very well put, absolutely in agreement. isabel
On 19 July 2014 04:41, Simon Mclennan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected]http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- http://isabelbrison.com
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