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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Completed and edited Creation Myths
The CREATION Myth of Wuumigen
Ultimately created of its own incentive, Wuumigen began as an idea, an idea of the generation, of cycles and of production.
Continuation lies in the heart - Creation lies in the mind
In the beginning there was birth. It was the birth of a nation, the birth of a species, the birth of a society, connected by the life-giver, the overall deity of genesis and the origin of eternity.
Here stands Wuumigen at the beginning and of the beginning, nothing proceeds and everything follows.Individuality is only relative to Wuumigen’s creations as their free will lies at the epicentre of Her being.
She, as the universal being, births the fecundity of society, defying all deeds of negative destruction and malice. “So go forth,” She bellows, “go forth and create, but always reflect, progress, and remember Wuumigen.”
REGENERATE 
EXPAND PROTECT RESPECT
EXPAND PROTECT RESPECTTHE CREATION MYTH OF FOOO
After Wuumigen flowered into being, She created the World and its people. Yet the gathering crowds found they were unable to speak, as there was as yet no one to listen.
Thus Wuumigen created Fooo, who rose above the multitudes and listened, for six days and six nights until he grew weary, and laid down to rest.
His rocky shoulders became the mountains and valleys, so that as the waters of Shh fell to Earth, they could be collected, and in their surface could stir reflections.
When the balance between Mamanma and Death is tipped, Foo will cease listening and begin to speak. It is within this narration, or a cycle of it, that we now live.
The purity of the First Hearing is lost, and we are merely reflections in Shh’s waters.
THE CREATION MYTH OF SHH
Before Wuumigen formed the Earth as we know it, there were no people and no animals. This was before the time of Foo and there was only the Mighty Wuumigen and the darkness and the stars.
To fill the void Wuumigen created a magical liquid by collecting dust from the star formation clouds.
To further fill the darkness Wuumigen created the Earth and its people and the god Foo to listen to her people. Wuumigen sent the star dust to Earth. On its journey it turned into an intangible substance and when it reached the Earth it became Water and Wuumigen was pleased with her creation.
The Water filled the pits of Foo creating the great lakes and rivers of the Earth. The people and animals were filled with water and now they must drink the waters and bath in the waters every day.
Wuumigen created Shh to watch over the water cycle and it is Shh we must thank for our water supply.
THE CREATION MYTH OF KRAA
As Foo and Shuu sprung forth from WU a great movement was created; this was the first gust of wind.
The wind was the creation of Kraa. Kraa is the force that flies through all of creation; thus understands all.
The movement of Kraa allows for the spreading of knowledge. Kraa is the Wind that carries.
Kraa comes to us with knowledge on the wings of Birds; to allow the wisdom of Kraa to enter our souls we must approach the sacred form of the bird and take it as our own.
The movement of knowledge aids both creation and destruction, its pursuit is holy as it fulfils the purpose of creation.
The wind was the creation of Kraa. Kraa is the force that flies through all of creation; thus understands all.
The movement of Kraa allows for the spreading of knowledge. Kraa is the Wind that carries.
Kraa comes to us with knowledge on the wings of Birds; to allow the wisdom of Kraa to enter our souls we must approach the sacred form of the bird and take it as our own.
The movement of knowledge aids both creation and destruction, its pursuit is holy as it fulfils the purpose of creation.
THE CREATION MYTH OF MAMANMA AND DEATH
After the creation of the Earth, the Water and the Wind, Foo and Shh and Kraa, Wuumigen was pleased with what she had made and she rested.
After time had passed Wuumigen noticed that there was something missing from her creation. The people themselves where not creating in her image. The world was filled to the brim with people but they all just sat and waited but no one knew for what.
Thus it was that Wuumigen created the last two gods, Mamanma and Death. Mamanma and Death are sisters. They were born hand in hand although back to back. They are one and the same and yet they are entirely opposed to each other for what Mamanma plants, Death carries away.
MAMANMA
Mamanma travels to the centre of the Earth to the Core of Ideas. At the Core of Ideas, Mamanma uses a vast net to catch the protozoa of Wuumigen’s perfect ideas that Wuumigen planted in the beginning during the creation.
Mamanma cradles these ideas in her arms as she travels up through rock and stone, earth and fire. When she breaks through the surface of the Earth She scatters the protozoa of ideas to the winds of Kraa, the waters of Shh and onto the Fields of Foo.
Foo, Shh and Kraa mix the ideas together and helpsthem to grow in the waters, the winds and the earth.
When the ideas are consumed by man and beast they grow inside them until they sprout out of their hands, their mouths, they bodies and their minds. By channelling this sacred fruit out of themselves and into the world, man and beast celebrate the glory of Wuumigen and Mamanma, for whom and by whom they themselves were made.
Mamanma lives on the Earth in three states. She is Ma: the babe, the seed. She is Manma: the woman, that which is right to be harvested. She is Anma: the crone, the midwife and the wisdom. Ma, Manma and Anma are one. Three parts of the same whole they are the seasons, the Spring, the Summer and the Autumn. The sisters are the cycle that generate and regenerate on the Earth.
DEATH
The Universe is infinite. Life is a cycle
Wuumigen created Death to make Her people live their lives with pleasure and to make use of the time that they have on the Earth.
Death is the eternal companion, always to the left of, and behind us, like a shadow.
Death is a hunter and is the only true advisor we have.
Death is your enemy and your friend.
Death is the only thing that is certain.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Freya Riso and work March 1st
Hey guys, so I had a play with inverting my image and using the Riso this afternoon. I've also been playing with making other images and frames etc out of the images that I've already produced to see if I could make some interesting narrative stuff out of it. I'm quite pleased with where my imagery is going I think. I was talking to Geoff and I'm going to look into trying to use the laser cutter to maybe burn one or more of these images into wood. Think it's more of a side line then anything but if it's not too expensive perhaps we could make a plinth to present the manifesto on or something.
Anyways, I ramble. I'll see you tomorrow or Thursday. Saara, have an AMAZING time in Finland!
x
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Watching that Yeasayer video made me think of Joy Division's video for Atmosphere. It's got that whole ritualistic thing going on! Maybe be could do a day trip to the coast and film weird processional stuff on sand dunes!!!
Atmosphere
Atmosphere
The School of Life - Sunday Sermon On Uncertainty
David Eagleman On Uncertainty - Watch David Eagleman's 40 minute lecture on the importance of Uncertainty, it's really good! He is a neuroscientist and writer.
I love David Eagleman's take on the world and his book SUM: Tales From Afterlives is brilliant. In it he makes up various different alternative ideas of the afterlife and why we are here. For example Egalitaire:
'In the afterlife you discover that God understands the complexities of life. She had originally submitted to peer pressure what She structured Her universe like all the other gods had, with binary categorization of people into good and evil. But it didn't take long for Her to realize that humans could be good in many ways and simultaneously corrupt and mean-spirited in other ways. How was She to arbitrate who goes to Heaven and who to Hell? Might not it be possible, She considered, that a man could be an embezzler and still give to charitable causes? Might a woman be an adulteress but bring pleasure and security to two men's lives? Might not a child unwittingly divulge secrets that splinter a family?'
'In a moment of desperation the thought crossed Her mind to let everyone wait on line indefinitely, letting them work it out on their own. But then a better idea struck her generous spirit. She could afford it: She would grant everyone, every last human, a place in Heaven.'
'The Communists are baffled and irritated, because they have finally achieved their perfect society, but only be the help of a God in whom they don't want to believe. The meritocrats are abashed that they're stuck for eternity in an incentiveless system with a bunch of pinkos. The conservatives have no penniless to disparage; the liberals have no downtrodden to promote.
So God sits on the edge of Her bed and weeps at night, because the only thing everyone can agree upon is that they're all in Hell.'
Or as in Collectors:
'We are the product of large beings that camp out on asteroids and call themselves Collectors. The Collectors run billions of experiments on the time scales of universes, subtly tuning the galaxy parameters this way and that, making bangs bigger, lesser, dialing fundamental physics constants a hair's breadth at a time.'
'When you die, you are brought before a panel of Collectors. They debrief you and struggle to understand your motivations. Why did you decide to break off this relationship? What did you appreciate about that relationship? What was wrong with so-andso, who seemed to have everything you wanted? After trying and failing to understand you, they send you back to see if another round of experimentation makes it any clearer.'
I love David Eagleman's take on the world and his book SUM: Tales From Afterlives is brilliant. In it he makes up various different alternative ideas of the afterlife and why we are here. For example Egalitaire:
'In the afterlife you discover that God understands the complexities of life. She had originally submitted to peer pressure what She structured Her universe like all the other gods had, with binary categorization of people into good and evil. But it didn't take long for Her to realize that humans could be good in many ways and simultaneously corrupt and mean-spirited in other ways. How was She to arbitrate who goes to Heaven and who to Hell? Might not it be possible, She considered, that a man could be an embezzler and still give to charitable causes? Might a woman be an adulteress but bring pleasure and security to two men's lives? Might not a child unwittingly divulge secrets that splinter a family?'
'In a moment of desperation the thought crossed Her mind to let everyone wait on line indefinitely, letting them work it out on their own. But then a better idea struck her generous spirit. She could afford it: She would grant everyone, every last human, a place in Heaven.'
'The Communists are baffled and irritated, because they have finally achieved their perfect society, but only be the help of a God in whom they don't want to believe. The meritocrats are abashed that they're stuck for eternity in an incentiveless system with a bunch of pinkos. The conservatives have no penniless to disparage; the liberals have no downtrodden to promote.
So God sits on the edge of Her bed and weeps at night, because the only thing everyone can agree upon is that they're all in Hell.'
Or as in Collectors:
'We are the product of large beings that camp out on asteroids and call themselves Collectors. The Collectors run billions of experiments on the time scales of universes, subtly tuning the galaxy parameters this way and that, making bangs bigger, lesser, dialing fundamental physics constants a hair's breadth at a time.'
'When you die, you are brought before a panel of Collectors. They debrief you and struggle to understand your motivations. Why did you decide to break off this relationship? What did you appreciate about that relationship? What was wrong with so-andso, who seemed to have everything you wanted? After trying and failing to understand you, they send you back to see if another round of experimentation makes it any clearer.'
ANTIUNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Sophie Howarth on Education
From the 1960s there has been a series of radical organisations aiming to revolutionise educational practice, including Joseph Beuys's Free International University. But, as Howarth asks, what is the way to live today?
“How to begin? At a chosen moment in a vacant country house (mill, abbey, church or castle) not too far from the City of London, we shall foment a kind of cultural “jam session”: out of this will evolve the prototype of our spontaneous university... We envisage an organisation whose structure and mechanisms are infinitely elastic; we see it as the gradual crystallisation of a regenerative cultural force, a perpetual brainwave, creative intelligence everywhere recognising and affirming its own involvement.”
“How to begin? At a chosen moment in a vacant country house (mill, abbey, church or castle) not too far from the City of London, we shall foment a kind of cultural “jam session”: out of this will evolve the prototype of our spontaneous university... We envisage an organisation whose structure and mechanisms are infinitely elastic; we see it as the gradual crystallisation of a regenerative cultural force, a perpetual brainwave, creative intelligence everywhere recognising and affirming its own involvement.”
Today, many of us vote without recollecting why we have the political systems that we do, choose our jobs by accident as much as design and get married without knowing how such an institution came into being. Our lives are our answers to Plato’s question – what is the right way to live? – but our education fails to provide us with the means to think wisely and deeply about it. Once at the university of life we have to screw up in order to learn how to do things better. But what if we could gain more wisdom through conversations and less by hard knocks? What if we could access the insights and experiences of previous generations?
The ambition for a more porous relationship between cultural activity and public space has a long history.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Fluxus Manifesto
Though thematically vaguely irrelevant- as this is a manifesto for artists to mix disciplines, the format is worth looking at.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Creation Myths from Wikipedia
Ex nihilo
Creation ex nihilo (L. "from nothing") is thought to be the most common type of creation described in these stories. It is the type of creation described in the Genesis creation narrative in the Bible in Judaism and Christianity, and also in the Koran's Sura VII in Islam.[15][16] It is also known as "creation de novo". Besides in the Bible, Ex nihilo creation is found in creation stories from ancient Egypt, the Rig Veda and many animistic cultures in Africa, Asia, Oceania and North America.[17] In most of these stories the world is brought into being by the speech, dream, breath, or pure thought of a creator but creation ex nihilo may also take place through a creator's bodily secretions. The literal translation of the phrase ex nihilo is "from nothing" but in many creation myths the line is blurred whether the creative act would be better classified as a creation ex nihilo or creation from chaos. With ex nihilo, the potential and the substance of creation springs from within the creator. Such a creator may or may not be existing in physical surroundings such as darkness or water, but does not create the world from them. In creation from chaos the substance used for creation is pre-existing within the unformed void.[18]
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Creation from Chaos
In creation from chaos myth, initially there is nothing but a formless, shapeless expanse. In these stories the word "chaos" means "disorder", and this formless expanse, which is also sometimes called a void or an abyss, contains the material with which the created world will be made. Chaos may be described as a having the consistency of vapor or water, dimensionless, and sometimes salty or muddy. These myths associate chaos with evil and oblivion, in contrast to "order" (cosmos) which is the good. The act of creation is the bringing of order from disorder, and in many of these cultures it is believed that at some point the forces preserving order and form will weaken and the world will once again be engulfed into the abyss.[19]
[edit]World parent
There are two types of world parent myths, both describing a separation or splitting of a primeval entity, the world parent or parents. One form describes the primeval state as an eternal union of two parents, and the creation takes place when the two are pulled apart. The two parents are commonly identified as Sky (usually male) and Earth (usually female) who in the primeval state were so tightly bound to each other that no offspring could emerge. These myths often depict creation as the result of a sexual union, and serve as genealogical record of the deities born from it.[20]
In the second form of world parent myth, creation itself springs from dismembered parts of the body of the primeval being. Often in these stories the limbs, hair, blood, bones or organs of the primeval being are somehow severed or sacrificed to transform into sky, earth, animal or plant life, and other worldly features. These myths tend to emphasize creative forces as animistic in nature rather than sexual, and depict the sacred as the elemental and integral component of the natural world.[21]
[edit]Emergence
In emergence myths humanity emerges from another world into the one they currently inhabit. The previous world is often considered the womb of the earth mother, and the process of emergence is likened to the act of giving birth. The role of midwife is usually played by a female deity, like the spider woman of Native American mythology. Male characters rarely figure into these stories, and scholars often consider them in counterpoint to male oriented creation myths, like those of the ex nihilo variety.[3]
Emergence myths commonly describe the creation of people and/or supernatural beings as a staged ascent or metamorphosis from nascent forms through a series ofsubterranean worlds to arrive at their current place and form. Often the passage from one world or stage to the next is impelled by inner forces, a process of germination or gestation from earlier, embryonic forms.[22][23] The genre is most commonly found in Native American cultures where the myths frequently link the final emergence of people from a hole opening to the underworld to stories about their subsequent migrations and eventual settlement in their current homelands.[24]
[edit]Earth-diver
The earth-diver is a common character in various traditional creation myths. In these stories a supreme being usually sends an animal into the primal waters to find bits of sand or mud with which to build habitable land. Some scholars interpret these myths psychologically while others interpret them cosmogonically. In both cases emphasis is placed on beginnings emanating from the depths.[25] Earth-diver myths are common in Native American folklore but can be found among the Chukchi and Yukaghir, the Tatars and many Finno-Ugrian traditions. The pattern of distribution of these stories suggest they have a common origin in the eastern Asiatic coastal region, spreading as peoples migrated west into Siberia and east to the North American continent.[26]
Characteristic of many Native American myths, earth-diver creation stories begin as beings and potential forms linger asleep or suspended in the primordial realm. The earth-diver is among the first of them to awaken and lay the necessary groundwork by building suitable lands where the coming creation will be able to live. In many cases, these stories will describe a series of failed attempts to make land before the solution is found.[27]
Possible idea for presentation of Manifesto - combined imagery and text in a mystical/biblical sense
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Also interesting- the Eygyptian book of the dead, Spells used in text instead of narrative writing. The way the text is integrated makes it part of the image as well, also, the use of symbolism is relevant to our project. If anyone has a chance to see the Book of the Dead exhibition at the British Museum I really recommend it- though it is expensive.
(Sorry I had publish this within the post, the 'comment' section will now allow for image posting.)
-Saara
-Saara
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Genesis Idea for start of Maniesto
In the beginning there was Alpha and everything that was, that is and that shall be is Alpha.
For those bequeathed with the knowledge of the mystery, they shall speak of all that it is, is Alpha and all shall always be Alpha.
On the first day, Alpha created (1st god) and she saw her creation and it was good. (1st god) awoke in the darkness and saw the darkness and into the darkness he/she sent forth (the land/the light/the sea?) and there was much rejoicing.
On the second day, Alpha created (2nd god) and she saw her creation and (1st god) saw her creation and it was good. And (2nd god) awoke to know Alpha and to live in harmony with (1st god). Unto the turmoil of the darkness (2nd god) sent forth (the land/the light/the sea?). The harmony was great and there was much rejoicing in the harmony and on the eve on the second day they slept together in the knowledge of what they had created.
On the third day Alpha awoke to survey the world that she had created. She understood that her creation was incomplete. And so she forged (3rd god) from the clay of all things and breathed life unto (3rd god) from her great mouth. And (3rd god) awoke to see the world and (3rd god) knew that it was great. From out of (3rd god) eye (3rd god) wept a great tear that rolled onto the land and from that tear sprang (the rivers) and (the birds) and (Sundays) and Alpha wept to see the beauty of what her creature had created.
On the forth day Alpha called all of her creatures together to look upon what it was that they had made. They looked and they were held in wonder by the depth of Alpha’s infinite wisdom and at that at which they, and in turn what she, had created. Yet on this day Alpha felt the fire of a consuming desire, one that could not be quenched by those that she had created and thus from Alpha sprang (4th god) of his/her own volition. And there was much rejoicing and yet there was also fear for (4th god) echoed both destruction and creation, echoed the loins from which he/she issued but did not have the same wisdom of ages and they were entranced although they were sorely afraid (might this one be death?).
And so it was that the harmony was shattered for whatever Alpha placed in the world she had created, (4th god) began to take away. The other gods pleaded with Alpha to destroy (4th god) but in her infinite wisdom Alpha knew that (4th god) had his/her own place in all things and he/she was the necessary evil for the future of the world. And yet Alpha created (5th god possibly sex cotume – ie: the balance of fertility and sex / and death) who worked in direct opposition with (4th god) and for everything (4th god) took away, (5th god) created a knew and placed back in the world again.
This is the word and the word is good. Everything that is, that was and that shall be is Alpha, for every and ever.
The teachings according to Alpha.
Thou shalt not XXXX
Thou must XXXXX
thou must xxxxxx
Thou shalt not xxxxxxx or xxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
Thou must xxxxxxxxxx
Thou shalt not xxxxxxxx another woman’s xxxxxxxx
Thou shalt not xxxxxxxxx but instead walk in the light of alpha forever and ever.
This is the word and the word is good. Everything that is, that was and that shall be is Alpha, for every and ever.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Cult Information Centre
Here's an organisation dedicated to helping those who have experienced difficulty with cults -
http://www.cultinformation.org.uk/question_what-is-mind-control.html
Interesting what it has to say on the different 'techniques' used by cults. Also bizarre how black & white it seems.
Outsider architecture is an interesting example of people needing to create a fantasy environment as a form of expression. Such as this chap -
http://atlasobscura.com/place/valley-of-the-moon
Does fascism ever veer towards a 'religious' approach? Religions tend to have clearly set out rules and codes of conduct, yet they are hardly based on any sort of rationalism. Toby Clark says that
"fascists openly rejected rationalism as the arid and soulless outlook of bourgeois modernity, and described their movement as a cult of action and passion free of doctrinal rules. Thus the French fascist Robert Brasillach spoke of fascism not as a theory but a "poetry" of faith and emotion, and Mussolini declared: "I am not a statesman, I am more like a mad poet".
Maybe we should ensure our doctrine is not easily understandable - maybe even comically vague - so as to mislead and confuse simpletons into BELIEVING.
http://www.cultinformation.org.uk/question_what-is-mind-control.html
Interesting what it has to say on the different 'techniques' used by cults. Also bizarre how black & white it seems.
Outsider architecture is an interesting example of people needing to create a fantasy environment as a form of expression. Such as this chap -
http://atlasobscura.com/place/valley-of-the-moon
Does fascism ever veer towards a 'religious' approach? Religions tend to have clearly set out rules and codes of conduct, yet they are hardly based on any sort of rationalism. Toby Clark says that
"fascists openly rejected rationalism as the arid and soulless outlook of bourgeois modernity, and described their movement as a cult of action and passion free of doctrinal rules. Thus the French fascist Robert Brasillach spoke of fascism not as a theory but a "poetry" of faith and emotion, and Mussolini declared: "I am not a statesman, I am more like a mad poet".
Maybe we should ensure our doctrine is not easily understandable - maybe even comically vague - so as to mislead and confuse simpletons into BELIEVING.
Friday, February 18, 2011
The House of Fairy Tales
I think this is worth visiting The House of Fairy Tales. Went for the viewing there tonight and got absolutely inspired. In general there is a really nice stuff - installations/artworks. I know that Darryl said never use word "nice" when talking about artworks (or something like that), but this exhibition was lovely and nice, I really can't find a better description. In one corner there is a something like retrospective about their projects and one of them really links with our manifesto. They have produced passports for their republic, and made some badges (both of them visually well done), so go and check it out. The exhibition is on only this weekend.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Chris Ofili - the idea of sacred space
So this is an image of the wooden room that Chris Ofili had built at Tate Britain to house a series of paintings that depicted this monkey god character in different colours and differing positions. I like the idea of subverting the traditional Catholic notion of how iconography should be arranged in a sacred space with icons that are far from what one would expect. You end up with a sense of calm reverence with the tension of the fact that this is not a sacred space, it's art and what does that mean?
The Neck Chand Rock Garden
Nek Chand Saini (1924-) is an Indian outsider artist
'In his spare time, Chand began collecting materials from demolition sites around the city. He recycled these materials into his own vision of the divine kingdom of Sukrani, choosing a gorge in a nearby forest for his work.'
Might be heading off brief a little though...let me know.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
EXPO family city
Director Martin de Thurah
Edit Adam Nielsen
Dop Kasper Tuxen
styling Jane whittaker
Prod Malene Dyhring
Music Jonsi & Alex, Jonas Bjerre, Andreas Utnem
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