Talk About the Cosmic Slop

[duncewizard]

This is dedicated to discussing the attitudes of anyones funk!

[aaronms]

there are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom one must preach renunciation of life.
the earth is full of the superfluous, life is marred by the all too many. may they be lured out of this life by the "eternal life"
they are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey and have no choice except lust or self laceration. and even their lust is self laceration.
they have not yet become men, those terrible ones, let them preach renunciation from life and pass away themselves.
there are those with consumption of the soul, hardly are they born when they begin to die and to long for teachings of weariness and renunciation.
they would like to be dead and we should welcome their wish let us beware of waking those dead ones and of disturbing those living coffins.
they meet a sick man or an old man or a corpse and immediately say life is refuted
but only they themselves are refuted, and their eyes, which see only one aspect of existence.
shrouded in thick melancholy and eager for the little accidents that bring death, thus they wait and grind their teeth.

friedrich nietzsche

[duncewizard]

Einstien could be a beginning after Neetchee. Its facintating to watch persons quote other persons.
Do people do it as a struggle to find the poetry which they can not find themselves, or is just out of lazyiness that we go around saying what the other has said to feel important, let alone the belief that everything has happened or not happened or is about to happen. it must be antisipation.

[aaronms]

You are right. People do express thoughts in such a way that astounds me. That is why my walls are full of art that others have done. They do have a different way of expressing ideas that I had either not considered or had expressed differently. I quoted this passage originally for my thread on the environment where you were justifying what I thought was current levels of degredation of our planet. You have to be an advocate of death or a nihilist to dismiss life. I thought it was a little out of bounds for that thread though and added it instead to your cosmic slop thread. I think a real laziness would be not to put in the effort to listen to others and try to figure out their motives. Also, I was quoting him because he is important and I am not.

[duncewizard]

Last you are important and I am gone!

[Ray Rolfe]

Based in Dublin, Rolfe describes himself as an "international shaman, sculptor-in-motion, artistic warrior, cultural worker." An early work involved his spreading white flour over the ground and using black soot to draw diamonds, stars and crosses (healing symbols derived from prehistoric sites in Ireland) onto the flour. He would then "undraw" the symbols by crawling over them naked, hoping to absorb their pagan potency through his skin. Throughout his time in Ireland, Rolfe has sought what he calls the "Celtic sense of the spirit which will tie me always to its people." In The Rope That Binds Us Makes Them Free (1983), a multimedia work performed 29 times in 17 countries over a four-year period, Rolfe acted out his "entrapment in Irish culture" by slowly wrapping his head with rope drawn from a ball of twine found in a farmer's derelict cottage in County Leitrim. For Rolfe, the metaphor of the bound head expressed the Irish paradox of great outward constraint (political, economic, social, religious) coexisting with great spiritual and imaginative freedom. Rolfe believes that "the very things that control" outsiders like himself are what "set the Irish free."

Since 1987, Rolfe's performances and related photographs have increasingly addressed conflicts and inequities around the world. Rolfe's "African" series consists of stunning photographs of the artist's own face painted in designs that symbolize racial divisions. In one image, Rolfe's face is black on one side and white on the other. In another work, white and black stripes alternate. The most startling photograph in the series shows a black hand print slapped across the artist's face. During a 1990 visit to Poland, Rolfe found life far more "centered, holistic and relevant" than in the West. He celebrated the country in a five-panel photograph, titled Poland, composed of images of his hands using simple kitchen implements he collected there.

In his American performances Rolfe's strategy has been to invade "ghettoized situations" and break down their walls by means of metaphor, paradox, reversal and exchange. In Working Out, Working In (1989), for example, he (along with his collaborator MacLennan) transferred the contents of L.A.C.E., an alternative space in downtown Los Angeles, into the street and brought objects from the immediate neighborhood into the gallery. Thus an array of litter, condoms, needles, excrement and shelters built by homeless people were given the benefit of gallery lighting. His intention with the work was to act out the crisis that he sees splitting Western society between "sheer indulgence and poverty."

[Lux Iconic]

Rolfe,
You should check out this blog about homeless experiences.
It's written by a guy who was, briefly a few years ago, a working art critic in Mpls. (Name withheld for his privacy and protection.)

[Ray Rolfe]

It's to much right now, but I will read it later (on a fuller stomach)

[Ray Rolfe]

Ok I'm reading dude now. (Can I call you Fallon? or do you prefer Lux?)

I gotta say, I don't believe he was hard up at anytime. Seems like a professional writer riding a pop trend. Just a first impression... I'll crack another PBR and read the rest now........

Thanks, and we still have issues to deal with pal.