great words John

I'd like to quote you in an article Im writing on an event that took place
recently in Karachi on Curatorial Knowledge

A street performer Abdullah Qamar of the Dhaba Art Movement talked here
about how they went into one neighbourhood in Karachi to perform, they
reached at 7am and hung up their paintings only for the public to arrive at
9am and beat them up. What this group didnt realize was way in which the
people of the neighbourhood understood that space (it was connected to some
political party workers deaths and a place of reverence)

he said the beating up was good for them as they now go and sit at the tea
stalls (hence the name Dhaba) and get the spirit of the space first before
they perform always taking someone of the area into confidence

I've seen that even when you create a space with the intention of it being
filled up by others energy you first have to dance your dance there to show
what is possible otherwise it might just be filled up by negative energy
rather than the raw stuff that we all consider to be good

And the space creators do become punching bags and it takes a psychological
toll on them, im recovering too so it helps to have a good support system
and not to take yourself too seriously all the time

Atteqa

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Tapio Makela <tapio@???> wrote:

> Moi John!
>
> > sounds really good. as saunas are surely part of the mix! the days begin
> to stretch into the Arctic pre-summer white nights, stars disappear for
> months, the river ice breaks, and Finns get wild ;-)
> ... Uranium mine, so something hot anyhow. Yet a sauna every now and then
> is a must of course. :)
> The public sauna around the block at Harjuntori is still going strong.
> Compared to earlier times of Pixelache, May is really good.
>
> >
> > bwahaha, too bad they haven't the possibility to vote for legalization
> of pot as here in the US gains momentum. A stoned heroic moose would be
> something to see! But it sounds like there is still plenty of room for
> certain kinds of radical play.
> yup, that's the question, how to radicalize play.
> I think you have to come in person though to work on a stoned moose?
> It was widely posted news here with Washington's simultaneous move to
> legalize gay marriages and legalize recreational dope. It is not a
> coincidence this happens after and not before the elections?
>
> > Here in the US there are so many layers of s**t over everything that
> authentic be-ing is tremendously difficult -- like wandering through a
> mine-field with a blind-fold on. There is always the massive-oppressive
> media-sphere which reaches down into every momentary human encounter. I now
> catch myself playing secret performance artist with improv fake mobile
> telephone calls in public spaces -- *just to avoid attracting attention to
> myself*! What kind of madness is that?
> Control Freedom as Wendy Chun coined it? Paranoia as liberty or vice versa?
> >
> > They already are talking about the NEXT election in 2016. The desire for
> power has become an overwhelming source of spectacle that has the power to
> deeply alter, corrupt, and destroy lives. Debord would be even more
> prematurely suicidal.
> Actually reading more into other less popular situationists lately I came
> to realize they were not so radically opposed to consumerism as such, but
> rather against consumption as the only rationale of behaviour. For example
> with architecture they criticised it for being merely functional and not
> enabling interpretation and play. I suppose there is a sense of total
> hegemony one easily gets with Russian and US news, though the latter is not
> controlled in a similar fashion but favourably produced by the likes of
> Murdoch. If Newscorp wiretapped in the UK they surely must have been doing
> the same in the US...?
>
> >
> > I have had an uneasy feeling about some DIY as it seems the same as the
> hobby-techno-obssessed movements that were rife in post-Sputnik Amurika:
> Heathkit; Popular Mechanics; Popular Science; that all is too surficial,
> too technocratic, sometimes too limited in that it is avocation and hobby
> rather than life-(changing)-trajectory. But as you observe, it still has
> the potential to establish a foothold for other more radical learning
> encounters -- but we need to be mindful of the risk of doing only for the
> sake of doing, rather than a more simple-yet-rich doing-for-being.
> DIFC=Do it for change? Can it be so Difcult? :)
>
> There is also the question of DIWTNSLM, Doing it with the not so like
> minded, ie. the not converted (as if there was a path to follow).
> Actually, I am not into acronyms but was just playing around.
> Maker culture seems to have a bridging aspect to it, a way of engaging
> beyond the likely bunch of people, but one is so aware of edges if limited
> by the technological imaginary.
>
>
> >
> >> As for cooking and Helsinki, I have a pretty good sized kitchen +
> workshop
> >> space so can host cooking sessions of 4-6 cooking + 15 max 20 eating.
> That is
> >
> > damn, now that sounds GREAT! breaking bread at Tapio's table has always
> been an enLightening experience as many of you already know! I'd highly
> recommend it: strangers become friends ;-)
> Especially when everyone brings some spices and goodies along. :)
> I just came back from Delhi and Bangalore w/ green chillies of four
> varieties to heat the winter nights here.
> Attended a festival put together by Ish Shehrawat www.soundreasons.in and
> attended Sarai Reader 09: The Exhibition.
> I would much recommend looking at two related publications to the Reader
> exhibition:
> http://www.sarai.net/publications/occasional
> P.T.O. as well as City as a Studio.
> I don't find yet on-line this one:
> http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1363&bookId=258&l=en
> - has some remarkable fragments by The Cybermohalla Ensemble
>
> > LOL! For those of you who haven't been to Finland and enjoyed the
> distinctive aura (aurinkoa!) of Finnish hospitality -- check out this doco
> I made way back when:
> >
> > http://www.neoscenes.net/aud-vid/video/finland_p.html
> Lots of it looks like 70s the way you have captured it... nice time
> machine clip. :)
>
> cheers,
>
> Tapio
>
>
>
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