BRUJA

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[in-love-with-movies]

Scream 4 (2011)

[mercutihoe]

I’m

[vivienvalentino]

This is what plays in my head every minute of every day.

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

I don’t think any piece of art has ever emotionally affected me the way this robot arm piece has affected me. It’s called “Can’t Help Myself” and it’s a robot arm that’s programmed to clean up the fluid that’s constantly leaking out of itself, that looked like a never ending flow of blood. It has programmed dance moves to make it appear to have human gestures. And at first, it seemed happy and proud of its job, dancing around when it had visitors. But three years later, it looks tired, hopeless, and like it’s living in a never ending cycle of constantly trying to put itself back together for the entertainment of other people. And when I found out that it had finally stopped working in 2019, essentially dying, I couldn’t help but imagine the relief it must’ve felt and so I’ve been in here crying over a robot arm. 🥺 It was programmed this way, it truly couldn’t help itself. And no one ever helped him, they just watched.

[goohlish]

In this work commissioned for the Guggenheim Museum, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu employ an industrial robot, visual-recognition sensors, and software systems to examine our increasingly automated global reality, one in which territories are controlled mechanically and the relationship between people and machines is rapidly changing. Placed behind clear acrylic walls, their robot has one specific duty, to contain a viscous, deep-red liquid within a predetermined area. When the sensors detect that the fluid has strayed too far, the arm frenetically shovels it back into place, leaving smudges on the ground and splashes on the surrounding walls.

Sun Yuan & Peng Yu are known for using dark humor to address contentious topics, and the robot’s endless, repetitive dance presents an absurd, Sisyphean view of contemporary issues surrounding migration and sovereignty. However, the bloodstain-like marks that accumulate around it evoke the violence that results from surveilling and guarding border zones. Such visceral associations call attention to the consequences of authoritarianism guided by certain political agendas that seek to draw more borders between places and cultures and to the increasing use of technology to monitor our environment.

[gaycop]

this really is one of my favorite modern art pieces and you cannot do it justice without a video. the speed and manner in which it moves is captivating

[filmnoirsbian]

There's a labyrinth. In the middle of it, a minotaur is making waffles.

[butchniqabi]

Minotaur in his kitchen

[tentacion2099]

[perfect-cecilos]

Some of these Night Vale tweets get deep and I love them for that

[lydiadeetzharborside-deactivate]

[pangur-and-grim]

The Two-Headed Calf, Laura Gilpin // The Kitten, Mary Oliver // Wild Geese, Mary Oliver

the Poetry Animal enamel pins are now live at greerstothers.shop

these are all dear to my heart, and I’m probably going to get emotional wearing them around like little poetry amulets

[prairie-boy-deactivated20230616]

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[unexplainedthings]

[hotdogmexicano]

[saccharinescorpion]

i’m still like shaking like a Chihuahua (but in a good way!!) thinking about Nope. the whitewashing of history. the exploitation of the disenfranchised in the entertainment industry. the commodification of violence in America. One-Eyed, One-Horned, Flying Purple People Eater

[eternalsatan-deactivated2021121]

NIKOLAY TOLMACHEV

[joanofarchetype]

“Let us put it generally: if a regime is immoral, its citizens are free from all obligations to it.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago.

[Pictured: Captain Pia Klemp sitting in a chair beside her controls.

@VivianAngrisani on Twitter wrote on 6/8/2019: “Pia Klemp, a German biologist & boat captain faces 20 yrs in prison for rescuing 1,000+ migrants at risk of drowning whilst crossing the Mediterranean. Seeking asylum is a human right. Only 1 in 100 sea captains are female. This woman is a humanitarian, not a criminal. #FreePia”

@Galactic_Rabbit quote-tweeted on 6/10/2019 and wrote: “Thinking about all those videos of people honored in their old age for hiding/protecting Jewish people.”]

[joanofarchetype]

To all the people commenting that she’s an accessory to “illegal immigration,” note that seeking asylum is a human right. Countries which refuse asylum are in violation of the Geneva Convention. They get away with this and propagandize complacency towards the victims by using bureaucracy to complicate immigration proceedings. During times of genocide, this is tantamount to hearing a would-be murder victim knocking on your door and locking the deadbolt.

People who risk dying getting smuggled across borders do so out of sheer desperation because the situation they’re leaving is worse. Finally, you are missing the entire point: violation of the law is warranted when the laws violate human rights and criminalize existence. Laws which call immigrants “illegal” are tools of a systemic negligence designed to condemn those who need legal protection the most.

[joanofarchetype]

Oh and here’s the petition to #FreePia.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Hiding Jewish people or smuggling them out of Germany was illegal too.

[pinejaysong]

as of 10 february 2023, the petition is still just short of its goal of 500k signatures.

[leahgardner-art]

2022, oil on cradled wood panel

[accessible-art]

[ID: A painting of four midsized lit white candles atop a table or shelf. The candles are all warped by the heat and are in various stages of melting, with a puddle of melted wax having formed beneath them. The painting has visible brushstrokes. End ID.]

[ryebreadgf]

i love ibuprofen but i dream of the days of the opium soaked tampon

[leahgardner-art]

Important places to be 🍗