”The pathological and cyclical nature of violent behaviour”. Little one-eyed bunnies with kalishnikovs and other weapons of group destruction attempting to liquidate each other, vigilante style. Unhinged citizens, mad as hell and taking it out on each other,a gang that couldn’t shoot straight. ”The 21 st Century Bunny Series” uses rabbits as a symbol of [...]
”The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends and the other begins?” (Edgar Allen Poe, Premature Burial, 1844 ) ”In Agape Agape, William Gaddis final novel of despair, a dying narrator expounds, before his imminent demise, a litany of cultures self-infatuating abuses. These [...]
The comedies of the Aristophanes ( 444-380 BC ) include eleven that survive: Acharnians, Knights, Clouds, Wasps, Peace, Birds, Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, Ecclesiazusae, Frogs, and Plutus. And the missing twenty-nine which remain at large, literary and poetic works of the Absent With Out Leave variety. Much sought after, they are fugitive plays, furtive comedies, wandering and [...]
”Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions”,said Edgar Cayce.Dubbed the sleeping prophet, Cayce was in fact an interpreter of the dream state of consciousness. Cayce believed in the law of cause and effect. He suggested that in the process of dreaming, when the body and mind are quiescent, the individual gets attuned to and has [...]
”I want to show that there is far-right thought in the heads of all of us,” he said, adding that gnomes were a particularly fitting method for conveying his message “in a lighter and unpatronising way, at the same time as being strong enough to provoke a reaction.” And thus spake Zarathustra. 1250 gnomes making [...]
They have come close to equalling, but Matt Stone and Trey Parker have never surpassed the freshness of thought and social satire of the first pilot of South Park, an animated greeting card they made for a Hollywood producer in 1995 and which led to the series debut two years later. Titled The Spirit of [...]
Shocking, in-your-face, blatantly offensive, jaw-dropping, mind-boggling, floor-rolling, horribly crass humor courtesy of South Park and its creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Decidedly low-brow, Kick a Ginger Day started with a character on South Park who described redheads as “evil” and “soulless” in a 2005 episode in which the antagonistic Eric Cartman organizes global prejudice [...]
Political violence as a figurative art form. Nancy Spero’s career has been a statement against the pervasive abuse of power, militarism, and sexual predation.A feminist artist preoccupied with myth and the repetition of eternal themes within the context of contemporary social and economic history. Executed with a raw intensity on paper and in ephemeral installations, her [...]
Morbidity as an art form. Decomposition as composition. Shain Erin’s morbid art dolls. Handmade reconstructions of civilizations that are imaginary and never existed. In the absence of factual evidence, they could not have been created out of the void.Somehow the aesthetic form was imparted from a cosmological source. Are they drawn from a recess of [...]
Depressed? Lonely? Don’t worry: help is at hand. Coca-Cola is appointing three ‘happiness ambassadors’ to travel the world and spread their happiness and enthusiasm wherever they go.The happiness ambassadors will, according to Coke, meet ‘everyday people’ on their 150,000 mile journey and will share their experiences on Flickr, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube as they go. [...]
