coming down from the mount

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27962890@N02/sets/72157605800567024/with/2609796048/

7. Great poetry is always an anticipation, a vision, of the collective future. We can see here that Pasolini describes the terrorist subjectivity. He indicates with an astonishing precision that the possibility of this subjectivity among young men or women is the lack of any rational hope of changing the world. That is why he creates a poetical equivalence between Desperation (the nihilistic consequence of false negation), Anarchy (the purely destructive political version) an "free love of Holiness", which is the religious context of terrorism, with the figure of the martyr. This equivalence is certainly clearer today than it was forty years ago, when Pasolini wrote Victory.

From: http://www.lacan.com/badpas.htm

Full Poem: http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/10/a_hitherto_unpu.html

Fragment from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Victory” (1964)
For Alain Badiou’s lecture, “Destruction, Negation and Subtraction”

"All politics is Realpolitik," warring

soul, with your delicate anger!
You do not recognize a soul other than this one
which has all the prose of the clever man,

of the revolutionary devoted to the honest
common man (even the complicity
with the assassins of the Bitter Years grafted

onto protector classicism, which makes
the communist respectable): you do not recognize the heart
that becomes slave to its enemy, and goes

where the enemy goes, led by a history
that is the history of both, and makes them, deep down,
perversely, brothers; you do not recognize the fears

of a consciousness that, by struggling with the world,
shares the rules of the struggle over the centuries,
as through a pessimism into which hopes

drown to become more virile. Joyous
with a joy that knows no hidden agenda,
this army-blind in the blind

sunlight-of dead young men comes
and waits. If their father, their leader, absorbed
in a mysterious debate with Power and bound

by its dialectics, which history renews ceaselessly-
if he abandons them,
in the white mountains, on the serene plains,

little by little in the barbaric breasts
of the sons, hate becomes love of hate,
burning only in them, the few, the chosen.

Ah, Desperation that knows no laws!
Ah, Anarchy, free love
of Holiness, with your valiant songs!

c/- Alain Badiou

Energy may be released from a potential well if sufficient energy is added to the system such that the local minimum is surmounted

?path of least resistance?

irreducible distances - presentation to living presence

looking ((is) (is not)) action

(in order that they should retain at least the name of what they had lost)

...and authentic taste

http://www.ubu.com/film/debord_refutation.html

a question of character, really

The Little Thief

rotten

Burnt

I ♥ Adorno

So does the great critic of pop culture and capitalism himself become a brand. Right there on a T-shirt...

problematic

Work in the Whitney Biennial either interrogates and problematizes, or it references while being transgressive. The problem is not the art, it’s the writing...

L. BUDD (ACTIVE C. 1992-2000)

THE ESTATE OF L. BUDD
15APR08 - 17MAY08

MICHAEL LETT

478 KARANGAHAPE ROAD

all things flat

Genevieve Allison / Ruth Thomas Edmond / Simon Esling / Tori Ferguson / Tim Thatcher / Alexi Willemsen

15th Apr 2008 - 3rd May 2008

@

Anna Bibby

226 JERVOIS RD

HERNE BAY

AUCKLAND

have a look-see

Deslabbed
Matt Molloy
01 Apr to 26 Apr 2008
City Art Rooms
Level 1, 28 Lorne St

theory of everything

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/14/scisurf114.xml

Black Curtains

An evening of Film

Film Evening for your diary: Thursday 17 April at 7-30 The Peace Centre 22 Emily Place Auckland City (close to Britomart)

Three important short films about the impact of logging on indigenous communities in West Papua.
These unique films were made by the communities themselves with some support from Church and environmental organisations.

When you have seen these films you will want to support the IHRC campaign against the import into New Zealand of kwila from West Papua!

1."The tears of Mother Mooi" - documents the negative impacts of of logging on the indigenous Mooi people in Sorong West Papua. The film shows how the local people use the forest - their mother- for their essential resources. The film gives voice to their long struggle against the conglomerates and deforestation.

2. "Gaharu - Blessing or disaster " - impact of the harvesting of gahuru trees on a community

3. "Destiny my land" - impact of defrestation on communities in Bituni Bay- inlcuding an alternative model of community logging. Explains why resistance is so difficult in a militarised environment.

Excerpts from the film "Echoes from Indonesia's Forests: Stories from Papua" made by EIA and Telepak will also be shown - EIA and Telepak exposed the West Papua illegal logging scandal in 2005 and tracked the logs through Malaysia and China and on to the luxury flooring markets in Europe

An evening not to be missed.

for further information _ maire@clear.net.nz

Doppelgänger

Images courtesy of Trenton Garratt - Top, Kate Newby, Mount Street - Bottom, Unattributed, Across the road from the New Musem of Contemporary Art, New York

the newest space in town

http://www.newcallgallery.org.nz/

1st April - 19th April 2007

Martyn Reynolds

Marnie Slater

No Letting Go

No Holding Back

Opening Tuesday 1st April 6-8 pm

currently on at the Govett Brewster (New Plymouth)

FRANCIS UPRITCHARD: RAINWOB I
1 March – 18 May 2008

BILL CULBERT: GROUNDWORKS
8 March - 18 May 2008

JAYCE SALLOUM: EVERYTHING AND NOTHING AND OTHER WORKS FROM THE ONGOING PROJECT, ‘UNTITLED’ AND RECENT FRAGMENTS/WORKS
8 March- 25 May 2008

LEN LYE: A PORTRAIT GALLERY
8 March - 18 May 2008