Saturday, November 27, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Art as a Weapon of Protest
"The best art is always created at the point of maximum tension between the Formidably Necessary and the Resplendently Useless."...continue reading
By Jay Griffiths - Author of “Wild: An Elemental Journey”
zoe
By Jay Griffiths - Author of “Wild: An Elemental Journey”
zoe
Monday, November 22, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
chaos experiment
the diagram was drawn for a discussion at digger street a few months ago.
while there's no control power over our chaotic behavior and creativity in this community, the evolution of the system is pushed forward by a collective consciousness to live as part of the whole.
it was a good chat.
zoe
while there's no control power over our chaotic behavior and creativity in this community, the evolution of the system is pushed forward by a collective consciousness to live as part of the whole.
it was a good chat.
zoe
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Andy Goldsworthy project
Friday, November 19, 2010
Another life in life
For the people who come to Digger Street because they want to live in this place, what's more important than the verb “live,” is the verb “want to live.”
Everyone came to this world without any choice; everyone is just another fragment of mirror, reflecting a segment of the continuous life of the whole.
numerous sparkles under the sun on the wave of time, the tide of eternal return, moving back and forth, up and down in history, though seldom realize that it's all driven by a distant enigmatic power of the moon, the universe.
Lives are tragically beautiful as sparkles; all the flashing excitement and pain are experienced over and over. beyond the control of individual, and should not be controlled by individual.
However, in the media and information explosion today, we are exposed to this overwhelming infinity of past and future, our vision is stretched further beyond the reach of individuals.
awaken to this new desire to avoid "the suffering of the whole," and the hope, the pain, the helplessness brought by this desire, are beyond the prison of individual
only to make individual prison a lighthouse, searching, communicating and sharing hope with other lights on the other side of the horizon; within the life cycle as part of the immutable implicit tide.
No matter how small it is at the moment, I imagine, this is a place where a few people choose to live, again - remain as individuals yet with a collective motivation to live, to enjoy lives.
we come, no matter who we already are. and stay, no matter what this place has already became. And we discover our instinct to change - ourselves and things around us.
Everyone came to this world without any choice; everyone is just another fragment of mirror, reflecting a segment of the continuous life of the whole.
numerous sparkles under the sun on the wave of time, the tide of eternal return, moving back and forth, up and down in history, though seldom realize that it's all driven by a distant enigmatic power of the moon, the universe.
Lives are tragically beautiful as sparkles; all the flashing excitement and pain are experienced over and over. beyond the control of individual, and should not be controlled by individual.
However, in the media and information explosion today, we are exposed to this overwhelming infinity of past and future, our vision is stretched further beyond the reach of individuals.
awaken to this new desire to avoid "the suffering of the whole," and the hope, the pain, the helplessness brought by this desire, are beyond the prison of individual
only to make individual prison a lighthouse, searching, communicating and sharing hope with other lights on the other side of the horizon; within the life cycle as part of the immutable implicit tide.
No matter how small it is at the moment, I imagine, this is a place where a few people choose to live, again - remain as individuals yet with a collective motivation to live, to enjoy lives.
we come, no matter who we already are. and stay, no matter what this place has already became. And we discover our instinct to change - ourselves and things around us.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
The difference is the art that we make in this place are made for ourselves, there’s no right or wrong or good or bad, expensive or cheap, it’s almost out of instinct to realize beautiful things that are already in our mind.
For the audience, to appreciate this kind of art is almost to appreciate life, or the world as it is, without being influenced by the facade of the art world, of the market and fashion, what most young artists out there are being driven by
And we don’t follow this direction of the modern world, and not competing with one another shoulder next to shoulder, for the same destination of being the top of something…our creativity just grow everywhere and flower all by itself
If there’s a thread that brings everything together, not for certain purpose but for a stronger energy to improve ourselves, and maybe to be able to make a small impact in this world
What I think is that we’re part of the energy already, and we have the thread already, it’s a collective theme just like what aboriginal tribes have for their art and music, but it’s not shared by certain people but by the entire human race, even more, depending on how you define the word “art”
The art I see here is beyond media and forms, the way it can be presented can also be beyond existing rules of the art world. We can design our own way of presenting it, visual art can move around if we walk with it, decorate ourselves with it, make ourselves part of it, gigs do not have be limited by place and time, we don’t necessarily have to find audience, but to be among the audience somewhere; performance can be part of installations, public installations, still or live ones…
TO BE CONTINUED – BY YOU
For the audience, to appreciate this kind of art is almost to appreciate life, or the world as it is, without being influenced by the facade of the art world, of the market and fashion, what most young artists out there are being driven by
And we don’t follow this direction of the modern world, and not competing with one another shoulder next to shoulder, for the same destination of being the top of something…our creativity just grow everywhere and flower all by itself
If there’s a thread that brings everything together, not for certain purpose but for a stronger energy to improve ourselves, and maybe to be able to make a small impact in this world
What I think is that we’re part of the energy already, and we have the thread already, it’s a collective theme just like what aboriginal tribes have for their art and music, but it’s not shared by certain people but by the entire human race, even more, depending on how you define the word “art”
The art I see here is beyond media and forms, the way it can be presented can also be beyond existing rules of the art world. We can design our own way of presenting it, visual art can move around if we walk with it, decorate ourselves with it, make ourselves part of it, gigs do not have be limited by place and time, we don’t necessarily have to find audience, but to be among the audience somewhere; performance can be part of installations, public installations, still or live ones…
TO BE CONTINUED – BY YOU
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
What is art for an Artivist
I have been working for this guy - Ai Weiwei, an anti-china artist who's blog was shut down by the chinese government, and was beaten personally by police officers for his influence and popularity.
As an artist who sees the world, there are a million things to do. As a person who cares about the world, there are only a few things to do...within arms reach.
However, when internet was invented within arms reach, the possibility becomes infinite.
I've been working on his Twitter translations
Ai's latest work "Sunflower seeds" (which was also sent out for free for those who asked him for a few seeds on Twitter)
by zoe
As an artist who sees the world, there are a million things to do. As a person who cares about the world, there are only a few things to do...within arms reach.
However, when internet was invented within arms reach, the possibility becomes infinite.
I've been working on his Twitter translations
Ai's latest work "Sunflower seeds" (which was also sent out for free for those who asked him for a few seeds on Twitter)
by zoe
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