...the 'fiery body', the wild inner flame in >> the heart of darkness." (Taghairm Arts) >> >> To see a collection of most of my films, and history of street painting: >> >> http://simonmclennan.blogspot.co.uk >> >> Simon >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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