An interview with the famous Serbian American artist Marina Abramović
(with many photos of her spectacular body performances) > full text
(c) A Sky filled with Shooting Stars, 2010
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“The knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Marina Abramović, New York, Performance art, Serbia, USA, Yugoslaovia on 7 February 2014 by delclem“The Folly of Empire”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria-Hungary, decline, empire, Ottoman Empire, Rome, USA, Wall Street on 13 October 2013 by delclem
“The last days of empire are carnivals of folly. We are in the midst of our own, plunging forward as our leaders court willful economic and environmental self-destruction. Sumer and Rome went down like this. So did the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires.” >essay & illustration (c) truthdig.com 2013
‘Banality of Evil’ Revisited
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Adolf Eichmann, Banality of Evil, Germany, Hannah Arendt, Holocaust, National Socialism, philosophy, USA on 20 August 2013 by delclem
“Hannah Arendt employed this memorable phrase in both the subtitle and closing words of Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, her book on the trial of Nazi lieutenant-colonel Adolf Eichmann. To Arendt’s mind, Eichmann willingly did his part to organize the Holocaust — and an instrumental part it was — out of neither anti-semitism nor pure malice, but out of a non-ideological, entirely more prosaic combination of careerism and obedience. Readers have argued ever since its publication about this characterization, and those with a special interest in how Arendt arrived there can find in the New Yorker‘s online archives the original series of “Eichmann in Jerusalem” articles out of which the book grew.”>full text
(c) OPEN CULTURE, 2013
Wilhelm Reich: genius, charlatan, victim?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Organ, prosecution, Psychoanalysis, science, USA, Wilhelm Reich on 19 July 2013 by delclem
“It was the greatest incidence of scientific persecution in American history.
In July of 1947, Dr Wilhelm Reich—a brilliant but troubled psychoanalyst who had once been Freud’s most promising student, who had enraged the Nazis and the Stalinists as well as the psychoanalytic, medical and scientific communities, who had survived two World Wars and fled to New York—was dying in a prison cell in Lewisberg, Pennsylvania, accused by the government of being a medical fraud engaged in a ‘sex racket’.” >more (c) motherboard.com 2013
State Security Art
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, edward Snowden, Germany, Oliver Bienkowski, spying, Stasi, state security, USA on 13 July 2013 by delclem
“A German artist who beamed these words onto the wall of the U.S. embassy in Berlin says Washington’s spy methods make the former East German secret police (the Stasi) look like boy scouts. A video of OLIVER BIENKOWSKI’s artwork, a project that came about in collaboration with internet activist Kim Dotcom, is fast becoming a hit on the Internet in Germany, tapping into widespread outrage over U.S. surveillance programs revealed by fugitive ex-National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden.” (reblogged from Revolution News)
From Prague to Washington
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biography, Czechoslovakia, gender, Madeline Albright, Marie jana Korbelová, Prague, USA, Washington on 5 July 2013 by delclem
“How Noam Chomsky is discussed”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Europe, Noam Chomsky, public intellectuals, USA on 5 April 2013 by delclem
“The more one dissents from political orthodoxies, the more the attacks focus on personality, style and character.” Analysis & photo (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013
‘The Bell Jar’ echoes 50 years on
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Bell Jar, Feminism, Germany, Literature, Sylvia Plath, USA on 29 March 2013 by delclem
Sylvia Plath (1932-63) seems to be the Ingeborg Bachmann of North America. Her “relationship with her most famous work was not easy, but it retains its power after five decades.” In terms of today, she would be a writer with an Austrian/German “migration background.” >full article (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
Another article: Who is Sylvia Plath? “Her role as a ‘casus belli’ in the battle of the sexes has also obscured the genius of this much-mythologised poet.” (c) FT 2013
Art Brut from America
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, art brut, George W. Bush, Gugging, painting, USA on 21 March 2013 by delclem
George W. Bush’s Dirty Little Secret
“In February, a hacker named Guccifer revealed to the world the hidden artistic talents of George W. Bush, releasing to The Smoking Gun a handful of photographs of oil paintings by the former president that had been taken from personal Bush family emails. The images were well-received by critics and laypeople alike, but they represented only a small portion of the budding outsider artist’s oeuvre.”
>read & see more (c) GAWKER.COM, 2013
Maybe these artworks should be exhibited at the Viennese Art Brut Center at the former mental institution of Gugging?
“A Personal Story of Remembrance & War”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Czechoslovakia, interview, Madeleine Albright, memoir, Prague, USA on 17 March 2013 by delclem
Aspen Institute President Walter Isaacson interviews Marie Jana Korbel(ová) – aka. the US ex-foreign minister Madeleine Albright – about her latest book, a memoir of her childhood days in Prague (c) ASPEN INSTITUTE / YOUTUBE, 2012
delirium clemens 