July 2011 Calendar

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Quote from the Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, art by UEK Multimedia Artist.

John Cage about Silence

Kant's thesis was that music and laughter bypass thought processes while eliciting instant physiological effects. And that, not because "they don't mean anything" but because, due to the nature of the aesthetic ideas they embody, music and laughter don't need to be first analyzed in order to have an effect.

Here is what Kant actually said: "But as the play of chance is not one that is beautiful, we will here lay it aside. Music, on the contrary, and what provokes laughter are two kinds of play with aesthetic ideas, or even with representations of the understanding, by which, all said and done, nothing is thought. By mere force of change they yet are able to afford lively gratification. This furnishes pretty clear evidence that the quickening effect of both is physical, despite its being excited by ideas of the mind." (source)

Bruno Walpoth (sculpture)

Rabbi Akiva says: “Silence is a fence to wisdom”. What more astonishing definition is able to grasp the meaning of Bruno Walpoth’s sculptures, if not this very one? There’s peace in his silence; it’s precisely this rarefied and surreal dimension that is inhabited by the creatures to whom he gives shape, and whom he models peremptorily and with perfection, after having carefully observed and studied reality.
He uses candid and resistant lime wood or lead leaf foils which he lays out on the wood and hammers as in an embossed work, like in “Walking alone”. Here it’s as if for a very brief moment flesh has turned into metal, a deaf and bleak metal that devours all thoughts and releases the weight of solitude and introspection; the skinny and bony face is moulded on the hollow spaces where the sculptor reveals himself. And when the eyes send deep desolate gleams or when they express astonishment and amazement, or, furthermore, when they are closed, it’s always the silent torment of doubt that we grasp from the artist’s soul.
Danila Serafini (from walpoth.com)






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Michael Beitz

Multi-discipline artist Michael Beitz works indoors and outdoors using architecture, design and sculpture engaging the viewer with everyday objects.


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Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Gil Scott-Heron, a poet and singer whose best known work is perhaps "The Revolution Will Not be Televised," died May 27, 2011 at the age of 62. He had collaborated with musician Brian Jackson, created musical fusion of jazz, blues and soul music, and used rapping and melismatic vocal styles. His lyrics exposed social and political issues (see below the 4 documentary videos).





BBC Four: Part 1


BBC Four: Part 2


BBC Four: Part 3


BBC Four: Part 4



The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.

There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be right back after a message
bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.

Below is an image collage with Gil Scott-Heron's The Revolution Will Not Be Televised