Haciendo honor al ridiculo

El articulo "EL OTRO MUNDIAL…" (A las puertas de Alemania 2006) de Sergio Ferrari desde Suiza publicado en El Nuevo Amanecer Cultural del sabado 27 de mayo pasado its just another brick on the wall. Los editores del NAC, con su absoluta capacidad de quejarse de hasta el color de las sombras y todavia encontrar una explicación que culpe al neoliberalismo de tantas calamidades, tira sus morteros contra el Mundial Alemania 2006, quejandose basicamente por... por... por moda pues porque ya que se aburrieron de alabar a Chavez, Evo & Castro. Ahora se las lanzan de criticos totales de cualquier cosa que lleve dolares encima. El mentado articulo revela la cruel y, para ellos solamente, ignorada realidad comercial y mercantilista que rodea al mundial... que las figuritas del Album Panini, que los mega-prostibulos, que la cotizaciones de los jugadores se infla, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, y blah... El NAC deberia preocuparse por noticias alemanas de mucho más nivel como la reciente Bienal de Artes de Berlin, el pasado Berlinale en que estuvo participando la videasta nicaraguense Consuelo Mora, el nuevo museo automotriz de la Mercedez Benz (una pieza arquitectonica de vanguardia), etc. Pero de todo esto en el el NAC no tienen la más minima idea. El Nuevo Amanecer debe morir! Jubilad a Luis Rocha! Exiliad a JVC! El suplemento esta caduco, muerto, ausente de guia y brujula, ignorante de las nuevas realidades poetiArtistiCinematoGraficas; y ojala solo fuera de Nicaragua, sino del orbe mundial! Jubiladle! Las turbas lo piden! Jubiladle! PS: No se molesten en publicar otro cuadro de Peñalba por favor, ese rebane ya lo usaron una vez.

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John Cage's Long Music Composition in Germany Changes a Note

Desde el año 2000 se ejecuta en una iglesia alemana una pieza de John Cage titulada "As slow as possible", que tiene un tiempo de ejecución de 639 años. Si, esta dispuesta a durar 639 años. Pueden oir un fragmento aquí, o leer la reseña del NYTimes.com, duplicada en esta misma página. Para los que conocen de John Cage, pueden bajar este video con una presentación de su obra más conocida, 4':33''

HALBERSTADT, Germany, May 5 — "Three, two, one, out!" With those words, two organ pipes were lifted from their position on Friday. Like a sudden change in light, the chord that had been continuously sounding inside an ancient church here shifted, growing thinner and higher. It was another milestone — well, inchstone — in the performance of "Organ2/ASLSP," a version of the John Cage composition titled "As Slow as Possible." And slow means slow. The piece, which began on Sept. 5, 2001, is not scheduled to end until 2640. But there will probably be a break after the first movement, which lasts a mere 71 years. On a beautiful spring day, more than 100 people gathered inside St. Burchardi Church in what has become something of a ritual every year or so, when a chord changes. They snapped pictures and held tape recorders as a local government official, Rainer Robra, and a German composer, Peter Schnebel, grasped the pipes, which were sounding octave E's, and lifted them out of the organ frame at 3:49 p.m. People applauded. Mr. Robra bowed, then posed with his pipe. Meanwhile, an electric bellows continued to pump air into the organ. Small bags of sand held down the organ's three keys, which controlled four other pipes. They continued to sound, filling the space inside the church's bare ruined walls with a sound somewhere between a hum and a squeal. The next chord change will come on July 5, 2008. (Until then, for those interested, the chord consists of G sharp, F sharp, C and A, in descending order.) All changes occur on the fifth day of the month, in honor of Cage's birthday, Sept. 5. Pipes will be added or subtracted as needed, although some of the project's backers dream about building a whole organ one day. "We love the event because it's so brilliantly funny," said Jens Frohling, 38, a bank employee who had come from Frankfurt to this town about 110 miles southwest of Berlin. He said government officials had been trying, without great success, to draw visitors to eastern Germany. "So why not this?" he said. "I think it worked." Hans-Georg Busch, a former mayor who said he planned to run again next year, was also on hand. He said he was not enamored of Cage's music, but he thought the performance exciting all the same. "It's avant-garde," he said. The performance is in keeping with Cage's efforts to explore the boundaries of performance and how music exists in time and space. The change of notes prompted philosophical musings among some listeners, many of whom lingered for more than an hour after the chord change. "It brought back the idea about time, and how time's changed," said Frank Edelkraut, 47, of Hamburg. Others compared it to cathedral-building. "It's sort of like in the Middle Ages, when the people building the foundations of those really big churches knew they would not be able to finish the church," said Werner Kuhlemann, 53, of Hildesheim, a town about an hour away by car. The chord change was accompanied by a slate of cultural activities. Officials held a news conference to inaugurate the John Cage Academy, a center for new music that will be housed in a building next door within the former Cistercian monastery. A photography exhibit was held there, followed by a concert of Mr. Schnebel's music later in the evening at the cathedral. The academy's first event is a symposium, likely to take place in 2008, with the subject, appropriately, the nature of time. Money for the project and the academy is tight. The government declined to provide funds, and the organizers depend on small contributions. Plaques inside the church honor those who have sponsored a performance year. An anonymous donor dedicated the first, 2000, to Johann Sebastian Bach. Henning and Inger Bergenholtz went for 2024, which will be the year of their 50th wedding anniversary. Halberstadt, a once-thriving town that was flattened in World War II and left to molder under the East German authorities, is struggling to bounce back from economic woes unification has brought on the east. Restoration money has poured in. The area also has a problem with skinheads. Yet like many German towns, Halberstadt takes its culture seriously. The municipal theater puts on more than 500 opera, symphony, theatrical and dance performances a year. The town has a magnificent cathedral, with a concert series, and a handful of museums, including one dedicated to Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, an 18th-century poet and minor Enlightenment figure who lived here. After Friday, John Cage, who was influential on Germany's postwar music scene, appeared to be more firmly in the club. Along with the church, Halberstadt also provided the piece's duration. The cathedral was said to have had the first organ with a modern keyboard arrangement, built in 1361. That year subtracted from 2000 yields 639, the number of years of the Cage performance.

Paty Belli nos invita...

From: espira. espora Mailed-By: gmail.com Date: May 8, 2006 11:39 AM Subject: HOY, inauguración Plan Pirámide

Amigos, les esperamos hoy a las 7:00 pm en Galería Códice, para inaugurar el Plan Pirámide, comienzo de La ESPORA con la conferencia del artista costarricense Joaquín Rodríguez del Paso, acerca de su trabajo. Los esperamos, Patricia Belli La ESPORA

Arte Ilegal

Descubrimos ELASTICO y de ahi sacamos...

Illegal-Art es una organización que se dedica a recoger ejemplos de obras de artes de todas las disciplinas que desafían las convenciones vigentes de las leyes de la propiedad intelectual, o que han sido objeto de procesos judiciales por vulnerar derechos de autor. Impulsada por la revista Stay Free!, una publicación que analiza críticamente la comercialización de la cultura de masas, hasta ahora han realizado diversas exposiciones y editado CDs y DVDs que recopilan obras musicales y audiovisuales. Su trabajo es una evidencia de que en la era del reciclaje y el "corta y pega", el derecho a la crítica, la parodia y la libertad de expresión se reprime fácilmente por las exigencias de unas macrocorporaciones de la cultura que utilizan en su provecho el actual marco restrictivo.

Por una Esperanza de Vida

Invitamos a visitar www.marcaacme.com/patricia para conocer el caso de Patricia Garay, y de como pueden ayudar a su causa.

Estimados amigos, muchas gracias por su valiosa colaboracion. En estos momentos estoy enviando el volante digital en formato Jpeg de nuestra campaña "Esperanza de Vida". Les comunico que el proximo 13 de mayo, en la iglesia la Conccepción del Barrio Salomón Moreno, estaremos realizando un concierto a beneficio de la causa, invitamos a los artistas aficionados y profesionales a sumarse a aportar su talento artístico, pueden contactarse conmigo al 289-5331 / 640-5995 o a este correo para incluirlo en el programa. También le invitamos al concierto que realizaremos en la Escuela de Danza el 30 de Junio del 2006, estarán lo mejor del arte nacional, esto será desde las 4 de la tarde. De cualquier manera, pueden leer los datos de la campaña que aparecen en el volante. Saludes, Hermanos. Atte. Rodolfo López Coordinador "Por una Esperanza de Vida" esperanzadevidasos@yahoo.com .mx

MADC DEAD

From: jorgealband@yahoo.com To: Rodrigo Peñalba Date: May 1, 2006 9:40 AM Subject: Re: Articulo Novena Bienal de la Habana

Ahh y por si no te habia llegado aun al santo, y a manera de EL IMPERIO CONTRAATACA, para todos los que quedaron fuera de Inquieta Imagen.... !Se vuelan el Museo de Arte y Diseño COntemporaneo! Efectivamente el entrante presidente de la Republica, premio nobel de la paz y Terminator TLC Oscar Arias ya dijo que pasa la casa presidencial o poder ejecutivo a las instalaciones del CENAC... donde esta el MADC, dos teatros, un anfiteatro, dos espacios experimentales y hasta el MInisterio de Cultura..... Cual ministerio de cultura? DIcen las LENGUAS LAMPIÑAS que el ministrio tambien se va... lo quieren fundir con el de Educacion (en un par de semanas involucionamos 40 años en politicas culturales! Vamos a ver si los del sector cultural nos ponemos los pantalones o como de costumbre, nos enfrascamos en rencillas internas mientras nos privatizan hasta la manera de andar.... JADe

Vean misiva de Ernesto Salmeron sobre el mismo caso. Lea reseña de Jorge Alban sobre la IX Bienal de la Habana.