Pier Marton’s Student Support Page 2

by Pier Marton | May 5, 2011 | Art, Ego, Film, Human Rights, Politics, Spectacle, Teach

WU students on their way to L.A.!! Some other excerpts:

One-of-a-kind teacher, a genuine mentor, someone who cares about each of his students’ projects…

In my four years there, I was frequently asked to work, but almost never to think. Pier’s classes were the exception. He challenged me not just to work, but to THINK and FEEL in a deeply personal way…

Pier is one of the main reason I can truly say that I enjoyed my four years at Wash U…

A truly fantastic professor…

News & Olds

BREAK THE SURFACE
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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