[NetBehaviour] fear of networked creativity

[Joel Weishaus]

Hi Simon;

"The grace of wild animals" reminded me of my old Aikido teacher, Robert 
Nadeau.
I found some you tube films of him. He still has that dangerous grace 
some 35 years later!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=robert+nadeau+aikido

-Joel

On 7/18/2014 4:18 PM, Simon Mclennan wrote:
> Hi Joel, well I went off there at a tangent..
>
> I do appreciate your comment - somehow it sparked something.
>
> It was also re-reading the quote about the butoh body and the body 
> "that has been robbed", and I thought of wild animals and their
> bodies (reminding me now also of my old Alexander technique teacher 
> speaking of the grace of wild animals), then I thought
> about how we farm animals, and chain them and break them, like a horse 
> or an elephant, to do our labour. And the utter
> sadness of that situation, when all is said and done, as we totter 
> about the earth, puffing ourselves up...
>
> Cheers Joel,
>
> Simon
>
>
>
>
> On 19 Jul 2014, at 00:02, Joel Weishaus <joelweishaus at gmail.com 
> <mailto:joelweishaus at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Simon;
>>
>> I wasn't aware that I made that particular link. But I do agree with 
>> everything you say, except for "inert" rocks, as everything moves. 
>> Some rocks just move very slow; while igneous rocks in a hot state of 
>> volcanic eruption move very fast. It is also interesting that we 
>> carry the DNA of almost every living, or having once lived, 
>> substance. Contrary to how biologists classify life, we are all of 
>> the same family.
>>
>> And, yes, we've captured, enslaved animals and bred animals for our 
>> own use, physical and psychological. We've made them into factories, 
>> or "companions," neurotic to a point where and we now send them to 
>> psychiatrists to make them feel more comfortable in their 
>> enslavement, just as psychologists adjust people to a neurotic world.
>>
>> This is incendiary stuff. But one job of the artist is to work the 
>> bellows of the alchemical fire.
>>
>> -Joel
>>
>>
>> On 7/18/2014 11:41 AM, Simon Mclennan wrote:
>>> Cheers Joel - interesting link you made there.
>>>
>>> Mmm, on the subject of the body, the animal body - when I think 
>>> about how other animals (let alone human on human) are taken for 
>>> granted by us,
>>> as if they were a piece of inert rock, literally controlled, like 
>>> robots, or glove puppets. As if they are animations in a game, or a 
>>> pair of socks -
>>> when I think how we take this for granted - how we exercise a power 
>>> so supreme over them - like gods - quite dirty, grubby gods -
>>> how we manipulate their bodies through selective breeding, as if 
>>> something like THE BIBle said it was OK to do that, that a god in 
>>> the sky, Jehovah, told Adam that we could do as we pleased,
>>> that this was OK, to use them for our pleasure and sport - for the 
>>> taste - the juice running down our lips , In Ur, - the joy of
>>> owning a certain breed of dog - tiny little legs of a sausage dog - 
>>> flat faced pug to look chic in the sleeves of a mandarin, or on the 
>>> lap of a Hollywood diva, or
>>> some chav from Solihull, Kensington of Quebec - how we experiment on 
>>> them, because we can, in cages, bred in tiny cages in China, in 
>>> America, for the taste of the bacon - we differentiate -
>>> our dogs get pride of place - a pig, as intelligent and as sociable 
>>> as any dog - gets bred bred bred for ever Amen and the bacon grease -
>>> The brutalised bodies of factory farm workers and meat workers, 
>>> slaughter men, underpaid and themselves brutalised to brutalise in 
>>> turn the chunks of living flesh
>>> they process through - for the profit of the owners and the 
>>> shareholders - mmmmm -  what bodies, what bodies, what bodies,
>>>
>>> and the war we wreak on our fellow humans, will never ever ever 
>>> stop, until we treat other species with the respect they deserve - 
>>> that is, as fellow beings on
>>> this "existential adventure" (Anat Pick - Creaturely Poetics)
>>>
>>> It makes me so sad, and I urge you all to think and feel this one 
>>> through, please please think about it,
>>>
>>> S
>>>
>>>
>>> On 18 Jul 2014, at 17:39, Joel Weishaus <joelweishaus at gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:joelweishaus at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Simon;
>>>>
>>>> The bottom photo, B&W, grainy, figures zombi-like, even Butoh-like. 
>>>> Something timeless here, out-of-time. Art.
>>>>
>>>> -Joel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 7/18/2014 2:10 AM, Simon Mclennan wrote:
>>>>> "Butoh gropes beneath the overlay of socialisation and cultural 
>>>>> authoritarianism for
>>>>> 'the body that has been robbed'...the 'fiery body', the wild inner 
>>>>> flame in the heart of darkness."  (Taghairm Arts)
>>>>>
>>>>> To see a collection of most of my films, and history of street 
>>>>> painting:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://simonmclennan.blogspot.co.uk 
>>>>> <http://simonmclennan.blogspot.co.uk/>
>>>>>
>>>>> Simon

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