Creativity, Spontaneity and Poetry…

The search for new forms of communication is now part of a collective effort. In this way the old specialization of art has finally come to an end. There are no more artists because everyone is an artist. The work of art of the future will be the contruction of a passionate life.
Raoul Vaneigem
 
The same [...]

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back to the dérive

Debord’s The Naked City (1957), as a map of the dérive, is said to bring out those differences that are suppressed by the abstract and homogeneous descriptions of the ‘voyeur’, by fragmenting and re-connecting the Plan de Paris. In the dérive, the city is experienced as a cluster of events, never fully seen and always contingent: ”there are spaces where experiences [...]

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lost in translation

It will be an interesting Olympricks…..
Let’s hope China can get the message about Tibet, I hope kev’s chinese is better than these chinese engrish toilet signs. i have no hope in hell of reading chinese though….

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The Flâneur

Taking a walk is a haeccity . . . Haecceity, fog, glare. A haecceity has neither beginning nor end, origin nor destination; it is always in the middle. It is not made of points, only of lines. It is a rhizome…
Medieval Theories of HaecceityFirst published Thu 31 Jul, 2003First proposed by John Duns Scotus (1266-1308), a [...]

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The city is a technology

“Women in the City” is a viral public art exhibition spread throughout the streets of Los Angeles that will start in February 2008.The work of four seminal women artists, who began to emerge on the international art scene at the beginning of the ’80s within the feminist movement, will penetrate the urban and social geography [...]

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