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mutablefire: thebestworstidea: softgore: “This piece was...

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:11:41 -0400

thebestworstidea:

softgore:

“This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her. She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted.

Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly. “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”

This piece revealed something terrible about humanity, similar to what Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment or Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, both of which also proved how readily people will harm one another under unusual circumstances.”

This performance showed just how easy it is to dehumanize a person who doesn’t fight back, and is particularly powerful because it defies what we think we know about ourselves. I’m certain the no one reading this believes the people around him/her capable of doing such things to another human being, but this performance proves otherwise.”

this is why performance art is important

So every single person who told me ‘ignore them they’ll go away’ and ‘you can’t let them know they bothered you’ and ‘They’ll stop if they don’t see you react’ and all that bull shit, my entire school career, I want you to look good and hard at this.

I want you to think about what you said.

What you keep saying.

What you are telling your children.

You are making them powerless.

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What they did not want you to ever find out is that your...

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:45:25 -0400

What they did not want you to ever find out is that your generation, the generation born between 1980-1995, actually outnumbers the Baby Boomers. They knew that if you ever turned your eye towards political reform, you could change the world. They tried to keep you sated on vapid television shows and vapid music. They cut off your education and fed you brain candy. They took away your music and gave you Top Ten pop stations. They cut off your art and replaced it with endless reality shows for you to plug into, hoping you would sit quietly by as they ran the world. We as a society are only as strong as our weakest link. Give ‘em hell, kids.

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"If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?"

Fri, 03 May 2013 21:06:47 -0400

“If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?”

- Margaret Atwood (via memereve)

"I’m sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel."

Fri, 03 May 2013 21:03:51 -0400

“I’m sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel.”

- Warsan Shire (via wild-lion)

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transinfinite: Something we have put on the back burner is our...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:25:01 -0400

transinfinite:

Something we have put on the back burner is our Youth, I am commited to steer my young against what society teaches. They truly are our future and our generation needs to wake up. We have become passive to the point where everything is crumbling under our feet and no one is doing nothing about it. We have given our rights away to TECHNOLOGY WITH ITS MIND NUMBING ENTERTAINMENT……..Think for yourself.

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laurenxwolfe: We fall in love with people who don’t love themselves, maybe because we think we...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:32:04 -0400

laurenxwolfe:

We fall in love with people who don’t love themselves, maybe because we think we could be someone’s missing piece. Perhaps that’s narcissistic, to think we are another individuals antidote for existence, and perhaps it’s the all too human need to be needed.

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autumnbones: this photograph intrigues me so much! why...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:23:23 -0500

autumnbones:

this photograph intrigues me so much! why isn’t this the most famous photo from 9/11 instead of the falling man? isn’t 2 people holding hands after jumping more significant than 1 man? it makes me wonder what the story is behind this photo, were they friends or lovers? or just strangers who were too scared to jump alone? it shows that people need a helping hand even in their final moments, i love it.

Fucking reblog today; tomorrow. Any day I see it on my dash. Beautiful. I for one think they were strangers. Sometimes it’s easier to care for a stranger, how else would they have found the courage to not only jump, but to look into someone’s eyes and jump. I don’t think I could have done that if I knew the person well.

1/3 of me: I wanna be fit and sexy and have a flat stomach and be lean and have lots of muscle.

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:24:48 -0500

1/3 of me: I wanna be fit and sexy and have a flat stomach and be lean and have lots of muscle.
1/3 of me: I wanna be skinny and tiny and dainty and delicate and bony and frail and look cute in everything.
1/3 of me: I wanna not give a shit about what I look like and be happy instead.

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"Impossible, I realize, to enter another’s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know..."

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:52:43 -0500

“Impossible, I realize, to enter another’s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even to a small degree, it is only to the extent that he is willing to make himself known. A man will say: I am cold. Or else he will say nothing, and we will see him shivering. Either way, we will know that he is cold. But what of the man who says nothing and does not shiver? Where all is intractable, here all is hermetic and evasive, one can do no more than observe. But whether one can make sense of what he observes is another matter entirely.”

- Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude (via larmoyante)

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