" ... It’s pointless for you to hide
These chards inside your pocket
Chards of glass have no saviors
Who are you lingering on in hope for? ..."
Sheeshon Ka Maseeha / The Messiah of Glass” by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
SINCE 2012 / ARTISTS AND PHILOSOPHERS / BASED ON THE ELBE RIVER ISLAND OF HAMBURG VEDDEL
Category: Angles
Reflections, perspectives, thoughts, opinions, reviews, writings, theory …
The Beauty of Doubting (Political Reflections on a Rebellious Feeling)
By Heidi Salaverría, in: Between the Ticks of the Watch (Chicago: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 2017) pp 153-183. The text proposes answers to the question what the feeling of aesthetic doubts and […]
„... Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves...“. Hannah Arendt/Human Conditions
„...Ich bin überzeugt, dass Kunst und Kultur unverzichtbare Grundlage einer Gesellschaft im demokratischen und friedlichen Zusammenleben sind. Je kreativer eine Gesellschaft ist, umso fähiger ist sie aufzustehen und damit zu überleben....“ Martin Roth, Widerspruch, 2017
HOW/To Think an other cultural concept/NOW
What’s the meaning of art and culture in a world of simultaneity, a world in which European tourists take a swim in the same waters of the Mediterranean Sea in which refugees, deprived of their existence, drown by the hundreds? What’s the promise of the word culture in a world of mobility taking a shortcut by supersonic speed, therefore making distances more and more insignificant and places getting closer?
Touristin der eigenen Denkungsart
Als Hannah Arendt davon sprach, dass man seine Einbildungskraft lehren solle, Besuche zu machen…
Die Querung des Gleichers
Gabriele Münter, Wassily Kandinsky, Emil Orlik, René Beeh, Paul Klee, August Macke, Louis Moilliet, Karl Hofer, Max Pechstein Paul Gauguin, Ottilie Reylaender, Walther Spies … um nur einige Namen der klassischen Moderne zu nennen, haben etwas für sich in Erfahrung gebracht, was ein Jahrhundert später zum Common-Sense einer Informations-Gesellschaft gehört.
Doubting as Traveling (Self-Certainty as a Road to Nowhere)
One of the biggest problems of our civilization is a misguided idea of the self. Conceptually, as well as in everyday practices, the general expectation is to display a self-certain, determined posture and to act correspondingly.