Thursday, October 31, 2013

Tempest








We are two ships passing
How long will this last 
We haven't had the time to work it out
Sitting in the backseat
Who knows where our paths meet
And you keep shouting we've gotta work it out








You gotta believe me when I say I know 
(Gotta work it out, it out)
You aren't riding on this wave alone
(Gotta work it out, it out)
Gotta believe me when I say I know
(Gotta work it out, it out)
I already know I know I know I know






Yell all that you want to
I'll yell it right back to you
Back and forth until we've tired out
Temper into tempest
Washes off the madness
But we're still left with figuring shit out






The seeds of what you say all beg for reason
Plant them deep so we can disregard them
Been listening to every word you said
You're just waking up to get back into bed
The seeds of what you say all beg for reason 
Plant them deeply so we can release them
Been listening to every word you said
You're just waking up to get back into bed









You know I'm riding on this wave alone 
You know I'm riding on this wave alone
You aren't riding on this wave alone
I already know I know I know I know







Gotta believe me when I say I know
Already know I know I know I know

Lucius

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

The Oldest Of Sisters








 

I am not sure is it how you would say yes 
your room's still open 
but I didn't miss the steps 
cause when I went nearby 
to see what I have missed 
there was your doorman 
challenging me to confess 
friend of mine






my old friend refire 
my old friend well tide 
my old friend of mine 
but I get someone behind 








oh you gave me shelter 
say a fool you must not learn 
why you've kept close 
will be left here to burn 
me oldest of sisters







she was the greatest one to earn 
so I wrote her this letter 
in advance of my return 
friend of mine 
my old friend refire 
oh my old friend well tide 
old friend of mine 
well I get someone behind 









as I get someone behind 
friend of mine 
my old friend refire 
my old friend well tide 
old friend of mine 

Balthazar

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Teacher Programmes












Teacher Programmes
_at_
CERN








Keep up-to-date with the latest developments in particle physics and related areas, and experience a dynamic, international research environment. CERN offers you the possibility to participate in special programmes for teachers and meet with teaching colleagues from your country or from all over Europe.









The High School Teacher Programme is a comprehensive international course held in English, aimed at teachers who would like to spend the first three weeks of July at CERN. The next session will take place from 30 June to 20 July 2013.











The National Teacher Programmes are held in the mother tongue language of the participants from CERN member states. 








CERN provides all scientific, administrative and technical support for the programme, such as scientific content and provision of national language facilitators, lecturers and guides. Travel and subsistence funds, covering accommodation and meals, are expected to be provided by national authorities or by other sources, e.g. educational foundations. [link]









Sunday, October 27, 2013

Young again

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Time is disgraceful 
We’re all just watching as things fall apart 
And silence seems wasteful
When I know what’s coming for me in the dark







I’m young again
Thanks a lot
I’m young again
Ra ra






Jobs are disgraceful
They tick like suffering from a clock
I sized my potential
It just seemed small in the wrong box







Cuz I’m young again
Thanks a lot
I’m young again
Ra ra
Thanks for my spot





Feed me sonar
Lead me so far
Feed me sonar
You need me so far

Paul Banks

Friday, October 25, 2013

Information Runs On









Traffic lights fall to the street,
chandeliers start to swing,
crashing lights at our feet.







We drive through our lives like a dream,
how we long for release
from these nights of caffeine.







Isolate the neurons
the information runs on,
the gears your minds will turn on,
as information runs on.






The feedback of fools amplified,
engineers start to grind out the lens
in our mind’s eye.
We’re houses of cards
built in rows,
shuffling fears as we go
through these years, overclocking lost time.







Isolate the neurons
the information runs on,
the gears your minds will turn on,
as information runs on,
runs on.

Faded Paper Figures

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Naxos III











Naxos III






Big Sweet has this island, virtuous are the faces of people, piles are shaped by melons, peaches, figs and the sea is calm. I looked at the people - never this people have been frightened by earthquakes or by Turks, and their eyes did not burn out. 










Here freedom had extinguished the need for freedom, and life spread out as happy sleeping water. And if sometimes was discomposed, never rose tempest. Safety was the first gift of island that I felt as walking around Naxos."
 --N. Kazantzaki - A Report to El.Greko






So these are some photos from the safe side 









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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Hybrid stories










Hybrid stories
from the EMST collection
27/06/2013 - 29/09/2013

Curated By: Stamatis Schizakis







The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) presents Hybrid stories, from the EMST collection, an exhibition of 14 works, of video art and film, by acclaimed artists such as Robert Wilson, Rebecca Horn, Gary Hill, Jean –Luc Godard, among others. 







This particular selection of works combines the other aspects of the new narrativity which formed during the 70s when artists chose video as their new medium of recording or started undermining the established cinematic practices. From a medium of recording, video became in the hands of these visual artists an exceptionally flexible and expressive instrument. Through the hybrid character of the produced artworks, in which painting, sculpture, music, theatricality, cinematic narrative and television are brought together, one recognizes the concerns of contemporary aesthetics in relation to the correspondence of the arts of space and time and also the realization of the demand for the synthesis of the arts.






In his ritualistic work Deafman Glance, a televised adaptation of his five-hour “silent” opera, Robert Wilson, intersects theatricality with visual arts. Rebecca Horn’s films integrate (and redefine) her sculptural world, her performances and her body pieces into the “reality” of the cinematic narration. Jean-Luc Godard along with Anne-Marie Mieville analyze the political economy of personal and mass media communications in a provocative critique of the power of media images in contemporary culture and everyday life. In the works of Gary Hill the viewer observes the passage from the pictorial use of the medium to the artist’s own linguistic-centered games.








Dimitris Kozaris draws his material upon hundreds of neglected “spaghetti” western movies. He parodies not only the “low” products of mass culture but to a much greater degree, he criticizes the position of the contemporary artist, who erects communication networks through deconstructionist activities. In the cross-section of the cinematographic and photographic storytelling, the work of George Drivas which also integrates the written word, sound, even architecture, detects the boundaries and the relations between reality and fiction, objective testimony and aesthetic construction.







George DrivasEmpirical Data, 2009
HD digital video
Black and white, with sound
Duration 34΄

Rebecca Horn Buster’s Bedroom, 1990
35mm film transferred to DVD
Color, with sound
Duration 104΄
Screening hours: 11:00, 13:00, 15:00, 17:00, Thursday 19:00









Rebecca Horn La Ferdinada: Sonate für eine Medici-Villa, 1981
35mm film transferred to DVD
Color, with sound
Duration 85΄
Screening hours: 11:00, 12:30, 14:00, 15:30, 17:00 Thursdays 18:30, 20:00

Robert WilsonDeafman Glance, 1981
Video, color, with sound
Duration 26΄53΄΄
Sophie Calle & Gregory ShephardDouble- blind, 1992
Video, color, with sound
Duration 75΄58΄΄
Screening hours: 11:00, 12:30, 14:00, 15:30, 17:00 Thursdays 18:30, 20:00
Dimitris Kozaris
Once upon a time in the western, 2000
Video, color, with sound
Duration 35΄







Richard Brouillette
Encirclement – Neo-Liberalism ensnares Democracy(2008), 
HDCam shot in 16mm 
Black and white 
Duration 160΄
Screening hours: 12.00, 16.00, Thursday 12.00, 16.00 and 19.00
George DrivasSequence Error, 2011
HD digital video
Color with sound
Duration 11’
Rebecca Horn Der Eintänzer, 1978
16mm film transferred to DVD
Color, with sound
Duration 47΄
Screening hours: 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00, 17:00, 18:00 Thursdays 19:00, 20:00, 21:00
Rebecca Horn Cutting through the Past, 1995
16mm film transferred to DVD
Color, with sound
Duration 55’








Garry HillURA ARU (the backside exists), 1985-1986
Video, colour, with sound
Duration 28΄30΄΄
Shelly SilverWhat I'm Looking for, 2004
Video, color, with sound
Duration 75΄58΄΄

Chris Marker Immemory, 1997
Multimedia CD-Rom 
Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville Soft and Hard (A Soft Conversation on Hard Subjects), 1985
Video, color, with sound
Duration 48΄11΄΄

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The Ship of Tolerance inspires...
From the EMST educational workshop

09/07/2013 - 01/09/2013