We live today

Transitions of a man’s mission to turn the moment into something young 

Not just for him but for them understand 

This is peace of a man 

Woman beside providing balance 

So that we can do our best regard silence

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah 

you live today, live today,
 we live today 

don’t give it away

‘cause we live today, live today

Today I’m known, today I’m born 

New way ‘cause I’m going new ways ‘cause I’m going 

New ways I’m flowing, 

A form unknown from the corner is one stone 

Color with life with more than one tone 

Nation and bracing like placement spaces and places we in 

Dot direction is taking us in like the wind from ..

That’s discovered by .. Chicago 

Talk em how to lead and to follow 

My heart even when it’s hallo

I plan the scene for today that we live in tomorrow 

Son telling me that we feed in the sorrow 

Pay attention ‘cause D time for borrow 

..amaze us unless you just amaze us 

Unless is aggressive we live today

We live today

Don’t give it away

‘Cause we live today

The path that we take, the path that we make 

We create from the one true y’all

Some things we gotta undo and unlearn 

Taking turn to .. taking turn to burn 

Taking things as fun ..think we time ..

We divide em out, divide em in 

We become since and my man ..plan 

We taking in like the breath 

I can be the chef in the kitchen 

while i’m .. different type of style

a different job, i gotta think fast 

ha gotta task for everybody 

just to do just to live .. 

just to live today

We live today for the present no one else 

Listen .. 

For our future givin things before I answer ..in the past

Derrick Hodge

Feat Common

Καθημερινότητα

Η φωτογραφική ομάδα F9 παρουσίασε την έκθεση με τίτλο: "Καθημερινότητα" στο Πνευματικό Κέντρο της Άμφισσας από τις 4 μέχρι και τις 10 Οκτωβρίου 2013.

Μιλώντας για την καθημερινότητα αναφερόμαστε σε μια βεβαιότητα ότι αυτή η καθημερινή δράση των ανθρώπων υπάρχει και είναι η μόνη αληθινή κίνηση που άμεσα μας προσανατολίζει- θεωρητικά με ασφάλεια-μέσα στο χώρο/χρόνο. Αυτός ο αυτοκαθορισμός μας ή ετεροκαθορισμός μας από την αίσθηση μιας δεδομένης πραγματικότητας εμφανίζει μια διαρκή –σε μεγάλο βαθμό ασυνείδητη-πρακτική καταστάσεων ζωής, δημιουργώντας την αίσθηση της αμεσότητας και της οικειότητας με ένα κόσμο όπου πραγματικότητα και αλήθεια ταυτίζονται.

Εξυπακούεται ότι η καθημερινότητα δεν αποτελείται μόνο από πράξεις και πρακτικές, αλλά και από αντίστοιχες μορφές συνείδησης ,σκέψεις, ιδέες, επιθυμίες φαντασιώσεις. Εάν ,ωστόσο, υπάρχει ένα σημείο περατότητας σ’αυτή τη συνήθη κατάσταση της ζωή μας, που όλοι μας εμπλεκόμαστε, αυτός είναι ο θάνατος, που αν και γεγονός ανοίκειο και άρα μη καθημερινό, εισέρχεται και λαμβάνει τη θέση του στην καθημερινότητα της μνήμης και της επόμενης ημέρας.

Πολλές φορές ή και συνέχεια σκεφτόμαστε την υπέρβαση και τη διαφυγή μας από την επανάληψη σχεδιάζοντας μια άλλη διαχείριση της καθημερινότητας ίσως και τη ριζική ανατροπή της.

Η φωτογραφική αποτύπωση παγώνει διάτρητα και αδιάκριτα πολλές φορές τη ροή του καθημερινού χρόνου, αποκαλύπτοντας ή έντεχνα σιωπώντας δεδομένα της τροχιάς όλων μας. Όμως η φωτογραφική κάμερα παρά την τεχνολογική της εξέλιξη σήμερα αδυνατεί να καταγράψει όλες τις εικόνες, τον ρυθμό και την ταχύτητα της καθημερινής ζωής που αρκετές φορές μοιάζει να ‘ναι ακίνητη προσπαθώντας να μας επιβάλλει το ίδιο κάδρο. Αδυνατεί να εστιάσει στο φαντασιακό της καθημερινότητας ,και να αναιρέσει το απαγορευτικό όριο που εμείς οι ίδιοι συχνά θέτουμε. 

Η εικόνα μοιάζει πάντα αρχικά να ΄ναι μία ρεαλιστική απεικόνιση, δηλαδή εμπλέκεται με την καθημερινότητα παραμένοντας μια μοναχική γραφή. Η φωτογραφία γίνεται σημαντική με την παρέμβαση του φωτογράφου, όταν αντιληφθεί και αναζητήσει τα σημεία που υπερβατικά ή αφαιρετικά δημιουργούν τη φωτογραφία-γεγονός, αποδεσμεύοντας νοήματα και συναισθήματα, χρησιμοποιώντας τις δυνατότητες που του παρέχει η φωτογραφία ως εκφραστικό μέσο.

Τα ονόματα όσων συμμετείχαν στην έκθεση φωτογραφίας :

Αγγελόπουλος Ευθύμιος

Ανδρέου Δημήτρης

Αρτινός Αποστόλης

Βουγιουκλής Νίκος

Βούλγαρης Χρήστος

Δημητρίου Βασιλική

Δρόλαπας Ανάργυρος

Ζωγράφος Γιώργος

Ζωμένου Βασιλική

Καλογήρου Σύνη

Καμπεράκη Ρούλα

Κανέλλος Δημήτριος

Καραμπέτσου Νίκη

Κόκκινος Ασημάκης

Κουλελής Γιάννης

Λαλάς Παναγιώτης

Μπότη Λίτσα

Σπέντζος Ευθύμιος

Τζαμτζή Αγγελική

Τραχανάς Γιώργος

Τσάκαλος Φάνης

Χριστόπουλος Κώστας

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Parasite

Lifting the mask from from a local clown 

Feeling down like him 

Seeing the light in a station bar 

And travelling far in sin 

Sailing downstairs to the northern line

Watching the shine of the shoes 

And hearing the trial of the people there 

Who's to care if they lose. 

And take a look you may see me on the ground 

For I am the parasite of this town. 

Dancing a jig in a church with chimes 

A sign of the times today 

And hearing no bell from a steeple tall 

People all in dismay 

Falling so far on a silver spoon 

Making the moon for fun 

And changing a rope for a size too small 

People all get hung. 

Take a look and see me coming through 

For I am the parasite who travels two by two. 

When lifting the mask from a local clown 

And feeling down like him 

And I'm seeing the light in a station bar 

And travelling far in sin 

And I'm sailing downstair to the northern line 

Watching the shine of the shoes 

And hearing the trials of the people there 

Who's to care if they lose.

And take a look you may see me on the ground 

For I am the parasite of this town. 

And take a look you may see me in the dirt 

For I am the parasite who hangs from your skirt.

Nick Drake

Remap 4 part 6

Remap 4

part 6

point 03

NEON PATHS

“The exhibition “Echoes of Silence” is being presented in a renovated neoclassical house in the historical district of Metaxourgeio, an empty abode that awaits its residents. The installation mounts a playful yet strange game with the building’s identity as an abode, as a house in which something is not quite right on the domestic front. The works posit uneasy questions and threaten the household bliss and calm with weird surprises…”

Artists: Pierre Huyghe, Sarah Lucas, Hans Bellmer, Robert Gober, Louise Bourgeois,Nikos Kessanlis, Rosemarie Trockel, Sherrie Levine, John Bock, Fischli & Weiss, Joseph Beuys, Sofia Kosmaoglou, Mark Bradford, Helen Chadwick & Juan Muñoz

Curators: Douglas Fogle and Dimitris Paleocrassas [link]

Day Is Done

When the day is done 

Down to earth then sinks the sun 

Along with everything that was lost and won 

When the day is done. 

When the day is done 

Hope so much your race will be all run 

Then you find you jumped the gun 

Have to go back where you began 

When the day is done.

When the night is cold 

Some get by but some get old 

Just to show life's not made of gold 

When the night is cold. 

When the bird has flown 

Got no-one to call your own 

Got no place to call your home 

When the bird has flown. 

When the game's been fought 

You speed the ball across the court 

Lost much sooner than you would have thought 

Now the game's been fought. 

When the party's through 

Seems so very sad for you 

Didn't do the things you meant to do 

Now there's no time to start anew 

Now the party's through. 

When the day is done 

Down to earth then sinks the sun 

Along with everything that was lost and won 

When the day is done.

Nick Drake

Remap 4 Part 5

Remap 4

part 5

point 15

BLIND ADAM

The Breeder is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Blind Adam, as part of the fourth edition of Remap KM. Using black wool yarn Blind Adam creates a hand knotted universe of miles and miles of thread. A procedure that started mechanically in 2007 has now evolved in a solid art practice that includes wall based works, sculptures and installations.

Blind Adam has retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic condition that constricts the visual field resulting in visual impairment. His canvas works, presented on the gallery’s ground floor resemble the Braille system. They represent the process of articulating a personal language, the crystallization of thought, like a basic form of manuscript. Each black knot representing a letter or a word in an abstract flow of sentences upon the white background.

“Melting Safety” a monumental sculpture is hanging in the center of the space. Part safety net, part floating demon the long threads of knotted yarn that constitute the work come together in an imposing black mass. Each knot is at an equal distance from the other, that is dictated by the size of the artist’s hands when they tie them. A symmetry that offers rhythm and sequence to the structure.

The gallery’s basement floor is transformed in an ancient temple consisting of twenty-four Corinthian columns. Each one of them an ethereal elegant structure of black yarn, like monuments of transcendental meditation or rather the ghostly exoskeletons of columns, they highlight the absence of volume. They are the impressions of columns, drawn from the artist’s memory. Against the gallery’s white walls, the sculptures resemble drawings with black pen on paper that have come to life claiming a three-dimensional existence.

Blind Adam (1971, Athens) is based in Athens, Greece. Blind Adam has presented his work in solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Athena (2013), Athens and at Suzy Tros Project Space, Athens (2012). Group exhibitions include “Hell As Pavillion” curated by Nadia Argyropoulou at Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2013), The Art of This Century at the Alex Mylona Museum in Athens (2011), at ASVOFF (A Shaded View On Fashion Film) festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, (2011), at Chagallesque, Hydra School Projects in Hydra (2010). [ link ]

point 18

ΤHE CABINET (FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT): AN INDEPENDENT PROJECT 

Curators: Dionisis Christofilogiannis, Giorgos Tserionis, Andreas Voussouras

A transportable box with dimensions 200X230X200cm (made of chipboard and painted inside with black paint) has a clear reference to the cabinets of curiosities or wunderkammer, which served as the first platforms of collecting things until their transformation to current museums. The orientation of the participants (contributing at the exhibition with paintings, sculptures and artists books, in small dimensions at the size of a miniature ) comment on the course and the political situation of the Greek reality, a country with strong political changes, while exhibited in the area of Metaxourgio, a place affected strongly by these changes ,issuing themes such as immigration, marginalization, etc.

The box is an intermediate space and acts as a file repository, can be transferred while hiding what is inside it. Visitors of the exhibition can have a fragmented view of the exhibited artworks through specially designed, small windows, holes while can have a comprehensive view of the box going up a ladder and watch inside from above. [link]

point 14

MY CRAP IS BIGGER THAN YOURS!

My crap is BIGGER than yours! is a project by Eleni Bagaki curated by Annie-Claire Geisinger. Examining the borderline between image and object.  [ link ]

point 4

POKA-YIO

Smelly

This is a smelly neighbourhood. Those guys smell great, the streets smell sweet. Poka-Yio’s new work is a tribute to the essence of the city. Both repulsive and attractive this is the Core Essence of Athens. [ link ]

point 21

STIGMA LAB

Dialogue

Dialogue is a project consisting of 5 murals that “communicate” with one another. The results of the collaborations emerging from the artists participation in the dialogue.

The dialogue “draws” images with familiar characters from the city streets, in an attempt to awaken the viewers on the todays sociopolitical problems.

The 5 murals of the “Dialogue” : anger, hate, fear, jealousy, lust. [ link ]

Geneva Sky

Sky (or celestial dome) is everything that lies a certain distance above the surface of Earth, including the atmosphere and the rest of outer space. In the field of astronomy, the sky is also called the celestial sphere. This is an imaginary dome where the sun, stars, planets, and the moon are seen to be traveling. The celestial sphere is divided into regions called constellations. 

Usually, the term sky is used from the point of view of the Earth's surface; however, the exact meaning of the term can vary. For example, in some cases the sky is defined as only the denser portions of the atmosphere.

During daylight, the sky appears to be blue because air scatters blue sunlight more than it scatters red. At night, the sky appears to be a mostly dark surface or region scattered with stars. During the day, the Sun can be seen in the sky, unless obscured by clouds. In the night sky (and to some extent during the day) the moon, planets and stars are visible in the sky. 

Some of the natural phenomena seen in the sky are clouds, rainbows, and aurorae. Lightning and precipitation can also be seen in the sky during storms. Birds, insects, aircraft, and kites are often considered to fly in the sky. Due to human activities, smog during the day and light pollution during the night are often seen above large cities.

Except for light that comes directly from the sun, most of the light in the day sky is caused by scattering, which is dominated by a small-particle limit called Rayleigh Scattering. The scattering due to molecule sized particles (as in air) is greater in the forward and backward directions than it is in the lateral direction. Scattering is significant for light at all visible wavelengths, but it is stronger at the shorter (bluer) end of the visible spectrum; meaning that that the scattered light is more blue than its source, the sun. 

The remaining sunlight, having lost some of its short wavelength components, appears slightly less blue. Although violet, not blue, is the color with the shortest visible wavelength; the spectrum of light emission from the sun is not constant at all wavelengths, and additionally is partially absorbed by the high atmosphere, so there is less violet in the light. Human eyes are also less sensitive to violet than blue.

Scattering also occurs even more strongly in clouds. Individual water droplets exposed to white light will create a set of colored rings. If a cloud is thick enough, scattering from multiple water droplets will wash out the set of colored rings and create a washed out white color. [ source ]