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- If, due to the prison-like conditions, we think of Palestine as a self-contained civilisation, what Israel is doing is starting to look increasingly like genocide...
- May I humbly request that everyone suspends Facebook kitsch until Israel stops blowing the shit out of Palestinian children please? I know it's a lot to ask, but the power of social media has already ensured that the u.k. and u.s. governments have been unable to suppress the truth about what is happening there (also mega-kudos to jon snow and channel 4!). As a result, the nascent e-democracy that is nipping at the heels of our pathetic excuse for 'government by the people', if fully engaged with, might actually bring about a popular rebuttal of the traditional propaganda that portrays Palestine as a 'terrorist state'.
- Alex and axel
- 4 lucky peeps off to France! They have internets there so it will be ok
- the conspiracy theorist in me is suspicious that the BBC homepage is still down...
- Insert cash or select your payment type. #fuckyoutesco
- Please place the item in the bagging area. Unexpected item. #fuckyoutesco
- Might go down the park for some Diablo #festivalfun
- This man is mad? Hmmm...
- I saw this and I thought of you...
- cheryl cole got married on 7/7 #disgusted
- Curious...
- I see Benjamin Button is coaching Argentina.
- The World Cup final is on television. BBC AND ITV. Bit selfish.
- Say something about this...
- I'm in London with penny, and @Thunnnderbird you were right, it IS a bith! http://t.co/uWsZSOqNLj
- Orange has been my favourite thus far, but that might be a context thing http://t.co/REPNX6ZrTO
- Some of the pieces are a tad overripe, but this is a social paradigm of reduced to clear, I would argue. http://t.co/rPCwL9w5cx
- Penny, me, a train to @london and two reduced @m&s fruit salads: one melon, one tropical blend. BOSH! http://t.co/sn5dDJ7zDW
- Two interesting articles... http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/can-anyone-really-own-their-culture-587
- Big love to Peter Guy and his writing team, from Oscar Wilde circa 1891: Let us [...] return to the question of popular control in the matter of Art, by which I mean Public Opinion dictating to the artist the form which he is to use, the mode in which he is to use it, and the materials with which he is to work. I have pointed out that the arts which have escaped best in England are the arts in which the public have not been interested. They are, however, interested in the drama, and as a certain advance has been made in the drama within the last ten or fifteen years, it is important to point out that this advance is entirely due to a few individual artists refusing to accept the popular want of taste as their standard, and refusing to regard Art as a mere matter of demand and supply. With his marvellous and vivid personality, with a style that has really a true colour-element in it, with his extraordinary power, not over mere mimicry, but over imaginative and intellectual creation, Mr. Irving, had his sole object been to give the public what they wanted, could have produced the commonest plays in the commonest manner, and made as much success and money as a man could possibly desire. But his object was not that. His object was to realise his own perfection as an artist, under certain conditions, and in certain forms of Art. At first he appealed to the few: now he has educated the many. He has created in the public both taste and temperament. The public appreciate his artistic success immensely. I often wonder, however, whether the public understand that that success is entirely due to the fact that he did not accept their standard, but realised his own. With their standard the Lyceum would have been a sort of second-rate booth, as some of the popular theatres in London are at present. Whether they understand it or not, the fact, however, remains, that taste and temperament have to a certain extent been created in the public, and that the public are capable of developing these qualities. The problem then is, Why do not the public become more civilised? They have the capacity. What stops them? The thing that stops them, it must be said again, is their desire to exercise authority over the artist and over works of art. To certain theatres, such as the Lyceum and the Haymarket, the public seem to come in a proper mood. In both of these theatres there have been individual artists, who have succeeded in creating in their audiences - and every theatre in London has its own audience - the temperament to which Art appeals. And what is that temperament? It is the temperament of receptivity. That is all. If a man approaches a work of art with any desire to exercise authority over it and the artist, he approaches it in such a spirit that he cannot receive any artistic impression from it at all. The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. The spectator is to be receptive. He is to be the violin on which the master is to play. And the more completely he can suppress his own silly views, his own foolish prejudices, his own absurd ideas of what Art should be or should not be, the more likely he is to understand and appreciate the work of art in question. This is, of course, quite obvious in the case of the vulgar theatre-going public of English men and women. But it is equally true of what are called educated people. For an educated person's ideas of Art are drawn naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful by being what Art has never been; and to measure it by the standard of the past is to measure it by a standard on the rejection of which its real perfection depends. A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art. And true as this is in the case of the appreciation of sculpture and painting, it is still more true of the appreciation of such arts as the drama. For a picture and a statue are not at war with Time. They take no count of its succession. In one moment their unity may be apprehended. In the case of literature it is different. Time must be traversed before the unity of effect is realised. And so, in the drama, there may occur in the first act of the play something whose real artistic value may not be evident to the spectator till the third or fourth act is reached. Is the silly fellow to get angry and call out, and disturb the play, and annoy the artists ? No. The honest man is to sit quietly, and know the delightful emotions of wonder, curiosity, and suspense. He is not to go to the play to lose a vulgar temper. He is to go to the play to realise an artistic temperament. He is to go to the play to gain an artistic temperament. He is not the arbiter of the work of art. He is one who is admitted to contemplate the work of art, and, if the work be fine, to forget in its contemplation all the egotism that mars him - the egotism of his ignorance, or the egotism of his information. This point about the drama is hardly, I think, sufficiently recognised. I can quite understand that were Macbeth produced for the first time before a modern London audience, many of the people present would strongly and vigorously object to the introduction of the witches in the first act, with their grotesque phrases and their ridiculous words. But when the play is over one realises that the laughter of the witches in Macbeth is as terrible as the laughter of madness in Lear, more terrible than the laughter of Iago in the tragedy of the Moor. No spectator of art needs a more perfect mood of receptivity than the spectator of a play. The moment he seeks to exercise authority he becomes the avowed enemy of Art and of himself. Art does not mind. It is he who suffers.
- clever chaps
- fuck yeah chomsk!
- i share this...
- Good to see Geoffrey from rainbow is performing again
- A broken and empty frame: is this our biennial? YOU decide
- And thanks to @Ellis_Samizdat for putting his heart and soul into making sure everyone has a good time!
- Big shout out to harlequin dynamite you rocked it in a good way x @Biennial
- Finally seen someone wearing a straw hat! The artist's choice
- With some exceptions
- I would climb over every one of these people to escape in the event of a fire
- Very good response to the 'pop' set from harlequins
- Harlequin dynamite did an excellent arty music thing with lights forgot to take a picture tho
- This needs a Tracey emin to really kick it into KENYA BISH
- We're like cholesterol filling up the artery here @CampandFurnace . Eventually the art world MUST have a heart attack
- It's really hard to tell who is an artist nowadays
- Excellent, some hipsters have arrived, no beards but still sporting the fisherman look. Fisher sooner
- I'm getting some tweet self-consciousness, will try to overcome it
- Bit shit so far.
- Just walked past solitary beard saying 'SOOO abstract'
- There is a disco in the back room BOSH
- We are deffo over beard now, hardly any in evidence tonight and this MEANS
- Hi there just checking in live from @Biennial first pint: warsteiner, not bad, plastic glass, pleasant service BOSH
- Laugh yourself welsh! http://youtu.be/dqTznu59InY
- This is scary, get it sorted!
- Basic semiotic analysis: pads anyone? And that last tagline? Nonsensical! I love it
- berger knows…shattered dreams - a still from ‘ways of seeing’ episode 4.
- Like if you hate this!
- Hey there! Anyone who has been sat at a computer for more than 2 hours already today, give yourself a break and go outside, it's lovely! Share if you love THIs!!!!!
- When I was younger I watched Rolf Harris on telly. Now I just feel violated. All that time I thought he was a nice man. Who do I complain to?
- I just found out that, not only have Facebook been manipulating our emotions, but that ALL MEDIA HAVE BEEN MANIPULATING OUR EMOTIONS FOR THE WHOLE OF HISTORY! Film, books, music, telly, newspapers... What are we to do about this awful secret truth?!
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- Insert cash or select your payment type. #fuckyoutesco
- Please place the item in the bagging area. Unexpected item. #fuckyoutesco
- Might go down the park for some Diablo #festivalfun
- Curious...
- I see Benjamin Button is coaching Argentina.
- The World Cup final is on television. BBC AND ITV. Bit selfish.
- I'm in London with penny, and @Thunnnderbird you were right, it IS a bith! http://t.co/uWsZSOqNLj
- Orange has been my favourite thus far, but that might be a context thing http://t.co/REPNX6ZrTO
- Some of the pieces are a tad overripe, but this is a social paradigm of reduced to clear, I would argue. http://t.co/rPCwL9w5cx
- Penny, me, a train to @london and two reduced @m&s fruit salads: one melon, one tropical blend. BOSH! http://t.co/sn5dDJ7zDW
- And thanks to @Ellis_Samizdat for putting his heart and soul into making sure everyone has a good time!
- Big shout out to harlequin dynamite you rocked it in a good way x @Biennial
- Finally seen someone wearing a straw hat! The artist's choice
- With some exceptions
- I would climb over every one of these people to escape in the event of a fire
- Very good response to the 'pop' set from harlequins
- Harlequin dynamite did an excellent arty music thing with lights forgot to take a picture tho
- This needs a Tracey emin to really kick it into KENYA BISH
- We're like cholesterol filling up the artery here @CampandFurnace . Eventually the art world MUST have a heart attack
- It's really hard to tell who is an artist nowadays
