Thursday, August 12, 2010

Federn auf den Flügeln und Sprung aus dem Nest. Strikt für Studenten



Gia Edzgveradze

Federn auf den Flügeln und Sprung aus dem Nest. Strikt für Studenten

Die Empfängnis geschieht rasch, und im Nest ist es vergnüglich, aber das Wachsen der Federn an den Flügeln ist für das Junge ein langer, schmerzhafter Prozess. Um das Wunder des Fliegens zu erfahren, verlässt das Vogeljunge beim ersten Mal todesmutig das Nest. Wenn die Federn wachsen, durchstoßen sie die Haut und verletzen die Muskeln. Die Geburt, das Fliegen – es sind alles Schritte ins Ungewisse und gelingen deshalb nur durch Überwindung, durch Anstrengungen, die nicht angenehm sind, weil es sich stets um einen Weg ins Nirgendwo, vielleicht sogar ins Nichts handelt. Er führt ins Nichts, in jenes wunderschöne Nichts, das den Künstler und Räuber, den Dichter und Abenteurer, den Soldaten auf dem Schlachtfeld und den Faulpelz am Mittag so anlockt. Es ist das Nichts, das sich als Musikform aus jeglichem Kunstwerk herauslesen lässt und das für den einfachen Sterblichen dann beginnt, wenn sich ihm zum ersten Mal der Irrtum offenbart, jener verhängnisvolle Irrtum, der ihn eben zum einfachen Sterblichen gemacht hat.
„Ich bin viele Male gestorben und habe deshalb Unsterblichkeit erlangt“, sagt Antonin Artaud. Sterben in diesem Kontext sind Spasmen globaler Misserfolge und große, gewaltige (!) Fragezeichen – darin stirbt man fruchtbar.
All dies gilt für die Studenten, denn sie wissen ja nicht, dass sie durch Finsternis und (Platons) Höhlen gehen, denn sie schlagen im Schreck des ersten Fluges so schnell mit den Flügeln, dass sie nicht nur nicht bemerken, wie sie schon fliegen, sondern auch nicht einmal den Schmerz von den zahllosen Federn wahrnehmen, die in ihre schönen, jungen Körper eingedrungen sind. Sie wissen nicht, dass jeder Schmerz von jeder Feder die Garantie für den künftigen Flug ist. All das werden sie erst später verstehen, wenn sie schon fliegen, vielleicht aber auch nicht, doch dann werden sie sich in jedem Fall schon von der Erde gelöst haben.
Idealisieren wir? Ja, aber dies verleiht Kraft und bringt Helden der poiesis hervor, wie Heidegger sagen würde. Er nennt die Verwandlung der verpuppten Raupe in einen flatternden Schmetterling poiesis. Künstlerisches Schaffen ist die edelste und (im wahren Grunde) bescheidenste Form der Poiesis, deshalb sind alle übrigen Charaktereigenschaften des künstlerischen Schaffens, die die Form betreffen, ganz unwesentlich – in der Poiesis organisiert die Form sich selbst, sie benötigt keine Anstrengung, sie ereignet sich einfach! Ereignet sie sich aber nicht, sondern wird sie gemacht, dann liegt keine Poiesis vor. In diesem Ereignis wird Reden zu Erzählen, und in diesem Erzählen hebt nicht Finsternis, sondern Licht das Gesetz auf, das einst Wissen, Erklärungen und Berechnungen gefordert hat. Diese gesegnete Gesetzlosigkeit ist eben jene Offenheit, die der Dichter mit dem Nichts assoziiert. In dieser Gesetzlosigkeit findet das Ereignis des künstlerischen Schaffens statt. So lernt der Student, ein Räuber zu sein, ein boshafter, gehässiger, stinkender, fürchterlicher Räuber, aber nie mehr der Mensch, als der er auf der Welt erschienen und geschult worden ist. Er wird ein anderer werden als der, zu dem man ihn hingeführt hat, als der, der er hatte sein wollen, denn wie schon gesagt: Die Poiesis ist unvorhersehbar, sie ereignet sich wie das wirkliche künstlerische Schaffen – wie ein Blitz aus heiterem Himmel. Hier gibt es nichts zu lehren; die dunklen Höhlen sind voller Glühwürmchen, die jedoch keinesfalls Licht sind und an denen man sich nicht orientieren darf – wenn das Licht kommt, sind sie nämlich nicht mehr da. Ihr Licht war kein Licht, es hat nur von etwas gezeugt, was es selbst nie war – so auch das Wissen: Es führt uns nur zur kostbarsten Grenze, zur Verzweiflung, da es das Absurde aufdeckt und uns zum Sprung aus dem Nest verhilft – ins Nirgendwohin der Freiheit, in weite Offenheit und Entblößtheit, ins Licht. Dies ist keine Metaphysik – entblößt wird, was wir wahrnehmen, aber nie gesehen haben.

Der Künstler als Engel der Freiheit? Als Soldat der Ewigkeit?
All das klingt in unserer Epoche der falsch verstandenen Postmoderne provinziell und vollkommen uncool! Aber wenn ihr nicht wisst, dass Andy Warhol ein großer Springer war, dann kommt zu mir. Ich werde euch die Wahrheit über ihn erzählen, über seine Federn, so prächtig und bunt, wie sie die Welt noch nicht gesehen hat. (Je stärker die Federn nämlich in den Körper eindringen, und je tiefer sie ihn verwunden, um so farbenprächtiger und schöner sind sie.) Ich werde euch von seinem Sprung berichten, von seinem Nichts, das er in Etwas verborgen hat. Er verkaufte und leimte damit die Welt, beschenkte sie aber zugleich.
Um zu fliegen, braucht man also Federn an den Flügeln, und beim Sprung helfen keine Galerien und einflussreichen Bekannten (Kuratoren, Sammler usw. usf.), sondern man muss an die äußerste Grenze gehen und sich in das Absurde verlieben – das gilt auch für die (begabten) Studenten.

Die Geburt des neuen Fußballspiels aus dem Geist der Musik



Gia Edzgveradze

Die Geburt des neuen Fußballspiels aus dem Geist der Musik

Als meine Frau vor einigen Jahren eine CD mit deutscher Popmusik gekauft hatte, war das für mich ein echter Schock. Gewiss, Falco ist ein cooler Kerl, einer, der „alles weiß“, solche Burschen lassen sich überall entdecken – individuell, marginal, subversiv, außerhalb vom Kulturbetrieb arbeitend, nirgendwo dazu gehörend. Aber deutscher Pop?! Den man entweder mit dem einzigartig primitiven, positiv banalen Volksschlager assoziiert oder mit der braven deutschen Coverversion eines englischen Rocksongs? Die besten Beispiele für deutsche Unterhaltungsmusik sind technisch ja nicht schlecht gemacht, ergehen sich aber in sentimentalen, melancholischen Stimmungen und organisieren im Rückblick auf die deutschen historischen Komplexe ihre privaten, intimen Inseln – aus Furcht, den eigenen Narzissmus zu offenbaren und in Dekadenz zu verfallen (wie Rosenstolz, Silbermond und dergleichen). Was enthält nun diese Musik, das einen Menschen mit dem Musikgeschmack meiner Frau bezaubern kann? Die nicht einmal Wert auf hohe Musikalität und guten Geschmack legt und nur den geistigen Gehalt würdigt? Ohne den Titel der Platte und den Namen der Gruppe zu nennen, drückte Tamara (meine Frau) mit einem verschmitzten Blick zu mir herüber auf die Taste, und ich musste mir diese für mich zunächst äußerst fragwürdigen Stücke anhören. Die Qualität eines echten geistigen Impulses erkenne ich gut, meine Erfahrung sagt mir, dass ich mit diesem Talent geboren bin, doch hier, in dieser Musik, steckte etwas viel Wichtigeres als nur Musik, und das frappierte mich tatsächlich … Freudenjubel, Zukunftsgewissheit eines mir unbekannten Glaubens, Ungeschütztheit, Offenheit, Kühnheit der Zukunftsvisionen, neckende Versuchung, Fröhlichkeit, ein gesunder Gemeinschaftseros (den es auf der Welt so lange nicht gegeben hat) – nicht schicksalhaft und nicht körperlich, sondern ohne jede Ausrichtung auf eine neue Großtat. Nicht nur in Deutschland, sondern auch in jedem anderen Land hat man lange nicht mehr mit Zukunftsmusik (!!) zu uns geredet. Die vererbten Komplexe, das Bleigewicht der deutschen Geschichte (diese Geißel der gesamten deutschen Gegenwart, die den deutschen Geist seit der bewussten geschichtlichen Periode daran hindert, sich in seiner ganzen Freiheit und seinem ganzen Potential auszudrücken), all das war weg, hatte sich verflüchtigt. Ja, diese Musik war ein echtes geistiges Phänomen …

Und so wartete ich. Wartete darauf, dass die Gruppe MIA. diesen kostbaren Drive in sich erkennen und ihn aus dem musikalischen Ereignis in den sozialen Körper umsetzen könnte, dass sie und die Menschen um sie herum verstehen könnten, dass sich darin keine musikalische Botschaft ausdrückt, sondern etwas unendlich viel Größeres – eine Aufforderung an die niedergedrückte kollektive deutsche Psyche. Ich wartete, dass irgend jemand in der Presse diesen reifen und absolut gesunden sozialen Impuls entdecken würde, dass irgend jemand begreifen würde, dass die junge deutsche Seele endlich etwas Großes erfasst hatte und wieder auf etwas Fundamentales anspielte – insgeheim sehnt sie sich ja nach Wiedergeburt, nach Mut, nach weit offener Zukunft und ist das historische Elend, die stickige Luft der Vorwürfe und die Generationensünde leid, die der Nation an den Hals gehängt sind. Sie hat die Gleichmacherei der feigherzigen Demokratie satt und brennt darauf, weiter, weiter und noch weiter in die Zukunft zu schauen, sie will Dynamik und Bewegung des Geistes, nicht aber die möglichst stabile Etablierung in Reichtum. Doch nichts dergleichen war zu entdecken, es geschah nichts, es war ein musikalischer und kommerzieller Erfolg, weiter nichts.

Im deutschen gemeinschaftlichen Raum gab es keine Empfänglichkeit für die echte Zukunft (es gibt ja noch die „unechte Zukunft“, die lediglich kalkuliert, nicht aber für die Chance offen ist).

Man hat uns gelehrt, dass aus einem Senfkorn ein riesiger Baum wächst. So kündigen sich in kleinen Begebenheiten große, weltbewegende Ereignisse an, doch diese Körner gilt es als Modelle für eine natürliche Orientierung zu erkennen. Sie finden sich nicht in den Reden der gewöhnlichen Politiker, nicht in den Reden von Wirtschaftsexperten und Soziologen, sondern in den Impulsen, die natürlich und spontan innerhalb der Nation entstehen. Es erfordert von der Nation gespannte Erwartung und aufmerksame Betrachtung, um diese Impulse zu erkennen, zu sozialisieren und als neue gesellschaftliche Orientierung zu verankern.
Heute hat die deutsche Fußballmannschaft bei der Weltmeisterschaft ein ganz neues Spiel gespielt und alle mit einer neuen Qualität zum Staunen gebracht. Es war elegant, leicht, mobil, plastisch, einfallsreich und voller Improvisationen (hatte nichts mehr gemein mit dem traditionellen deutschen Stil, dabei besteht die Mannschaft überwiegend aus deutschen Spielern und nicht aus Ausländern). Freuen sich die Deutschen über dieses neue, überraschende Glanzlicht des deutschen Wesens, identifizieren sie sich mit dieser neuen Facette und nehmen sie diese Chance zur Erneuerung tatkräftig wahr? Betrachten die Deutschen den Fußball mit diesem fragenden, suchenden Blick oder werden sie Podolski wie Günther Netzer vorwerfen, dass er erklärt hat, das Spiel hätte der Mannschaft einen Riesenspaß gemacht, und das sei genug, selbst wenn das nächste Spiel verloren würde. Verstehen sie, dass so einfache Dinge wie ein Lied, wie Fußball, wie ein übermütiges Lachen, wie ein offener Blick ohne jeden Gedanken an die Vergangenheit schicksalsträchtig sein können? Besitzen sie ein Verantwortungsgefühl für diese wunderbaren Körner, in denen die vollständige Erneuerung des deutschen Image steckt? Oder wollen sie für den Rest ihres Lebens und des Lebens ihrer Nachkommen im Schatten ihres historischen Gewissens und Images leben: des schweren, ungelenken, niedergeschlagenen Deutschen mit der schweren Sünde auf den Schultern (dieses Gewissen, diese Erinnerung und diese Selbstgeißelung bergen ja immer die Gefahr des Revanchismus in sich!). Wollen die Deutschen verstehen, dass nur das Vergessen (der Geschichte und der Vergangenheit wie in der Musik von MIA.) das Unterpfand der Erneuerung ist und die Erneuerung selbst Arbeit: die aufmerksame, sensible Suche nach Trägern des Geistes.
„Sich zu erneuern, heißt zu vergessen“, hat Nietzsche einmal gesagt: die Sünde, die Geschichte und die Sorge ums Überleben. Der Mann, der diese drei Zauberworte gesagt hat, muss ja ebenfalls mutig neubewertet und für den Durchschnittsdeutschen vollständig rehabilitiert werden. Es gilt, ihn als den jugendlichsten und ewig jungen Deutschen zu erkennen und zu akzeptieren, als absolut fortschrittlichen und positiven Geist. Von diesem Geist hat MIA. gesungen, ohne es leider selbst zu merken. Für diesen Geist haben sich die deutschen Jungs auf dem Fußballplatz angestrengt (und nicht, um Medaillen zu gewinnen), aber das muss man verstehen, wertschätzen, einpflanzen und wachsen lassen.

Friday, September 25, 2009

TTT ISSUE #10





TTT - The Total Thirst / Try To Taste / Thrive Towards Truth / Timeless Thrust (in) Truth / Take (Awake) Take (Awake) Take (Awake) / - please create more suggestions.

TTT is not a space for arguments and disputes but for gifts, insights, suggestions, visions, desires of ours and perhaps even love if once a penguin will disappear inside of us.

The Total Thirst (TTT) is a result of the wrong look which is directed not to the phenomena but to the open sky where nothing is to grasp, to communicate, to be part of, to consume it is just a run (of objectless and aimless desire/love) within something widely open, which surely vanishes us and me .


Some mottos of TTT:
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is insight. Jalaluddin Rumi
(suggested by Jon M.)
You shall not bore God
(the source is unknown suggested by Stefan S.)
"Being a person is the wildest ride in the whole universe" Stuart Davis (suggested by Stefan S.)


(This net reaches more then 120 addresses of artists, curators, museum directors, gallery owners, freelance intellectuals , friends and also just Beloved People. Everybody is welcomed to be a part of it to send their shouts, whispers, murmurs in a form of texts or visuals. If anybody is interested to have the previous issues of TTT they can get it by e-mail on their request.)
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ANNONCEMENT (of) TTT: Please take your time and run to take in the nearest video store Cous Cous mit Fish (original La Graine et Le mullet) stunningly good! One of the most convincing attempts to articulate the very cause of Outpacing Energy and it s drive, its uniting power, where unification is far away to be based on any social characteristics which was always a failure. At least tree levels of reading of movie is suggested. Very much advised!


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(Y.P.)
Dear Gia and all the other potential friends,
I am sending you some lines for to be a part of something perhaps more fun then I ever was before. Actually I didn t have this luxury being a part of anything quite a while since I left my dear mother s house and to me it s a daring and exiting attempt to try this again.

Here is my letter:
I am young, too young and prostitute. With prostitution recently I earned some money and my vintage and nostalgic dress finally gave birth to a new one. It costs not even a half of the money my parents paid for the old one but the new one is a breathtakingly fresh and it is great to dance in it. The rest of the money I put on my savings for my cherished dream and I will tell you now what my dream is about.
I want to buy one of those tiny islands they are now on sale in New Zealand. Not because one can swallow the sun there, make kaka on the beach and the ocean will clean your po. No. Nature as an obsession of infants I dropped long time ago.
Now I tell you why. The day I left home and went away from my dear mother by the chance I red on the wall of the underground an advert of the Buddhist sect Lama Chong , no it was a Christian one, perhaps even Muslim. Anyway, it was written a sentence: Remember only what you easily can forget . I understood this sentence was sent personally to me. This type of memory means to collect and to gather here on the earth such things that at the end you have no possessions. In prostitution there is something about this memory. People pay to me
to have rights not to have memories and I am also paid for not to have memory. All this is about dropping memory and I as a prostitute am paid for this advanced spiritual practice which I am keen to train. So, my dream is to have a gradual celebration on the island which is a memory clean place. When I even think about this all the memories of all my imaginary black mummies disappear.
Hope you are people from these tine islands,
Best greetings,
Y.P. (young prostitute)


(Stefan)
Hi Gia,
I m preparing a "art week" for kids right now, so there's not that much time left...but nether the less I m reading/inhale all of your wonderful TTT mails.
The figure skating guy Eva J. is awesome (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcfLgtYzeSc)! (Looks like a former student of you!)
Actually, the idea was to create a photo-piece not really a performance for audience or video - in this case - so the location was a lonesome willow.
I was searching for an image to express the fact/felling of being in between. "In between" nature or the natural given and balanced world (some call it Gaia or simple Mother Earth) and the sphere of spirit or human consciousness as we know it. As a human being I m born right between these two spheres (which are one at the end of the day - but don't tell anyone! Not yet!!!) I think a big part of our conflict or dilemma is about this. Fundamentally, we're part of this wonderful thing called nature - yes, true but partial - on the other side and along with evolution of consciousness we have to emancipate, go further and at the moment (unfortunately) even have to destroy it in a way. A really shocking fact! To become human and to have the possibility to think and contemplate about all this we really have to emancipate from this wonderful natural balance - I personally think that there's no way back - just a further. Real balance lies in front of us. Anything else is biological and at a certain point not that necessary anymore (but like above: Don't tell anyone - not yet!!! TRUS IS DANGEROUS)
Anyway, there are these spheres which Ken Wilber calls "ego" and "eco" and both have healthy and pathological aspects. We all know this - even in our selves. Eco says back to nature (mother) and in a pathologically/ecological way "don t exhale because of carbon dioxide" or "homo sapiens is a disease" which is not one step towards a real solution. Ego is more like "I don't care about anything" "It's all about me" (even I don t have any clue what a "me" or "I" is) But there is this strong ego in exchange...
Even if it sounds like I m talking about environment (in a way also yes), but I think it's more about "being" in general! About being in this world/ being a person - and to handle that fact!
Great Stuart Davis once said " being a person is the wildest ride in the whole universe" - and that's the reason so many souls wants do it!

I m not really good in writing my thoughts in English and also via mail so I hope you could get a taste of what I m working on!?

A blessed time for you and your beloved ones*
Stefan
P.S. Some more pictures and "the making of an earthworm tried to enter my anus! Felt not that bad.




(Gia)
Dear Stefan,

I love your letter, my dear man! And also what I love how you widen your photo piece in the second and the third images which you sent to us with this letter. They are advanced because via them you put under the irony and scepticism the very concept of your art piece, here it is put into absurd which gave to it the drive of Outpacing Energy showing that none of an art piece can be self-sufficient and sole truth bearer.
When the art piece alongside its original concept also conveys a self rejection tendencies (self-outpacing) this is a major characteristic which in our times all the highest level art pieces have times when Rumi s expression (one of TTT s motto) is so important:

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.

One of the main things of our exchange of the texts within TTT is that we constantly discussing and see the philosophy within images from world of entertainment (in case of figure skater) and consumption (opening ceremony of Olympic games - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ItRrO6P1W4 also suggested by Eva J.). That was the great input of Ronald Barthes who in his Mythologies initiated the new course which began fundamentally new attempt humanising of the trivial world showing that the text / speech (culturally coded knowledge) manifests itself with the same power and depth in every form of the appearance of language. Even it s possible to tell that impetus of muss media images (where the cultural codes are brought in sharp, bare and rough form) on human consciousness is more vital and vigorous then succeeds to have university discourse. I believe these attempts began with Ronald Barthes one day will succeed to abolish vertical orientation of human consciousness (with its binary opposites; high/low, pure/contaminated etc.) and will bring horizontality with its biggest gift reading of the world as one undivided text.
Distraction is understood as something tragic when spirit gets on the stage of human consciousness (the world exposes itself through the binary opposites), that means it is aware about itself only via physical body and within in this condition the feeling of physical presence is understood as the only and sole form of the possibility to exist. For the pure spirit distraction has no any tragic implications, it is just a modification and metamorphoses of appearances of forms and delay and postponement with the next appearances of the phenomenon the energy is never distracted and never stops activity. I bring here my memory image of the words of Fichte: Even if the entire world will be distracted and turned in to debris my spirit will fly in full darkness on top of wreckage of the world in absolute self contentment . That s a vision of the form of spirit which succeeded to transgress its temporary form (the human consciousness) and entirely settled in its own nature which is a pure freedom from any identifications, attachments and determinations. Within this fact historical process finally successfully finishes (human being as a certain temporary constitution is abolished and like useless stone in Zen-Buddhist parable is threw away) and spirit gets its full independence it is the world and the world is it.
Dear Stefan, I wish you and also all other our friends this above described energy of liberation,
Gia

TTT ISSUE #9 (Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment)

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Another great motto for TTT sent to us Jon Moscow it is in perfect tune with true spirit and direction of intellectual researches of our times:

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
Dschalal ad-Din ar-Rumi


(GIA s project everybody is very welcomed to collaborate)
Cool After Hot is an artistic project which tries to enter the everyday life routine within art practices and aims to actualize conflict within every possible field of artistic creativity. The mechanism of conflictive events must be initiated, installed and firmly kept alive by force (sustained even artificially) within any society of any cultural period as it is the only guaranty to enable resisting and avoiding the culturalizing influence of culture which weakens and corrupts art/creative practices turning vital celebrations (of creativity) into mere forceless spectacle and the awakening drama of wars into illusory movie battles.
Exploding, destabilizing, reversing, offensive strategies which we want to employ don t ruin and distract they aim to shake our pleasing and comforting way of thinking and judgment and also to make a rupture in our attachments to the hermetic system of common and fashionable values which are only shallow superstitions based on profound doxas. Culture turns commitments into chat, and reduces creative forces to serve routine the masquerade of well being which uses pleasant looking labels as cultural relations , cultural affairs and cultural paradise .
The project will attempt to find a seed of a conflict within every event around the inhabited space trying to open new reflective facilities in the accustomed and harmless territories.


The Total Thirst (TTT) is a result of the wrong look which is directed not to the phenomena but to the open sky where nothing is to grasp, to communicate, to be part of, to consume it is just a run (of objectless and aimless desire/love) within something widely open, which surely vanishes us or me .



(FLO)
Yesterday I walked down through the darkness when one hardly can see or hear anything except the shadows and their sounds which are surrounding you.
It s a daring experience to allow yourself to walk without light; let yourself be in this uncomforting gloom of insecure space. But at the end you become one with this boundless abyss of darkness, not being focused and attached to the limited (and ridiculous in its miserable limitation) dot-patch which your flashlight is able to illuminate.

On the way down where I was moving one has to cross a street which suddenly reveals the entire sky above you. In this moment I became aware of a stunning contradiction between my existence and the existence just as it is.

I felt unbearable longing to become one with this roaring void open above me but as a meter of fact my presence was strictly limited to my body which is only the width and height, the distance I can create by stepping on the earth or stretching here my arms and fingers as much as I can till it hurts. So I had to admit that despite my gorgeous will towards boundless this will is not even able to create a tiny pimple on my own skin.

So I had once again, but this time very touchy and painful sensation that it s only the immaterial inside of us (our mind and our soul) what has a potency to come into oneness with the world.
But unfortunately the human mind always circles on the orbit around a human body and comprehends it as the very centre of the creation. The escape from this situation is only the immense hit ( Outpacing Energy ) which one has to obtain. Only this heat can free the mind from that orbit and to let a free travel begin throughout wherever, as a burning comet does on its own path in the universe.
I connected this to the only true and fearless understanding of death as the supreme liberation we all have to live and work for in our short lives within this particular case live is the ultimate celebration.

Florian (floopi@web.de)


(DEVIN)
Flashing into my head. I saw this video with friends during Thanksgiving a few years ago and just now have rediscovered it. It's a exceedingly creative usage of this machine and a strange blending of a person with a mechanical device.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX9phXawPc4

Devin Kenny (devin.kenny@gmail.com)




(EVA)
I feel that the outpacing energy is not much based on the motivation of performance.
You can perform extravagantly like Opening ceremony at Olympic: or the pictures of rope bikers in China
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ItRrO6P1W4
but here, there is no individual desire but only authoritarian commands.
There is no personal awareness and need for understanding as well as creativity.
somehow, this silly performance( professional skater breaking out of his normal classical performance) impacts me more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcfLgtYzeSc

Eva Jung (isevajung@gmail.com)



(JOHN)
just a couple of things I read which I wanted to share with all of you:


When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extra-
ordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your
mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands
in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and
wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents
become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater
person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
-- Patanjali


Love is the ark appointed for the righteous,
Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape.
-- Jalal ud-Din Rumi


Why does the mystic celebrate Passover? Because the slavery of
the ancient Jews in Egypt is a slavery to which we can all relate.
The pharaoh of our ego mind would bind us to the meaningless-
ness and pain of a life of fear. Yet God lifted up his servant Moses,
as He lifts up hope in all of us. All of us feel the whip of Pharaoh,
and all of hear, if we listen well, the voice of Moses calling us out
of bondage. Our bondage might be an addiction, a dysfunctional
relationship, or a self-defeating pattern. And like the Israelites
who initially resisted Moses, we fear the flight to freedom might
be worse that our slavery.
-- Marianne Williamson


Jon Moscow (JonMoscow@web.de)

TTT ISSUE #8 (VIDEOEXCHANGE)

TTT - The Total Thirst / Try To Taste / Thrive Towards Truth / Timeless Thrust (in) Truth / Take (Awake) Take (Awake) Take (Awake) - please create more suggestions.TTT is not a space for arguments and disputes but for gifts, insights, suggestions, visions, desires of ours and perhaps even love if once a penguin will disappear inside of us.

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To add more to the examples please watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAVj2IVC9ko
Philip Petit walking in between the towers.

This rope-walker is performing `Outpacing Energy' with total silence and stillness of action. Without an extreme movement, he simply walks in between towers beyond abyss.
As much as this energy has a capacity to overcome anything, but it shouldn't exhaust and overpower both generator and receiver.
It can be performed like an explosion but also formed within mundane movement. This is not about creating shock or impact as an heroic act but more as a continuous drive and struggle to overcome oneself, and for a constant awareness.

Eva Jung (isevajung@gmail.com)





Hi dear friends, it s Gia,

Eva caught one of the important aspects of the nature of Outpacing Energy its silent aspect the most invisible. The clip of rope-walker she sends points that this modus of energy is not only result of post-hyper conditions but its realm is also the life full deserts of non-presence where the attempts of successful focusing usually must end.
The Outpacing Energy explodes the spaces which are ahead of me . During experiencing this energy people live only within a future they are beyond and ahead of their own lives in the bubbling openness which unendingly emerges in every sequence of time and penetrates our everlasting thirst. Here the consciousness itself is the only existing space and refers to nothing. That s why within Outpacing Energy EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE and (as Feyerabend would tell) ANYTHING GOES here consciousness comprehends the world as only it s own product which it pushes further and further, to come and to become, to emerge and emerge, to witness and to witness itself in becoming and emerging
From a future the past is controlled and manipulated effortlessly that s why we can witness so many over phenomenal performances below here in the clips.
The phenomena of our Presence and the Cultural Enterprise* (these are just two names for one thing) are in this conditions thrown away as the stone which had been used to knock to the door before the gate has opened.

These words are addressed to the waiting potencies in all of us,
Gia

*Thanks for very special contextual use of this expression Flo!





This is interesting. All these email. I was lost in the beginning, but anyway what comes to mind is synchronized swimming:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uTd6S2Xtuk

Eva (la Cour) (efalacour@gmail.com)




Devin Kenny (devin.kenny@gmail.com)

I'm very interested in the idea of taking the potential energy that from
seemingly inanimate objects or other elements of the environment and
using it to navigate the environment. Skateboarding and Tai Chi, even
taking the internal rhythms of speech and the speed and behaviour of a
reflex and controlling those muscles to construct a dance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-IGcCfLdAo
Harmony Korine with David Letterman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4ko8-MnMdU
Louie Barletta
(There is no better image which conveys postmodern and post-structuralistic spirit then this video Gia E.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLJPow-V06E
Leyomi mizrahi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLt023hpvz




Yesterday I screened for the 2. part of the participants video cli , the small footage of Charles Manson interviewed in the prison being asked if he could tell the viewers
who actually is he? He bizarrely answers via grimacing in one movement all kinds of different human faces/expressions and suddenly ends by whispering one word: "nobody".
After I showed this footage I let someone from the participants read a small introduction from a book I found in the salvation army here, it is called " I am somebody" and it is a Christian guide for life.
All together it took maybe 2 minutes. After presentations the audience normally shows its respect with more or less enthusiastic applause.
This time NOBODY(!) clapped, it was a wonderful silence and confusion within the audience, I was amazed and realized that the best reaction on presentation one can evoke is perfect silence.

Charles Menson video very important one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2oZWpqtNi4


I am sending you three links; one of Michael Jackson s Dirty Diana performance, the other one from a band called Suicide and the last one is a sailing compilation.
They are entirely different but all are the examples of this Outpacing Energy we try to describe and speak about. If we by instance or chance witness one of these outpacing energies performed by someone or something we are mesmerized by only getting a limp idea of what this power is capable of.
It goes far beyond of any human condition and the human energy economy Gia described it dissolves any relations and all common understandings and also abolishes the division between the performer and the audience, they become one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hg-IRZk4D0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WqOMPakGCg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T1XEiosxkY&feature=related

(this is a gift to Leo and his depression and his water with no reflection please hear me!)

This energy has the potential to overcome anything; it is like a pure performance for and in front of God.

By looking up some definitions or synonyms of "outpacing" we thought we could use them to understand this energy further and to develop our g around it so please feel free to use and also misuse the terms in your way.


((((((overpowering o ver pow er ing adj
1. impossible to resist or control
2. with overwhelmingly superior physical strength

outpacing out pace vt
to do better or go faster than ever anything else

out per form vt
to perform better than ever anything else

out point vt
to sail closer to the wind than any other ship

We liked this one very much as sailing is a beautiful metaphor for life. And the outpacing energy appears in form of speed depending on which position or direction you choose for you within the entire energystream (human life/ wind). I watched some youtube videos of really outpointing sailings and it s really amazing how quick the boats get so that one hardly can define if they are already flying or still floating, so they are in a state in between the elements. Like the foam on top of the waves Gia describes so wonderful.
We made a kind of diagram to visualise this outpointing energy, it is attached.


out ride vt
1. to ride better, farther, or faster than ever anything else
2. to survive the violence of the wind and waves during a storm


out post n
1. a small group of troops stationed at a distance from the main body of an army and assigned to guard a particular place or area
2. a small military base in a remote area or different country
3. a settlement in unfamiliar territory or on a frontier

out pour ing n
something that pours or floods out, for example, lava or a strong emotion

out ra geous adj
1. extravagant or unconventional, and likely to shock neighbour
2. violating accepted standards of decency or morality
3. exceeding the bounds of what is reasonable or expected
4. violent or unrestrained in mood or action

out range vt
to have a greater range than something else of the same class, for example, a firearm or missile


out run vt
1. to run faster or farther than ever anything else
2. to escape by or as if by running faster than a pursuer
3. to develop faster or to exceed))))))))))))))))))))

TTT ISSUE #7 (The Total Thirst / Time To Think / Try To Taste / - please create more suggestions)





TTT (The Total Thirst / Time To Think / Try To Taste / - please create more suggestions)
is not a space for arguments and disputes but for gifts, insights, suggestions, visions, desires of ours and perhaps even love if once a penguin will disappear inside of us.

(In case anybody would like to be removed from the list of this net please send us back three capital letters NWP /not willing to participate.)

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Thanks Leo for your dark flower and thanks a lot Stephan for your path of liberation n letters for TTT.
Gia


Hi,

My dear Fans,

I love you all and I want to talk about something perhaps interesting for all of us which i need to share with you.
Last week I work on my large project "DEPRESSION", it s a huge piece of 10 years work.
So I worked one week again, try to comprehend it in a philosophically, psychologically and also in an artistic way. Depression is destructive force; it is an inner fight between our ego and his projection in this world the evil thought.
Florian wrote the letter about the Black box the ego is this black box,
it makes us feel divided in a special way, creates intimate, private and public zones.
All about "DEPRESSION":
Being in depression one is self-destructive not only a surrounding looks dreadful, but you also see memories which are showing you how filthy you are, how senseless is a future and you wish to be vanished. Maybe it s a moment when the ego recognises that in fact it doesn t exist and one must carry the guilt of being. But more it destroys itself the more it becomes bigger at the end we become a super-ego like a hermetic room where only the ego exist.
With these thought I was sitting having no idea what to do with myself. Oh yes, I remember it s started with the feeling of uselessness, that I had no idea what I am doing Here; so my ego began to searcher how to motivate myself to do some things that make me feel better that people would address me saying I love you, I enjoy you, this boy is great so interesting, so brilliant, or maybe even better this boy is so radical I hate him but he is really gorgeous.
So I didn t know what to do with these thoughts, what to do with myself myself tried to eradicate me.
It was very painful, I felt like standing in an eye of a hurricane, silence and lonely and around me everything is chaotic and nasty no way out for human being. I was caught in this dreadful body.
I jumped into it in the night when I was lying in my bed and my ego went schizophrenic, hurting itself in the most violent way. In this weird condition I had a vision of an ocean and the light reflecting on its surface. Waves and moves on the water surface were like life with its reactions and connections and similar to my inner self which reacts to the outer and then moves to the inner surface (depression endlessly changes forms, ego has no stable condition). I saw under the surface a not reflecting light streaming into the endless darkness. In this very moment I imagine that the huge body of the ocean water is I this vision suddenly made me feel healthier I was able to watch these moves of my ego like performance of something what is alien, unfamiliar, strange.
So, at least I ve got this release when I close my eyes and look inside of myself I feel like watching outside is an observing inside. So to say I feel like a body which is grabbed into the world and when I open my eyes and see what I see I see the inner side of my body.
I hope you have got some clue and it s SuperDuper what I am writing that all of you can say I love you and thanks.
See you later
Lord Lui (the Leo the Great) (M.Badrinas@gmx.de)



Hi Gia,
Thanks again for your mails and those from flo and others who share the "thirst", I mean "the total thirst"!!!

I'm sending you some pictures from an unexpected project.. As I told
my parents sold their house and we moved the stuff etc and there are
some "artefacts" left from my Waldorfschool times. I didn't want to
keep them and so Im created "the first inofficial art path" in a
little forest nearby the old house. People taking a walk and being
aware of the surrounding could now have fun with unexpected artpieces.
..one (the lovers) are already taken away (is it illegal to steal
illegal artpieces?!?).

Later more...

Have a nice time*

S
(Stefan) (stefstark@yahoo.de)

TTT ISSUE #6 TTT (Thrive Towards Truth/Thrive Towards Truth/Timeless Thrust (in) Truth/Take (Awake) Take (Awake) Take (Awake)



TTT - The Total Thirst / Time To Think / Try To Taste / Thrive Towards Truth / Timeless Thrust (in) Truth / Take (Awake) Take (Awake) Take (Awake) - please create more suggestions.
TTT is not a space for arguments and disputes but for gifts, insights, suggestions, visions, desires of ours and perhaps even love if once a penguin will disappear inside of us.

(In case anybody would like to be removed from the list of this net please send us back three capital letters NWP /not willing to participate.)

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(Eva's Letter)
Dear Gia,

As you heard from Flo, we are continuing the Endless Dialogue in Daily Movement in a search of TTT and through this border-less process, we create painting, drawing, actions, diagram, text or video. I hope to share these with you soon.

I see/feel this awareness of artists somehow connected beyond generation and geography.
Artists' efforts and attempts to reach the Cloud of Collective Consciousness ( C.O.C.C)

I am sending you some images of performance that I did in New York (which I am continuing with Flo now)
Like Anna's comment ` One has to breath art.'
Suggestions for TTT:
Thrive Towards Truth

Timeless Thrust (in) Truth

Take (Awake) Take (Awake) Take (Awake
A. R. T (Aware | Attempt. Risk | Respond. TO ) -> Open Question Exchange

Best,
Eva (isevajung@gmail.com) (from Skowhegan)

P.S.
4:15 PM me: thanks for poo.
floopister: pooooooooooo
4:16 PM me: just read your letter to Gia. So beautiful.
I especially liked the part that you don t feel need to present or represent something concrete but want to drift. Within or as ADLP so its not about fishing or shoving but being in the water.
Dipping into the water with full charged attention and unknown intention.
So when something appears, you feel the wave. Even in the most trivial
movement.




Dear Eva,

Thanks for your beautiful letter, it s great you joined us here and we joined you there. The movement of weightless thoughts have no here and there . It s our intention to live in an endless future where there are no statements, no claims, no plans and demands, because there is no mine and also Me only the flow of our ex-static aware feelings which are united in an obsessive run (for run) the fresh gulp after a fresh gulp and longing for the next and once again the next, and for what is coming right in this moment and upcoming, and one more and still another, and just emerging and which just appears and is not yet expected and comes with no warning and brings nothing for nobody, just for run. This is a chain of words which try to touch a true experience of the body of the sensibility of freedom as it sees itself without us . When freedom is manifested and not represented the us disappears.
Amen and Hari Bon and Gundul Duchman (as I imagin in a little Tibetian village people define run together with non existing RUN TOGETHER WITH NON EXISTING!!!!
Run away from human constitution which was so long our prison.

Belief was that God is an eternal presence, but it has transpired that in reality God is eternal future. This sentence from my "Foam" is a present to you Eva.

With the bubbles in the heart for all of you,
Gia



(Janine's letter)

TTT is a big gift.

I still did not participate in an active way, but I am thankful for being
part of this and getting your confidence.

I am now at my parent s house - I left home 8 years ago - and affronting so
many new and old things, basically old things but with a new point of view.
So strange that some smells are still the same and also the rooms with their
furniture - but everything seems to be so small and far away of myself now.
But in the meantime still living inside of me...

Experiencing lots of Problems - but most of all community!

Desperation and hope come together in fear and the never ending trial to
overcome this fear every day - the same turn for every member of the
community. Also if you are trying to make the members see positive things to
seek new energy oft hat, it's useless...
But one thing is drifting apart more and more every day, but also trying
harder and harder to get attention - the Ego ;)

Your text deeply touched me Leo. Thank you.


I am now preparing my study abroad semester, which will commence on August
10th in Melbourne, Australia.
I am really happy that TTT has been created because I really was afraid what
to do without all of you and without our meetings one whole semester.

I feel released...

Janine* (Janine.la-franca@gmx.net)