https://youtu.be/lbQkzAbCjio?feature=shared&t=2393
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Rider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUO7mQEjJpg
Noor Hindi
Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying
By Noor Hindi
Colonizers write about flowers.
I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks
seconds before becoming daisies.
I want to be like those poets who care about the moon.
Palestinians don’t see the moon from jail cells and prisons.
It’s so beautiful, the moon.
They’re so beautiful, the flowers.
I pick flowers for my dead father when I’m sad.
He watches Al Jazeera all day.
I wish Jessica would stop texting me Happy Ramadan.
I know I’m American because when I walk into a room something dies.
Metaphors about death are for poets who think ghosts care about sound.
When I die, I promise to haunt you forever.
One day, I’ll write about the flowers like we own them.
Banning Pleasure is a Brilliant Business Plan
Banning pleasure is a brilliant business plan. You feel sexuality as a natural part of being alive. Since (according to the priest, minister, rabbi, guru, independent counsel, or whoever) sexuality is very, very bad, you will naturally feel guilty and shameful. Therefore, you need religion or products to save you. And then you are under control, making regular donations, and spreading The Word rather than the revolution.
The formula is simple: If you want to control a person, control their sexuality. If you want to control a society, make sex a crime or a disease. If you're a modern business, such as a clothing, liquor, car or cigarette company, and you want to make a lot (I mean a lot) of money, tap into the endless well of deeply-ingrained religious repression, and sell people back an illusion of their sexuality. Use their insatiable desire, put a sexy woman next to the car or posing with the cigarette, and promise deep and total fulfillment. Then watch your stocks go up.
Advertising pumps out repetitive messages, called "memes." The one thing most memes have in common is the running theme, "You are not good enough the way you are. You are insecure. You suck. You are not popular / cool / hot / hip / beautiful enough. You smell, you're not sexy, you're really ugly and you should really hate yourself. But if you buy this product, you will be fine."
The product, by the way, is always death. Christianity is a death-cult, as evidenced by its logo (an execution). Corporations that sell illusions of sex are the same ones that exploit and destroy the biosphere for profit. Have you considered that one form of death-pollution led directly to the other? That sexual repression is the core issue in environmental destruction?
http://www.sexuality.org/authors/francis/mywtllaf.html (site no longer exists and no copy available in archive.org)
The formula is simple: If you want to control a person, control their sexuality. If you want to control a society, make sex a crime or a disease. If you're a modern business, such as a clothing, liquor, car or cigarette company, and you want to make a lot (I mean a lot) of money, tap into the endless well of deeply-ingrained religious repression, and sell people back an illusion of their sexuality. Use their insatiable desire, put a sexy woman next to the car or posing with the cigarette, and promise deep and total fulfillment. Then watch your stocks go up.
Advertising pumps out repetitive messages, called "memes." The one thing most memes have in common is the running theme, "You are not good enough the way you are. You are insecure. You suck. You are not popular / cool / hot / hip / beautiful enough. You smell, you're not sexy, you're really ugly and you should really hate yourself. But if you buy this product, you will be fine."
The product, by the way, is always death. Christianity is a death-cult, as evidenced by its logo (an execution). Corporations that sell illusions of sex are the same ones that exploit and destroy the biosphere for profit. Have you considered that one form of death-pollution led directly to the other? That sexual repression is the core issue in environmental destruction?
http://www.sexuality.org/authors/francis/mywtllaf.html (site no longer exists and no copy available in archive.org)
Addendum
In a silly yet repressive way, which is not unrelated with some the ideas above, this 2009 post was "put behind a warning for readers" by Google in March 2023. Google lets us know that:
Why was your blog post put behind a warning for readers?
Your content has been evaluated according to our Adult Content policy. Please visit our Community Guidelines page (...)
Your content has been evaluated according to our Adult Content policy. Please visit our Community Guidelines page (...)
What's remarkable is that this light form of censorship was probably done automatically by a Google algorithm, no humans involved.
What kind of a future are we silently sliding into?
Roman Signer
Signers Suitcase (Kurhaus Weissbad):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35iYo0LOrVI
Signers Suitcase (Table):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxdg9xEd2vk
Signers Suitcase (Sleeping):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA58UzPVfDg
56 Kleine Helicopter:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151018002232/http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2009/01/01/56-kleine-helicopter/
Old Shatterhand:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uok20jdHfCg
Canoe vs. Cows:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f2VUNUbDkk
Flower Pot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7hBW8lLulc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LtOf7Uw2cM
http://www.artfilm.ch/showreel.php?dvdid=signerskoffer
http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2008/01/20/roman-signer/
http://outsidetheivorytower.blogspot.com/2007/10/roman-signer-jason-rhoades-paul.html
Félix González-Torres
Untitled (Perfect Lovers):
I don't really see it that way. I think more than anything else I'm just an extension of certain practices, minimalism or conceptualism, that I am developing areas I think were not totally dealt with. I don't like this idea of having to undermine your ancestors, of ridiculing them, undermining them, and making less out of them. I think we're part of a historical process and I think that this attitude that you have to murder your father in order to start something new is bullshit. We are part of this culture, we don't come from outer space, so whatever I do is already something that has entered my brain from some other sources and is then synthesized into something new. I respect my elders and I learn from them. There's nothing wrong
with accepting that. I'm secure enough to accept those influences. I don't have anxiety about originality, I really don't.
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/FelixGT/FelixInterv.html
There's a great quote by the director of the Christian Coalition, who said that he wanted to be a spy. "I want to be invisible," he said, "I do guerrilla warfare, I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know until election night." This is good! This is brilliant! Here the Left we should stop wearing the fucked-up T-shirts that say "Vegetarian Now." No, go to a meeting and infiltrate and then once you are inside, try to have an effect. I want to be a spy, too. I do want to be the one who resembles something else. We should have been thinking about that long ago. We have to restructure our strategies and realize that the red banner with the red raised fist didn't work in the sixties and it's not going to work now. I don't want to be the enemy anymore. The enemy is too easy to dismiss and to attack. The thing that I want to do sometimes with some of these pieces about homosexual desire is to be more inclusive. Every time they see a clock or a stack of paper or a curtain, I want them to think twice. I want them to be like the protagonist in Repulsion by Polanski where everything becomes a threat to her virginity. Everything has a sexual mission, the walls, the pavement, everything.
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/FelixGT/FelixInterv.html
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/FelixGT/FelixGallery.html
http://www.andrearosengallery.com/artists/felix-gonzalez-torres/#
http://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/felix-gonzalez-torres-portrait-of-ross/
Es ist nur eine Frage der Zeit:
http://www.vvork.com/?p=21905
http://www.andrearosengallery.com/artists/felix-gonzalez-torres/images
https://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/felix-gonzalez-torres-portrait-of-ross/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Gonz%C3%A1lez-Torres
I don't really see it that way. I think more than anything else I'm just an extension of certain practices, minimalism or conceptualism, that I am developing areas I think were not totally dealt with. I don't like this idea of having to undermine your ancestors, of ridiculing them, undermining them, and making less out of them. I think we're part of a historical process and I think that this attitude that you have to murder your father in order to start something new is bullshit. We are part of this culture, we don't come from outer space, so whatever I do is already something that has entered my brain from some other sources and is then synthesized into something new. I respect my elders and I learn from them. There's nothing wrong
with accepting that. I'm secure enough to accept those influences. I don't have anxiety about originality, I really don't.
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/FelixGT/FelixInterv.html
There's a great quote by the director of the Christian Coalition, who said that he wanted to be a spy. "I want to be invisible," he said, "I do guerrilla warfare, I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know until election night." This is good! This is brilliant! Here the Left we should stop wearing the fucked-up T-shirts that say "Vegetarian Now." No, go to a meeting and infiltrate and then once you are inside, try to have an effect. I want to be a spy, too. I do want to be the one who resembles something else. We should have been thinking about that long ago. We have to restructure our strategies and realize that the red banner with the red raised fist didn't work in the sixties and it's not going to work now. I don't want to be the enemy anymore. The enemy is too easy to dismiss and to attack. The thing that I want to do sometimes with some of these pieces about homosexual desire is to be more inclusive. Every time they see a clock or a stack of paper or a curtain, I want them to think twice. I want them to be like the protagonist in Repulsion by Polanski where everything becomes a threat to her virginity. Everything has a sexual mission, the walls, the pavement, everything.
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/FelixGT/FelixInterv.html
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/FelixGT/FelixGallery.html
http://www.andrearosengallery.com/artists/felix-gonzalez-torres/#
http://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/felix-gonzalez-torres-portrait-of-ross/
Es ist nur eine Frage der Zeit:
http://www.vvork.com/?p=21905
http://www.andrearosengallery.com/artists/felix-gonzalez-torres/images
https://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/felix-gonzalez-torres-portrait-of-ross/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Gonz%C3%A1lez-Torres
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