Ragg It: March 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabakov%27s_Installations

http://www.ilya-emilia-kabakov.com

"By using fictional biographies, many inspired by his own experiences, Kabakov has attempted to explain the birth and death of the Soviet Union, which he claims to be the first modern society to disappear. In the Soviet Union, Kabakov discovers elements common to every modern society, and in doing so he examines the rift between capitalism and communism. Rather than depict the Soviet Union as a failed Socialist project defeated by Western economics, Kabakov describes it as one utopian project among many, capitalism included. By reexamining historical narratives and perspectives, Kabakov delivers a message that every project, whether public or private, important or trivial, has the potential to fail due to the potentially authoritarian will to power."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Kabakov

Jenny Holzer

http://mfx.dasburo.com/art/truisms.html

http://www.jennyholzer.com/list.php

http://www.jennyholzer.com/Projections/site/Florence1996/

http://www.pbs.org/art21/slideshow/popup.php?slide=4327

http://s3.amazonaws.com/projectionist/jenny-holzer-at-the-guggenheim.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Holzer

(gracias N!)

Lawrence Weiner

http://video.google.pt/videosearch?q=lawrence+weiner&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=ekOeS-PeH8KSjAfRrLHFCA&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=8&ved=0CCsQqwQwBw#

http://www.fabarte.org/img/faba_lawrence_weiner.jpg

http://www.hillmancurtis.com/index.php?/film/watch/lawrence_weiner/

http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2009/03/lawrence-weiner-at-micheline-szwajcer/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Weiner

Terma and Tertön

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terma_%28Buddhism%29#Tert.C3.B6n

Terma (Wylie: gter ma) are key Tibetan Buddhist and Bön teachings, which the tradition holds were originally esoterically hidden by various adepts such as Padmasambhava and his consorts in the 8th century for future discovery at auspicious times by other adepts, known as tertöns. As such, they represent a tradition of continuing revelation in Buddhism[citation needed]. The majority of terma teachings are tantric in nature, although there are notable exceptions.

Tradition holds that terma may be a physical object such as a text or ritual implement that is buried in the ground (or earth), hidden in a rock or crystal, secreted in a herb, or a tree, hidden in a lake (or water), or hidden in the sky (space). Though a literal understanding of terma is "hidden treasure", and sometimes objects are hidden away, the teachings associated should be understood as being 'concealed within the mind of the guru', that is, the true place of concealment is in the terton's mindstream. If the concealed or encoded teaching or object is a text, it is often written in dakini script: a non-human type of code or writing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tert%C3%B6n

A tertön (Wylie: gter ston) is a discoverer of ancient texts or, one who finds terma. Many tertöns are considered incarnations of the 25 main disciples of Padmasambhava. A vast system of transmission lineages developed. Nyingma scriptures were updated by terma discoveries and terma teachings have guided many Buddhist and Bön practitioners.

Zabriskie Point Explosion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAcePPSsFP0

«The explosion apparently represents the psychological separation from corporate greed, superficiality, and racial injustice.»
New York Times - February 10, 1970