31.7.11

para Ch.

este post se lo dedico a el ch. cuánto lo siento... mis mejores deseos para tí. Habrá un día que volvamos a correr juntos.

hay partes de mí más frías que otras

me gusta hablarle a mi perrito. He is quite awesome! I missed him.

la mejor hora, el desayuno.

i love my friends. so excited to share all my life with them.

"de chiquita me gustaba comerme arañas" #cute

una palabra, una bicicleta y un pepino---> tres GRANDES historias

peace,

30.7.11

Danzón No. 2

- - - - - - - > Danzón no.2

Danzón No. 2 from Guillermo Ortiz Pichardo on Vimeo.



en pequeñas Diosidencias

a días de terminar el libro! casi me caigo de la emoción.


amanecí supersticiosa

mi panza y su yakult :/ 


una muerte repentina. el renacer cotidiano.


en una conversación: -Qué extrañarás de México? -Todos los aguacatitos! #nostalguacate


aprender de otras experiencias ajenas #deli


en una nariz fría


beso, sueño y lloro con los ojos cerrados.


con muchas ganas de ir a la playa! Calorcito!


desperté siendo la misma #fun


no ovular, mi tristeza más triste. pastillitas!


L̸u̸n̸e̸s̸ M̸a̸r̸t̸e̸s̸ M̸i̸ér̸c̸o̸l̸e̸s̸ J̸u̸e̸v̸e̸s̸ Viernes... Gracias a Dios !!!


tararea,

life is simple

thank you to my sweet friend c. I admire your passion! it is my very pleasure sharing life's bites.




la notte

la notte
Michelangelo Antonioni
1961

29.7.11

the unseen sea

thank you c. for this gift!

between the sky and Earth, so damn lucky!

The Unseen Sea from Simon Christen on Vimeo.

26.7.11

me dejaré llevar por el silencio

Me dejaré llevar por el silencio
Bernardo Quintana


Mantra de Sanación

Un Bonsai

gracias A por este hermosísimo regalo! Ahora me acompañará todas las mañanas!
Si algún día vuelvo espero vivir aquí.



New York, New York

Thank you my beautiful n for this gift.

I love you and I will miss u.

New York
Cat Power

DF -> NYC

in a new york state of mind...


Rothko Chapel

Alucinante!

"silence is so accurate"
-M.Rothko



yo sólo soy una perspectiva de vida

hoy amanecí sumamente agradecida

tragando luz

dos personas desconocidas, una sonrisa casi involuntaria las toca y las devuelve #will

soltar, un acto de amor puro

en un día cualquiera, feliz

regálame tu presencia

Sorprendida con la fábrica de artes y oficios FAROS en Iztapalapa! #tip

me gustaría fertilizar una flor #sintiéndomeabeja

un clavado a la medicina! #brinquito!

té y goza

"un desobligado", bello eufemismo

juego: comer una lágrima (aguas con ahogarte!)

nadie tiene derecho a juzgar ni yo a mí misma

FOLLOW YOUR TRUTH

honrando lo que tengo. en un estado de entrega

tejer el amor: punto. por. punto.

hoy es un día para saborear despacito

el miedo ya no me sirve

conocí la libertad y me dejé llevar

nada es definitivo

en el límite de la cordura #fun!

señales, God

palabras, las dejo volar!

guidance,

21.7.11

The Changing Practice of Philanthropy

Alguien que admiro, she is super awesome! 


Judith Rodin 
President of Rockefeller Foundation

19.7.11

The Cave

Plato's Cave
Narrated by: Orson Wells
1973

Despertar

Despertar, 
mi misión, 
la más sagrada de todas.


No tengo que resolverlo hoy. Sólo doy un paso.


La Jetée
Chris Marker
1962

18.7.11

mad men

Mad Men
Mathew Weiner


You want some respect? Go out there and get it for yourself.


#superhot

freedom of a fear

aceepting my humaness

nada existe para siempre. nada termina para siempre #nadaesdefinitivo

"un hombre honesto no teme a la luz ni a la oscuridad"

atravesando el dolor

"Se puede ser tan real como las olas de mar y tan efímero como ellas"

hone ST y 

regresé a la danza contemporánea!

strive to be sincere

en el misterioso país de las lágrimas

entre las flores que perfuman el planeta #sweet

"any fear i am letting go"

no estoy ovulando

delicious physical experience

en la historia de la humanidad hemos tenido tan solo 14 años de paz #sumatristeza DARFUR!

ignorar como juzgas, un crimen

"life is about finding happiness" -dad
freedom of a will,

16.7.11

.)(.

Regreso al universo lo que alguna vez me prestó.

Gracias por este hermoso regalo, ahora es parte de mi.

(Wf,
Te deseo lo mejor que te pueda suceder en la vida:
Hasta pronto,)

Dos Panzitas

Mi útero!

qué divertido la tecnología y aún más el cuerpo!



14.7.11

L'Élégance du Hérisson du Muriel Barbery

"When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment? " 

"This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one's own, one's certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship ..." 

"... c'est peut-être ça la vie : beaucoup de désespoir mais aussi quelques moments de beauté où le temps n'est plus le même. C'est comme si les notes de musique faisaient un genre de parenthèses dans le temps, de supension, un ailleurs ici même, un toujours dans le jamais. Oui, c'est ça, un toujours dans le jamais."

"They didn't recognize me," I repeat. 
He stops in turn, my hand still on his arm.
 "It is because they have never seen you...I would recognize you anywhere." 


"...we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. 
Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity. 
That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people." 




11.7.11

Your life is about much more than you have ever dreamt. 
It is about deciding, creating, expressing and experiencing 
Who Your Really Are.
-Neale


we take light for granted and besides that this:


Una pregunta que acompaña mi cotidianidad, "Aceptar o Luchar?". Hoy, ambas.  
Luchar para ser lo mejor de mi y acepto que hoy soy mi mejor yo. Me ha llevado toda la vida. 
Que así sea,


como la naturaleza, fluye. 


mis sentimientos me guiaron hacia mí


hoy pensé, si los humanos encontramos vida en otro planeta, habrá guerra 


toda gran relación comienza con un descubrimiento

comer literalmente: milky way

háblame con la verdad

the sky, a mirror

en una semana de vacaciones decidí bañarme un día si y un día no. hoy fue un día sí jijiji... suerte a todos mañana!

time affects both scale and space

saliendo a la calle en mi piel

en el esfuerzo de ser yo misma

cero no ser 

a heart,

Un lugar llamado Spomenik

Un triste abandono 
de hermosos monumentos 
arrinconados entre los Balcanes

Fotos por: Jan Kempenaers

 



Life


Alguien: ¿Cómo construye sus películas?
Peleshyán: Con las manos



Vida
Artavazd Peleshyán



To become an end in myself

a good will is a good will in itself

una alcancía

 

lo mejor, lo mejor son las moneditas de 10 centavos! #fun

7.7.11

my dear marina


#strong #inspiring #awesome

Extracts from the guardian interview:

"To be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre," she replied. "Theatre is fake… The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real."


She has stabbed her hand with knives and sliced her skin with razor blades. She has lain naked on a cross of ice for hours. She has allowed the public to prod, probe and abuse her prone body. Once she almost died when a performance, in which she lay inside a huge flaming star made of petrol-soaked sawdust, went horribly wrong.


"I test the limits of myself in order to transform myself," she says, "but I also take the energy from the audience and transform it. It goes back to them in a different way. This is why people in the audience often cry or become angry or whatever. A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room."



The Artist is Present, it redefined the parameters of performance art, and in the process became a huge cultural event discussed on talk shows and in news features. It took the form of what Abramovic calls "a pared-down, long-durational piece that destroys the illusion of time". To this end she sat motionless and silent on a wooden chair inside a circle of light in the huge atrium of Moma, seven hours a day, from mid-March until the end of May. Anyone who was prepared to queue could sit opposite her just as long as they agreed to remain silent and motionless and to stare back into her eyes.
The results were surprising even to her. Every day several people broke down in tears. She was most impressed, though, by the man who sat silently opposite her for seven hours, an entire day's duration. "The others in line grew angry and aggressive," she says, laughing, "but then they realised that the waiting was also part of the performance."
The Artist is Present broke attendance records at Moma, attracting more than 850,000 visitors.

I give people a space to simply sit in silence and communicate with me deeply but non-verbally.

"Physically, mentally, I have to prepare myself for a feat of endurance. I became a vegetarian, I did deep meditation, I cleansed myself. I train the body and the mind. I learn to eat certain foods so that I don't have to go to the toilet for seven hours. I learn to sleep in short bursts at night. This is very hard: sleep, wake, drink, pee, exercise, sleep, wake and on and on. So even the not-performing is intense."

"The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes."

"...I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries."

Abramovic insists that she had no knowledge of the existence of performance art or body art when she started doing her first performance-based pieces. "I heard about Beuys later and then the others. I was incredibly naive and innocent. I mean, even when I am 23 and I have started with the blood and cutting, I still have to be back home by 10.30pm every night or my mother would be ringing the police to say I am missing." This double life continued, she says, until she was 29. "Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary. I don't drink or smoke and I have never taken drugs. 

"It was a little crazy. I realised then that the public can kill you. If you give them total freedom, they will become frenzied enough to kill you." 

"I am sick and tired of the mistreatment of performance art"

To this end, she has created the Marina Abramovic Institute in San Francisco. She is currently raising the money to open the Marina Abramovic Foundation for Preservation of Performance Art in downtown Manhattan. It will be dedicated to the performance, cataloguing and propagation of the form and, in the process, the immortalising of her name. 

 Now, as age encroaches, she has become an artist whose main subject is time itself. "I still look at my body as a machine and I still use the mind – the will – to control what I do," she says, "but there is something more Buddhist now about the performances. At 63, I can do seven hours, but the energy and the work is more distilled. I could not do that before, but now I have more knowledge of time and energy. For me, the long duration of a piece is the key to real transformation – and performance art is nothing without transformation."

6.7.11

Sophie Calle

So here’s a questionnaire for you. When did you last die? What gets you out of bed in the morning? What became of your childhood dreams? What sets you apart from everyone else? What is missing from your life? Do you think that everyone can be an artist? Where do you come from? Do you find your lot an enviable one? What have you given up? What do you do with your money? What household task gives you the most trouble? What are your favourite pleasures? What would you like to receive for your birthday? Cite three living artists whom you detest. What do you stick up for? What are you capable of refusing? What is the most fragile part of your body? What has love made you capable of doing? What do other people reproach you for? What does art do for you? Write your epitaph. In what form would you like to return?
-Sophie Calle



I simply adore her!


The last time I died was yesterday. What gets me out my bed in the mornings are my dreams. Some of my childhood dreams are still here with me, some I already forgot some I will remember them again in the future. What sets me apart from everyone else is the space I occupy and give. taking care of myself is what missing now in my life. Yes! Everyone can be an artist. There are some people that do not know that they are artists. I come from my past. -.  I have given up with a few people. With my money I: save it, lose it, use it, share it and invest it. Tender la cama no me gusta y me asusta! I have too many pleasures! Getting to know people, tea, blogging, questions, beautiful places and objects, watching the sky, attending to a performance art, getting to know my body, words, paradoxes and light. I would like to receive for my birthday a cute surprise! I don't like arrogant semi-artists. I cannot name them because i let them go easily. I stick up for my projects.  I am capable of refusing any idea, opinion, job and person that I am not attracted to. I believe that my nose is the most fragile part of my body. Love has made me go to places I have never been (literally and metaphorically). Also, it has made me explore intimacy and  find myself into the lightest and darkest me. 
People reproach me for not speaking, not spending more time with them and arriving late. Art helps me get in touch with a weird, profound and nice state. I am very thankful with art and some artists. I will write my epitaph soon! Here is a small one: Thank you all!!!!! :D I would like to return in a tree, that could be really fun!
-sz

The Proust Questionnaire III

(2011//2010//2009)


Favorite virtue, courage and integrity // honesty // forgiveness

Favorite qualities in a man, naiveness // simplicity // humor

Favorite qualities in a woman, creation // intuition // strength

Your chief characteristic,  imagination // curiousity // committment

What you appreciate most in your friends, sharing // trust //

Your main fault, doubt // doubt // doubt

Your favorite occupation, creating and sharing // making ideas happen: "producing" // acting, singing, dancing

Your idea of happiness, Freedom of being and freedom of expression // Being present // love and peace

Your idea of misery, sickness in mind, heart and/or body // Loneliness (physically, mentally, emotionally) // paralyzing fear

If not yourself, who would you be, A tree! // It is nice being in myself. I will work on my strength and flexibility. // I am glad to say this but I like myself today and I'd like to be more myself in the future

Where would you like to live, new york city, paris and berlin // i like living in myself wherever although i am enthusiatic about us (me and I) going to nyc and paris for now. // nyc, paris and tokyo

Your favorite color and flower, black and trees! // all! all! // all, all (hehe it changed the punctutaion!)

Favorite Prose authors, many! // Lispector, Kundera, Heidegger // Kundera, Heidegger

Favorite Poets, Shakespeare // Cummings, Sor Juana, Shakespeare, Eielson // Shakespeare and Sor Juana

Heroes and Heroines in fiction, Can't think of anything // Don't have... I like yoda. He is funny and wise but a "heroe-type" mhmm... nop, I don't. Maybe scientists, they start from fiction and they become it real! // yoda

Favorite painters and composers, artists: abramovic, turrel, rothko, martin margiella, alexander wang, kapoor, sophie calle, ono, ...and many many more! composers: wagner, cage, mahler and beethoven // Many! (thank you for this question) // Still looking for my favorite, John Cage, La Monte Young, Bach

Heroes in real life, Any person who wants to become his or her better self // Don't have. I have learned mostly from ordinary people and ordinary stuff. They are all very wise! // Lennon

Heroines in real life, mom and grandma // I admire my grandma a lot! She is awesome! // Mom

What characters in history you mostly dislike, dishonest, cowards and selfish leaders // I don't like cowards // irresponsible leaders

Favorite food and drink, small food and earl grey french blue tea! // icecream and fruit juice // chili, chocolate, mole, strawberry milkshake, blacktea

Favorite names, venue // lea // rainbow, lea

What i hate the most, trying to be other than myself (sometimes I do) // i don't like hate // people hurting others

World history characters I hate the most, none // -// I don't like hate

The military event I admire the most, surrending to peace // surrending to peace // surrening to peace

The reform I admire the most, freedom of expression // the change of oneself's opinion // equal rights

The natural talent i'd like to be gifted with, memoria, lightness, y hacer reír! // ubicuidad, memoria y hacer rerír a las personas // making people laugh

How I wish to die, beautifully // happy // peacefully

What is your present state of mind, I am in a new york state of mind // my mind is not myself but we speak quite often // jamming

For what fault have you most toleration, I do not consider myself Tolerant I prefer openess, honesty and acceptance // I am not "tolerant", I prefer honesty // shyness

Your favorite motto, "give birth to what you believe in" // "enjoy the beauty of the present" "it just happened" // "peace and love", "imagine"

5.7.11

Yoko finally answered!

Yoko y yo 
en
una pregunta y en una respuesta

Thank you!!!!!!!





4.7.11

En homenaje a la muerte de 100 entradas

in a visceral body


el tiempo no es mío


un tatuaje invisible


un verso sin esfuerzo

take me to a place where only you can take me

el dolor: ver y atravesar 

imaginé que caía agua de una iglesia. bañémonos.

juego: la pérdida de un calcetín


como dice i. Articule!


to tea or not to tea? that is tea question


juego: robar la atención y luego devolverla


"aquí mis ojos"


Felices 76 años a AA


juego: comer la palabra mignon 


orbit and shine! (you can wear sun glasses)


en la música se encuentran texturas y colores


"te suplico ser feliz"
-Roberto Gómez Bolaños

banco de piel

no salgas a la calle sin tu imaginación #tip

Prefiero un NO rotundo que un SI con peros

un popurri,

Lady Gaga @ Google

yum!


"... I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much." 
-Lady Gaga



Anish Kapoor

Monumenta
Anish Kapoor




sumergida en una orquídea negra 

"sculpture occupies the same space as your body" 

"What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror" 

-A.K.




Marguerite Guggenheim

Hay personajes de la historia que son verdaderamente magnéticos, 

Photo by: Man Ray

Paris is always a good idea


sorbitos de té

earl gray french blue, a gentle reverie


macarron à la folie!

...parce que je mange la vie en rose...


à tt!