"The purpose of poetry is to remind us
how difficult it is to remain just one person,
for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors,
and invisible guests come in and out at will."
— Czeslaw Milosz, Ars Poetica? (via danbeekim)
- 2 mesi fa
- 335
"I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I do not know who I am, where I am going - and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions."
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via hanging-teeth)
(Fonte: tapingletters)
- 3 mesi fa
- 867
Marina Abramovic - Rhythm 10 (1973)
“In her first performance Abramovic explored elements of ritual and gesture. Making use of twenty knives and two tape recorders, the artist played the Russian game in which rhythmic knife jabs are aimed between the splayed fingers of her hand. Each time she cut herself, she would pick up a new knife from the row of twenty she had set up, and record the operation.
After cutting herself twenty times, she replayed the tape, listened to the sounds, and tried to repeat the same movements, attempting to replicate the mistakes, merging past and present. She set out to explore the physical and mental limitations of the body – the pain and the sounds of the stabbing, the double sounds from the history and from the replication.
With this piece, Abramovic began to consider the state of consciousness of the performer. ‘Once you enter into the performance state you can push your body to do things you absolutely could never normally do.’”
(Fonte: likeafieldmouse)
- 3 mesi fa
- 6769
"Even if you’ve been dumb enough
to show yourself, don’t worry
they don’t see you"
— Henri Michaux (via wlate)
(Fonte: sacredhorror)
- 3 mesi fa
- 236
