Re: [-empyre-] from 5th Avenue New York City

2014-12-06 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Why is mr Obama talking about economy and jobs? Because he is, indeed, an old fashioned politician, despite his relative youth and the vitality of his first campaign. For the kind of politicians he represents (and maybe for all

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome Patty Zimmermann

2014-12-06 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I was now on the live Ustream and saw Denver march, amazing and encouraging Ana On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Renate Ferro renatefe...@gmail.com wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- aggregate, permeate,

Re: [-empyre-] in solidarity--an open call to our subscriber list

2014-12-05 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Renate and Tim, I am very touched by your post showing that -empyre is concerned with the world with the art and the activist and tan we, as thinkers, writers, performers, can not be sitting in our ivory towers analyzing the world and

Re: [-empyre-] from 5th Avenue New York City

2014-12-05 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Renate and Tim, it's very moving hear your comments from the belly of the beast, US, the worlds biggest superpower but also a nation in disray, being at the same time the police of the world and having so much unfairness in its own

[-empyre-] Entartete Kunst

2014-11-28 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- http://hyperallergic.com/165346/behold-the-nazi-postcards-from-the-infamous-degenerate-art-show The Entartete Kunst exhibition always remind me of how powerful Art is as tool to perform changes. The gaze which the artists look at the world

[-empyre-] discussion on track again

2014-11-26 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I was trying to find a red line in our discussion, reading what others wrote, Aneta, Monika, Murat, Alan, Johannes, Christina, Aristita, Andreas, Simon, Rustom, Alicia, Leandro, others... I go always back to Modernity. Yesterday we

Re: [-empyre-] discussion on track again

2014-11-26 Thread Ana Valdés
that still believes in the power of ideas. That discovery would be the elixir of of benevolent violence (a contra-violence), power thtough powerlessness that we are looking for. Ciao. Murat On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote: --empyre- soft

[-empyre-] interesting article in The Nation

2014-11-25 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- related to our discussion http://www.thenation.com/article/191409/when-will-us-military-end-its-pattern-destabilizing-entire-regions Ana -- http://www.twitter.com/caravia15860606060 http://www.scoop.it/t/art-and-activism/

[-empyre-] my exchange with Alan when I apologized for making him feel attacked

2014-11-25 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I wanted to take my share of the people arguing with Alan and maybe contributing, unintentionelly, to his feeling of unease. I listened to your laments and I felt a deep sympathy for you trying to heal us, to heal the world. Maybe that's

Re: [-empyre-] The Market from Here // Kuki

2014-11-24 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- The square can be a tool to remember to mourn and to celebrate. The movement I belong, Women in Black, www.womeninblack.org, started in Israel 1988, http://womeninblack.org/vigils-arround-the-world/europa/israel/ as a demonstration against

Re: [-empyre-] Cyberwar against St Louis / Ferguson

2014-11-24 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Ferguson is going to burn down, that's for sure. And the grand joury should be conscient and take their responsability about what is going to happen. That's the kind of arrogant behaviour who make people angry, frustrated and violent. Ana

Re: [-empyre-] introducing week 3

2014-11-23 Thread Ana Valdés
was exterminated by the Europeans. Ana, my question is: was the epic violence the history shows perpetrated by the same kind of gentle people I encountered or was it done by another separate people I never came across? On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [-empyre-] introducing week 3

2014-11-22 Thread Ana Valdés
acting could be a form of self-preservation, and not acting a from of self-distraction, don't you think so? It makes me think about the poem Ana quoted earlier in the discussion: Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote:--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I remember quite

Re: [-empyre-] introducing week 3

2014-11-22 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I agree totally with Murat. The question, what is to be done? should not be asked. You, me, we, can't do other things that the things we do, it means, write, pain, dance, play, denounce. Again, Picassos Guernica didn't stop the war or the

Re: [-empyre-] Vor dem Gesetz/Before the Law, hoveringly

2014-11-21 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I ment that maybe societies are normally unhealthy and our try to normalize things, the frame violence and despair and happiness are risen from our beliefs, born with the Modernity, on a shiny good world where health and happiness were

Re: [-empyre-] Vor dem Gesetz/Before the Law, hoveringly

2014-11-20 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Johannes my answer was not resigned at all (I am not the kind of resigned people :) but wondered if our dilemma was not a typical dilemma risen from Modernity, to make Humanity happier and more enlightened with the help of education,

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 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-] Introducing Monika Weiss

2014-11-17 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Welcome Monika! I remember fondly our former exchange when you were a guest to -empyre as well and you shared with us your work Sustenazo, (Laments), so mighty powerful. I encouraged Alan to invite you I think our discussion at that time

Re: [-empyre-] sample from today

2014-11-11 Thread Ana Valdés
, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics On Nov 10, 2014, at 3:51 PM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- Some quick answers: Jon, check the archives of -empyre and you can read Alicia Migdal's quotations of Agamben and its Homo

Re: [-empyre-] sample from today

2014-11-11 Thread Ana Valdés
of fewer and fewer people. Ciao, Murat On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thank you Gabriela for your interesting description of the non-violent answer to the state violence installed in Mexico. I

Re: [-empyre-] sample from today

2014-11-11 Thread Ana Valdés
, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- Thank you Murat! I feel that the apocalyptical utopies from Boko Haram and ISIS trying to shape their own worldorder are signs of our time. ISIS is invoking the Caliphate, the go back to Al Andalous

Re: [-empyre-] sample from today

2014-11-11 Thread Ana Valdés
:04 PM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- I had a discussion with Murray Bookchin once, he visited us, the anarchist collective I lived with at that time, in Stockholm. We translated into Swedish his book about Ecology. He

[-empyre-] another kind of violence

2014-11-10 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- My friend and colleague Cecilia Parsberg, Swedish visual artist, who went with me to Palestine and took the pictures in Jenin and made the films I linked yesterday too, is working with an unique project, How to be a succesful beggar in

Re: [-empyre-] sample from today

2014-11-10 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Some quick answers: Jon, check the archives of -empyre and you can read Alicia Migdal's quotations of Agamben and its Homo Sacer. And Diana, two days ago I posted to the list the links with live strem to the protests in Mexico when the news

Re: [-empyre-] sample from today

2014-11-10 Thread Ana Valdés
of Performance and Politics On Nov 10, 2014, at 3:51 PM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- Some quick answers: Jon, check the archives of -empyre and you can read Alicia Migdal's quotations of Agamben and its Homo Sacer. And Diana, two

[-empyre-] I feel today a bit patriotic :)

2014-11-10 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Today started the Syrian kids their first day as pupils in a public school in Montevideo. They are among the 120 refugees taken as political refugees to Uruguay. Several of them are Palestinian living in Syria as refugees, the war expelled

Re: [-empyre-] Patriotism

2014-11-09 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- For me the sheer concept of patriotism is weird, foreign. Every country of the world is a construction, a border made up politically for economical and territorial needs of the states but not for the peoples. The people don't want borders

Re: [-empyre-] concerning violence, and more Antigone's bones

2014-11-09 Thread Ana Valdés
su vida singular vale más que la ley y la violencia. Reinhold Am 08.11.2014 um 18:56 schrieb Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- Octavio Paz, Nobelprize in literature from Mexico, was Mexico's ambassador in India several years and come

Re: [-empyre-] images hard to watch

2014-11-09 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Pia, many thanks for sharing your stories of your stay in Palestine, in the occupied territories. And I am a bit apalled you never saw any terror or killings (for me the checkpoints ARE terror). By the way here it's a link to an

Re: [-empyre-] live stream with protests in Mexico

2014-11-09 Thread Ana Valdés
, pretending not to feel the odour of the burning flash. Sonja Leboš sonjaleboš@gmail.com www.resurbanae.wordpress.com www.theatreofmemories.org www.cybercine.org www.uiii.org 2014-11-09 5:01 GMT+01:00 Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com: --empyre- soft-skinned space

[-empyre-] was rejected, trying to post again

2014-11-09 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Another language: Gmail language, I posted it as plain text but it comes as garbled numerics :) As and old Catholic :) born in Uruguay the most Jacobine country after France :) and raised by Francophile German nuns from Paderborn :) I

Re: [-empyre-] concerning violence, and more Antigone's bones

2014-11-08 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Octavio Paz, Nobelprize in literature from Mexico, was Mexico's ambassador in India several years and come very near Hinduism and Buddhism. He wrote some superb books discussing the differences between Christianity and the Oriental

[-empyre-] live stream with protests in Mexico

2014-11-08 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- The murder of 43 young boys has awakened Mexico and ppl are chanting and protesting in the whole country, they demand president Pena's resignation. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/yo5oymexico Today we are all Mexicans, yesterday we were

Re: [-empyre-] The horror, the horror

2014-11-07 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Alicia wrote a great text, very strong, making us to remember Pol Pot, a forgotten horror as she call it. Maybe Pedro is around (Pedro, en dónde andás, te extranamos!) and we could translate it. Sadly for these kind of poetic and complex

[-empyre-] Fwd: The horror, the horror

2014-11-07 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- The chronological and emotional sequences of this year: we are still shocked by the impact of the massive kidnapping of the girls by Boko Haram, our capacity of perception goes to the massacre of Gaza, as in a relay race ISIS takes over

[-empyre-] interesting about violence

2014-11-07 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Violence is a key ingredient of human storytelling: from our first oral tales, violent acts have heightened audience attention and underlined the dangers of our world. What happens to a child who goes off alone? She is beset by ogres!

Re: [-empyre-] Assyrian resonance

2014-11-06 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I translated from Swedish to Spanish the testimony of a young indigenous peasant from Guatemala, she walked from her village to the nearby village to borrow some corn. The villages were in the Cuchumatanes mountains, the border between

Re: [-empyre-] language/discourse on terror, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-06 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Vivian, as Johannes so kindly pointed out we should be able to express ourselves in the language we feel more comfortable or at ease. Querida Vivian, como Johannes lo ha escrito tan simpáticamente, deberíamos poder expresarnos en

Re: [-empyre-] language, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-05 Thread Ana Valdés
in itself. Ana Valdés On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Erik Ehn shadowtac...@sbcglobal.net wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- [about hesychios: see his written for theoduolos in v.1 of the philokalia: https://archive.org/stream/Philokalia-TheCompleteText/Philokalia

Re: [-empyre-] language/discourse on terror, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-05 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Johannes, only a short remark, when I am writing about my pain and my memories I am also using literary tools, the body remembers but the language or the brain don't. I read Butler's Frames of War, Agamben's Homo Sacer and The remnants of

[-empyre-] rejected message, trying again :(

2014-11-05 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Johannes you are raised in Germany I assume you are familiar with Heinrich Böll s writing. For me his best book is 8.30 biljard, a very powerful novel about an elderly architect who builds a church (maybe a cathedral, I don't exactly

[-empyre-] Fwd: para empyre

2014-11-05 Thread Ana Valdés
and grandchildren of the Argetinian dictatorship set up by the Argentinian playwriter and director Lola Arias. She worked with clothes, objects, images and materials from the concrete past of parents and grandparents. www.lolarias.com.ar/010_bio_ing.swf Ana Valdés contributed with the experience

Re: [-empyre-] Introductory post (Alan Sondheim)

2014-11-04 Thread Ana Valdés
. Ana Valdés, writer On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 3:37 AM, Jon McKenzie jvmcken...@wisc.edu wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- Among the tragic-prop scenes I hope to entertain in the daze ahead— the society of the spectacle of the scaffold hypergraphé across jagged

Re: [-empyre-] language, reporting the virtually true

2014-11-04 Thread Ana Valdés
and the death of hope, the last thing left inside the box of Pandora. Ana Valdés On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Daniel O'Donnell daniel.odonn...@uleth.ca wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- You know, I've been wondering about this: since the Taliban blew up

Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 111, Issue 9 (Domenico Quaranta, Ethel Baraona Pohl)

2014-02-15 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Printed or not printed books are narrative and the narrative can be perform in any platform you wish. I am a writer but as a writer I don't have a fetisch with books, my books are now as audiobooks to listen to, ebooks to download as files

Re: [-empyre-] [empyre] wearable technology

2014-01-28 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I worked for a while at the Interactive Institute in Stockholm, https://www.tii.se/projects at that time we carried very advanced experiments using inbedded chips in clothes weared by surgeons and firefighters. The uses of the inbedded

[-empyre-] Ana Valdés, bio

2013-06-11 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--dear -empyre, I am an old member of the list and has been moderating as a guest several times. I enjoy the vitality and the tone of -empyre. I am born in Montevideo, Uruguay, as Leandro. I was jailed when I was very young and spent four

Re: [-empyre-] FAILURE AND BETWEEN COLLABORATION AND THE DIVA ART STAR

2013-05-30 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Renate, when I wrote about collaboration beetween couple/parents it's because I feel collaboration is a natural impulse in all living beings, animals collaborate to hunt and to care about their young, you and Tim collaborate in raising

Re: [-empyre-] from the [alter]south

2013-05-29 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Johannes, and Simon and Zack, thank you for joining us and Cecilia and Alonso-Craciun and all others: we collaborate all the time, in teams, in schoolclasses, as neighboors, as parents, as couples, engaged in different works or non

Re: [-empyre-] from the south

2013-05-28 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Alonso-Craciun: I was introduced to your work trough our common friend and fellow -empyrean Brian Holmes, who met you in Berlin some years ago. Since my move to Uruguay you have showed to me a great generosity and I am very happy to

Re: [-empyre-] from the south

2013-05-28 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Johannes, so sad you come in the discussion so late, I missed you the whole month. You have the ability to link together theory and practice in a very intuitive way. I think we have different arenas and all of them are linked and

Re: [-empyre-] about Brooke's post

2013-05-25 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Tim: I am a bit atonished by the fact Cornell is building a new campus in collaboration with a university in Israel. There is a widespread boycott against Israel among academics and cultural workers and Stephen Hawkings cancelled last

Re: [-empyre-] about Brooke's post

2013-05-23 Thread Ana Valdés
, but the fact that the questions are so difficult is sad and troubling. Gaby Vargas-Cetina Facultad de Ciencias Antropologicas Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan On 5/22/13 4:43 PM, Ana Valdés wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- Brooke I loved your rethoric

Re: [-empyre-] EXCEDENTES/EXCESS Collabroation

2013-05-23 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Interesting project about wasted food and recovered food, Ricardo and Brooke! I translated for the exhibition Softpower a text written by the Bureau d'Etudes about how our agriculture and food are manipulated by the multinationals,

Re: [-empyre-] Thanks but one more thing for Paul: humor/play/irony

2013-05-22 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I am very happy for Paul, Ricardo and Brookes stories, we are still waiting for Marc Garret to introduce himself and his work with Furtherfield, I am sad twe were never able to get as guests Steve Kurtz to speak about Critical Art Ensemble,

[-empyre-] about Brooke's post

2013-05-22 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Brooke I loved your rethoric question: I teach collaboration too and just a few days ago during final presentations saw the power of bringing people together who do not know each other well -- or at all-- for a common cause or, as Paul

[-empyre-] welcome Marc

2013-05-19 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi and I wish express my thanks to Marc, one of our guests this week. I have been following Marcs work in Furtherfield, www.furtherfield.org for many years. We used to interact a lot in Stumble Upon, he wrote a funny and nice review about

Re: [-empyre-] my observations about collaboration

2013-05-17 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear all, welcome back Renate, your voice is needed to make associatios and link together posts and life! What Paul tells about Sam Delany ( I loved his Einsteins intersection) distinction between network and contact. The network he

Re: [-empyre-] All call: moderator wanted for June discussion

2013-05-15 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- And I want encourage everyone to engage in this month's discussion. There are more examples than Sense Lab of collaboration and networking, share with us your own experience. Ana Skickat från min iPhone 15 maj 2013 kl. 21:52 skrev

Re: [-empyre-] SenseLab - new forms of collaboration

2013-05-13 Thread Ana Valdés
, the initiative and response, process, situation/site/relations. Ana Valdés has informed a little about our collaboration and the link http://ceciliaparsberg.se/jenin/ which was made urgently in 2002 when Jenin camp on the West Bank was demolished, and a follow-up of that project, is http

Re: [-empyre-] SenseLab - new forms of collaboration

2013-05-12 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks Brian and Erin for your input! I don't think activism is dead but it's indeed taking new shapes, the indignados in Spain, the Occupy Wall Street, the crowds in Tahir Square, it's more the swarm in Negris and Hardts acceptions than

Re: [-empyre-] the changing nature of collaboration

2013-05-04 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Renate and all, I am now back from my short trip, i was inviting some women activists from the World Women's March to come to Montevideo in August when we host the International Congress for Women in Black. And that's for me a great

Re: [-empyre-] Art cred and advocacy

2013-03-02 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Paolo, so nice to see Molle here in -empyre. I have been following your wonderful games since many years and use them as case examples of esthetic refined and political clever when I teach about games, first in Sweden and now in Uruguay. I

Re: [-empyre-] Art cred and advocacy

2013-03-02 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I started to review computergames when the computers were primitive and the graphics poor, games made for Commodore 64, Spectrum, Atari. The year was 1988 and I played Seven Cities of Gold and wonderful textgames, Leather Goddesses of

[-empyre-] Emotional Gaming -Gefühlsdimensionen des Computerspielens - Jörg von Brincken - Google Books

2013-03-02 Thread Ana Valdés
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Renate the first book I wrote about digital culture and gaming was written in Swedish, I don't have a URL since the book was really pioneering about these topics :), it was published 1996. But I wrote a short essay about gaming and

Re: [-empyre-] FW: VII Place and topos

2012-10-11 Thread Ana Valdés
I don't remember now if it was Hal Foster who wrote a book when he compared the cyberspace and the feelings experimented when people were navigating the early caves with gloves and helmets with the feelings and impressions experimented by the Christian mystics in the Middle Ages. He (I am not sure

Re: [-empyre-] VII: free speech and its ends

2012-10-11 Thread Ana Valdés
The TAZ book is excellent, great writing and great thesis. Hakim Bey is one if the few netphilosophers going to survive the hype. Ana Skickat från min iPhone 11 okt 2012 kl. 15:48 skrev Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org: On 10/11/2012 06:38 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: in both cases, people feel

Re: [-empyre-] VI feud and passion

2012-10-10 Thread Ana Valdés
And I was a member of Cybermind of course, checked my mail archive and I have saved messages from Alan :) from 2006. We danced around the maple, was one of them :) Ana On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:53 PM, michael gurstein gurst...@gmail.com wrote: One small thing to add, and again as someone who was

Re: [-empyre-] regarding grief and mourning

2012-10-08 Thread Ana Valdés
Johannes, as usual, your words trigger thoughts and questions :) we need you to be aware of all tendences to Romanticism here :) But my Romanticism is a German one (I am raised by nuns from Paderborn :), more Sturm und Drang than litchick writing :) More Caspar Friedrich more Caroline von

Re: [-empyre-] II

2012-10-08 Thread Ana Valdés
Jon, I did my share of writing at that time and my first book about the subject, Internet and Women, was published 1995. To write the book I travelled to Palo Alto and me Howard Rheingold, Brenda Laurel, Sandy Stone, Anne Balsamo (who was a guest at -empyre not so long time ago), Marcus Novak. The

Re: [-empyre-] III arrival

2012-10-08 Thread Ana Valdés
Interesting, for me the virtual was not the lists, in despite I come early to Netbehaviour, -empyre, Nettime, Rhizome and many others. For me virtuality come with the online games, the RPG. I played Ultima Online and met doctors playing healers and soldiers playing warriors and women playing men

Re: [-empyre-] III arrival

2012-10-08 Thread Ana Valdés
I felt the virtual in the games was a continuation of the body, as my body limits dissapeared. I was stronger taller more fit I was a god/goddess, I could climb mountains swim in the oceans fly on the sky marry someone of my own gender :) or not marry at all, be a munk or a shaman or a priest or a

[-empyre-] regarding grief and mourning

2012-10-06 Thread Ana Valdés
I am friend to Alfredo Jaar, the Chilean born artist living in New York since many years. I love his work, the Rwanda Project. 1994-2000 He wrote this text in the Imaginary Museum, “These posters, scattered around the streets and squares of Malmo, reduced the rhetoric of advertising to a cry of

Re: [-empyre-] Monika Weiss -- Shrouds, 2012-2013 (as addendum to Lamentation)

2012-10-05 Thread Ana Valdés
Beautiful text, Monika! When I was a child (I was a very precocius reader :) and read history of Rome and Greece. My favorite was the history of Carthage and I was shocked how the city was erased and the Romans threw salt in it to avoid the Carthagineses should build it again. These horrible fate

Re: [-empyre-] Monika Weiss -- Shrouds, 2012-2013 (as addendum to Lamentation)

2012-10-05 Thread Ana Valdés
, gray like our grand zero in 2001, created a stark contrast to the rest of the city, a reverse monument, a whole, a living wound. On Oct 5, 2012, at 7:41 AM, Ana Valdés wrote: Beautiful text, Monika! When I was a child (I was a very precocius reader :) and read history of Rome and Greece

Re: [-empyre-] Monika Weiss -- Shrouds, 2012-2013 (as addendum to Lamentation)

2012-10-05 Thread Ana Valdés
, at 8:53 AM, Ana Valdés wrote: A group of friends of mine, the architect group Hackitectura, www.hackitectura.net work with maps and try to make a cartography of the memory (or the lack of it) mapping social relations, inmaterial networks, political issues. One of their main pillars is the work

Re: [-empyre-] public lament and gardening

2012-10-05 Thread Ana Valdés
I think I am here trying to discuss with myself the value of my memory. It took me 32 years to write the book about the time on jail about torture and my own story. But before these book I wrote and published nine other books, fiction, short stories, two novels. In none of those books I adressed

Re: [-empyre-] public lament and gardening

2012-10-04 Thread Ana Valdés
For me the lament is a kind of collective catharsis, as the mourning itself. I has been in Palestine several times and see and listened to the collective mourning of the women when some of their relatives or friends are killed or buried, a kind of powerful roaring, not the claiming not the

Re: [-empyre-] public lament and gardening

2012-10-04 Thread Ana Valdés
I think mourning and lament are related to the ceremonies of the death. When I did my research as anthropologist I travelled to Mexico and did a fieldwork in Yucatan, the old Maya empire. Their funerary pyramids, specially in Palenque, were very similar to the Egyptian pyramids. Many scenes

Re: [-empyre-] public lament and gardening

2012-10-04 Thread Ana Valdés
The nearest I was from a massgrave was Jenin, 2002, people were eerie silent around the hole wich was Palestine's ground zero. Under the hole were dismembered people, restaurantes blown in pieces, ashes, bones, lonely shoes. I wrote some texts from there, http://www.this.is/jenin In the total

Re: [-empyre-] public lament and gardening

2012-10-03 Thread Ana Valdés
Dear Johannes, as I wrote in my answer to Alan, I am sad I don't have a clue how to avoid these ads in my text, I guess this is the prize to pay for a free digital hosting :( I am now poor as a mouse :) moved back from the First World with all it's glamour to the non glamorous and poor Third

Re: [-empyre-] public lament and gardening

2012-10-03 Thread Ana Valdés
of this discussion. Monika Sent from my iPad On Oct 3, 2012, at 2:13 PM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Johannes, as I wrote in my answer to Alan, I am sad I don't have a clue how to avoid these ads in my text, I guess this is the prize to pay for a free digital hosting :( I am

Re: [-empyre-] this month, the first week

2012-10-02 Thread Ana Valdés
Hi Alan and good luck in your month here! Interesting in reading about Monika's work, I was very concerned with these topics when I wrote my book about torture and violence and history. As maybe many or you know since my earlier participation in -empyre I was a political prisoner in Uruguay when I

Re: [-empyre-] affect, low theory, and capture

2012-06-20 Thread Ana Valdés
I saw in the city of Umeå in the North of Sweden a very interesting exhibition, Lost and Found Queerying the Archive. The curators Jane Rowley and Louise Wolthers built the show around some central and pivotal questions: identity, love and sexuality. Many of the voices presented are anonymous,

Re: [-empyre-] welcome to paradise

2012-05-01 Thread Ana Valdés
In my nove to Montevideo I shipped almost my entire collection of books, around 3000 books now crambling my small apartament in Montevideo. I look often at some of the Art cathalogs of the exhibitions I saw and loved, Documenta X wonderful political texts, L'Immateriel, Lyotard's postmodern

Re: [-empyre-] a bit more? Re: Quintennial of Indigenous Art?

2012-04-29 Thread Ana Valdés
By the way and speaking about Aboriginal Art, did someone read this article and do you have more information? I think it's pretty colonial thinking to justify that. Again, what do we call Art? Is our Western Art more worth to save? Is Western Art an universal measure of Art? (Yes, I know the

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to empyre Week 4:Rethinking Curatorial Options: Globally

2012-04-27 Thread Ana Valdés
I was thinking again about my friend the curator Sarat Maharaj, born in South Africa but of Indian ancestors. He works both at Goldsmiths College in London and in Sweden, in Lund. We discussed once the paradox where Western (European and North American) Art was now a kind of universal paradigm to

[-empyre-] excellent article by Naeem

2012-04-20 Thread Ana Valdés
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/800410/can-artists-help-us-reboot-humanism-in-an-over-connected-age I found your article very interesting. I share with you a healthy skepticism of the new coined expression The New Aesthetic. What it means? An aesthetic based on the sharing of shallow content

Re: [-empyre-] re- Death of the Curator?

2012-04-13 Thread Ana Valdés
One of the best curators I had the priviledge to work with is Sarat Maharaj, one of the most modest and low key curators I know. Born in South Africa of Indian ancestors Maharaj was the co-curator of Documenta XI. He is a researcher at Goldsmith and a professor in Lund, Sweden at the Art Academy.

Re: [-empyre-] collective curatorship?

2012-04-11 Thread Ana Valdés
be like a text ? Should it be ? best p/ On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote: Pedro, of course we need invite literature to the party! :) I am in my very soul a writer, a storyteller and know the potential of the words. I think in the last month

Re: [-empyre-] curating the faith that can move mountains

2012-04-11 Thread Ana Valdés
Haha, Johannes! Sorry if my bad formulation made you (and others :) to believe it was Alfredo's installation which is now safeguarded for eternity (I think the Mormons have a claim that the Lord is going to keep them, their chosen relatives and Salt Lake City as preserved remnants of Humanity,

[-empyre-] collective curatorship?

2012-04-10 Thread Ana Valdés
My friend the architect Marcus Novak coined used often the concept liquid architecture. Within the concept were a broad array of elements and forms adapted both from Boals Theater of the Opressed to Gayatri Spivak subaltern theory, a continuation itself from Gramsci's theories. In Novak's terms

Re: [-empyre-] collective curatorship?

2012-04-10 Thread Ana Valdés
, the wickedary) - cut the control lines - but its so pervasive, the control, we're guerilla aware, like saying nosotras because we feel that way. Maybe we need to invite literature back to the party. xxx On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote: My friend

Re: [-empyre-] Curatorial Studies

2012-04-08 Thread Ana Valdés
Brian, Pedro, Jennifer, all. I think, again, we are writing or reading us in a loop, where thoughts and facts and opinions emerge from a deep feeling of insatisfaction. We are all writing/thinking from the privilege, we have the skills of the language, we can formulate our thoughts, we publish our

Re: [-empyre-] Curatorial Studies

2012-04-07 Thread Ana Valdés
I am going a bit skeptical here, I was also involved in the Moderna Museets discussion about the institution's own role and Museum Futures was a part of it. I arranged two seminars at the Museum, one about gender and one about postcoloniality. But the Museum was not able to use the conclusions

Re: [-empyre-] Curatorial Studies

2012-04-07 Thread Ana Valdés
Dear -empyre fellows and dear Brian: I think this is the biggest challenge today for all of us thinking radical but needing all the time compromises and agreements with the System to keep us afloat economically and socially. Can we generate and reproduce radical thoughts and radical actions within

Re: [-empyre-] Curatorial Studies

2012-04-05 Thread Ana Valdés
Pedro no pude bajar el pdf, hay un problema, lo puedes revisar? Pedro, I was not able to download the pdf, it was a format problem, can you check it? And Brian I was very excited about your use of Foucault. For me Discipline and Punish has been a pivotal book, teaching me about powergames and

[-empyre-] last message from your March mnoderator :)

2012-03-31 Thread Ana Valdés
Dear friends, today is the last day of the month and it's the last day of the moderation of -empyre I took at the beginning of the month. It has been a awesome month with great exchanges and an exciting and inspiring discussion in English and Spanish, I feel a curious mixtiure of relief and

[-empyre-] last message from my moderation

2012-03-31 Thread Ana Valdés
Ana Valdés 11:58 PM (33 minutes ago) to soft_skinned_s. Dear friends, today is the last day of the month and it's the last day of the moderation of -empyre I took at the beginning of the month. It has been a awesome month with great exchanges and an exciting and inspiring discussion in English

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