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Hommage à – Franju – Homage

by Pier Marton | Jun 28, 2014 | Art, Doc, Film, Poet, STL

The Cinema and its Magicians… J’aime les films qui me font rêver mais je n’aime pas qu’on rêve à ma place – I love films that make me dream but I don’t like it when one dreams for me. La peur est à la base de tout – Fear is behind everything. Le fantastique se crée,...

Life as a Concept

by Pier Marton | Mar 13, 2014 | Art, Death, Future Tech, NON, Sci/Nat, Sound, Spectacle

“What we know” from art, science, philosophy: bubbles ready to be poked. Life is not what we think it is; the door is ajar. More on one of my websites. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)...

The Unseen Wins (Here Bacteria)

by Pier Marton | Feb 9, 2014 | Art, Death, Health, Peace, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, Wars, Women

“We try to control microbes, but the unseen world remains victorious.” Lydia-Marié Joubert, Cell Sciences Imaging Facility, Stanford University, California “Antimicrobial resistance is a hot topic, especially since it has become clear that our efforts to eradicate...

Les Nuits de Michaux’s Nights

by Pier Marton | Nov 29, 2013 | Art, Ego, France, Highlights, Humor, Mystery, Peace, Photo, Poet, Sci/Nat, Theater, Time, World

Cioran les avait, les insomnies des longues nuits où Lévinas implorait que “son garde” le laisse tranquille… Cioran had them, the long nights of insomnia when Lévinas would beg “his guard” to let him sleep… ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS FURTHER DOWN ON THIS PAGE Trente...

SLIFF BUZZ ’13 – Some Recommendations

by Pier Marton | Nov 14, 2013 | Afri, Antisemitism, Art, Death, Doc, Eco, France, Future Tech, Games, Human Rights, Humor, Jewish, Media, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Review, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Software, STL, Time, Video, Women, World

Amongst 350 films at the St. Louis International Film Festival, there are of course a great many more… below is a short selection of some seen and some unseen (guesses) films I would recommend. I will post others (after the festival during which I was “kidnapped” by...

Banksy’s October New York Guerilla Fiesta

by Pier Marton | Nov 2, 2013 | Afri, Art, Asia, Care, Death, Education, Food, Galleries, Hispanic, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Media, Mystery, NON, Objects, Peace, Poet, Politics, Racism, Sights, Spectacle, Teach, Text, Time, US, World, Youth

At the edges of the art world and its fetishisation, and banking on it. BETTER OUT THAN IN October 2013 An Artists Residency on the Streets of New York All pictures painted inside, in the studio, will never be as good as those done outside. Paul Cézanne Excerpts from...

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus