My soul does feel eaten, I'm serious about this. I have nightmares, heart
palpitations (going in for a monitor today), etc. But I can't ignore it (I
can keep my ruminations from the lists on the subject - certainly the
response by the nettime monitor was incredibly condescending and doesn't
do me or him or the issue any good)...
I'd love to see a show just called something like Responses to Violence
and see what emerges -
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, rinus van alebeek wrote:
Dear Alan and all,
Long time ago Karl Popper wrote:
"For the history of power politics is nothing but the history of
international crime and mass murder (including it is true, some of the
attempts to suppress them). This history is taught in schools, and some of
the greatest criminals are extolled as heroes."
So what to do if you want to establish your own order? One starts "cleaning"
the place up. It is the way history tells. Leave it to the ghost writer.
How to deal with this through art and other forms of expression?
I really don't have a clue. It is like pondering on how to stop the waves of
the sea rolling onto the shore.
To kill, rape, torture must give some energy, a kind of high that is
addictive and probably creates a psychological space where-in one feels
him/herself master of all events in and outside oneself.
Destroy that space is the one thing I can think of, while working on your
art.
But can we? And isn't such practice in the end self-destructive, because it
will eat your soul?
Meanwhile...
Greetings from the sunny coast of Calabria,
Rinus
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