So then..
Today the last 4 weeks... what can I say about any of it. do about any of it?
Saw on the bbc one journalist behind police lines talk and focus on the police and the violence of the protestors.
The last one, even Nick Robinson, said they might have won the vote but they have not won the public arguement.
On BBC news online there was a full on article about How Social Media Changed Protest - Agree disagree or a little of both.
Messages and information can be shared without direct contact but if I dont know you, I don't necessarily belive or trust what your saying.
The image of broken glass become the image for the past weeks but is that right? Is that the mass mediated image or an image that if broken down, disected in another way, one that could be as the broken promises of those in power, that the thin, fragile vaneer that kept us from seeing how wholly and utterly they thought and felt so little about us, that we should be sheilded from the truth.. not shielded not batoned by the mental and physical voilence of those who rule our society?
Thursday, 9 December 2010
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
Quotes on Art..purpose ?
To a colourless world, art brings an element of colour. To lives without meaning it gives a ray of hope. Art in all its forms makes us lift up our eyes, if only for a fleeting moment, above the dreary everyday existence, and makes us feel that there is something more to life than this, that we can be better than we are, that the relations between people can be human, that the world could be a better place than it is. Art is thus the collective dream of humanity, the expression of a deep-seated feeling that our lives are not what they ought to be, and a passionate if unconscious striving for something different.
Marxism and art
An Introduction to Trotsky's Writings on Art,
by Alan Woods
http://www.marxist.com/ArtAndLiterature-old/marxism_and_art.html
1908 Trotsky wrote the following prophetic lines: "You see, visiting art exhibitions is a terrible act of violence that we perpetrate on ourselves. This way of experiencing artistic pleasure expresses a terrible barracks-capitalist barbarism [...] Let's take a landscape, for example. What is it? A piece of nature, arbitrarily amputated, that has been framed and hung on a wall. Between these elements, nature, the canvas, the frame and the wall, a purely mechanical relation exists: the picture cannot be infinite, for tradition and practical considerations have condemned it to be square. So that it should not crease or buckle, it is framed, and so that it should not lie on the floor, people hammer a nail in a wall, fix a cord onto it, and hang up the picture by this cord. Then, when all the walls are covered in pictures, sometimes arranged in two or three rows, people call this an art gallery or exhibition. And then we are forced to swallow all this in one gulp: landscapes, genre scenes, frames, cord and nails...
"But what I want painting to renounce is its absolutism and re-establish its organic link with architecture and sculpture, from which it has long been detached. This separation did not happen by accident, oh no! From that time, painting has undertaken a very long and instructive journey. It has conquered landscape, has become inwardly mobile and intimate, and has developed an astounding technique. But now, enriched with all thee gifts, it must go back to its mother's bosom, architecture... I want paintings to be connected not by cords but by their artistic significance to walls or to a cupola, to the purpose of a building, to the character of a room...and not hanging like a hat on a hat stand. Picture galleries, those concentration camps for colours and beauty, serve but as a monstrous appendage to our colourless and unsightly daily reality." (Culture and Revolution in the Thought of Leon Trotsky, p. 67-8.)
Marxism and art
An Introduction to Trotsky's Writings on Art,
by Alan Woods
http://www.marxist.com/ArtAndLiterature-old/marxism_and_art.html
1908 Trotsky wrote the following prophetic lines: "You see, visiting art exhibitions is a terrible act of violence that we perpetrate on ourselves. This way of experiencing artistic pleasure expresses a terrible barracks-capitalist barbarism [...] Let's take a landscape, for example. What is it? A piece of nature, arbitrarily amputated, that has been framed and hung on a wall. Between these elements, nature, the canvas, the frame and the wall, a purely mechanical relation exists: the picture cannot be infinite, for tradition and practical considerations have condemned it to be square. So that it should not crease or buckle, it is framed, and so that it should not lie on the floor, people hammer a nail in a wall, fix a cord onto it, and hang up the picture by this cord. Then, when all the walls are covered in pictures, sometimes arranged in two or three rows, people call this an art gallery or exhibition. And then we are forced to swallow all this in one gulp: landscapes, genre scenes, frames, cord and nails...
"But what I want painting to renounce is its absolutism and re-establish its organic link with architecture and sculpture, from which it has long been detached. This separation did not happen by accident, oh no! From that time, painting has undertaken a very long and instructive journey. It has conquered landscape, has become inwardly mobile and intimate, and has developed an astounding technique. But now, enriched with all thee gifts, it must go back to its mother's bosom, architecture... I want paintings to be connected not by cords but by their artistic significance to walls or to a cupola, to the purpose of a building, to the character of a room...and not hanging like a hat on a hat stand. Picture galleries, those concentration camps for colours and beauty, serve but as a monstrous appendage to our colourless and unsightly daily reality." (Culture and Revolution in the Thought of Leon Trotsky, p. 67-8.)
Monday, 22 November 2010
coffe.. sleepless...
Am not holding up as well in this as I should but I am. Its interesting and I am connected with you but at the same time I feel like I need to know and I don't. I worry I worry I dont know enough and dont want to let you down, let me down.
Breathe.
Walk.. Dam it Walk!
Move... Chat...Dance...
What?
All those people I am not connected with, expect something of me, I expect something of me and there is not that much there but a desire, a deep burning desire and anxiety which holds me in.
Here and now what will I do? Wash away in the politics of the day? The energy of tomorrow? The collective? Lost or Found? Which one is it? Does it have to be just one of those? I am tired and I have a screening tomorrow.. yes that scares me.. will i make sense. Will you want to see more or less of this, am not sure.
Today, come back. Be in the present. Be here. Our ability to reflect and predict is important in our development as humans but to be present, to enjoy the moment is important, is where apparently we are at our happiest... like having sex. We are at our saddest by a computer. (Move away from the screen dillon, little electrical comfort blanket). Too much too little to late, maybe...
What do I want from her? From this? a space, experiment with forms and ideas..air. Breathe.
Breathe.
Walk.. Dam it Walk!
Move... Chat...Dance...
What?
All those people I am not connected with, expect something of me, I expect something of me and there is not that much there but a desire, a deep burning desire and anxiety which holds me in.
Here and now what will I do? Wash away in the politics of the day? The energy of tomorrow? The collective? Lost or Found? Which one is it? Does it have to be just one of those? I am tired and I have a screening tomorrow.. yes that scares me.. will i make sense. Will you want to see more or less of this, am not sure.
Today, come back. Be in the present. Be here. Our ability to reflect and predict is important in our development as humans but to be present, to enjoy the moment is important, is where apparently we are at our happiest... like having sex. We are at our saddest by a computer. (Move away from the screen dillon, little electrical comfort blanket). Too much too little to late, maybe...
What do I want from her? From this? a space, experiment with forms and ideas..air. Breathe.
Thursday, 18 November 2010
meetings.... silence....and more.
Two meetings..
One I just turn up at but it makes me anxious around 40 people.They are carried away at being moved out of a room. But thats not the key issue... do we rile people to make them angry or channel that anger???
second one was quietly and not so quietly involved but silent on the night.
ideas - alternatives, whose debt, what else.
Why
One I just turn up at but it makes me anxious around 40 people.They are carried away at being moved out of a room. But thats not the key issue... do we rile people to make them angry or channel that anger???
second one was quietly and not so quietly involved but silent on the night.
ideas - alternatives, whose debt, what else.
Why
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
No. 26 Students & Workers Fight the cuts!
Bulletin 26
Students & Workers Fight the Cuts!
It was great to see the joint UCU & NUS demonstration against sky-high fees and HE cuts, with 50,000 mainly students but also education workers marching through London. A little of what happens when a union leadership take a national lead. Perhaps this might inspire our collective unions to instigate a demonstration this year? The day surpassed the expectations of those organising it with its frustratingly short but incredibly lively demonstration.
Apparently NUS are now putting forward the idea to push out Liberal Dem MP's who vote for the fees; little is said about what position Labour would actually take on this. Meantime, many other students are organising to Walk out next Wed 24th Nov, with Sussex University are already in occupation. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134751449911080
Bob Crow (RMT) said "The political and chattering classes have seriously underestimated the public mood and RMT will work with students, pensioners, communities and our fellow trade unionists to build the strongest possible co-ordinated and peaceful resistance in the coming months."
Over 50 people are being questioned around the storming of Tory HQ, whilst the real criminals are still getting away with stealing our collective wealth & futures. http://www.facebook.com/pages/We-need-unity-defend-the-Millbank-protestors/128397300550227
UPDATES:
Over 200 people lobbied Liverpool Council last week, whilst the workforce blocked roads. Ex Deputy leader of the surcharged Liverpool 47 councillors called on the Labour council to refuse to carry out cuts, arguing there was a choice; refuse to weild the Tory axe, set a budget based on the needs of working class people in the city and mount a massive campaign to force central government to fund it. Councillors can no longer be surcharged for taking this stance. Another 100 greeted Taunton council with boos and chants as they arrived to approve £43m of cuts.
A large, and positive, meeting to set up an all Scottish Anti cuts alliance/federation was well attended with a steering group agreed, one person from each campaign. Co-ordinated action was discussed with Glasgow Unison tabling a resolution at Scottish Unison Conference for a one day public sector strike.
COMING UP
Wed 17th
FBU - National Lobby & Rally, 12 - 3 Central Hall, Westminster
Defend public safety: Investment – not cuts. No pay freeze.Hands off our pensions. Scrap Regional Controls. http://www.facebook.com/l/4fec9e0zhoc4Rh9l7hR5o1KG4AQ;www.fbu.org.uk/index.php
Lewisham Anti Cuts Alliance – Lobby Council. 5.15pm Lewisham Town Hall. http://www.facebook.com/l/4fec9Q34NvlB0GqzSf5FslGeDtw;lewishamanticutsalliance.wordpress.com/upcoming-meetings/
Thurs 18th
Lobby of Scottish Parliament called by PCS from 11.30
http://www.facebook.com/l/4fec9jGSarzVVIeNT5voD7dXj-A;www.pcs.org.uk/en/scotland/pcs-campaigns-in-Scotland.cfm
Sat 20th
Gloucestershire Trades Council and Anti Cuts Alliance March & Rally, 10:30 prompt Gloucester Park to Kings Square http://www.facebook.com/l/4fec9GJ_7wUIAsF9-6NOLz5ud-w;www.anticutsglos.co.uk
Preston Trades Council March & Rally, 11.00 at the Flagmarket in Preston.
Cambridgeshire Against the Cuts conference 10.30 am – 4pm Bailey Rooms, Castle St, Cambridge http://www.facebook.com/l/4fec9j2VASDubjbU-sYppmgLzuA;www.cambridgeshireagainstthecuts.org.uk/p/register-for-20th-march-meeting.html
Nottingham March and Rally, 11.30am Forest Recreation Ground to the Market Square, rally 12.30pm.
http://www.facebook.com/l/4fec93qOGyGT1cM54_-7bknx_xg;nottssos.org.uk/
THIS WEEK Anti cuts meetings in:
Croydon, Birmingham, Sunderland, Manchester, Lancaster, Newcastle, Durham, Glasgow, Blackpool, Lambeth, Haringey, York, Harrogate: http://www.facebook.com/l/4fec9i82dn1oIQYOhJEq8SgjRgw;anticuts.org.uk/?page_id=152
Thursday 25th
RMT Rally against London Underground Job Cuts. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=142422622472987
8th Dec
North West SSN: Town Hall Albert Square 7.30-10am lobby before council meets 4-6pm demonstration after council meets
07904 965 780 nwshopstewardsnetwork @gmail.com
22nd Jan
National Shop Stewards Conference
All trade unionists, anti cuts alliances, trades councils and anyone else who is prepared to fight the cuts and ongoing privatisation to attend and take part in the campaigns 12 - 4 South Camden Community School, Charrington St http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159784320718030
Book your places now!
And a bit of Culture:
Mark Thomas Tour : Extreme Rambling & The Manefesto Show
http://www.facebook.com/l/4fec9SkL4N8IAPKXGPyCmYZWWLA;www.markthomasinfo.com/section%5Fgigs/
Red Ladder: Liverpool, 1960. A two-week strike by both dockworkers and seafarers has paralysed the port, and against a backdrop of picketing, marches and jailings one local family plays out the changing times.
http://www.facebook.com/l/4fec9lyJtGpzaDv7kEKH-etlCqQ;www.redladder.co.uk/bm/tours/sex-docks-rocknroll-tour-schedule.shtml
Reel News
Bi monthly Activist Video: To subscribe for 1 year (6 issues), send a cheque for £50 payable to Reel News; Shaun (Reel News): 07779 109628
WEB: http://www.facebook.com/l/4fec9rhJ4-ug12VD24xuL-KWruA;www.shopsteward.net
Facebook LIKES page: NSSN - Fighting Cuts & Privatisation
Tel: 0208 522 1156
E: info@shopstewards.net
Students & Workers Fight the Cuts!
It was great to see the joint UCU & NUS demonstration against sky-high fees and HE cuts, with 50,000 mainly students but also education workers marching through London. A little of what happens when a union leadership take a national lead. Perhaps this might inspire our collective unions to instigate a demonstration this year? The day surpassed the expectations of those organising it with its frustratingly short but incredibly lively demonstration.
Apparently NUS are now putting forward the idea to push out Liberal Dem MP's who vote for the fees; little is said about what position Labour would actually take on this. Meantime, many other students are organising to Walk out next Wed 24th Nov, with Sussex University are already in occupation. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134751449911080
Bob Crow (RMT) said "The political and chattering classes have seriously underestimated the public mood and RMT will work with students, pensioners, communities and our fellow trade unionists to build the strongest possible co-ordinated and peaceful resistance in the coming months."
Over 50 people are being questioned around the storming of Tory HQ, whilst the real criminals are still getting away with stealing our collective wealth & futures. http://www.facebook.com/pages/We-need-unity-defend-the-Millbank-protestors/128397300550227
UPDATES:
Over 200 people lobbied Liverpool Council last week, whilst the workforce blocked roads. Ex Deputy leader of the surcharged Liverpool 47 councillors called on the Labour council to refuse to carry out cuts, arguing there was a choice; refuse to weild the Tory axe, set a budget based on the needs of working class people in the city and mount a massive campaign to force central government to fund it. Councillors can no longer be surcharged for taking this stance. Another 100 greeted Taunton council with boos and chants as they arrived to approve £43m of cuts.
A large, and positive, meeting to set up an all Scottish Anti cuts alliance/federation was well attended with a steering group agreed, one person from each campaign. Co-ordinated action was discussed with Glasgow Unison tabling a resolution at Scottish Unison Conference for a one day public sector strike.
COMING UP
Wed 17th
FBU - National Lobby & Rally, 12 - 3 Central Hall, Westminster
Defend public safety: Investment – not cuts. No pay freeze.Hands off our pensions. Scrap Regional Controls. http://www.facebook.com/l/4fec9e0zhoc4Rh9l7hR5o1KG4AQ;www.fbu.org.uk/index.php
Lewisham Anti Cuts Alliance – Lobby Council. 5.15pm Lewisham Town Hall. http://www.facebook.com/l/4fec9Q34NvlB0GqzSf5FslGeDtw;lewishamanticutsalliance.wordpress.com/upcoming-meetings/
Thurs 18th
Lobby of Scottish Parliament called by PCS from 11.30
http://www.facebook.com/l/4fec9jGSarzVVIeNT5voD7dXj-A;www.pcs.org.uk/en/scotland/pcs-campaigns-in-Scotland.cfm
Sat 20th
Gloucestershire Trades Council and Anti Cuts Alliance March & Rally, 10:30 prompt Gloucester Park to Kings Square http://www.facebook.com/l/4fec9GJ_7wUIAsF9-6NOLz5ud-w;www.anticutsglos.co.uk
Preston Trades Council March & Rally, 11.00 at the Flagmarket in Preston.
Cambridgeshire Against the Cuts conference 10.30 am – 4pm Bailey Rooms, Castle St, Cambridge http://www.facebook.com/l/4fec9j2VASDubjbU-sYppmgLzuA;www.cambridgeshireagainstthecuts.org.uk/p/register-for-20th-march-meeting.html
Nottingham March and Rally, 11.30am Forest Recreation Ground to the Market Square, rally 12.30pm.
http://www.facebook.com/l/4fec93qOGyGT1cM54_-7bknx_xg;nottssos.org.uk/
THIS WEEK Anti cuts meetings in:
Croydon, Birmingham, Sunderland, Manchester, Lancaster, Newcastle, Durham, Glasgow, Blackpool, Lambeth, Haringey, York, Harrogate: http://www.facebook.com/l/4fec9i82dn1oIQYOhJEq8SgjRgw;anticuts.org.uk/?page_id=152
Thursday 25th
RMT Rally against London Underground Job Cuts. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=142422622472987
8th Dec
North West SSN: Town Hall Albert Square 7.30-10am lobby before council meets 4-6pm demonstration after council meets
07904 965 780 nwshopstewardsnetwork @gmail.com
22nd Jan
National Shop Stewards Conference
All trade unionists, anti cuts alliances, trades councils and anyone else who is prepared to fight the cuts and ongoing privatisation to attend and take part in the campaigns 12 - 4 South Camden Community School, Charrington St http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159784320718030
Book your places now!
And a bit of Culture:
Mark Thomas Tour : Extreme Rambling & The Manefesto Show
http://www.facebook.com/l/4fec9SkL4N8IAPKXGPyCmYZWWLA;www.markthomasinfo.com/section%5Fgigs/
Red Ladder: Liverpool, 1960. A two-week strike by both dockworkers and seafarers has paralysed the port, and against a backdrop of picketing, marches and jailings one local family plays out the changing times.
http://www.facebook.com/l/4fec9lyJtGpzaDv7kEKH-etlCqQ;www.redladder.co.uk/bm/tours/sex-docks-rocknroll-tour-schedule.shtml
Reel News
Bi monthly Activist Video: To subscribe for 1 year (6 issues), send a cheque for £50 payable to Reel News; Shaun (Reel News): 07779 109628
WEB: http://www.facebook.com/l/4fec9rhJ4-ug12VD24xuL-KWruA;www.shopsteward.net
Facebook LIKES page: NSSN - Fighting Cuts & Privatisation
Tel: 0208 522 1156
E: info@shopstewards.net
Thursday, 11 November 2010
A 'cluster of possibilities' 1st draft..
Need to add all the pics to this, Bluetooth doesnt work on this.
Agnes critique of Capitalism.. warm and moving... tangental
Reflection on self and process..
Difference to NBroomy with an author inserting themselves to impact or influence...
Intermitancy..
ME - 3 to 4 screens and a conversation.. ask me.. lets talk.. a 1.5 hour... watch shorts.. talk..
'revealing fraility'
Filters world through author
if you cant really identify with subjects, work is more difficult
relief of tangents, preoccupations, play
Collect enough stuf and you get patterns.. non linear... limitations of narrative
Human fraility, of aging, exposes herself as she doesn't protect herself.. speaking to us on several levels of life.
Ben & Peter
Wrapped up in your/our fraility is a strength..
My heart hurts watching this..
Affect:
Instant response, physical
Layers of conciousness - "higher thinking kicks in and complicates things.."
Responses divergent - both excited and appalled.
Varda approaches film inseperable.. from the way she sees the world.. primal
A voice pulled in two directions
Relating to writing essay.. but again so layered. you speak to us in such levels of specificity..
Forgetting saves you going crazy...
+ RMT And london tonight
+ random photos
+ films from post * short exercise
+ DSA
+ Facebook
+ NSSN website - rep and perfom.
Agnes critique of Capitalism.. warm and moving... tangental
Reflection on self and process..
Difference to NBroomy with an author inserting themselves to impact or influence...
Intermitancy..
ME - 3 to 4 screens and a conversation.. ask me.. lets talk.. a 1.5 hour... watch shorts.. talk..
'revealing fraility'
Filters world through author
if you cant really identify with subjects, work is more difficult
relief of tangents, preoccupations, play
Collect enough stuf and you get patterns.. non linear... limitations of narrative
Human fraility, of aging, exposes herself as she doesn't protect herself.. speaking to us on several levels of life.
Ben & Peter
Wrapped up in your/our fraility is a strength..
My heart hurts watching this..
Affect:
Instant response, physical
Layers of conciousness - "higher thinking kicks in and complicates things.."
Responses divergent - both excited and appalled.
Varda approaches film inseperable.. from the way she sees the world.. primal
A voice pulled in two directions
Relating to writing essay.. but again so layered. you speak to us in such levels of specificity..
Forgetting saves you going crazy...
+ RMT And london tonight
+ random photos
+ films from post * short exercise
+ DSA
+ NSSN website - rep and perfom.
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
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