dog woman

Paula Rego, Dog Woman, 1994. Pastel on canvas 120 x 160 cm. Inspired by a story a friend had written for her, Paula Rego draws her Dog Woman in pastels, referencing the raw physicality of Degas’ drawings. “To be a dog woman is not necessarily to be downtrodden; that has very little to do with it,” She explained, “In these pictures every woman’s a dog woman, not downtrodden, but powerful. To be bestial is good. It’s physical. Eating, snarling, all activities to do with sensation are positive. To picture a woman as a dog is utterly believable.”

“Aihwa Ong aporta un análisis etnográfico de la posesión por espíritus entre mujeres jóvenes malayas que trabajan en plantas de montaje electrónico. El tema central se refleja en el papel de la posesión por espíritus como respuesta a la introducción de relaciones capitalistas en su modo de vida. Ong busca el origen en el colonialismo, en la creación de un campesinado «malayo», su experiencia anterior en la producción de mercancías y explora el carácter cambiante de la vida en las aldeas dentro de un Estado malayo moderno. Surge un grupo de mujeres jóvenes que se ven obligadas a buscar un trabajo asalariado fuera de la casa; un trabajo que les ayude a incrementar su independencia pero también les ofrece la experiencia de ser despreciadas en su casa y en su aldea. La esfera económica se encontraba incrustada en otras instituciones como el parentesco, la vida doméstica o la organización social. Las jóvenes malayas, antes del dominio colonial, se sentían seguras en el modo de vida en las aldeas (consagrada a la pesca o a la venta de cosechas) hasta que abandonaran la aldea al casarse. Esto comenzó a cambiar a principios de los años 70. El Estado permitió el asentamiento de empresas multinacionales en el país. Estas empresas querían empleadas jóvenes, solteras y de las aldeas. Se usaba a las empleadas como meros «instrumentos de trabajo». Las mujeres abandonaron su entorno campesino y perdieron su protección. Esta ambigüedad atraía a los espíritus. Existía además una desigualdad social entre estas célibes forzosas y los hombres, quienes estudiaban e intentarían encontrar trabajos «de cuello blanco» y entrarían en un buen circuito matrimonial. Otras jóvenes se quedarían en las aldeas, lo que reforzaría las desigualdades. La posesión por espíritus se contempla como una expresión de reivindicación de justicia en una situación de desarraigo, desigualdad social y de género. Estas posesiones se asocian a formas de expresar conflictos y tensiones en sociedades «tradicionales» campesinas.

El chamanismo y los cultos de posesión por los espíritus pueden ser considerados como «religiones de los oprimidos». Los cultos de posesión pueden ser vistos como «cultos de protesta» que posibilitan que los individuos que carecen de influencia política – en especial las mujeres – formulen sus intereses y mejoren su suerte desde los estrechos márgenes de la posición que les ha tocado en la sociedad. Los factores que explican por qué pueblos como los akawaio y los evenki tienen cultos de posesión incluyen la existencia de abrumadoras presiones físicas y sociales. De manera que los cultos extáticos son formas de expresión religiosa que implican la existencia de presiones agudas.

En muchos pueblos subyugados bajo el poder del colonialismo, las posesiones espirituales, los ritos de curación y el chamanismo forman parte de sus creencias más arraigadas. Y es que, según Francisco Ferrándiz, las venas de estos pueblos siguen abiertas derramando sangre. Una sangre que no sólo se vierte en los rituales, sino también en sus vidas cotidianas desde hace décadas. El vehículo utilizado para ello es el cuerpo. Un cuerpo político sobre el que se ejerce presión, al que se doblega, un cuerpo esclavizado. Un cuerpo además social que sirve para recibir y mostrar las heridas producto de ese sometimiento, las marcas y rastros de sufrimiento y dolor, las escarificaciones y cicatrices que hablan socialmente de la memoria corpórea de la esclavitud, del desarraigo y de la falta de perspectivas laborales. En otros casos como el de Ong, no hay sangre, pero hay manifestaciones de posesión espiritual en la planta de producción de las fábricas en Malasia. Manifestaciones que suponen una protesta y una forma de resistencia a un modo de vida esclavizador invasor y opuesto al tradicional. Estas esclavas del siglo XXI encuentran en estas manifestaciones una reivindicación de sus derechos y de su libertad.” Susana Callizo Fernández

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Didn’t it?! #unknownartist Selected by @arnaldpomotz

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INSTAGRAM COMMENT SECTION (How Comments Became the Best Part of Instagram)

-Nothing can kill Art -Got a lighter with a different opinion

-And, in many ways, helped breathe new life into it. Ying and Yang -*Yin

-No it didn’t. It opened up endless possibilities. It welcomed new audiences instead of the elite. There are many ways to create and consume art because of it. Some for the better some for the worst.

-Come from a country (Romania) where art is not appreaciated at all .. my only chance that my art to be seen is Instagram.

-Did create new art, or even expose artists to a new generation.

-Stop whining, it is a good platform to let new artists be known without a gallery in between

-It exposed me to art I would never have seen before. I don’t go to exhibits so if it wasn’t for insta I’d have never seen half of it

-Instagram is just another medium

-That’s what I’ve been saying for years! -Irony -What is ironic? -You’re an instagram account that posts pictures of art, complaining that instagram killed art. It’s ironic because you’re degrading the platform you use to spread art, because you think it’s destroying art -I post pieces of art to share stories from history and explain how light works. If anything, I am trying to help people be more aware. To remind why art exists and its purpose. Instagram kills art because it creates the illusion that anyone can be an artist. That everything, no matter how pointless or hollow, can be classified as “art”. Faking activity to receive some recognition from people who fake activity to receive recognition. A loop of fakeness. I am not spreading art. I am spreading knowledge. -That just sounds like pretentious bullshit. To view one’s opinion of art as higher than another’s is supercilious and arrogant. Art isn’t just high art anymore, you can’t fully experience art by perusing an art museum; art is so much broader than paintings and sculptures. Performance is art, music is art, there’s son many ways to explore art. You can’t tell people what’s art and what isn’t art. In my opinion, art is what people say it is. If you call something art, it becomes art; art is something that invokes a response. Anyone can be an artist, but what one does with art and if you succeed or fail is up to the quality and meaning of your art. Bad art exists, but in the eye of the beholder. Art cannot be objectively bad.

-Business killed art

-This is stupid in so many ways

-And … Roads kill cars …

-In some way yes. Every Instagram user claims to be an artist -Every person can be an artist if they are determined to become one. No one is born an artist. There’s a lot of people that get started on Instagram. I did, and I had really shitty artwork up for years, and I still am improving, but I probably wouldn’t ever have if I didn’t get such support through this platform.

-Art kills art

-Nice piece of art, but not true… maybe ironically

-*posted on an Instagram art page*

-Erase Instagram and art still exits

-In some ways. In other ways it reached all over the world. Anything that is stretched becomes less potent than its original form

-Or propelled it? Gave it a space to be shared-wider-than ever before? I don’t know, I have a hard time appreciating Instagram too.

-Art never dies.

-No, it’s good for art, a good platform.

-Art is eternal.

-What is art?

-If it is Art, it is not “killeable”

-Smartphones killed art. Any dingbat now has the ability to capture. Dat selfie art doe.

-And in many ways helped a lot of artists gain exposure…

-Sounds like old people bitchin about change -That’s exactly what it is… if there’s anything I actually do hate about social media, it’s all the elitists I see on it all the damn time.

-If your art was ruined by Instagram it wasn’t good art in the first place.

-This post killed art lol

-I agree with a lot of people here. Insta definitely is great for creating an art world outside of the elite, opened opportunities and shares the appreaciation of it all over the world

-Art can not be killed darling

-Everything is art. Everything comes and goes

-Instagram democratised art.

-Hardly. That’s like saying photography killed art. Or that digital killed art.

-No it didn’t. Nihilism is dead.

-That’s what they said about ANDY Warhol but you cannot kill art.

-In this context saying something has been killed kills it

-Nah, just changed it.

-In the days of Instagram, they will call crap art good and good art crap.

-Instagram can’t “kill” or “do” anything. If anything it has given people an opportunity to grind and connect with people that they would never have a chance to otherwise. I dare say memes like this one do more harm than good, I certainly don’t feel enlightened.

-If anything the internet and social propelled a new artistic movement. Now people don’t have to die before becoming famous for their work.

-Rich people did it

-Kill insta with art

-It killed the differentiation of good and bad art. Everything looks good at 4.5 inches.

-ART WILL SURVIVE, ARTISTS WON’T

-Tbh this is disrespectful to Van Gogh…

-Only if internet killed humanity¿

-Saved art

-Instagram did not kill art. It exposed it to be an elitist money laundering fakery that was abused… while at the same time opened up an easy “get in the public eye” avenue to many unknown, yet incredibly talented artists. If anything, instagram made arts more popular and accessible for anyone that otherwise would’ve never had a chance to show “their stuff”.

-No it’s reinventing it

 

dialécticas

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Hypnagogia: The Unique State of Consciousness Between Wakefulness and Sleep by Andreas Mavromatis. 1987, Routledge & Kegan Paul. . "This is the only work in English dealing with hypnagogia, the state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep. It provides an exhaustive account of hypnagogia, bringing its diverse phenomena into a comprehensive framework. Dr. Mavromatis argues that this common, naturally occurring state may not only be distinct from wakefulness and sleep but unique in its nature and function, possibly carrying important evolutionary implications. He analyzes the relationship between hypnagogia and other states, processes and experiences- such as sleepdreams, meditation, psi, schizophrenia, creativity, hypnosis, hallucinogenic drug-induced states, eidetic phenomena and epileptic states- and shows that, functioning in hypnagogia, a person may gain knowledge of aspects of his or her mental nature which constitute fundamental underpinnings to all adult thought. In addition, functioning in hypnagogia is shown to play a significant part in mental and physical health." . . . . . . #consciousness #hypnagogia #hypnagogic #consciousnessstudies #sleep #dreams #liminal #liminality #liminalstates #meditation #hypnosis #psi #creativity #psychedelic #psychedelics #psychonaut #andreasmavromatis #psychology #philosophy #bookstagram #bibliophile #bookblog #bookcollector #neuroticavintagebooks

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"I don’t really destroy things, I just change them, I change their shape, just like any sculptor does. I chose the refrigerator. I stoned it for a week, every day, until I got the shape really changed. I chose it because I wanted to throw stones at something as sculptural work, but I wanted an object that no one would care about. I thought that if I stoned a TV or an automobile, everyone would be glad and care in some way or another, and I thought that a refrigerator was completely neutral. It was, until I started stoning it and then it wasn’t neutral anymore. Then it started being brave, so that in the end I called it Saint Frigo, because it was a martyr. I saved its life by making it a martyr. It was going into the trash, now it’s eternal, now it’s art." Jimmie Durham piece from 1996 #jimmiedurham #work2day

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#sculpture #theadjordjadze #blue #object

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Thomas Van Lingue #ThomasVanLingue

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#folded #painting #contemporaryart

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14/365 blank slate

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#emptybillboard

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#emptybillboard #nothingisordinary #spacey #spacescape

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kode 9 & the space ape|love is the drug

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#faildeadly #vincentbezuidenhout Declassified documents printed on standard A4 copy paper, plinth. In the 1970 and 80’s South Africa built six atom bombs in seemingly complete secrecy. As the apartheid system crumbled the program was swiftly disbanded before the advent of democracy. Pelindaba consists of more than 900 pages of declassified documents from various sources including the N.S.A., C.I.A. and internal government communications regarding South Africa’s clandestine Nuclear weapons program during apartheid. These documents cover a period of twenty-five years of South African nuclear policy, from early uranium supply arrangements under the United States-South Africa Atomic Energy Bilateral to the South African response to the September 1979 Vela incident and the subsequent destruction of its nuclear program. Large sections within these documents have been redacted.

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Abraham Zabludovsky

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making sure i share a special one ✨

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Smite by Mark Bradford #markbradford

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artwork by Thea Djordjadze. #theadjordjadze #spruethmagers

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This Diana Markosian photograph is from a new series on refugees learning to swim. The image features in the 'Women Seeing Women' exhibition, which is on display at @staleywisegallery in New York until the end of August. Find an exhibition near you to mark World Photo Day today. See Magnum exhibitions around the world on magnumphotos.com/events. PHOTO: "Hanan Saeed Abdo, 15, from Iraq, boarded a small rubber boat in Turkey to cross the Mediterranean. It was night. She remembers many families on that boat, crammed together shoulder to shoulder, feet to feet. She was sitting on the edge. A year later, now in Germany, she is among a handful of refugees learning to swim as a way of overcoming fear of water." Wolfsburg, Germany. March, 2017. © @markosian/#MagnumPhotos #DianaMarkosian #WorldPhotoDay

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MetaModern – Jordi Colomer in #BRUTgroup

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narcosis

 

¿Las imágenes reclaman, en verdad, su propia destrucción?

Utz, p. 152; B. Chatwin.

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Human by Gábor Arion Kudász is now available at the #tipibookshop. Link in Bio. Bricks, taken in isolation, are more or less pointless. Like us, they only acquire their 'raison d'être' in association with their fellows. It is in their community that they have meaning. Whenever a brickie lays them out in any one of an infinite number of patterns, they form the structures of our houses, walls, factories and offices. They mark the boundary between Inside and Outside – between the inner kraal in which humanity subsists and the dangerous otherness of the bush, the desert, the sun and snow. As in any aesthetic enterprise, the successful interaction of function and form determines the beauty or ugliness of the building. People have been making and using bricks for thousands of years. Max Ferguson #photography #photographer #architecture #home #lines

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Vindicación y reivindicación del ojo. ¿No sería acaso la historia del arte moderno la historia de su exclusión? Georges Bataille la ha contado admirablemente; y sobre todo: ha querido avisarnos de los peligros de pretender verlo todo; esa enfermedad moderna que desciende fulminantemente sobre los protagonistas de su Histoire de l’oeil (…)

El resto, p. 5; Á. González.

Narcosis narcisista: por qué en la era de las redes sociales todos somos Narciso. AlterCultura. Alejandro Martínez Gallardo – 09/22/2018

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British Cops Want to Use AI to Spot Porn—But It Keeps Mistaking Desert Pics for Nudes

“Sometimes it comes up with a desert and it thinks its an indecent image or pornography,” Mark Stokes, the department’s head of digital and electronics forensics, recently told The Telegraph. “For some reason, lots of people have screen-savers of deserts and it picks it up thinking it is skin colour.”

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“El algoritmo de la policía londinense no distingue un desierto de un desnudo.” (…) “Cuando el programa debía señalar o “flaggear” a personas desnudas fallaba y por mucho, demostrando poseer una mirada especialmente pecaminosa.” (…) “Confundía imágenes del desierto y sinuosas dunas de arena con piel humana, con cuerpos desnudos.”

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