Discussing the mechanisms of power and how they are perpetuated, to an entirely white audience

Jeongju Jeong

Walking home tonight I realized something important. One must have solidarity with one’s solitarity in order to effectively manage, well, everything. I know I made that word up, but that’s also important (making up words) for creating a new culture that we can all agree upon in order to annihilate in 50 years time. I suppose that doesn’t really make sense.

Here is one take on aloneness. With a good graph, in addition.

The Solitary Artist. Noble in their cause. Alone in their suffering. Starving in their kitchen.

  Tehching Hsieh

  Joseph Beuys

  Marina Abramovic

   Martha Rosler

Why do we suffer alone? Because it is worse to suffer together.

Let us flourish in both solitarity and solidarity.

Together, we can make great things alone.

(Un)like Burningman.

eerily similar to:

I still can’t make up my mind if burning man or dubai are mind blowing or not. Perhaps it’s because my mind is blown?

ps. click the photos for better ones.

Let us also consider entering the void as opposed to filling the void.

Entering is allowing the void to embrace you, filling is attempting to negate the void. Can we enter the void together and not attempt to fill it? How many of us will fit in the void before it is full? Is the void within or without?

Q: How many artists can you put in the void before it is full?

A: 21 minutes.

Experience the layers of aloneness. Startlingly similar to the layers of the burning man and palm.

Mike Tyson’s abandoned mansion

“Suddenly evolution does something absolutely amazing here, when the young discover that the grown-ups don’t know what it’s all about. So we have the young world doing its own thinking; and without any experience, it had to make many mistakes. But it’s getting now where it’s not being politically exploited the way it was at first. I find the young everywhere around the world are completely intent in thinking about the total world. They’re not impressed with local nations anymore. There’s a young world coming along, each child born successively in the presence of less misinformation. Just think, until I was eight years of age, I had been told it’s inherently impossible for man to fly. I’ve had undue, enormous amounts of misinformation. Each child, now, is being born in the presence of a great deal more reliable information.
I’m getting letters now—not very often, about five a year—from children who were born after humans got to the moon. How they find I’m someone they can write to I don’t know, but they do, and they write incredibly beautiful letters, and the syntax couldn’t be better. They say they are familiar with the critical path of all the things that had to be done before the blast-off to get humanity over to the moon and back safely. They say, “Humanity can do anything it needs to do; why don’t we make this thing work?” So a young world is coming along which may very likely exercise that option.”
-Buckminster Fuller

Yo, do everything with nothing! We got it!

Through Fire.

Apparently, a Koolhaas designed building is/has burned down in Bejing. This is funny for a variety of reasons, most obviously the joke I am about to tell.

“When is a Koolhaas not a Koolhaas?”

“When?”

“When it’s in Bejing during the end of the Lunar New Year!”

(It’s a Hauthaas!)

HAHAHA!

All joking aside, this is kind of crazy! Not because of all of the architectural disasters that have been plaguing China as of late, but because how often do you get to see a majorly impressive architects building burn to the ground with fireworks in the background? For your viewing pleasure:

These guys are enjoying themselves!

And, a video, where you can hear the fireworks in the background:

If only.

“A flat apparently untouched since before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has been discovered in the German city of Leipzig, German media report. An architect who renovates buildings in eastern Germany unlocked the door last week and was shocked to find himself in a veritable East German time warp. It appears the inhabitant of the humble flat fled in a hurry and shrivelled bread rolls still lay in a string bag. Grocery brands from the Socialist state filled the kitchen.”

UNFORTUNATELY there is only one picture from this exciting time capsule. I was especially dissapointed, as I have a fondness for the East German bloc aesthetic.

So I found a picture what it may have looked like:

the berlin ddr museum, obviously much neater and newer than it probably was.

link to article on BBC.co.uk

ALSO I am very interested in other issues of the usage of space in especially East Germany, so you guys should read this article about the anxiety and irony surrounding the construction of a castle in Berlin that will take the place of the Palast Der Republik (as seen below).

LINK TO ARTICLE ABOUT BERLIN DIRT PILE EMPTY LOT

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