Tuesday, 3 April 2012
enage improv final performance
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Sunday, 25 March 2012
Saturday, 25 February 2012
Introduction
Hello everyone!
I'm Rossella, I'm Italian and I'm just come back after two years in Northern France. I really like to feel the condition of « being foreign » and I am very happy to taking part in this project!
My work is related to an approach close to the direct cinema, although right now I wonder myself on the borders between cinema and video art. I’m looking forward to meet you all and to be stimulated by your points of view, and your various approaches.
Bucharest seems an exciting city, full of contradictions between projection into the future and inheritance of the past, between a cultural model and an other. This is the kind of subject that fascinates me, in France I worked on something similar, making my last work : http://dakhlavision.com/Installations.html
http://dakhlavision.com/Commedansunebulle_en.html
Also, I made a documentary film between Italy and Poland and I worked a lot on migration of people coming in Italy from Eastern Europe. This is another reason that pushed me to participate to Engage.
(http://dakhlavision.com/Hanna&violka.html)
Thursday, 23 February 2012
vito acconci
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZaD9CHZecE
conversations with the other
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conversations with the other
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conversations with the other......
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MORPHIC RESONANCE AND MORPHIC FIELDS
from http://www.sheldrake.org/Articles&Papers/papers/morphic/morphic_intro.html
2012-02-23
An Introduction by Rupert Sheldrake
Ernst Haeckel Tafel_06
2012-02-23
An Introduction by Rupert Sheldrake
In the hypothesis of formative causation, discussed in detail in my books A NEW SCIENCE OF LIFE and THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST, I propose that memory is inherent in nature. Most of the so-called laws of nature are more like habits.
My interest in evolutionary habits arose when I was engaged in research in developmental biology, and was reinforced by reading Charles Darwin, for whom the habits of organisms were of central importance. As Francis Huxley has pointed out, Darwin’s most famous book could more appropriately have been entitled The Origin of Habits.
Morphic fields in biology
Over the course of fifteen years of research on plant development, I came to the conclusion that for understanding the development of plants, their morphogenesis, genes and gene products are not enough. Morphogenesis also depends on organizing fields. The same arguments apply to the development of animals. Since the 1920s many developmental biologists have proposed that biological organization depends on fields, variously called biological fields, or developmental fields, or positional fields, or morphogenetic fields.
All cells come from other cells, and all cells inherit fields of organization. Genes are part of this organization. They play an essential role. But they do not explain the organization itself. Why not?
Thanks to molecular biology, we know what genes do. They enable organisms to make particular proteins. Other genes are involved in the control of protein synthesis. Identifiable genes are switched on and particular proteins made at the beginning of new developmental processes. Some of these developmental switch genes, like the Hox genes in fruit flies, worms, fish and mammals, are very similar. In evolutionary terms, they are highly conserved. But switching on genes such as these cannot in itself determine form, otherwise fruit flies would not look different from us.
Many organisms live as free cells, including many yeasts, bacteria and amoebas. Some form complex mineral skeletons, as in diatoms and radiolarians, spectacularly pictured in the nineteenth century by Ernst Haeckel. Just making the right proteins at the right times cannot explain the complex skeletons of such structures without many other forces coming into play, including the organizing activity of cell membranes and microtubules.
My interest in evolutionary habits arose when I was engaged in research in developmental biology, and was reinforced by reading Charles Darwin, for whom the habits of organisms were of central importance. As Francis Huxley has pointed out, Darwin’s most famous book could more appropriately have been entitled The Origin of Habits.
Morphic fields in biology
Over the course of fifteen years of research on plant development, I came to the conclusion that for understanding the development of plants, their morphogenesis, genes and gene products are not enough. Morphogenesis also depends on organizing fields. The same arguments apply to the development of animals. Since the 1920s many developmental biologists have proposed that biological organization depends on fields, variously called biological fields, or developmental fields, or positional fields, or morphogenetic fields.
All cells come from other cells, and all cells inherit fields of organization. Genes are part of this organization. They play an essential role. But they do not explain the organization itself. Why not?
Thanks to molecular biology, we know what genes do. They enable organisms to make particular proteins. Other genes are involved in the control of protein synthesis. Identifiable genes are switched on and particular proteins made at the beginning of new developmental processes. Some of these developmental switch genes, like the Hox genes in fruit flies, worms, fish and mammals, are very similar. In evolutionary terms, they are highly conserved. But switching on genes such as these cannot in itself determine form, otherwise fruit flies would not look different from us.
Many organisms live as free cells, including many yeasts, bacteria and amoebas. Some form complex mineral skeletons, as in diatoms and radiolarians, spectacularly pictured in the nineteenth century by Ernst Haeckel. Just making the right proteins at the right times cannot explain the complex skeletons of such structures without many other forces coming into play, including the organizing activity of cell membranes and microtubules.
Ernst Haeckel Tafel_06
Most developmental biologists accept the need for a holistic or integrative conception of living organization. Otherwise biology will go on floundering, even drowning, in oceans of data, as yet more genomes are sequenced, genes are cloned and proteins are characterized.
I suggest that morphogenetic fields work by imposing patterns on otherwise random or indeterminate patterns of activity. For example they cause microtubules to crystallize in one part of the cell rather than another, even though the subunits from which they are made are present throughout the cell.
Morphogenetic fields are not fixed forever, but evolve. The fields of Afghan hounds and poodles have become different from those of their common ancestors, wolves. How are these fields inherited? I propose that that they are transmitted from past members of the species through a kind of non-local resonance, called morphic resonance.
The fields organizing the activity of the nervous system are likewise inherited through morphic resonance, conveying a collective, instinctive memory. Each individual both draws upon and contributes to the collective memory of the species. This means that new patterns of behaviour can spread more rapidly than would otherwise be possible. For example, if rats of a particular breed learn a new trick in Harvard, then rats of that breed should be able to learn the same trick faster all over the world, say in Edinburgh and Melbourne. There is already evidence from laboratory experiments (discussed in A NEW SCIENCE OF LIFE) that this actually happens.
The resonance of a brain with its own past states also helps to explain the memories of individual animals and humans. There is no need for all memories to be “stored” inside the brain.
Social groups are likewise organized by fields, as in schools of fish and flocks of birds. Human societies have memories that are transmitted through the culture of the group, and are most explicitly communicated through the ritual re-enactment of a founding story or myth, as in the Jewish Passover celebration, the Christian Holy Communion and the American thanksgiving dinner, through which the past become present through a kind of resonance with those who have performed the same rituals before.
The memory of nature
From the point of view of the hypothesis of morphic resonance, there is no need to suppose that all the laws of nature sprang into being fully formed at the moment of the Big Bang, like a kind of cosmic Napoleonic code, or that they exist in a metaphysical realm beyond time and space.
Before the general acceptance of the Big Bang theory in the 1960s, eternal laws seemed to make sense. The universe itself was thought to be eternal and evolution was confined to the biological realm. But we now live in a radically evolutionary universe.
If we want to stick to the idea of natural laws, we could say that as nature itself evolves, the laws of nature also evolve, just as human laws evolve over time. But then how would natural laws be remembered or enforced? The law metaphor is embarrassingly anthropomorphic. Habits are less human-centred. Many kinds of organisms have habits, but only humans have laws. The habits of nature depend on non-local similarity reinforcement. Through morphic resonance, the patterns of activity in self-organizing systems are influenced by similar patterns in the past, giving each species and each kind of self-organizing system a collective memory.
I believe that the natural selection of habits will play an essential part in any integrated theory of evolution, including not just biological evolution, but also physical, chemical, cosmic, social, mental and cultural evolution (as discussed in THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST ).
Habits are subject to natural selection; and the more often they are repeated, the more probable they become, other things being equal. Animals inherit the successful habits of their species as instincts. We inherit bodily, emotional, mental and cultural habits, including the habits of our languages.
Fields of the mind
Morphic fields underlie our mental activity and our perceptions, and lead to a new theory of vision, as discussed in THE SENSE OF BEING STARED AT. The existence of these fields is experimentally testable through the sense of being stared at itself. There is already much evidence that this sense really exists Papers on Staring
You can take part in a staring experiment yourself through this web site. Staring Experiments
The morphic fields of social groups connect together members of the group even when they are many miles apart, and provide channels of communication through which organisms can stay in touch at a distance. They help provide an explanation for telepathy. There is now good evidence that many species of animals are telepathic, and telepathy seems to be a normal means of animal communication, as discussed in my book DOGS THAT KNOW WHEN THEIR OWNERS ARE COMING HOME. Telepathy is normal not paranormal, natural not supernatural, and is also common between people, especially people who know each other well.
In the modern world, the commonest kind of human telepathy occurs in connection with telephone calls. More than 80% of the population say they have thought of someone for no apparent reason, who then called; or that they have known who was calling before picking up the phone in a way that seems telepathic. Controlled experiments on telephone telepathy have given repeatable positive results that are highly significant statistically, as summarized in THE SENSE OF BEING STARED AT and described in detailed technical papers which you can read on this web site. Papers on Telepathy Telepathy also occurs in connection with emails, and anyone who is interested can now test how telepathic they are in the online telepathy test. Experiments Online
The morphic fields of mental activity are not confined to the insides of our heads. They extend far beyond our brain though intention and attention. We are already familiar with the idea of fields extending beyond the material objects in which they are rooted: for example magnetic fields extend beyond the surfaces of magnets; the earth’s gravitational field extends far beyond the surface of the earth, keeping the moon in its orbit; and the fields of a cell phone stretch out far beyond the phone itself. Likewise the fields of our minds extend far beyond our brains.
February 2005
I suggest that morphogenetic fields work by imposing patterns on otherwise random or indeterminate patterns of activity. For example they cause microtubules to crystallize in one part of the cell rather than another, even though the subunits from which they are made are present throughout the cell.
Morphogenetic fields are not fixed forever, but evolve. The fields of Afghan hounds and poodles have become different from those of their common ancestors, wolves. How are these fields inherited? I propose that that they are transmitted from past members of the species through a kind of non-local resonance, called morphic resonance.
The fields organizing the activity of the nervous system are likewise inherited through morphic resonance, conveying a collective, instinctive memory. Each individual both draws upon and contributes to the collective memory of the species. This means that new patterns of behaviour can spread more rapidly than would otherwise be possible. For example, if rats of a particular breed learn a new trick in Harvard, then rats of that breed should be able to learn the same trick faster all over the world, say in Edinburgh and Melbourne. There is already evidence from laboratory experiments (discussed in A NEW SCIENCE OF LIFE) that this actually happens.
The resonance of a brain with its own past states also helps to explain the memories of individual animals and humans. There is no need for all memories to be “stored” inside the brain.
Social groups are likewise organized by fields, as in schools of fish and flocks of birds. Human societies have memories that are transmitted through the culture of the group, and are most explicitly communicated through the ritual re-enactment of a founding story or myth, as in the Jewish Passover celebration, the Christian Holy Communion and the American thanksgiving dinner, through which the past become present through a kind of resonance with those who have performed the same rituals before.
The memory of nature
From the point of view of the hypothesis of morphic resonance, there is no need to suppose that all the laws of nature sprang into being fully formed at the moment of the Big Bang, like a kind of cosmic Napoleonic code, or that they exist in a metaphysical realm beyond time and space.
Before the general acceptance of the Big Bang theory in the 1960s, eternal laws seemed to make sense. The universe itself was thought to be eternal and evolution was confined to the biological realm. But we now live in a radically evolutionary universe.
If we want to stick to the idea of natural laws, we could say that as nature itself evolves, the laws of nature also evolve, just as human laws evolve over time. But then how would natural laws be remembered or enforced? The law metaphor is embarrassingly anthropomorphic. Habits are less human-centred. Many kinds of organisms have habits, but only humans have laws. The habits of nature depend on non-local similarity reinforcement. Through morphic resonance, the patterns of activity in self-organizing systems are influenced by similar patterns in the past, giving each species and each kind of self-organizing system a collective memory.
I believe that the natural selection of habits will play an essential part in any integrated theory of evolution, including not just biological evolution, but also physical, chemical, cosmic, social, mental and cultural evolution (as discussed in THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST ).
Habits are subject to natural selection; and the more often they are repeated, the more probable they become, other things being equal. Animals inherit the successful habits of their species as instincts. We inherit bodily, emotional, mental and cultural habits, including the habits of our languages.
Fields of the mind
Morphic fields underlie our mental activity and our perceptions, and lead to a new theory of vision, as discussed in THE SENSE OF BEING STARED AT. The existence of these fields is experimentally testable through the sense of being stared at itself. There is already much evidence that this sense really exists Papers on Staring
You can take part in a staring experiment yourself through this web site. Staring Experiments
The morphic fields of social groups connect together members of the group even when they are many miles apart, and provide channels of communication through which organisms can stay in touch at a distance. They help provide an explanation for telepathy. There is now good evidence that many species of animals are telepathic, and telepathy seems to be a normal means of animal communication, as discussed in my book DOGS THAT KNOW WHEN THEIR OWNERS ARE COMING HOME. Telepathy is normal not paranormal, natural not supernatural, and is also common between people, especially people who know each other well.
In the modern world, the commonest kind of human telepathy occurs in connection with telephone calls. More than 80% of the population say they have thought of someone for no apparent reason, who then called; or that they have known who was calling before picking up the phone in a way that seems telepathic. Controlled experiments on telephone telepathy have given repeatable positive results that are highly significant statistically, as summarized in THE SENSE OF BEING STARED AT and described in detailed technical papers which you can read on this web site. Papers on Telepathy Telepathy also occurs in connection with emails, and anyone who is interested can now test how telepathic they are in the online telepathy test. Experiments Online
The morphic fields of mental activity are not confined to the insides of our heads. They extend far beyond our brain though intention and attention. We are already familiar with the idea of fields extending beyond the material objects in which they are rooted: for example magnetic fields extend beyond the surfaces of magnets; the earth’s gravitational field extends far beyond the surface of the earth, keeping the moon in its orbit; and the fields of a cell phone stretch out far beyond the phone itself. Likewise the fields of our minds extend far beyond our brains.
February 2005
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Sunday, 19 February 2012
Hi!!!
This is great to be here. to discover the city and meeting with you is great chance!
I am an Istanbul based artist.
My work addresses topics of technological progress, gender roles, and the social structures of politics and culture. Specifically, I explore the concept of identity against a backdrop of "political pollution" brought about by a deprivation of trust in politics, society, and democracy. I am interested in the pressures that result from repressive control mechanisms, and how these pressures impact psychologically on society. These topics are rooted in complex historical developments. In my work I try to develop new ways of speaking about these issues, to re-contextualize them and inspire individual responses.
looking forward to meet you all.
Dilek
This is great to be here. to discover the city and meeting with you is great chance!
I am an Istanbul based artist.
My work addresses topics of technological progress, gender roles, and the social structures of politics and culture. Specifically, I explore the concept of identity against a backdrop of "political pollution" brought about by a deprivation of trust in politics, society, and democracy. I am interested in the pressures that result from repressive control mechanisms, and how these pressures impact psychologically on society. These topics are rooted in complex historical developments. In my work I try to develop new ways of speaking about these issues, to re-contextualize them and inspire individual responses.
looking forward to meet you all.
Dilek
Welcome!
Here is a tag that you can attach to stuff you put up. You can also "cross-reference" by adding more tags.
We would be really happy if you post something about yourself and your interest in this project here as a sort of introduction to the other participants,
With friendly regards,
Josefin, Emma and Tess
Welcome!
Here is a tag that you can attach to stuff you put up. You can also "cross-reference" by adding more tags.
We would be really happy if you post something about yourself and your interest in this project here as a sort of introduction to the other participants,
With friendly regards,
Josefin, Emma and Tess
introduction
Hi fellow travelers, I'm Fifi Smith.
I'm just touching base with all of you fellow artists. I'm Irish, (Republic) and based just outside of Dublin. At present a lot of my pratice involves light and shadow installations. if you want to have a look, my website is www.fifismith.net
Here is a little text to give you all a sense of where I'm coming from:-
"At the core of my work is an aesthetic exploration of the liminal activity in an individuals head between waking and sleeping, thinking and feeling, between individuality and conformity. We all think we make daily decisions on the grounds of reason, but is it the emotional that dominates our thinking process, or logic. Where in the ‘in-between’ does our motivation for our actions lie.
In these tiny transitions of the mind, there are no certainties, and therefore, no absolutes, it is a wonder -world of exploration for this artist!"
Meanwhile, I have been reading what I can about the city of Bucharest, and am beginning to get a 'feel' for the place. There have been some very lively debates going on in the art world there, but I can't wait to get my feet on the ground to see what it is really like.
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
engage2012: Welcome!
engage2012: Welcome!: Welcome Karen! Here is a tag that you can attach to stuff you put up. You can also "cross-reference" by adding more tags. We would be rea...
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
romanian folk music
I was speaking with a romanian woman about music and poetry, she said that this song embodied romania for her and that when she heard it she got tears in her eyes.
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Sunday, 29 January 2012
Aoife Flynn
Hi all, I'm really excited to be taking part in Engage 2012 with you all. I'm a visual artist from Wicklow, currently based in Monster Truck Studios in Dublin. I did my BA in Limerick and just finished my MA in IADT in Dun Laoghaire. My current research is looking into Soviet science fiction and how it was used as a way of bypassing censorship, something I'm really interested in pursuing while in Bucharest. I also have been talking about Bucharest with my dad as he visited there in 1968 when the Iron Curtain was still very much up so I'm looking a revisiting some the places he went while he was there. Will post more when I get the time,
looking forward to meeting you all,
Aoife
looking forward to meeting you all,
Aoife
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
a bit off subject but a really cool platform
I was just browsing, and was sort of wowed by this gallery; how they function as a platform/ meeting point between the artist/audience. and I guess it is interesting to see an approach which is not entirely seperate to some of the issues and reasons and situations in engage
http://www.recessart.org/past
http://www.recessart.org/past
engage2012: Welcome!
engage2012: Welcome Hello to everybody,
I am looking foreword to come together in this project.
I am curious to meet and to exchange about how we observe the situation being part in the project and being outsiders of being “Bucharest people”.
I am attached to visions of artist from different venues as well as different point of views emphasised by the fact of different cultural back grounds and ethical, social disposition.
Beside I believe in creating a platform for cultural exchange which values a cultural identity as well as being open to expand towards a vision for a society which makes people feel integrated and responsible.
Coming from a dance-theatrical background and also performing a lot outside,
I have a natural interested in atmosphere of place, surroundings, environments or living conditions.
It would be inspiring to see the emotion of the city in terms of how warm hearted people are or closed off, including all different face of human kind.
How many different cultures life together, life standards, immigrants, gypsies …
How the sound of the city will be, the mood, the smell and the way of life.
How do the people response about their city and their country?
Are they sad or optimistic about life and future?
How do I feel there? Can we relate? Do we meet?
In that sense I would like to explore the city by walking around and follow my nose.
I am looking foreword to come together in this project.
I am curious to meet and to exchange about how we observe the situation being part in the project and being outsiders of being “Bucharest people”.
I am attached to visions of artist from different venues as well as different point of views emphasised by the fact of different cultural back grounds and ethical, social disposition.
Beside I believe in creating a platform for cultural exchange which values a cultural identity as well as being open to expand towards a vision for a society which makes people feel integrated and responsible.
Coming from a dance-theatrical background and also performing a lot outside,
I have a natural interested in atmosphere of place, surroundings, environments or living conditions.
It would be inspiring to see the emotion of the city in terms of how warm hearted people are or closed off, including all different face of human kind.
How many different cultures life together, life standards, immigrants, gypsies …
How the sound of the city will be, the mood, the smell and the way of life.
How do the people response about their city and their country?
Are they sad or optimistic about life and future?
How do I feel there? Can we relate? Do we meet?
In that sense I would like to explore the city by walking around and follow my nose.
Monday, 23 January 2012
Shared research
Hello all of us,
I thought maybe we could share some preparative research here on the blog by posting stuff connected to this tag - "Info on Bucharest". I know Emma and Tess are already piling stuff - maybe you could post it here?
Everyone else invited of course,
Josefin
I thought maybe we could share some preparative research here on the blog by posting stuff connected to this tag - "Info on Bucharest". I know Emma and Tess are already piling stuff - maybe you could post it here?
Everyone else invited of course,
Josefin
Welcome!
Welcome Karen!
Here is a tag that you can attach to stuff you put up. You can also "cross-reference" by adding more tags.
We would be really happy if you post something about yourself and your interest in this project here as a sort of introduction to the other participants,
With friendly regards,
Josefin, Emma and Tess
Here is a tag that you can attach to stuff you put up. You can also "cross-reference" by adding more tags.
We would be really happy if you post something about yourself and your interest in this project here as a sort of introduction to the other participants,
With friendly regards,
Josefin, Emma and Tess
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