EAT!!!
Oh Esther. What has become of you. You used to be so peaceful. Sleeping in your own cot. Not going jihad in the early hours every night or insisting on being fed until you're quelled. When did you turn into this monster?
Not content with this night time terror she cruises round the house looking for trouble - stealing things from her sister, screaming like a banshee when agency is taken from her, bellowing EAT at her mother when requiring a guzzle and generally being a bit of hell cat. Her molars are slowly emerging which might be driving her these depths of horror but egad I hope it stops soon.
My personal favourite was when she cleared a chair of clothes, set out a cushion for Maddy and then proceeded to push her mother into said chair and get her eat on. It was a cold calculated act designed to do only one thing.
On the plus side she totally loves going on the swing which offsets her other failings. Indeed seeing her pendulous giggling is enough to make you forget almost all her other indiscretions. But not quite. And her double act with Esther is growing ever faster. They might even be plotting. But what?
The prospect is too scary to comprehend!
Enjoy.
When acting is taken from her? You mean, as in, when agency is taken from her?
ReplyDeleteSee this fab CPH conference I wish I could go to:
This could be said to be the story about the twin figure of mimesis. The mimetic figure Alterity is something as odd as a twin considerably older than its sibling. Alterity is a liberating figure, born in the instant we model a copy of the world; a fetish, an image or a story. It is the intervention of fiction needed to dislodge reality from itself, in order to render it open for reflection, interpretation and imagery.
The figure Identity is the younger twin, operating in the other end of the mimetic road. If Alterity works in the gap between reality and copy, the mission of Identity is the re-appropriation of the figure. Where the older twin opens the gate for our gaze to probe into the potential of the Un-knowable, the younger one closes it again in the name of Identification and Knowledge.
FICTION | REALITY is a 4 day gathering of international thinkers, professional artists and art students from various schools taking place at Dansehallerne curated by Anders Paulin in collaboration with Sara Gebran.
FICTION | REALITY aims to address the current conditions for reflection and aesthetic transcendence in an institutional context. Through discussions, lectures and examples of performative practices, the meeting will focus on the interaction of aesthetics and reality in two aspects of artistic work: Aesthetics as Practice and Aesthetics as Organisation.
The objective is a structure that gives time for a team of invited artists and theorists to try out and elaborate new thoughts and material, and then share and develop this in conversation sessions with a larger group of practitioners and students from a Danish as well as a Nordic context.
Each day will end with a public panel discussion and elaborations of the topics addressed that day. The discussions will follow two trajectories: Practice and Organisation.
Practice: In Aesthetics and Anaesthetics Susan Buck-Morss writes: “Within the course of the modern era, the term ‘aesthetics’ underwent a reversal of meaning - to cultural forms rather than sensible experience, to the illusory rather than the real. This dialectical reversal, where aesthetics changes from a cognitive mode of being ’in touch’ with reality to a way of blocking out reality, destroys the human organism’s power to respond politically even when self- preservation is at stake.“
If aesthetics originally were understood as means of interaction with the world, we today by default refer to them as artistic means to produce images of the world. In the perspective of an economy based on displayed imagery of multitudes and difference, where the logic of production continuously is defeated by the law of exhibition, what is the actual co- relation between our aesthetic interventions and the world?