http://squarewhiteworld.com work pieces by simon taylor Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:54:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Walking into the rehearsal room, possibly with a script in hand, possibly not, flanked by a small group of actors, we are struck - if the room is a familiar one and not itself a complete surprise - by how much is already there, although invisible. The room is not ... http://squarewhiteworld.com/2008/11/20/draft-proposal-for-a-dissertation-on-deleuze-and-theatre/ A final note: a modernist poetics has haunted these thoughts on “Digital Maoism” and limited its responsibility to complete clarity. Plaguology is of the same coinage as the poetics of a “terrible beauty.” The latter need not only describe the beauty of terror. It is indeed in excess. It might ... http://squarewhiteworld.com/2008/11/18/terror-capital-representation-theatre-and-the-image-of-thought-and-the-theatre-of-thought-towards-a-thought-of-theatre-a-thinking-theatre/ http://squarewhiteworld.com/2008/11/17/two-superboys-in-a-burnt-anz/ there are no names. This is the language that does not belong. + it is the language of my not-belonging. The current problem would be and I am putting here to start thinking it through: without a clinical practice (the idea of small theatre group called T-Cell might remain but there ... http://squarewhiteworld.com/2008/11/17/no-names-2/ - Arthur Boyd in the early 1970s http://squarewhiteworld.com/2008/11/16/a-photo-of-arthur-boyd-because-im-thinking-of-bendalong/ I was reading Norman Manea's A Hooligan's Return, about the exiled writer's return to Romania. His book On Clowns remains my favourite. In fact, I quoted from it extensively in a letter advocating state patronage of the arts to Helen Clark in her first term as Prime Minister, in 1999. ... http://squarewhiteworld.com/2008/11/14/corps-de-crise-curs-de-cris-cours-de-coeurs-de-cris-notes-fragments-of-simon-taylor/ In the 1920s, youth were a rising force throughout Europe. Besides, according to Klaus Mann, "the European generation that had grown up during the First World War" was highly sensitive to the existing "moral and social crisis," the general crisis of European values. The war and the national revolutions it ... http://squarewhiteworld.com/2008/11/13/the-major-death-of-minor-literatures-cioran-eliade-the-setters-killers-of-trends-leap-frogging-world-wars-genealogies-of-vitalism-irrationalism-nietzscheanism/ NATIONAL: 2008: Arts, Culture & Heritage Policy by Christopher Finlayson, Arts, Culture and Heritage 15 July 2008 ARTS, CULTURE & HERITAGE ENCOURAGING THE ARTS – ENCOURAGING OUR ARTISTS - Was Weist der Aisel von Mord, Attila Richard Lukacs, 1988 National values arts, culture, and heritage. We value them equally. We value the one - or do ... http://squarewhiteworld.com/2008/11/12/nationals-arts-policy-we-are-the-jelly-you-are-emerging-with-some-paintings-by-attila-richard-lukacs-by-way-of-illustration/ - cover art for eponymously titled album, flipside http://squarewhiteworld.com/2008/11/10/new-folk-jess-chambers-the-firefly-orcestra/ There's something to be said for a country of approximately 4 million people who want to hold a national election as if it were a US presidential race - to which at times it actually referred. Prime Minister Helen Clark in her concession speech played the 'gracious in defeat' role ... http://squarewhiteworld.com/2008/11/09/clear-cut-for-key-says-sandra-lee-victory-in-parnell-for-jk/