TURBO-FOLK #15

Dogs of War

Missão Cumprida

A cadelinha foi adoptada pela Catarina. Mil obrigados à Ana, à Catarina irmã da Ana, à Pati, ao André e a todos os que se importaram e esforçaram.

Para os que pensam que estas histórias acabam sempre bem, aqui ficam uns quantos endereços com inúmeros casos que ainda estão pendentes, ou seja entre viver e morrer.
É garantido que se se fizer uma boa acção (adoptar um cão ou um gato) tem-se a certeza de perder umas quantas comodidades mas de ganhar uma recompensa incomensurável.

Adopções no Canil Municipal de Lisboa

Adopções na Adopta-me

Adopções na SOS animal

Adopções na adoptapet

Adopções na União Zoófila

Adopções na Anac

e muitos outros aqui

Ajuda urgente

Ajuda urgente

Foi encontrada à porta do meu prédio uma cadela de porte médio/grande bastante jovem muito meiga, andava perdida na zona da Penha de França desde Agosto, obviamente abandonada no tempo das férias. Tinha uma coleira bastante cara mas entretanto roubaram-na, porque o animal é muito sociável e deixa qualquer pessoa fazer festas. De momento vive na rua, debaixo de uma das escadas do prédio e é alimentada por alguns vizinhos que, como já têm outros animais, não a podem levar para casa. Por isso precisa de um tecto rapidamente antes que chegue o Inverno.
Já tem também um perfil em:
http://www.adopta-me.org/animal.php?sid=663c39612f35&area_id=1&sort_order=date

Contacto:
Rute Silva - Tel: 962309658
Pedro - 919942976

La Chinoise

Vietnam burns and me I spurn Mao Mao
Johnson giggles and me I wiggle Mao Mao
Napalm runs and me I gun Mao Mao
Cities die and me I cry Mao Mao
Whores cry and me I sigh Mao Mao
The rice is mad and me a cad
It's the Little Red Book
That makes it all move
Imperialism lays down the law
Revolution is not a party
The A-bomb is a paper tiger
The masses are the real heroes
The Yanks kill and me I read Mao Mao
The jester is king and me I sing Mao Mao
The bombs go off and me I scoff Mao Mao
Girls run and me I follow Mao Mao
The Russians eat and me I dance Mao Mao
I denounce and I renounce Mao Mao
It's the Little Red Book
That makes it all move

"Mao Mao song", La Chinoise,J-L G.

Žižek in a nutshell #6

Two decades ago, the German left-wing weekly journal Stern carried out a rather cruel experiment: it paid money to a couple of destitute homeless people, a man and a woman, who allowed themselves to be thoroughly washed, shaved and then delivered up to top designers and hairdressers. In one of its issues, the journal then published two large parallel photos of each person, first in his or her destitute homeless state, dirty and with unshaved faces, and then dressed up by a top designer. The result was effectively uncanny: although it was clear that we were dealing with the same person, the effect of the different dress etc. was that this belief of ours – that beneath the different appearance, there is one and the same person – was shaken. It was not only the appearance that was different: the deeply disturbing effect of this change of appearances was that we, the spectators, somehow perceived a different personality beneath the appearances. Stern was bombarded with letters from readers, accusing the journal of violating the homeless persons’ dignity, of humiliating them, submitting them to a cruel joke – however, what was undermined by this experiment was precisely the belief in Factor X, in the kernel of identity which accounts for our dignity and persists through the change of appearances. In short, this experiment in a way empirically demonstrated that we all have a “nigger’s head”, that the core of our subjectivity is a void filled in by appearances. Paradoxically liberalism and totalitarianism share the belief in Factor X, the plastic toy in the midst of the human chocolate coating.

in “Conversations with Žižek – Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly”

Žižek in a nutshell #5

Kinder Egg

One of the popular chocolate products on sale all around Central Europe is the so-called Kinder, an empty eggshell made of chocolate and wrapped up in a lively coloured paper: having unwrapped the egg and cracked open the chocolate shell one finds in it a small plastic toy (or small parts from which a toy can be put together). Is this toy not l’object petit a at its purest – the small object filling in the central gap, the hidden treasure in the centre? A child who buys this chocolate egg often nervously unwraps it and just breaks the chocolate, not bothering to eat it, worrying only about the toy in the centre – is such a chocolate-lover not a perfect case of Lacan’s motto ”I love you, but, inexplicably, I love something in you more than yourself, and, therefore, I destroy you?” In other words, the small plastic toy is not simply different from chocolate (the product we bought); while materially different, it fills in the gap in chocolate itself, i.e. it is on the same surface as the chocolate. (In France, it is still possible to buy a desert with the racist name La tête du nègre (the nigger’s head): a ball-like chocolate cake empty in its interior (“like the stupid nigger’s head”) – the Kinder egg fills this void. The lesson of it is that we all have a “nigger’s head”, with a hole in the centre. And this egg provides the formula for all the products which promise more.
The function of this “more” is to fill in the lack of a “less” to compensate for the fact that, by definition, a merchandise never delivers on its (fantasmatic) promise. In other words the ultimate “true” merchandise would be the one that would not need any supplement, the one that would simply fully deliver what it promises – “you get what you paid for neither less nor more”. No wonder, then, that these eggs are now prohibited in the US (…) these eggs display too openly the inherent structure of a commodity.

BREVEMENTE

Off the White + Hunting Scene + Geografias e Tratados
espectáculos inseridos no ciclo de duetos “Shall We Dance IV”,
25 a 30 DE SETEMBRO 2007, 21h30 – Armazém Hospital Miguel Bombarda

CO-PRODUÇÃO TEATRO PRAGA CULTURGEST ESPAÇO DO TEMPO
Duração Aproximada: 2 HORAS C/ INTERVALO - M/12

outras apresentações:
ESPAÇO DO TEMPO (BLACK BOX): 3 E 4 DE OUTUBRO
DEVIR/CAPA (FARO): 16 E 17 NOVEMBRO

Dando seguimento ao ciclo iniciado em 2003, um ciclo que pressupõe um convite de um elemento do Teatro Praga a um criador “de fora”, programámos para 2007 em parceria com a Culturgest, um Shall We Dance que pretende levar mais longe as condições arriscadas que a proposta deixa antever. Três elementos do Teatro Praga voltam a convidar 3 criadores para partilhar, não apenas uma dança simples e descomprometida mas um território que se antevê povoado de escolhas difíceis e onde universos geracionais, linguísticos, intelectuais, culturais, políticos (e por isso artísticos) procuram os passos possíveis (e não os acertados) para três coreografias teatrais.

My Space Teatro Praga

www.myspace.com/teatropraga

Agatha Christie (foto: Ângelo Fernandes)

Žižek in a nutshell #4

Kantian-Sadean ethics vs. Utilitarian anti-autonomy ethics.

The psychoanalytic name for autonomy is death drive. Death drive is not something manipulated by circumstances. Death drive just is this non-functional thrust of our libido, or will, that cannot be explained in objective terms. It means that there is in human beings an aspect of behaviour that persists beyond any instrumental activity towards achieving certain goals (pleasure, reproduction, wealth, power). It’s a kind of self-sabotaging drive. Against the usual inscription of psychoanalysis into the naturalistic determinism framework where the human being is controlled by unconscious desires, I think that paradoxically psychoanalysis is the strongest assertion of autonomy. Death drive is a name for autonomy.

TURBO-FOLK #14

"In the dark times, will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing about the dark times."
Bertolt Brecht

Caspar David Friedrich - Wreck in the Moonlight - c. 1835

Nostalghia

Whoever has created
an abiding friendship
or has won
a true and loving wife,
all who can call at least one soul theirs,
join in our song of praise;
but any who cannot must creep tearfully
away from our circle.

Friedrich von Schiller

Žižek in a nutshell #3

Eyes Wide Shut

Stanley Kubrick’s movie “Eyes Wide Shut”, is an extremely interesting film that concerns precisely the notions of shared enjoyment, theft of enjoyment and the power of fantasy. Many critics reproached the film for its sterility. But I think that, far from being a failure of the film, Kubrick’s genius is that he understands the utter sterility of fantasy. What the film shows is that instead of penetrating into a world of enraptured ecstasies, the deeper you go into fantasies the more fatuous and empty they appear, until towards the end of the film, we have the famous collective orgy that is totally aseptic.
Sexual difference is also crucial here because the two perspectives that Kubrick explores are not symmetrical. At first glance we have a married couple – Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise – and in each of them the fantasy explodes. The authentic fantasy that holds any real meaning – is her fantasy and what he desperately tries to do is to match up to, or resuscitate, something that would be at the level of her fantasy. Ultimately, he fails.
The standard interpretations of the film is that you have a self-complacent married couple who get seduced into fantasizing and then, just before getting lost in the abyss of all-consuming desire, they control themselves and step back. But I think what the film really shows is a traversing of the fantasy through experiencing its stupidity. In this sense, it’s a much more depressing lesson. It’s not that fantasy is a potent abyss of seduction that threatens to swallow you but quite the opposite: that fantasy is ultimately sterile.

TURBO-FOLK #13

Laibach - Life is Life

Žižek in a nutshell #2

Neighbours from Hell

Especially today I claim that all this preaching about tolerance, love for one’s neighbour and so on are ultimately strategies to avoid encountering the neighbour. One of my favourite examples is that of smoking. I am deeply suspicious about all this anti-smoking propaganda. Firstly, I don’t smoke, and I’m not commissioned by any tobacco companies. But I find suspicious (and it’s even medically problematic) the idea of passive smoking where the focus is on how non-smokers are affected. I think that what is really at issue is that there are Others who, through smoking, are enjoying themselves too intensely in a self-destructive way – and this is unbearable. Here I think that you have at its purest the figure of the intrusive neighbour who enjoys him or herself too much.
The whole obsession that we have today with different forms of harassment is simply how to put the neighbour at a proper distance. So, again, here we have the neighbour as Real: a Real which is all too possible, and that is what is traumatic. With the intrusion of this Real, the almost central obsession of our times has become how to maintain a proper distance.

PUBLICIDADE

A crítica de teatro: como gostava que fosse e como é
Por Kalina Stefanova
Culturgest, Lisboa, 7 Setembro, 18h00

That night follows day, de Tim Etchells. Fotografia de Delphine Coterel

Seguindo a estrutura de uma história pessoal, recontando uma busca que por todo o mundo se faz de um ideal de crítica, esta conversa irá, ao mesmo tempo, investigar as diferentes realidades da crítica. Com uma abordagem claramente pessoal e com sinceridade, pretendo inspirá-lo, instigá-lo e estimulá-lo a perseguir o seu próprio sonho sobre o que a crítica devia ser, e torná-lo realidade. Por outras palavras (e num outro nível de comunicação): esta conversa procurará despertar a nossa propensão inata para o idealismo, bem como a sua necessidade – este raro traço humano romântico de que o nosso mundo tão prático está cada vez mais terrivelmente necessitado.

Kalina Stefanova Ph.D. Professora Associada da National Academy of Theatre and Film de Sofia (Bulgária). Crítica e investigadora, foi vice-presidente da Associação Internacional de Críticos de Teatro e é responsável pelos simpósios da Associação. Os seus livros sobre teatro, nas áreas da dramaturgia e políticas culturais, estão editados em quinze países.

Kalina Stefanova apresenta-se a convite do crítico Tiago Bartolomeu Costa no âmbito do 4.º aniversário do blogue O Melhor Anjo (http://www.omelhoranjo.blogspot.com/).

Para mais informações: 95 550 9 550 / 21 790 51 55 / culturgest@cgd.pt

Excerto de Pode a crítica teatral ser pós-dramática?, publicado na OBSCENA – revista de artes performativas #1 ( http://www.revistaobscena.com/revistas/obscena01.pdf)

"Entendo perfeitamente que a grande maioria dos fazedores de teatro se queira libertar das definições críticas porque são geralmente restritivas e simplesmente "sufocantes". Se as definições podem funcionar como fardas, como podemos esperar que um grande encenador se contente em ser apenas "um pós-modernista", quando existem tantos outros que são rotulados dessa mesma forma? As definições, especialmente quando são constituídas apenas por uma ou duas palavras, tendem a ser bastante planas, ou seja, incongruentes em relação à natureza tridimensional do teatro. "

TURBO-FOLK #12

Laibach - geburt einer nation

Žižek in a nutshell #1

The normal role of philosophy

What if there is no normal role? What if it is only exceptions themselves that retroactively create the illusion of the “norm” they allegedly violate? What if not only, in philosophy, is exception the rule, but also philosophy – the need for authentic philosophical thoughts – arises precisely in those moments when (other) parts-constituents of the social edifice cannot play their “proper” role? What if the “proper” space for philosophy consists of these very gaps and interstices opened up by the “pathological” displacement in the “social edifice”?

“Conversations with Žižek – Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly”

TURBO-FOLK #11

Laibach - "Bravo Interview"

TURBO-FOLK #10

jlg - Week End - Action Musicale

TURBO-FOLK #9

What is Turbo-Folk?
by Rambo Amadeus, World Mega Tsar

TURBO-FOLK is people.
Turbo is a system of injecting fuel by pressure into the cylinder of internal-combustion engine.

TURBO-FOLK is burning of people.
Every support of that burning is TURBO-FOLK.
Inflaming basic instincts of Homo sapiens.

I named it.

Alcohol is TURBO-FOLK
Coca Cola is TURBO-FOLK
Grilling on a skewer is TURBO-FOLK
Porn shops are TURBO-FOLK
Nationalism is TURBO-FOLK
Rave is TURBO-FOLK
Ethno Jazz is TURBO-FOLK

Music is favourite of every muse
harmony of all arts
TURBO-FOLK is not music
Cacophony of all tastes and scents.

Folk is people.
Turbo is a system of injecting fuel by pressure into the cylinder of internal-combustion engine.

I haven’t made up TURBO-FOLK
I named it.

Adolf Hitler is TURBO-FOLK
Human organ trafficking is TURBO-FOLK
Criminals are TURBO-FOLK
Marlboro is TURBO-FOLK
Silicones are TURBO-FOLK
Cocaine is TURBO-FOLK
Jeeps with low profile solid wheels are TURBO-FOLK

System of injecting fuel by pressure into the cylinder of internal-combustion engine.

TURBO-FOLK is burning of people.
Every support of that burning is TURBO-FOLK.
Inflaming basic instincts of Homo sapiens.
I haven’t made up TURBO-FOLK
I named it.

Ballot-paper that gives right to every fool to fill it in properly is TURBO-FOLK
Tattoo, piercing and body art is TURBO-FOLK
Car junk yards are TURBO-FOLK
Sex trafficking is TURBO-FOLK
Registrations with small or round numbers is TURBO-FOLK
McDonalds is TURBO-FOLK
Betting shops are TURBO-FOLK
Coffee shops are TURBO-FOLK
Gold and diamonds are TURBO-FOLK
Eurovision is TURBO-FOLK
Hypermarkets are TURBO-FOLK
Stadiums are TURBO-FOLK
Soap operas are TURBO-FOLK
Fashion designers are TURBO-FOLK
Political marketing is TURBO-FOLK

I haven’t made up TURBO-FOLK
I named it.

(Translation: Jelena)


A Protester (Yury Dyashchenko, 50) in Ukraine Setting his Clothing on Fire

TURBO-FOLK #8

National Heroes
LITHUANIA

Romas Kalanta (February 22, 1953 - May 14, 1972) is considered a national hero of Lithuania.

He set himself on fire in a public place in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas on May 14, 1972 in protest of the oppression of the Lithuanian language, culture and people by the government of the Soviet Union.

Kalanta used fuel to set himself alight. Due to the need for secrecy at the time, details of the event are disputed. The common belief is that he and a few of his classmates formed a patriot group, and that they held a lottery to determine which of them would have to carry out the mission.

When the authorities began to realize that Romas Kalanta was now a hero to people all over the Baltics, they sealed off the city of Kaunas. Bus and train traffic was halted into the city. There was no public transportation from Latvia or Estonia.

Before the funeral crowds of people from all through the Baltics who had arrived in Kaunas gathered in front of the Kalanta house. They began to shout, "Where is Romas?" When they heard what had happened, their anger and frustration began to grow. They linked arms and headed for police headquarters. Soon the militia appeared with their whips and clubs.

The demonstrations continued for several days not only in Kaunas and other Lithuanian cities, as well as in the other Baltic countries. Other people set themselves on fire.

TURBO-FOLK #7

Uma caixa, um adereço... na Roménia... um cenário

(foto de um amigo meu..Traian)

TURBO-FOLK #6

3 PEOPLE PAID TO LAY STILL INSIDE 3 BOXES DURING A PARTY
by SANTIAGO SIERRA

Vedado. Havana, Cuba / November 2000

Three young women were hired and paid $30 each to remain inside a wooden box during a party. The party was organized without explaining the contents of the boxes to the guests who used them as seats. The party took place during the celebration of that year’s Havana Biennial.

TURBO-FOLK #5

"They don't realize that we're bringing them the plague"

(Freud to Jung, pointing to the Statue of Liberty upon arrival in New York Harbour)

TURBO-FOLK #4