…thinking about art, spectacle, creativity, engagement, future, beauty… Can spectacle be reconsidered, beyond entertainment, as a re-enchanting tool? How? From Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman […] What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban...
re-reading Giorgio Agamben The Coming Community and “on” Giorgio Agamben’s mode of politics: […] Potentiality forms the key concept of Agamben’s specific mode of politics, for we should not simply accept what is but look at how the word where we live came into being. What renders the world of the human and art possible, and if such a world emerges from a potential, what other...
the power of image/the power of imagination We all understand the difference, yet we do very little about it. “Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value” Ken Robinson said; and yes, as simple as this concept could be it’s still a very hard one to grasp, or – better – to regain to our own making. BC Arts Council recent...