D.I.E NOW - ANOTHER POSTER
Tuesday 13 April 2010
Sunday 4 April 2010
Tuesday 16 February 2010
Mai Thai University is delighted to announce the inaugural graduation ceremony of the 'Master of Poetry' Course
The participants will have experienced an intense 48 hours in bars, clubs and other public spaces through out Berlin. The studies include hard drinking, discussions, confessions and experimental writing, and will finally conclude with a ceremony - Each poet will deliver a spoken presentation of their first masterpiece and here after receive a certificate registering their great efforts and new earned talent. The ceremony will be hosted by the established writer and film maker Tim Blue. After the ceremony the students and their friends will be given the chance to celebrate with a shot of Absinthe. We hope to see you there, Professors of Poetry and Members of the Mai Tai University Schedule and other Subjects. (List of Bars and pubs is closed to the broad public.)
12/2/10 21:00 A quick distribution of Pens and Notebooks to the students.
22:00
Title: HeShe – MeMe.
Format: Discussion/Confession.
The student is trying to discover why he chose this specific poet. The student is trying to find the gap between himself and his source of inspiration. Is the poet a tunnel or a creative force? Why is poetry short?
13/2/10
01:00
Title: Words Words Words
Format: Public reading of the chosen sources of inspiration.
The time and the spirit of the poet. The whip or the wave? The sound or the meaning? Emotional intelligence - does it exist, if so what is it? Will the beat hold forever? Is romance for fools or for the heart?
04:00
Title: Words don't come easy to me.
Format: The students experience for the first time free flow poetry.
Playful experimentation with words, rhythms, rhyming, subjects, sounds, darkness, light, communication, prose Vs beat.
7:00
Title: Energy Vs. Dreams.
The Students are meeting in my house for re-evaluation of their study. Sharing notes. Writing notes. Eating baguettes and drinking the last sips of wine.
10:00 Title: Never at night!
The students are sleeping.
17:00 - 20:00
Title: Merde!
Format: Lunch or Supper - Onion Soup and baguettes.
The Students are learning the value of sharing and examine their ability to live in a commune.
20:00
Title: Street life.
Format: Urban traveling. The students are using the german U-bahn to the Kreuzberg area.
21:00
Title: Nature is freedom. Format: Urban wandering.
The students are walking to the park and buy weed to ease their pain as experienced street cats.
22:00 Title:
Second life is real life.
Format: Drinking, smoking, having a chat, a word, a sentence. First glimpse of frustration and inferior complex.
The students are simulating a real life situation as poets.
14/2/10 01:00
Title: Structures and friendship.
Format: Free communication.
The Students are sharing their new words. The Students criticize and acknowledge their first creations.
04:00
Title: Freedom is pain.
Format: Adventure.
The students must decide where to spend their last three hours through a list of public spaces provided by the head of the faculty.
7:00
Title: Winning dreams.
The Students are meeting in my house. Re-evaluating their study. Sharing notes. Brushing up their final words. Eating baguettes and drinking last sips of wine.
10:00
Title: Again, never at night!
The students are sleeping.
17:00 - 20:00
Title: Merde?
The poets awaken to the sound of trumpets - Ceremony day! Lunch or Supper - Onion Soup and baguettes.
The poets are preparing themselves for the big hour with great excitement.
20:00
Title: Street life - who cares?.
The poets are using the german U-bahn to the Kreuzberg area.
21:00
Title: The Ceremony.
Sin bar, Schönleinstr. 6
The poets are mingling with the crowd. Sharing final words with Tim Blue - The presenter.
22:30
Title: One hour later...
The poets are reading their poems to an audience of friends. Distribution of certificates.
00:00
Title: The end.
Format: Drinking.
The poets are drinking one shot of Absinthe.
The poets return to their homes.
Monday 5 October 2009
Friday 17 July 2009
Saturday 20 June 2009
Rules to Live by and Other Phenomena
Rauschenberg's Dogs.
There is a documentary made on Robert Rauschenberg in which he accompanies the director around a new house he has built on the coast. The house stands on four poles above the water. There is a staircase that leads from the shore to the front door.
Rauschenberg tells the director that he really likes his new house, but he can't live there because of his dogs. Every time there is a storm, the dogs bark at the waves and out of fear they jump into the water.
America has a similar approach to its war on Terror.
Last year a Brazilian lawyer who lives in Zurich, complained she was attacked by right wingers who tattooed the initials of their party onto her hip. After a few days it turned out she had invented the whole story.
I'm filing her under this category.
The Glorification of Fighting.
On YouTube there is an interview between David Letterman and Marat Safin (a Russian tennis player who had just won the Australian Open.)
Letterman asks the cause of Marat's victorious turnaround after a string of losses:
Marat - "Lack of Motivation."
Letterman - "So what has changed?"
- "Something changed in my attitude."
- "What?"
- "I started fighting."
The audience cheers.
The Glorification of Peace.
In 1947 The British Empire decided, because of economical problems and fear of civil war, to desert their colonies in the Middle East and India.
Over the next two decades they withdrew from their remaining colonies.
Is it possible that the glorification of Mahatma Ghandi's pacifism comes from an Imperialism which encourages the best way to fight Imperialism is by not fighting?
A Few Facts
When I'm silent there is no hate in me.
When I'm talking my opinions are revealed to me.
I discover who I hate and who I like.
I support my words and my opinions.
I hate people I understand
and people I'm not interested in.
I like people who think different from me
and support my opinions.
The Ridicule in Competition.
Being first is more important than being second.
Last place is a source of shame.
(Although there is a chance that the last place
didn't make any effort.)
Disrespecting Reality.
The news agencies feed off
messengers from all around the world
who send reports short as a twitter.
Each day the newspapers must fill a certain
amount of pages with words based on these reports.
And although the citizens of the world know all of this,
they still believe that reality is
the war in Iraq and the economical crisis!
Random Rules:
- If the poem is too long, make it longer.
If the painting is too colorful, add more color.
If the footage is amateurish, don't edit.
If you're late for an appointment, walk slower.
If the appointment is boring, stay.
- Never judge an artist by his work.
- Don't think while you're talking.
- Never try to express yourself through art.
That's why you have friends.
- Identifying with the pain of others
results from a political opinion.
Or the opposite.
- Whoever advises to accept suffering as part of life
is identifying with the pain of others.
- Don't be fooled by the future
its just the past backwards.
- True art can exist only by
by banishing the word Art.
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