Saturday, May 31, 2008
my island
The place where I live is my island. I have a wish stronger than being the owner of a lamborghini, which is to declare independence of a piece of land and take it as my own, as my kingdom. best would be an island. To live there, make my own rules, which would be the lack of rules anyway and where everyone living there too would like themselves so much that insecurities, envy, hate, jealousy and other feelings would hardly exist. everyone would be selfish, positively selfish.
Back to the beginning: the place where I live is my island and it has no fixed address. is 'here' as in where I am and at the same time is a meeting point of many places. This physical volatility is possible through the Internet and is also possible because of friends who come to visit from other places. when we meet with other people, this place moves, travels distances only possibly visible by those inside the house. Today I am here in my room and I am also in Rome at Live Performance Meeting. I am here but while chatting with the guys, like Brendan, Toby, Ilan or YroYto, I forgot myself here, since, through the light of the sky on the other side, I could feel the temperature and through the movement of the computer I could feel myself moving around and seeing the buildings, from the inside and outside.
There is another way to forget myself and that way is to dance. the same way as walking or going to some concerts, dancing also takes me to places where I am the only one with access to. I forget myself, I forget where I am and with whom I am too. I am one with the music - the same way as performing. only that performing is more intense as there is the anxiety of waiting and the joy of being making visuals for everyone else to see and enjoy.
Back to the beginning: the place where I live is my island and it has no fixed address. is 'here' as in where I am and at the same time is a meeting point of many places. This physical volatility is possible through the Internet and is also possible because of friends who come to visit from other places. when we meet with other people, this place moves, travels distances only possibly visible by those inside the house. Today I am here in my room and I am also in Rome at Live Performance Meeting. I am here but while chatting with the guys, like Brendan, Toby, Ilan or YroYto, I forgot myself here, since, through the light of the sky on the other side, I could feel the temperature and through the movement of the computer I could feel myself moving around and seeing the buildings, from the inside and outside.
There is another way to forget myself and that way is to dance. the same way as walking or going to some concerts, dancing also takes me to places where I am the only one with access to. I forget myself, I forget where I am and with whom I am too. I am one with the music - the same way as performing. only that performing is more intense as there is the anxiety of waiting and the joy of being making visuals for everyone else to see and enjoy.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
Que overdose de passion!
The clip as well as the film has good bed hairs, shits style and I am in love with McNamara.
Check out lyrics from "Suck it to me" and "Grand Ganga".
\m/ Fuck yea! \m/
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Festival Sincero procura talentos
A vizinha do lado anda a organizar mais um festival com sinceridade e procura talentos para desenvolverem actividades de palco.
Diz-me ela assim:
"Gostaria de te convidar a apresentar uma proposta para a edição do segundo festival sincero a decorrer no final de Junho nesta cidade (do Porto). Responde para este email (ponycab[at]gmail[dot]com) com a indicação da área em que te inseres, uma breve descrição da tua actividade, o tempo de duração e o material e equipamento necessário.
Áreas - Música / Poesia / Humor / Dança / Improvisação
Não há $ & Nem roadies!"
E eu claro que vou participar vendendo cerbeijas para comprar um projector e com um momento "experimental de todo".
Despenteados
"O que é realmente sincero é andar despenteado" diz a Isabel. E com razão.
Perguntei cá em casa se não se podia fazer uma festa. isto porque fui dar uma espreitadela ás fotos antigas e ao blog dos mustachos e deu-me a nostalgia das conversas, de receber as fotos (que era uma forma de manter contacto com as pessoas) e publicá-las, das festas, enfim dessas coisadas todas.
então é assim: no seguimento dos mustachos (ou bigodes) agora vou me dedicar a publicar fotos de despenteados.
Por isso, queriduchos, peco a vossa tão dedicada reflexão na decoração facial e intergenero na produção de fotos que superem as fabulosas que recebi por altura dos mustachitos.
Perguntei cá em casa se não se podia fazer uma festa. isto porque fui dar uma espreitadela ás fotos antigas e ao blog dos mustachos e deu-me a nostalgia das conversas, de receber as fotos (que era uma forma de manter contacto com as pessoas) e publicá-las, das festas, enfim dessas coisadas todas.
então é assim: no seguimento dos mustachos (ou bigodes) agora vou me dedicar a publicar fotos de despenteados.
Por isso, queriduchos, peco a vossa tão dedicada reflexão na decoração facial e intergenero na produção de fotos que superem as fabulosas que recebi por altura dos mustachitos.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Friday
I wanna go out in Antonio Variacoes clothes style and dance all night.
Here is the motivation:
Here is the motivation:
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
I'm not just remaking the body as text. (...) I'm really fascinated with what's there. Like when I do body-building. I'm fascinated with the capacity, and what can I do with *this*. I'm interested in going in and learning what is there. That's the fascination. Why would I want to sit there and totally remake myself with some idea that I'm never going to die, that I'm going to be forever beautiful? That's ridiculous. I am going to die, I am getting towards old age, I'm not going to be forever beautiful if I am now. I don't *have* a text outside of the body that I want to impose on the body in some kind of fascistic way. I grew up in a society where the body was excluded, and in a very major way women's bodies were and are excluded from the society. Women are only allowed in the society if (and this goes back to de Sade) women become substitute men, and then they are libertines, or if they are there as organs for men. Yet, the body is always connected to the imaginary, and whatever that is for women's bodies, that imaginary does not exist in our society.
A Conversation with Kathy Acker by Benjamin Bratton
A Conversation with Kathy Acker by Benjamin Bratton
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
an anarcheology of hearing and seeing
A few months ago, in an interview published by NEURAL, an italian magazine about art and activism, I found a fascinating author, my favorite at this moment.
The name of the author/theorist is Siegfried Zielinski and he wrote a quite unique ad interesting book that crosses in all directions history and theory, beliefs and experiments, and many other areas of knowledge, on the creation of an anarcheology of hearing and seeing through technical means.
Rhizome has also published an interview with him lead by David Senior.
From this interview:
I am of the opinion that the sciences belong to the poetized and that they should be handled musically, because musical relations appear to be the fundamental relations of Nature.
From a perspective of media archeology, we have to give up trusted cartographies. Technical media as we know them were made marketable and developed into products in the metropolis of the western world (London, Paris, New York, Berlin, etc). If however we are interested in deep-temporal emergence and development, we have to use a wholly other orientation. The deeper we penetrate historical layers, the more we must turn towards the far East and above all towards China, and from there we roam through Asia Minor and the Arab lands and cultures, moving then into southern Europe, before we arrive in the pre-modern regions and cities familiar to us. My thesis is that the new and arousing ideas come out of the provinces much more frequently than out of the centers of power, where they are worked over and freed from their resistances. In order to characterize the particular form of collective work which emerges out of the networking of heterogeneous ideas and fields, I use the expression "economy of friendship".
As for the book, is called "Deep Time of the Media: an archeology of hearing and seeing through technical means" and I am at the moment enjoying reading it.
The interview at NEURAL is also worth to have a look at as it gives a personal perspective of history and late developments of technology.
The name of the author/theorist is Siegfried Zielinski and he wrote a quite unique ad interesting book that crosses in all directions history and theory, beliefs and experiments, and many other areas of knowledge, on the creation of an anarcheology of hearing and seeing through technical means.
Rhizome has also published an interview with him lead by David Senior.
From this interview:
I am of the opinion that the sciences belong to the poetized and that they should be handled musically, because musical relations appear to be the fundamental relations of Nature.
From a perspective of media archeology, we have to give up trusted cartographies. Technical media as we know them were made marketable and developed into products in the metropolis of the western world (London, Paris, New York, Berlin, etc). If however we are interested in deep-temporal emergence and development, we have to use a wholly other orientation. The deeper we penetrate historical layers, the more we must turn towards the far East and above all towards China, and from there we roam through Asia Minor and the Arab lands and cultures, moving then into southern Europe, before we arrive in the pre-modern regions and cities familiar to us. My thesis is that the new and arousing ideas come out of the provinces much more frequently than out of the centers of power, where they are worked over and freed from their resistances. In order to characterize the particular form of collective work which emerges out of the networking of heterogeneous ideas and fields, I use the expression "economy of friendship".
As for the book, is called "Deep Time of the Media: an archeology of hearing and seeing through technical means" and I am at the moment enjoying reading it.
The interview at NEURAL is also worth to have a look at as it gives a personal perspective of history and late developments of technology.
Monday, May 19, 2008
carta ao pai natal
pai natal,
sabendo que não existes e por isso nada podes fazer, resolvi escrever-te uma carta. se fosse ao menino jesus, haveria quem pensasse que eu acredito em jesus e logo que tinha esperanças que realmente os meus pedidos fossem atendidos por vias do destino, do acaso ou de iluminação divina.
os meus pedidos para hoje são:
queria clareza e calma, um graffiti, alguns biscates, iluminação de génio para um site novo para a V+A e também queria de volta aquela forma descontraída de passar os dias que tinha a semana passada que me faz falta para ser feliz comigo.
por hoje é isto. espero não ter que esperar até ao natal que ainda vai longe.
fazes excepções para pessoas a entrar em situações de pânico?
Carta ao Pai Natal de Ana
como estou mesmo enrascada, mando-te outra carta que encontrei no youtube, muito mais divetida do que a minha. Espero que gostes.
aguardo a tua resposta em forma de vouchers.
ate já ou até mais logo,
Ana
sabendo que não existes e por isso nada podes fazer, resolvi escrever-te uma carta. se fosse ao menino jesus, haveria quem pensasse que eu acredito em jesus e logo que tinha esperanças que realmente os meus pedidos fossem atendidos por vias do destino, do acaso ou de iluminação divina.
os meus pedidos para hoje são:
queria clareza e calma, um graffiti, alguns biscates, iluminação de génio para um site novo para a V+A e também queria de volta aquela forma descontraída de passar os dias que tinha a semana passada que me faz falta para ser feliz comigo.
por hoje é isto. espero não ter que esperar até ao natal que ainda vai longe.
fazes excepções para pessoas a entrar em situações de pânico?
Carta ao Pai Natal de Anacomo estou mesmo enrascada, mando-te outra carta que encontrei no youtube, muito mais divetida do que a minha. Espero que gostes.
aguardo a tua resposta em forma de vouchers.
ate já ou até mais logo,
Ana
first projecta-S
To the question if went well the first projecta-S event on Thursday night, I say enthusiastically yes, couldn't been better.
The chosen performer was professionally perfect. The owner of the place was impeccable with the necessary technical support and, in spite of the differences, as we are just now working together, this was a good start.
For the performance with which I started my curatorial practices in Portugal, I wanted to show something different and unique from what I have seen so far within experimentalism made in Portugal. I think I succeeded. A Tiny Wee is also different from what I do as practitioner/performer. This way to present diversity of approaches and technologies.
The opportunity to have a program on realtime audiovisual performance to chose to go to on a Thursday night is almost a novelty in the city of Porto. I hope projecta-S continues as this is part of my active contribute to development of realtime audiovisual performance as well as actively participate in the cultural development of the city I live in.
The bar was almost empty when we came out of the cinema room after the show. Dani is super enthusiastic and passionate about her work and generously talks about it. She shares with those interested her motivations, expectations, process and reasons, I learned a few very interesting things, from performance to the wonderful world of felines.
Next projecta-S will in be July. It will be very different from this one, it will also be different from the strict concept of experimentalist.
The chosen performer was professionally perfect. The owner of the place was impeccable with the necessary technical support and, in spite of the differences, as we are just now working together, this was a good start.
For the performance with which I started my curatorial practices in Portugal, I wanted to show something different and unique from what I have seen so far within experimentalism made in Portugal. I think I succeeded. A Tiny Wee
The opportunity to have a program on realtime audiovisual performance to chose to go to on a Thursday night is almost a novelty in the city of Porto. I hope projecta-S continues as this is part of my active contribute to development of realtime audiovisual performance as well as actively participate in the cultural development of the city I live in.
The bar was almost empty when we came out of the cinema room after the show. Dani is super enthusiastic and passionate about her work and generously talks about it. She shares with those interested her motivations, expectations, process and reasons, I learned a few very interesting things, from performance to the wonderful world of felines.
Next projecta-S will in be July. It will be very different from this one, it will also be different from the strict concept of experimentalist.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
A tiny wee Back & Forward
Português:
Sala de cinema do Passos Manuel, Porto, Portugal
http://www.passosmanuel.net
15 de Maio 2008: 23:00
Performance audiovisual por Ye77a
www.myspace.com/ye77a
Um conto não linear com 2 personagens, Ruby e Shadowman, que exploram conceptualmente os músculos numa realidade de sonho. Onde é sempre Noite.
Nesta performance o conto e os seus simbolismos são interpretados numa narrativa musical, visual e cénica. Os músculos evoluem através de Ruby, que por sua vez evolui com a ajuda da sua sombra Shadowman.
Juntos interpretam as músicas que contam a história das duas personagens.
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English:
Cinema room at Passos Manuel, Porto, Portugal
http://www.passosmanuel.net
15th May 2008: 23:00
Audiovisual Performance by Ye77a
www.myspace.com/ye77a
A non-linear tale with two characters, Ruby and Shadowman, who explore conceptually the muscles in a dreamlike reality. Where is always Night.
In this performance the tale and its symbolisms are interpreted within the musical, visual and scenic aspects of the narrative. The muscles evolve through Ruby, who by his turn, evolve with the help of his shadow Shadowman. Together they interpret the musics and tell a story of two characters.
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Este espectáculo esta inserido no projecta-S
Projecta-S, comissariado por Ana Carvalho, apresenta trabalhos de cariz experimental, dentro das áreas da performance audiovisual em tempo real.
This performance is part of projecta-S
Projecta-S is curated by Ana Carvalho, and presents experimental projects within the areas of audiovisual realtime performance.
Sala de cinema do Passos Manuel, Porto, Portugal
http://www.passosmanuel.net
15 de Maio 2008: 23:00
Performance audiovisual por Ye77a
www.myspace.com/ye77a
Um conto não linear com 2 personagens, Ruby e Shadowman, que exploram conceptualmente os músculos numa realidade de sonho. Onde é sempre Noite.
Nesta performance o conto e os seus simbolismos são interpretados numa narrativa musical, visual e cénica. Os músculos evoluem através de Ruby, que por sua vez evolui com a ajuda da sua sombra Shadowman.
Juntos interpretam as músicas que contam a história das duas personagens.
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English:
Cinema room at Passos Manuel, Porto, Portugal
http://www.passosmanuel.net
15th May 2008: 23:00
Audiovisual Performance by Ye77a
www.myspace.com/ye77a
A non-linear tale with two characters, Ruby and Shadowman, who explore conceptually the muscles in a dreamlike reality. Where is always Night.
In this performance the tale and its symbolisms are interpreted within the musical, visual and scenic aspects of the narrative. The muscles evolve through Ruby, who by his turn, evolve with the help of his shadow Shadowman. Together they interpret the musics and tell a story of two characters.
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Este espectáculo esta inserido no projecta-S
Projecta-S, comissariado por Ana Carvalho, apresenta trabalhos de cariz experimental, dentro das áreas da performance audiovisual em tempo real.
This performance is part of projecta-S
Projecta-S is curated by Ana Carvalho, and presents experimental projects within the areas of audiovisual realtime performance.
Friday, May 09, 2008
A Luizinha {english version}
There is a business in Porto that does all sorts of small jobs, like painting walls, walk the dog, baby sitting, ...
any kind of small job.
The originality of this business is that the job is done by fit girls.
The lady in charge is bossy and the girls drink lots of beer, listen to loud music and sing with an horrendous voice.
Nonetheless, they are very efficient and not expensive at all.
any kind of small job.
The originality of this business is that the job is done by fit girls.
The lady in charge is bossy and the girls drink lots of beer, listen to loud music and sing with an horrendous voice.
Nonetheless, they are very efficient and not expensive at all.
Art project:
Finding a job is a sad and depressing process anywhere in the world. The national and present reality of it is so tragic that can only be hilarious. As all in life, we can see it as a source of discontent if we wish so. Or then, make the most of it.
This is the best combination so far of art work / therapy / money making / everyday life / process, all with an artistic purpose.
The project has no name yet and has no structure either. It will be a collection of small works, CVs, videos and texts that document the diversity of skills in practice for the good cause of paying the rent.
In the process, this is hope for those who feel like having a job is a basic condition for living well with those who do have one. It is not. Is also a statement: people have lots of skills to use and is fun a change and go for creativity.
Finding a job is a sad and depressing process anywhere in the world. The national and present reality of it is so tragic that can only be hilarious. As all in life, we can see it as a source of discontent if we wish so. Or then, make the most of it.
This is the best combination so far of art work / therapy / money making / everyday life / process, all with an artistic purpose.
The project has no name yet and has no structure either. It will be a collection of small works, CVs, videos and texts that document the diversity of skills in practice for the good cause of paying the rent.
In the process, this is hope for those who feel like having a job is a basic condition for living well with those who do have one. It is not. Is also a statement: people have lots of skills to use and is fun a change and go for creativity.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
A Luizinha
Há uma empresa no Porto que faz biscates do tipo pintar paredes, lavar carros, passear o cão, tomar conta do bebé ...
Qualquer tipo de biscates.
A originalidade da empresa é que o trabalho é feito por gajas boas.
A patroa é um bocado mandona e as gajas bebem muita cerveja, ouvem musica alta e cantam com uma voz horrenda. Mas são eficientes e não são caras.
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Dreaming of a bigou cucombou!
Este é um post sobre a noite de ontem, escrito "há moda" da Bella. Já se vai perceber como e porquê.
1- Depois de ter sido alvo das atenções dos fotógrafos o passado fim-de-semana no meu papel estonteante e bem representado de gruppie artistica, este fim-de-semana resolvi passa-lo mais perto de casa e de forma mais económica. Contudo não menos interessante.
2- Mil pontos para a T-Shirt que tinha escrito "feminists fuck better" e outros mil pontos para o gajo que a vestia. Só porque a vestia (como já disse, todos os gajos deviam ser feministas).
3- Prémio revelação performance vai para o John Spencer por ter carregado as caixas do equipamento e prescindir assim de roadies e do estatuto, já gasto e aborrecido, de rock star. Apaixonei-me pela imagem, atitude e energia do homem. Para comprovar que o meu subconsciente concorda com o que os meus olhos viram, sonhei que o beijava. Ele logo me pedia para depois do concerto passar em casa, fazer a mala preta, trazer o gira-discos comigo e ficar em casa dele. Conduzia um descapotável branco.
4 - Os homens estiveram ontem em grande nas suas atitudes. Cá vai mais um para a lista; é o gajo com uns cabelos que davam por baixo do rabo e com quem troquei algumas dicas sobre como tratar bem dos cabelos. Pedro, agora já sabes que ninguém me pode dizer 'alguem que lhe vá lá dizer que...'.
Este foi um post em português, "há moda" da Bella (mais ou menos) que fez cá falta (vejam o Blog Ponycab). Embora a pensão Estrelinha estivesse bem e com uma excelente energia, notou-se que havia falta de uma certa tendência.
A gata Ginja está finalmente com fome.
Por falar em gata, alguém me faça um graffiti na rua se faz favor?
1- Depois de ter sido alvo das atenções dos fotógrafos o passado fim-de-semana no meu papel estonteante e bem representado de gruppie artistica, este fim-de-semana resolvi passa-lo mais perto de casa e de forma mais económica. Contudo não menos interessante.
2- Mil pontos para a T-Shirt que tinha escrito "feminists fuck better" e outros mil pontos para o gajo que a vestia. Só porque a vestia (como já disse, todos os gajos deviam ser feministas).
3- Prémio revelação performance vai para o John Spencer por ter carregado as caixas do equipamento e prescindir assim de roadies e do estatuto, já gasto e aborrecido, de rock star. Apaixonei-me pela imagem, atitude e energia do homem. Para comprovar que o meu subconsciente concorda com o que os meus olhos viram, sonhei que o beijava. Ele logo me pedia para depois do concerto passar em casa, fazer a mala preta, trazer o gira-discos comigo e ficar em casa dele. Conduzia um descapotável branco.
4 - Os homens estiveram ontem em grande nas suas atitudes. Cá vai mais um para a lista; é o gajo com uns cabelos que davam por baixo do rabo e com quem troquei algumas dicas sobre como tratar bem dos cabelos. Pedro, agora já sabes que ninguém me pode dizer 'alguem que lhe vá lá dizer que...'.
Este foi um post em português, "há moda" da Bella (mais ou menos) que fez cá falta (vejam o Blog Ponycab). Embora a pensão Estrelinha estivesse bem e com uma excelente energia, notou-se que havia falta de uma certa tendência.
A gata Ginja está finalmente com fome.
Por falar em gata, alguém me faça um graffiti na rua se faz favor?
Saturday, May 03, 2008
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