It’s The Stuff Of The Soul
I think it’s time we elevated the tone with some coverage of the arts. Beginning with the colossal creative talents of Ms Sandrine Schaefer, whose collected Goose Studies are presented below. The opening extract, a site-specific installation, was performed in New York in October. The organisers of the event, titled Performance Is Alive, tell us that in order to avoid being “vapid,” they curate only “the best projects based on the merits of the work.” They are, we learn, presenting “art that’s critical and progressive and transgressive.”
For those prone to erotic inflammation, a word of caution. The following video does contain traces of obligatory boobage.
As you can see, the audience for Ms Schaefer’s display of aesthetic tumescence was vast and suitably awed.
Having shared in that awe, albeit fleetingly, readers will be intrigued by the forthcoming Performance Is Alive Miami event, opening its doors on Thursday. There, gathered talents will “investigate a wide range of social and political topics” while engaging in “durational performance actions” that “allow artists… to employ repetition and endurance.” Because if there’s one thing art should be, it’s a test of one’s endurance.
Amanda Kleinhans, for instance, will be thrilling visitors with her “explorations of the fat body and fat experience,” and by “making connections between bigger bodies and landscapes or natural phenomena.” Bold and profound questions to be ruminated at length include “Can I fit in that seat?” and “Do I fit into these pants?” Alas, no preview of the forthcoming piece is currently available. However, I am able to share with you a brief appetiser of an earlier effort, titled Fitting XV, in which Ms Kleinhans channels the power of radical rotundity:
Tickets for the Miami happening can be purchased here.
For those worried that it might not be, “LGBTQ+ diversity” will of course be “proudly celebrated.” Again.
Re: Shade Inequality.
Farnsworth, sir, you don’t seem to understand that white people trying to plant trees in less-white areas would be racially insensitive “arrogance”!
https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/01/detroit-tree-planting-programs-white-environmentalism-research/579937/
It does rather suggest that any discernibly aesthetic considerations will be at best incidental, and that the “wide range of social and political topics” may in fact be quite narrow.
It would be real shame if some
counter-revolutionaryfilthy pleb were to burst into one of their little happenings and disrupt things by presenting a work of actual beauty.…white people trying to plant trees in less-white areas would be racially insensitive “arrogance”!
Right you are, how quickly I forgot about these racist trees.
My shame is complete, I can’t wait to try out that Captain Pike looking Chinese regrooving machine.
#TrollingtheGuardian.
Apparently this is how you would behave if you pretended to believe that “Comment was Free”.
Sound advice for machine dating in the age of Ultron.
Please forgive the off topic and such, but in light of the new Clint Eastwood movie coming out about Richard Jewell, the guy the media and FBI bullied/framed for the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, there’s a petition to have the White House rename the press room there to The Richard Jewell Memorial Press Room. Needs 100,000 American signatures. Any thoughts on publicizing this would be greatly appreciated.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/richard-jewell-memorial-press-room
rename the press room there to The Richard Jewell Memorial Press Room
Perfect. I’ve signed and shared it to my FB page.
I seem to recall that trees planted in “deprived” neighborhoods had a tendency to not survive. My memory may be faulty so take that with a grain of salt if you wish.
Re: planting trees: the woke Left, especially black radicals, have condemned white interest in parks and nature preserves and camping and hiking as racist. So wouldn’t a program to plant trees in neighborhoods of color be a racist imposition of white values, a virtual invasion? Just asking.
white people trying to plant trees in less-white areas would be racially insensitive “arrogance”
Funny how this review of a book covering the American Dutch Elm, it’s rise and demise, doesn’t ever mention “cops had them removed cuz racism”. Not woke enough in 2003, I guess.
Don’t know if it’s an American Dutch Elm, but the one in my front yard in Central Florida is a PITA. Drops leaves/seeds every fall that like to stick to the sidewalk/street in such a way that it’s extra effort to sweep up. Lately parts have been breaking off such that I’ve finally decided it has to go before it breaks through a roof or window or kills someone. Damn trees are dangerous.
Those ‘deprived neighborhoods’ are better off without them. These f’n do-goody tree huggers. It’s like they don’t understand that trees have killed more people than the cops (or Hillary Clinton, for that matter). It’s a fact. You can look it up.
Minneapolis was full of American Elms when I was growing up there, and watching them come down during the great infestation of the 1970s was deeply disturbing for the young Squid. I remember my mother crying when the City took down the giant elm that grew by the street in front of our house. Subsequently, I wrote a paper in college covering the spread of Dutch Elm Disease across North America. FWIW, the trees are American, and the disease is Dutch (Asian, actually, but it was identified by Dutch researchers).
I realize that any monoculture is just asking to be ravaged by some infectious agent sooner or later, but I don’t think I’ll ever see an urban environment as lovely as the great green archways that covered our residential streets when I was a lad. We’ve had over 40 years to re-grow the urban forest, but the mixed-species canopy just isn’t the same.