entire universe in the spaces in between [y]our toes : the silence of blood and bones
Writing
Utopia Now Not Utopian Ideology
NOW IS THE TIME YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR. BE THE LOVE. YOU ARE AWAKE. YOU ARE LOVE.
check my eyes
check my eyes for signs of life write my words
Eastbourne Yoga Show 2016
The Unfinished Dream at Eastbourne Yoga Show, Saturday 11th June 2016.
The Unfinished Dream
The Unfinished Dream is an experimental writing collection, an artist book, a short film and a performance. It began as an experiment in applying Ernst Bloch’s utopian theory to creative writing practice, inspired by the text works of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
Ernst Bloch’s Teleological Paradox
Ernst Bloch’s Teleological Paradox: The temporal tension in Bloch’s utopian philosophy There is a tension in Ernst Bloch’s utopian philosophy between the ideas of the ‘Not-Yet’ and the ‘Totality’, which many critics have explored. Throughout his body of literature, which documents his development of a utopian philosophy spanning the twentieth century (from Geist der Utopie … Continue reading Ernst Bloch’s Teleological Paradox
Writing Utopia Now
Largely unacknowledged by both the worlds of mainstream media and academia (the media is addicted to perpetuating the crisis of fear, while academia is addicted to the logic of impossibility) a spiritual [r]evolution in awakening consciousness is happening all over the world - perhaps on an unprecedented scale. Mainstream media tends to operate at a … Continue reading Writing Utopia Now
Border : Crossing
[Notes from a Drawn to the Page workshop at The Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, on my first encounter with Sweatopia (The Cry of the Gland II) by Jitish Kallat, 2010] dense matting of human piled up motor vehicles abstracted body parts scattered words on a barbed wire fence the sweat of my bones breaking out of my … Continue reading Border : Crossing
Androgynous Economies of Narrative Form and Structure
Ursula Le Guin’s 1969 novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, experiments with form and structure in ways that directly reflect the ideas embodied within the novel’s content. In form, structure and content, The Left Hand of Darkness experiments with the harmonious union of opposites, including perceived gender differences and the relationships between fact and fiction, truth and myth, reality and story.
Photographing a Ghost
How many frames in a five-second film? Forty-five in 1894: that’s nine frames per second. Each moment captured one-ninth of a second’s presence and the sneeze from beginning to end lasted five seconds. In the film, I see the sneeze sneezing before my very eyes. A phantasmagoria – this ghost from the past: a man long dead who lives on in his eternal sneeze.
Sally-Shakti Willow 