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#7 Chaos
To Greek philosophers the concepts of “world” and “order” were synonymous. To our contemporaries the world is more akin to chaos. Art has sought order in disorder, disorder in order, sometimes managing to find a balance between the two. By Angela Vettese, art reviewer and critic.
Albert Einstein’s contention was that God doesn’t thro...
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Feb 01, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: albert einstein, bohr, canvas, descartes, galileo, god, greek, heisenberg, helter skelter, i ching, jay gould, john cage, juan miro, lucio fontana, malevic | Leave A Comment »
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#27 The Culture of Listening
Silence creates room for the mind, and the mind can create visions. Yoko Ono described how the hypnotic effect of a flame would help to do this: “You could tell someone to look into the fire for 10 days just to create a vision in someone’s mind” she write in her first, epic work, a book of instructions for performances entitled Grapefruit (a ...
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Dec 13, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: the other rooms, yoko ono, 1952, 1964, 2003, artist, biennale, birds, bodies, east, emotion, emptiness, feel, forever, grapefruit | Leave A Comment »
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#27 The Culture of Listening
In front of a cup of coffee with Andrea Bellini
The theme of this edition of illywords is “La cultura dell’ascolto” (or “the Culture of Listening”). Did this lead to the idea of choosing “Accecare l’ascolto” (“Blocking the ears”) as the title for the section on theatre and the role of theatrical performance in the modern art...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: actor, andrea bellini, artissima, biennal, bourgeois, carmelo bene, creativity, dadaist, ears, entertainer, exhibitions, framework, futuristic, involved, john cage | Leave A Comment »
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#13 Conscious project
You were involved in the "50th Biennale" in Venice; in your opinion, what relevance and meaning do such events have in developing a new awareness/sensibility in the audience?
I think that it is essential that events like this exist; they give some kind of overview on what is happening in art at the moment. We might like one biennale better than t...
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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: art, artworks, biennale, coca cola, conscience, conteporary, contexts, contradictions, design, elite, entertainment, female, france, global artist, homogenized | Leave A Comment »
The meaning of colour evolves in parallel with culture.