Move #1
"A person who tells me that music means nothing to him is straight away liquidated for me... for music stirs that most intimate region in human beings... Someone who does not understand Bach is lost." - E.M. Cioran, (Wakefulness and Obsession: An Interview with E.M. Cioran by Michel Jacob.)
The Vienna Philharmonic in concert in Bucharest in 1941. Photograph: Ullstein Bild (the guardian)
Liquidated: deaf people, those who lack an intimate region, those who don't know what music is, those who don't understand Bach.
What is music? What is Bach? How does music mean something to someone? What does music mean? How can someone understand Bach? What does it mean to be lost?
Music means nothing to me, music is something I'm trying to understand, music has no meaning, music does not function in the realm of meaning.
Join the liquidated deaf who lack an intimate region.
[ Music: The flood of liquidated deaf people who lack an intimate region making rippling sounds like the sea.]
With the same breath but in different tongues, Cioran praised Hitler, Cioran praised Bach. Art allows for both.
"Music played an important role in Nazi society and was used as a propaganda tool. There was a strong rivalry between the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras and many musicians may have joined the Nazi party in order to advance their careers."(the guardian)
Music allows for both.
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Move #2
(Pablo Picasso, Guernica 1937)
Twisted limbs, stretched arms, elongated necks, a gorged horse, gaping mouths, gaping mouths, gaping mouths, fire, monochromatic fire, gaping mouths, abstract fear, abstract horror, a bull, a bull and a woman holding a dead child, and her gaping mouth...abstract fear, cubed violence, cubed fear, newsprint, newsprint printed news, news, immediate news, immediate horror, immediate fear,, eternal return of fear, of war, Guernica.
"I paint the objects for what they are."
A woman holding a dead child: "The town was mostly populated by women and children."
'When Picasso was living in Paris during the Nazi occupation, one German officer allegedly asked him upon seeing a photo of Guernica in his apartment "Did you do that?" Picasso responded "No you did."'
If you google search Guernica, the first two articles you get are of Picasso's painting, and the town in ruins.
When the painting was returned to Spain in September 1981, "It was first displayed behind bomb and bullet proof glass screens."
Couldn't protect Guernica, protect the painting.
"Since no one was allowed to talk about the bombing of Guernica under the fascist rule (1939-1975) the survivors were robbed of their chance to process their horrible memories." (spiegel)
"In today's Germany, the word "Guernica" is more often associated with the famous painting by Picasso than with the German attack on the small Spanish city."
The word Guernica has been robbed.
Art robs.
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Move #3
I was scrolling down my news feed on Facebook, another site of immediate horror. I found a video titled: Family Survives Fire By Jumping From Window. I played the video, and I suddenly paused to take a screenshot of the building. I was amazed by the color of the entrance, an ochre yellow. I made a drawing:
I made lines and a triangle and rendered the colors of the smoke, I made sure the ochre yellow was the star of the show.
I made art and I forgot to watch the rest of the video to see if the family had survived the fire.
Art is exploitative,
Art makes you remember, but it makes you forget.
"A person who tells me that music means nothing to him is straight away liquidated for me... for music stirs that most intimate region in human beings... Someone who does not understand Bach is lost." - E.M. Cioran, (Wakefulness and Obsession: An Interview with E.M. Cioran by Michel Jacob.)
Liquidated: deaf people, those who lack an intimate region, those who don't know what music is, those who don't understand Bach.
What is music? What is Bach? How does music mean something to someone? What does music mean? How can someone understand Bach? What does it mean to be lost?
Music means nothing to me, music is something I'm trying to understand, music has no meaning, music does not function in the realm of meaning.
Join the liquidated deaf who lack an intimate region.
[ Music: The flood of liquidated deaf people who lack an intimate region making rippling sounds like the sea.]
With the same breath but in different tongues, Cioran praised Hitler, Cioran praised Bach. Art allows for both.
"Music played an important role in Nazi society and was used as a propaganda tool. There was a strong rivalry between the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras and many musicians may have joined the Nazi party in order to advance their careers."(the guardian)
Music allows for both.
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Move #2
(Pablo Picasso, Guernica 1937)
Twisted limbs, stretched arms, elongated necks, a gorged horse, gaping mouths, gaping mouths, gaping mouths, fire, monochromatic fire, gaping mouths, abstract fear, abstract horror, a bull, a bull and a woman holding a dead child, and her gaping mouth...abstract fear, cubed violence, cubed fear, newsprint, newsprint printed news, news, immediate news, immediate horror, immediate fear,, eternal return of fear, of war, Guernica.
"I paint the objects for what they are."
A woman holding a dead child: "The town was mostly populated by women and children."
'When Picasso was living in Paris during the Nazi occupation, one German officer allegedly asked him upon seeing a photo of Guernica in his apartment "Did you do that?" Picasso responded "No you did."'
If you google search Guernica, the first two articles you get are of Picasso's painting, and the town in ruins.
When the painting was returned to Spain in September 1981, "It was first displayed behind bomb and bullet proof glass screens."
Couldn't protect Guernica, protect the painting.
"Since no one was allowed to talk about the bombing of Guernica under the fascist rule (1939-1975) the survivors were robbed of their chance to process their horrible memories." (spiegel)
"In today's Germany, the word "Guernica" is more often associated with the famous painting by Picasso than with the German attack on the small Spanish city."
The word Guernica has been robbed.
Art robs.
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Move #3
I was scrolling down my news feed on Facebook, another site of immediate horror. I found a video titled: Family Survives Fire By Jumping From Window. I played the video, and I suddenly paused to take a screenshot of the building. I was amazed by the color of the entrance, an ochre yellow. I made a drawing:
I made lines and a triangle and rendered the colors of the smoke, I made sure the ochre yellow was the star of the show.
I made art and I forgot to watch the rest of the video to see if the family had survived the fire.
Art is exploitative,
Art makes you remember, but it makes you forget.
This is excellent.
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