Author: m1360_grndrnDisplay

Whale Fall

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 3
Whale came to visit me today Whale said, Hey do you have a moment? I didn’t know what to say because I had never been visited by a whale before whale said I’m here to show you how to live and die I’m going to take you to the depths, to the place Where my… Read More »

Desire-gram

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 3
We meet. On a disorienting walk. I notice you immediately.Spiral into you. Looking up at me. There is desire.To spend time. To get to know you. I’m curious.If we could work together. We go back to mine. I lean youagainst the wall. To understand. How best this could be digested.I want to know what you… Read More »

“how the terms ‘mind’ and ‘matter’ are abstractions which in their concreteness are identical”

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 3
https://youtu.be/3ndQPIf-UB8 Buy Digital Track at bandcamp.com Stories as worlds inhabited by things that keep slipping beyond our grasp. Things which lurk at the back of our mind, on the tip of our tongue, just out of reach. Stories with protagonists that can only be known as gaps in being. The spaces they leave. Not here… Read More »

Flow & Flex

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 3
Reimagining forms of relation entailsimagining new genres of experienceSex, or the Unbearable — Laurent Berlant and Lee Edelman Flowing and Flexing are on my mind. When do we flow? When do we flex? When do we harden? When do we let go? When do we stay raw? Ebbing and flowing are on my mind. Change… Read More »

Re-Membering the Self

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 3
LIVE ON ZOOM3:00 p.m CET / 6:00 a.m PST / 6:00 p.m GETmeeting ID: 829 9233 8794passcode: 364986registration and further details:karolina@grandreunion.net There are parts of oneself that are unseen, left behind and forgotten. They come out at night, calling for one’s attention in dreams. If one responds to the call, one can re-member oneself and… Read More »

A Gathering of Ghosts

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 3
LIVE ON ZOOM1:30 p.m CET / 4:30 a.m PST / 4:30 p.m GETmeeting ID: 849 7284 3716passcode: 643431 We live in a haunted world. Our present is imbued with ghosts speaking from both past and future. They are a paradox, an absence, human and other-than-human, that is nevertheless eerily present and influential. They might point… Read More »

CoFestival

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 3
The Grand Re Union team invites all the colleagues, friends and  from partners to join CoFestival program, that this year will happen partly online (in November) and live (in April in Ljubljana). Below you will find more information on the online program, which thematic scope, The Amplifiers of Voice, resonates strongly with the November magazine… Read More »

The Reading Station

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 2
LIVE ON ZOOM Saturday 17 October 20204.00 p.m CET / 7.00 a.m PST/6.00 p.m GETduration: 2,5 hours Agnès Benoit from „books on the move” and Peter Pleyer invite you to a reading and listening room. In the first part they will present and read from books that are meaningful to them, from the past and… Read More »

Sci Fi Anatomy

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 2
LIVE ON ZOOMSaturday 17 October 20202.00 p.m CET/ 5.00 a.m PST / 4.00 p.m GET This workshop focuses on creating a dialogue between the matter of the body and the sea of our thoughts and imagination. Through mouvement,sounds and words. Working with casual epicness, craftsmanship of the body and magic. A guided somatic trip where… Read More »

Letter from Quarto

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 1 Letter
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="1441"][/sonaar_audioplayer] We are in a place of uncertainty. In between or before or after. Not now. Now, more than never. Living the lack of life before the pandemic, absence of meetings with inspiring people, that we hug with our chest. Those that make our world, and with their absence life becomes lonely, desert like… Read More »

Letter from Zsolt

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 1 Letter
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="1662"][/sonaar_audioplayer] Hello dear friends in Grand re Union! A few months have passed since our first meeting in June. I hope this letter finds you in good health both physically and mentally. Unfortunately it was not possible to meet in person in lovely Poznan and even though it was great and quite exciting to… Read More »

Letter from Yuliya

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 1 Letter
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="1443"][/sonaar_audioplayer] PastI am sitting in my apartment in Warsaw and reading the news. The court sentenced to 10 days of arrest the sound engineers who played "Khochu Peremen!"* ("Changes!") by Viktor Tsoi in Kievsky Park and interrupted the pro-Lukashenko concert with this song. It has already become an anthem for change and resistance in… Read More »

Letter from Shira

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 1 Letter
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="1442"][/sonaar_audioplayer] Hello dear, This is a letter from me, Shira, from my home in Jaffa, as I am sitting in front of my computer, in my body. How do you start to describe what has been happening, here, in my thoughts, in my heart, and in Israel/Palestine? I would like to initially share that… Read More »

Letter from Salome

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 1 Letter
Dear Grand re UnionersI am Salome Sordia, independent curator and cultural project manager based in Tbilisi, Georgia. I have more than 10-years-experience, in both visual and performing arts, so basically this is the field I’m so passionate about. However, suddenly I woke up in the reality, where the human existence was totally uncertain and that… Read More »

Letter from Neemias

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 1 Letter
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="1439"][/sonaar_audioplayer] Selfie in quarantine We miss palpable digression.The time of expectations,the flow of afections, sound,saliva, the skin and the smell. Nothing is more permanent than the impermanence of things. At this rate, I am more used to the speed in which the things have changed. I needed to tackle this reality and created spaces… Read More »

Letter from Mariana

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 1 Letter
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="1438"][/sonaar_audioplayer] September 2020 Dear; While fixing one of my face masks (literal translation in colombianism tapabocas: mouth-coverer), I think… it rains again.(...)Well, as I was saying. while fixing one of my tapabocas, I think, with a bit of rage, how ridiculous! I think about having a transparent one, one that could be un-use(full). Better… Read More »

Letter from Katja

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 1 Letter
Minsk, Belarus Wednesday morning, I’ve been falling asleep accompanied by the explosions of noise bombs for three days, there is a constant hum in my ears, there is still no Internet. I am preparing a white dress for me and my friend, fortunately there are fresh flowers at home. It's not far from my house… Read More »

Letter from Inna

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 1 Letter
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="1434"][/sonaar_audioplayer] Belarus. Summer 2020It feels like an eternity… Nobody could have imagined that we would face an even more difficult challenge after the coronavirus. A summer of incredible discoveries, queues, pain, fear, tears, constant inner choices and titanic work to achieve acceptance. This summer, the following words are often heard in our vocabulary: violenceprovocationfalsificationavtozak… Read More »

Letter from Filip

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 1 Letter
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="1417"][/sonaar_audioplayer] Dear friend,Let me start with a memory. I remember writing articles about modern patriotism in high school. I argued with my colleagues that there was a certain attachment to the nation and even a patriotic duty. I defended the idea of attachment to the nation, its culture and traditions. With sadness, and even… Read More »

Letter from Dragana

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 1 Letter
“Perhaps the true society would become BORED WITH DEVELOPMENT,and would out of freedom leave possibilities UNUSED,instead of storming alien stars under a confused compulsion”Theodor W Adorno “Sur l’eau”, in “Minima Moralia” Dear Anna,It is your birthday today. I don’t know which one, but this in your case really doesn’t matter – you are timeless. Stay… Read More »

Letter from Anderson

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 1 Letter
Message from Dandara https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orRZtGJCctk [sonaar_audioplayer albums="1416"][/sonaar_audioplayer] Camaçari, State of Bahia, Brasil My name is Anderson Santana Dantasand in this moment I am a piece of myself in anyone I have ever ‘touched’.I am a body, isolated from others, some sort of a scientific experiment over myself. Going to a shop nowadays it’s some sort of… Read More »

Agency of Silence

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 1
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="1415"][/sonaar_audioplayer] Two choreographers for whom the voice is a crucial medium contemplate silence, its physicality and its political agency. Dialoguing on and deeply listening to the current troubled times, they are examining silence as a physical practice, meticulously weaving polyphonic sensorial compositions of voices and thoughts of generations of artists, thinkers and activists. Questioning… Read More »

Rainbow Letters from Warsaw

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 1
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="1737"][/sonaar_audioplayer] * Choreo-graphics created in texts are based on one simple principle and limitation: they are created only with the characters and symbols available on the keyboard and in Word (offline mode). 14 June 2020 This is://////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// rain. And this is:  _/  \bow. These are:  _|   |      letters This is Erich: from… Read More »

The Art of Listening

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 1
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="1414"][/sonaar_audioplayer] Easy or not so much? Listening seems dead simple, doesn't it? But is it really? Check with some short exercises. Spend one minute experiencing it. I will set our timer. Don't do anything during this time, just listen to the sounds of the world you are in. Your only task is to listen.… Read More »

Chi

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 1
https://youtu.be/pRiwEywTxKs This Chi tutorial is a short introduction to series of movement/breath exercises that articulate the spine, work the muscles, touch all the meridians and will raise your physical energy and your consciousness building strength and vitality. camera/edit: Tori Lawrence (camera/edit) Read More »

Taking emotions seriously

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 1, Public
https://www.youtube.com/embed/DOczXaVyBpk Enemies of democracy have always manipulated feelings. Yet what we need today is a passionate defense of liberal democracy and the liberal order. We also need to embrace the feeling of loss and translate it into something positive and enriching, into a feeling about political community: empathy.  Read More »

In-spiration Ex-piration Co-spiration

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 1, Public
Audio Recording [sonaar_audioplayer albums="1748"][/sonaar_audioplayer] We cannot help but breathing. And still respiration is a movement, a rhythm and a nourishment, that changes with the stories we decide to tell about it.  Inspiration, Expiration, Co-spiration is a somatic lecture, an online class and a choral experience of practicing gas exchange together. Body Industrial Palace by Fritz… Read More »

Wake Up

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 0, Public
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="895"][/sonaar_audioplayer] What is present for you in your thoughts, feelings, sensations? What is the question you are asking yourself these days? Write it down on a piece of paper and browse through a stock of magazines, newspapers, old books, flyers, teabags tags, random slips of papers, chocolate silverware that you already have. Notice what… Read More »

Upwording

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 0, Public
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="782"][/sonaar_audioplayer] Transcript Hello, Good afternoon, morning, evening – wherever you are in the world right now, listening, I  feel excited to be sharing with you my very first Audio Recording of Upwording, created for the launch of the online platform  of the international, intergenerational conference the Grand Re Union.   My name is Rivca… Read More »

Moving the Mirror

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 0, Public
https://youtu.be/1Ut0cjg6u84 Moving the Mirror is an ongoing improvisational performance project initiated by Peter Pleyer in 2016. It brings together dance artists from Warsaw and Berlin and it was performed in Warsaw, Wrocław, Poznań and Berlin. This video – as an alternative to a real meeting – was commissioned especially for The Kick Off Issue of… Read More »

Embracing Complexity

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 0, Public
[sonaar_audioplayer albums="791"][/sonaar_audioplayer] Embracing Complexity introduces the concept of Radical Sociability; a strategy for enacting an intersectional affinity based politics. It is recommended to download the audio file and take a walk with it someplace where you will have little distraction, and hopefully some greenery.  This piece draws on my research and includes many references from contemporary writers. For… Read More »

A New Kind of Wildness

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 0, Public
https://youtu.be/QYK-HrT_Jzg Jack Halberstam, Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University, offered this lecture on The Rite of Spring by Nijinsky and Stravinsky at CounterPulse in June of 2020. Halberstam explores issues at the intersection of queer theory and wildness/modernity. This lecture is related to a chapter in Halberstam’s latest book, forthcoming in October 2020… Read More »

Kick Off

By m1360_grndrnDisplayPosted on Cat Issue 0, Public
https://youtu.be/xiDQLO4Fpwc Dana Caspersen, Alice Sheppard, Bush Hartshorn, Márta Ladjánszki, Marta Keil, Andrew Morrish, Joanna Leśnierowska, Neemias Santana, Nina Martin, Rivca Rubin, Roshana Rubin Mayhew, Iwona Olszowska, Magdalena Przybysz, Mădălina Dan, Agata Siniarska, Romain Bigé, Marine Bikard, Natalia Gorzelańczyk, Michiel Keuper, Ka Rustler, Julia Asperska, Ania Nowak, Hasmik Tangyan, Konrad Kurowski, Marta Harasimowicz, Paweł Sakowicz, Filip… Read More »