Tams Stuff at BookMarx Gallery

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Tams Stuff


This is one o f the best shows I have seen in Springfield. Tam's work is about TRUTH.

IT IS DECORATIVE AND IT IS NOT DECORATIVE.

You must see it. Original and captivating.

The Invisible Man - How Parrhesia Works through Art: The Elusive Role of the Imagination in Truth-Telling Foucault Studies, 2019 Marrigje Paijmans

How Parrhesia Works through Art: The Elusive Role of the Imagination in Truth-Telling

Foucault Studies, 2019

Marrigje Paijmans

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ..Krishnamurti

Creation takes place in choked passages" (G. Deleuze) which means for me there's no passage which is unchoked - hence, any creation for which "passage" is taken for granted (especially the one from 'noise to voice' (The Logic of Sense) cannot be creative at all.

I would say prison is a “choked passage.”

Laboratory of Nano-Fascism:  Although this relationship to death was once thought to belong originally to punk, expressed specifically in the funeral sculptures of Joy Division covers such as Closer and Love Will Tear Us Apart, and PIL’s Death Disco, it has been repurposed by Neanderthal capital in order to zombify the world.

Non Conceptual Negativity  Zafer Aracagök

Can we come back to Krishnamurti on this please. " It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." My personal feeling is that if you are not depressed, melancholy or bi polar or schizophrenic you are not paying attention.

This is interesting: “Owen Andree Um, no. The hysterics' *desire* is to continually and question/harangue the Master/authority's position.”

To see the Invisible Man may be to instantly recoil in fear, disgust, horror, side step, turn away from an image covered face to toes with dark prison tattoos. Not a human one wishes to link with.

A live human image that has disintegrated the boundaries, the limits of class, sex, age and race.

AND NON DECORATIVE

An image that is irreplaceable, non-reproducible, non-commodified, non exchangeable or accumulated. You cannot buy it, sell it, hoard it, own it, keep it, display it. A living image that can be destroyed physically, but alive forever in the imaginations of subjects who have allowed themselves to experience the Invisible Man. A digital image existing in Simulated Reality will be as useless as J. Hillis Miller tells you the reading of Heart of Darkness will be if you do not already know it from experience, and if you do you will not need to read it. The image recorded is not to experience the REAL. Only the experience of the real Invisible Man will challenge you with parrhesia, the truth of parrhesia that confronts you in your experience of him. Did it?

Without experiencing the confrontation of parrhesia inherent in his image your imagination cannot transform the work of art that he is, which precludes any change in your mode of being, your lived life, by your experience of him. An image of the human body aligned and defined in great classical beauty resonating with classical Greek sculpture inscribed, desecrated with ugly prison tattoos - some ironically funny and some cliches, but never aesthetic. And so the different levels of episteme through time from ancient Greece to the post modern NOW hit you between the eyes.

Hambleton - Street Artist - dead and now collectible

Foucault’s genealogical method reveals The Invisible Man’s fusion with other works of art signaling parrhesia and challenging us with confrontation and a demand for change, for transformation of ourselves to a different way of seeing, perceiving and being. Only OTHERNESS can accomplish this. Not different. OTHERNESS.

Velasquez: Las Meninas

Manet: Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe / Luncheon on the Grass

Picasso:Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; Guernica

Warhol:Campbell Soup Cans

Jasper Johns:Flags and Destruction of Abstract Expressionism
Kathy Acker: everything
Herman Melville:Moby Dick:Ishmael and Queequeg
Leslie Fiedler:essays (football et al)
Leo Steinberg: art history and essays
Shakespeare: everything

Banksy: Performance Piece Dismaland;wall murals of political parrhesia

Ai WeiWei: Sculptures
Mark Tansey: everything

Marina Abramovic: Performance Art; The Artist Is Present

Luce Irigaray: Speculum of the Other Woman

Roberto Bolano: 2666

Eugene:The Invisible Man 

Herman Melville: Moby Dick: Ishmael and Queequeg (p. 535)

With a wild whimsiness, he now used his coffin for a seachest: and emptying into his canvas bag of clothes, set them in order there. Many spare hours he spent, in carving the lid  with all manner of grotesque figures and drawings; and it seemed that hereby he was striving, in his rude way, to copy  parts of the twisted tattooing on his body. And this tattooing, had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but whose mysteries not even himself could read though his own live heart beat against them;and these mysteries were therefore destined in the end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last. And this thought it must have been which suggested to Ahab that wild exclamation of his, when one morning turning away from surveying poor Queequeg - "Oh, devilish tantalization of the gods!"

Watching SpringfieldMO: Planet Fitness Kansas Expressway SpringfieldMO

Watching SpringfieldMO: Planet Fitness Kansas Expressway SpringfieldMO: Inside of Planet Fitness Disclaimer: I only work out at PF. I am not associated with them in any way. I was recently in an automob...

Planet Fitness Kansas Expressway SpringfieldMO

Inside of Planet Fitness

Disclaimer: I only work out at PF. I am not associated with them in any way.

I was recently in an automobile accident when the driver ran a red light, completely wrecked by car by plowing right straight through the front and the engine. Going from left to right as I was turning left at an intersection on Main and Chestnut Expressway. An almost T_BONE hit. One second more and I would have been farther into the intersection and it would have been the driver door and me that she would have demolished.

ONE SECOND FROM DEATH.

Destiny and my lifeline have crossed and as Baudrillrd says, "Alterity begins. Another life that will gradually move out of parallel with my former life. It already feels different. I have changed all my rituals and habits."

But I do want to say that if I had not been working out for the past 3 weeks I think I would have been killed. So I owe PF big time for being here and opening a new location.

This is one of the few places one can go that is judgement free. That is, fascist free. As Foucault tells us, fascism is local. It does not come from above. It is around you minutely, everywhere.

Not here though. No lists. No one to say you are doing an exercise incorrectly. That you ought to try this or that. No agenda. You can ask for it of course and someone will be supplied to begin your work out.

For me I just walked around watching until I decided to try something. Then something else until I had worked up my own agenda. I learn by watching the best. And there are so many people working out with so many different styles to choose from, that you can always learn something just by watching and then trying.

If I would suggest something it would be to read Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morals in which he discusses The Inscription of the Body. Foucault will seize this and extend it to a way of thinking. Just understand that your body has been inscribed by all your experiences since you were in the womb. Was it free there or were you more confined? How was your birth? Your early years? Your school years and so on.

Nice Edition as you get Ecce Homo with it.

This is the essay in which Nietzsche argues about God. He does not say God is dead as the FAKE reviewers have told us for about 100 years now. 

Fake news is not new folks.

Nietzsche challenges God to appear. So far God has not.

So far.

The beginning of consciousness is linked to the Inscription of the Body. It was torturous. The body was inscribed literally.

This produced MEMORY

And Memory produced consciousness

and man became a different specie from animals.

I don't agree with this last sentence.

Genealogy is not linear, not continuous, not progressive and not historical. It is a different way of thinking. Of events that CUT into your life and alter it irreversibly. 

And this is Continental Philosophy current in most parts of Europe and pretty much censored into sound bites of meaningless chatter in the universities of the US. Too bad.

The only fascism you will find here at Planet Fitness is technologically embedded in the machines.

There is a machine for just about every muscle group in your body. You want more of X, then work on X's machine.

Or you can do yoga stretches.

Or or or or or..........

The possibilities are endless.

The machines will tell you how many stairs you have climbed and how fast - or slow - you climbed them.

How long it took you to walk, run 1/2 mile, your heart rate, an estimate in your head of how long for an entire mile.

The weights will change as you add or subtract them.

How you are progressing with your strength, your flexibility, etc. 

You can add an apt to your phone and get a pre-planned workout. You can get someone to work with you. 

Hey! Whatever you want.

Whenever you want.

24/7

Planet Fitness was designed by those who are anticipating the FUTURE. 

What happens is that you are in a huge space with people who are committed to be healthy and strong and non authoritarian with others. That's a good thing.

Then you go outside and so many people there seem SICK.

Unhealthy. In need. And so many many of them. And they often do not talk nicely to each other. 

I suppose if you go into a fast food place you will be brought up short. All those around you who look sick will be ordering there without thinking about what they eat does to them.

But you will be. And you will begin to change the way you want to eat.

And isn't it better that way than someone making you feel guilty about the way you eat? Telling you you MUST change the way you eat?