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Ai arakawa

His prsctice combines performance, participation, art historical research and activism woven trough the lens of autobiography.

Bowls of soup with news clipping

Participatory exchange

A state of potentiality embodied in how all the elements of his work might move and change

Itali-Ana

Still trying to find this documentary, if anyone know a link where to watch it or where to buy it please let me know.

#anamendieta #anamendietart #anamendietadocumentary #shegotlove

Amsterdam in winter,

I was very sad during winter, I have actually been sad for over 6 months not like sad all day, Ive had moments of happiness...but at my core I was just sad, I had lost my faith...In the world and myself.

Only plants made sense, only trees were structures that mattered. Buildings made me cry, waiting for the train in the mornings tears would run down my face...I just became a normal state of being, it was at my core, a core of sadness.

I took refuge in the botanic garden in Amsterdam, It made feel understood being surrounded by plants, weren’t asking for explanations from me, they weren’t asking anything. they would stand there and move gracefully. And I could move with them, at them, next to them, close to them, far from them.

yes, they helped me greatly.

#I

Ecuador in Amsterdam Gradens in winter.

Food exhibition, London

Banana story, (they misspelled Guayaquil...)

Raquel Mendieta

You have to be true to the voice within you and not be affected by other people. It’s important to believe in your work.

SUI GÉNERIS

There is this Latin phrase Sui Generis, my mother kept using it referring to things I did when she would speak to others about me. She told me the first time she heard it was from her mother. it means “of its own kind and specie”.

I like the idea that I’m not a human I’m Paula, and not even that, Im something greater and bigger than Paula, I am a mystery. A specie sound like something that want to be defined but it not yet. I like not being defined, and if someone defines me by the definitions of undefined I am happier that a definition defined (static).

SIMON RODRIGUEZ

Caracas, Venezuela. Teaching and politics are his interests. He was Simon Bolivar tutor but was later exiled because he was part of a conspiracy against Spanish rule.

Anti clericalism view - Named his two sons and his daughter Choclo, Zapallo and Zanahoria (corn, squash and carrot).

He developed his own version of a socialist ideology outside the usual influences. In “Sociedades Americanas” (1828)

Calligrams are formal whereas his texts where (mental flow charts)to clarufy and speed understanding. They are visual and textual. He understood erosion of information and wanted to produce a no loss formats. As if he was recreating his thinking process in the readers mind. He also had his own perception on how the work could be perceived he even mentions “This project will seem as exotic, as strange as the orthography in which it is written”.

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