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Friday, 7 February 2014
“At this very moment, some imagination is spawning something wonderful that might make us tremble.”
— Edna O’BrienAlgia Mae Hinton
Algia Mae Hinton Flat-foots and shreds behind her head...basically a FABULOUS progression from patting your head and rubbing your belly at the same time.
"When I teach now, I no longer look at a posture as something to do,
nor at the student as someone who should do it. I see the posture as
something to try, and the student as someone who might find it
interesting, with or without the potential benefit of my experience,
which may or may not apply to them. However they engage the posture, it
will be with their body: the body that they are, the body they
live through, a body I am not, a body that does not exist as I
experience it but as they do, in a way that I will never fully know.
Realizing that you can never fully know someone — because you are not
their body, which means you can neither possess nor change them — is at
the root of being able to love them while glimpsing your own
strangeness, and while keeping the bullshit to a minimum."
-- Matthew Remski
Quote taken from the blog post 'I am not (what you need) from my body: Expanding-on-a-yoga-meme" . Worth a read!
Katrien De Blauwe
Katrien De Blauwe's movement collages (again...because WOW.)
"Eisenstein believed that film montage could create ideas or have an impact beyond the individual images. Two or more images edited together create a "tertium quid" (third thing) that makes the whole greater than the sum of its individual parts."
-- Katrien De Blauwe
Montage theory: Eisenstein
Thursday, 6 February 2014
(Image: Vinyasa Flow 2, 2012. By Nothando Sabela, a participant of
the Mtubatuba Workshop.)
"Zwelethu Mthethwa is an artist based in Cape
Town, best known for his large-format colour photographs.
While in residence for The Welcome Collection, Zwelethu explored the role
that communities play in contributing to the research of the Africa
Centre in the small town of Mtubatuba, in KwaZulu-Natal province.
He was interested in putting a human face to the collection of data
and in giving people the opportunity to document their own
perceptions of health."
Currently part of the Foreign Bodies Common Ground exhibition at The Welcome Collection.
Heroines
Margaret Kilgallen (1967-2001) discusses the female figures she incorporated into many of her paintings and graffiti tags. Loosely based on women she discovered while listening to folk records, watching buck dance videos, or reading about the history of swimming, Kilgallen painted her heroines to inspire others and to change how society looks at women. Three of Kilgallen's heroines—Matokie Slaughter, Algia Mae Hinton, and Fanny Durack—are shown and heard through archival video, images, and audio recordings.
Beautiful.
(Found via goldlionaz)
Beautiful.
(Found via goldlionaz)
Wednesday, 5 February 2014
Why do we have a brain?
"Movement is the only way you have of affecting the world around you..."
Thought provoking stuff!!
Thought provoking stuff!!
Originality
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.”
-- Jim Jarmusch
To my mind you can't 'own' a method of movement. The history and linage of what you are practicing is important, for context, and you have to learn from a place of authority, ofcoure, but understand that when you learn from someone that that 'method' will be influenced by their bias and experience of the body. Make sure you don't neglect your own capacity to question what you are told and research what is presented to you.
Repeat after me: There can be no hierarchy of movement/fitness/working out (or what ever you want to call it) there can only be constant exploration, recycling, reusing, relearning and listening to your own body. Everyone moves differently.
Keep learning.
Keep questioning.
Keep it honest.
Keep moving.
(Image by Kristian Goddard)
“I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. I free myself for today and forever from human immobility. I’m in constant movement. I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse’s mouth. I fall and rise with the falling and rising bodies. This is I, the machine, maneuvering in the chaotic movements, recording one moment after another in the most complex combinations.
Freed from the boundaries of time and space. I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you. "
-- Dziga Vertov, 1923
Freed from the boundaries of time and space. I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you. "
-- Dziga Vertov, 1923
Tuesday, 4 February 2014
“Its All About Choice - The way we see things is affected by what we
know or what we believe. In the Middle Ages when men believed in the
physical existence of Hell the sight of fire must have meant something
different from what it means today. Nevertheless their idea of Hell owed
a lot to the sight of fire consuming and the ashes remaining - as well
as to their experience of the pain of burns. When in love, the sight of
the beloved has a completeness which no words and no embrace can match :
a completeness which only the act of making love can temporarily
accommodate. Yet this seeing, which comes before words, and can never be
quite covered by them, is not a question of mechanically reacting to
stimuli. (It can only be thought of in this way if one isolates the
small part of the process which concerns the eye's retina.) We only see
what we look at. To look is an act of choice. As a result of this act,
what we see is brought within our reach - though not necessarily within
arm's reach. To touch something is to situate oneself in relation to it.
(Close your eyes, move round the room and notice how the faculty of
touch is like a static, limited form of sight.) We never look at just
one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and
ourselves. Our vision is continually active, continually moving,
continually holding things in a circle around itself, constituting what
is present to us as we are. ”
-- John Berger (pg 8, Ways of Seeing)
-- John Berger (pg 8, Ways of Seeing)
Monday, 3 February 2014
Elena Brower
Elena's Journey from Elena Brower on Vimeo.
Always nice to listen to others inspirations and reasons.
“Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Girls have picked them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young girls gone?
Taken husbands every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young men gone?
Gone for soldiers every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Covered with flowers every one
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?”
― Pete Seeger
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Girls have picked them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young girls gone?
Taken husbands every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young men gone?
Gone for soldiers every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Covered with flowers every one
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?”
― Pete Seeger
Ubi sunt
Ubi sunt (literally "where are... [they]") is a phrase taken from the Latin Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt?, meaning "Where are those who were before us?" Ubi nunc...? ("Where now?") is a common variant.
Sometimes interpreted to indicate nostalgia, the ubi sunt motif is actually a meditation on mortality and life's transience.
Sometimes interpreted to indicate nostalgia, the ubi sunt motif is actually a meditation on mortality and life's transience.
Sunday, 2 February 2014
Saturday, 1 February 2014
"Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong."
-- Ella Fitzgerald
(image of Ella Fitzgerald at the Downbeat Club, 1949.)
"She instilled in me that you don’t have to apologise for being a women. There’s no apology in my femininity."
— Lupita Nyong’o in Dazed & Confused magazine, talking about what she learned from her mother. (via miss-rumphius)
(image via here)
(image via here)
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