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Touch the cross-beam, drive iron in a wall |
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text-graphics 2003 Nur/die/Ruhe |
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The proceess of social change is in desperate need of creativity and the aesthetic process is in need of social engagement. |
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"If, finally, the conquerors succeed in moulding the world according to their laws, it will not prove that quality is king but that this world is hell. In this hell, the place of art will coincide with that of vanguished rebellion, a blind and empty hope in the pit of despair..." |
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"Architecture is an instrument that should facilitate all the sensational needs of people inhabiting spaces. The focus on only the visual sensation has created a meaningless, generic architectural "product" because it only provides a brief feeling of shallow understanding of the architecture in one sense, not the prolonged complete phenomenal experience of architecture due to the joining of all of a person’s senses." |
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"From Le Corbusier to Frank Lloyd Wright through Mies van der Rohe, modern urbanism was largely born and built up from architecture and architects. How can we then understand that a discipline whose genius and justification rests on the making of places (spaces with a meaning) ended up in the proliferation of cities or urbanized spaces where non-places (spaces with no meaning) take a larger and larger share?" |
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drawings 2001 I |
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Dresden 2000 spuren |
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"A monk with a stick keeps the vultures away as the body is prepared to feed to them. When the body is prepared, the flesh is thrown to the vultures first, and the pounded bones, combined with flour are thrown later. As the vultures are being fed, the monk in charge of the ritual reads, prays, beats his hand drum, and blows his thigh-bone trumpet. If the birds don’t eat the body when offered, then it shows the presiding Lama that the deceased was a sinner. In order to cleanse the corpse of this impurity, the monk has to eat a piece of the deceased’s flesh before the vultures will eat." |
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"From the depths of his horror and despair, something was breaking through like molten lava, a shock wave of uncontrollable energy. He felt the chakra at the back of his neck light up and glow like a tiny crystal skull brighter and brighter. A hum filled the room and a smell of ozone." |
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"Could ye conceive a God? - But let this mean Will to Truth unto you, that everything be transformed into the humanly conceivable, the humanly visible, the humanly sensible! Your own discernment shall ye follow out to the end! |
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The relationships brought about by the juxtapositioning of materials based on the modular systems of modern contruction principles allows "The Object" to function on the level of expendability. |
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"It often helps to pull the skin of the graft taut over the knife with hooks so that the knife is cutting blindly; largely by touch. Alternatively the graft can be held turned back so that cutting is done under vision. Oddly enough this method is less precise and usually results in more fat being left on the graft. |
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Kunsthaus Selk - Schleswig Holstein, Germany |
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"The basic Manichaean conflict between good guys and bad guys typical of non-canonical fiction is less impressive than the internal conflict within the minds of characters torn between good and bad choices, or, one step further, as Hegel argued, torn between alternative virtuous choices, as for example when undecided whether to pursue unsullied morality or effective politics, or whether to go out into the world or to stay at home to take care of one's family. When Manichaean struggle and sentimental tales of victimhood and retribution predominate without any internal choice whatsoever except whether to join the fray ("Should I remain a coward or help to fight the bad guys?"), the work of literature is very probably a potboiler, no matter how valid the issue might seem, as for example with today's political choices connected with AIDS, female liberation, black liberation, etc." |
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