Category: Notes
Walk 1 Permission
Sat Oct 4 2014
Buenos dias Madre Tierra Καλημέρα Πατέρα Ήλιε
Buenos dias Padre Sol Καλημέρα Μάνα Γη
Esta dia tan hermosa Αυτή την όμορφη ημέρα
Yo los canto con amor Σας τραγουδάω μια προσευχή
I leave the house with my drum on hand, the city is just starting to wake up
I feel almost invisible in the city
I sing and I play my drum
The words of the song start coming to me
The only song I seem to remember for now
With me I have music instruments
colors, a bottle of barley tea and two cameras
In my recordings I decide to collect what I think has to do with the seed
My plan for today is to find farms and ask for seeds to plant in my garden
I drink a cup of barley tea just before I leave Brussels
I enjoy the taste,
Its flavor is simple and basic
There is a forest on my right, where I stop to take a break
My back is burning from caring the backpack
I find a tree and I sit on its lap
I stick my back on it and I can feel the fire going out by the dewiness of the tree
I put my arms around it and crack my back open
I start walking in the forest
I find a totem
I take my drum but it does not want to play anymore
I ask permission from the totem and inspiration for this work
I ask for the world of the seed to open to me
And permission to open it as well
I feel that the door is closed
Maybe I do not put the time it needs
I make an offering and I feel it being accepted
There is an opening
I get permission, and I go
I get to a small village with a beautiful lake, swans, ducks and geese
A present
My ideas become clearer
I realize that the walk is over and this walk was about asking permission
I warm my belly in the sun
http://www.seedquest.com/resources/history/testimonials/t/TewelesWilliam.htm
http://www.seedquest.com/resources/history/milestones.htm
http://seedstory.wordpress.com/a-brief-history-of-the-seed-industry/
https://intercontinentalcry.org/mayan-peoples-movement-defeats-monsanto-law-guatemala-25564/
Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
After a talk at the Hellenic American Union last night
Readymade
My take on the conversation that though interesting it never had a litrosis
Readymade is not an abstract term. It is a specific name that Marcel Duchamp gave to a series of works that had beginning and END! He had predetermined the end of this production knowing himself that the work could not continue, otherwise the farse would seize to have power. Later on this work opened up many doors etc, introduced a new medium and liberties to artist and eventually developed to a three dimensional collage. Collage is not something that has less of a value but it is not a readymade. It is not more or less interesting than another work of art just because it uses found objects, it is just a different medium. Not even Marcel Duchamp could continue to make readymades, because the power of this work couldn’t have repeated once the statement was made. What happened to that statement, apart of the “liberation” that it brought to the techniques and ideas that came later on, is what happens to every revolution. It got drowned and arts way of drowning a revolution is absorbing it and creating a market around it.
The next revolution that we see and we will see hopefully in full development that challenged the commercial system is Open Source, where the fear of holding on to an idea gets demolished, and the power of the market gets frowned upon.
Thank you all for coming yesterday
The next and last performance will be tomorrow at EDO.
The residency will resume within the next few weeks
The work viewed here is only meant to be taken as a sketch book
For my completed art work you can contact me or view my site
www.kleoni.com
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Fire Lotus Zen Center of New York City, Brooklyn NY
http://www.mro.org/firelotus/residency/
Fire Lotus Zen Center has been picked for the inauguration of Virtual Residency NY-ATHENS. Art As A Statement.
TO BE ANNOUNCED…
“Virtual Residency NY- Athens Greece” deals with the idea of virtual vs. physical space, distance, opportunity as well as the need of a visual artist to be represented and be a part of a physical/ gallery space.
In project “Virtual Residency NY- Athens”. I am creating a 3-month virtual residency. The idea is to take as departure point art spaces in New York to be inspired and create upon . The work created will be posted in my blog (here). The history, use, or artists represented by the space will be used as an inspiration for the work.
The work
The work will be a series of art pieces (all mediums could be used) that will be presented on line (live or edited) every week. The departure and inspirational point for these works are different exhibitions that simultaneously will be taking place in galleries at NYC.
After living in the states for 12 years and coming back to Greece the distance between the two continents seemed enormous and my need for communication and stimulation grew larger and larger.
As a way to bridge the gap I decided to create a virtual residency in which every week I will choose a different art venue to be inspired by and create a work for. In my search for communication and inspiration I am to use the artist statements, or the history, architecture of the spaces chosen in NYC.
Further more, the work that I will create, could be either experienced live, or edited and uploaded on the internet.
Virtual Residency NY- Athens challenges the ideas of time and space, of authority and opportunity by merging the physical and virtual space as well as the two very distant cities.
P.S.
Gagosian gallery will not be represented as it is already represented in Greece.
The work created for this project is by no means a comment on other artist works. It is only an experiment for me to create new work based on the way I perceive other people ideas. I am thankful in advance to them for the inspiration.
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