Hi Joel, well I went off there at a tangent.. I do appreciate your comment - somehow it sparked something.
It was also re-reading the quote about the butoh body and the body “that has been robbed”, and I thought of wild animals and their bodies (reminding me now also of my old Alexander technique teacher speaking of the grace of wild animals), then I thought about how we farm animals, and chain them and break them, like a horse or an elephant, to do our labour. And the utter sadness of that situation, when all is said and done, as we totter about the earth, puffing ourselves up… Cheers Joel, Simon On 19 Jul 2014, at 00:02, Joel Weishaus <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Simon; > > I wasn't aware that I made that particular link. But I do agree with > everything you say, except for "inert" rocks, as everything moves. Some rocks > just move very slow; while igneous rocks in a hot state of volcanic eruption > move very fast. It is also interesting that we carry the DNA of almost every > living, or having once lived, substance. Contrary to how biologists classify > life, we are all of the same family. > > And, yes, we've captured, enslaved animals and bred animals for our own use, > physical and psychological. We've made them into factories, or "companions," > neurotic to a point where and we now send them to psychiatrists to make them > feel more comfortable in their enslavement, just as psychologists adjust > people to a neurotic world. > > This is incendiary stuff. But one job of the artist is to work the bellows of > the alchemical fire. > > -Joel > > > On 7/18/2014 11:41 AM, Simon Mclennan 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 list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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