Just had a great video chat with Josh & Amy in San Francisco
They took this pic. & loved Winnie as we are calling her.
Obama: Hope or despair?
I despair about the US foreign policy, about the wars.
Is healthcare a reason to hope? I keep watching.
Item quoted in full below
Rivertalk
A group of artists will camp at Kowai Bush at the site where the braided Waimakariri River will turn into a concrete canal if the Central Plains water scheme goes ahead.
An exquisite valley of lush rolling hills and mature trees planted by generations of Deans will be submerged by a 55 metre dam if the scheme is approved.
The artists involved are Mark Adams, Nigel Brown, Linda James, Sam Mahon, Albi McCathy, Ramonda Te Maiharoa, Tiffany Thornley, Becky Turrell and also Hope and Zusters.
“We are camping from March 20 to 23 where the Waimakariri River leaves the Gorge and the braided section of the river begins,’’ Zusters and Hope said.
“This is the location of the Upper Intake and canal for the proposed Central Plains scheme. We will be organising a tour of the surrounding area that would be affected if this scheme goes ahead.
“Artists will be able to see, feel, touch, collect, sketch, photograph, film, write, process and draw their experiences to use as the basis for a water art exhibition we are planning for later in the year. There will be no decision on Central Plains Water before May and so this is perfect timing for publicity purposes to protect and celebrate the river through their artwork,’’ they said.
Jane Zusters: Opening Mark Hutchins Gallery Wellington,24 february 2009
Opening Mark Hutchins Gallery Wellington,24 february 2009
janezustersartdiary.blogspot.com
Great to see how art & this environmental project combine.
Unfroze and Compulsory
I just bought & downloaded “The Concordance” as my friend Simon calls it.
THE WORDS OF JACOB LEVY MORENO:
Vocabulary of Quotations from Psychodrama,
Group Psychotherapy, Sociodrama and Sociometry
ROSA CUKIER
It is an index to some of Moreno’s main writing, handy!
It is often translated from the Portuguese or Spanish etc. Hence we get some interesting words.
This is the first passage quoted:
ABREACTION
… A variety of improvisation is often called “abreaction.”
Whereas improvisation has an esthetic aim and is characterized
by some degree of freedom, abreaction has no conscious esthetic
aim, it is unfroze and compulsory. Both have a low degree of
mental organization.
Theatre of Spontaneity p. 79
El Teatro de la Espontaneidad p. 141
Teatro da Espontaneidade p. 96
“unfroze and compulsory”, I love that.
I wonder what the original was, was that in German?
I imagine the idea is one that I think of as central to the psyche.
What emerges in states of spontaneity, a state of freedom, comes unbidden, autonomously from the self, from beyond the ego. Jung calls this the autonomous psyche. Feelings are like this, but whole ways of being, roles can emerge as well.
“How are you?”
There is no choice, you are who you are right now, in this moment… compulsory. Yet there is choice as to how to express that, how to be with that, how to transform that, unfroze.
Black Wool Girl
It is all go! I am planning a speedy return to pick up our new pup at the airport. She is a mix of poodle, lab and spaniel, a labraspoodle.
Later: She’s here, what a lovely little girl. We are very impressed by the place we got her from:
