REFERENCE: DOM HELDER CAMARA, INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND COLLECTIVE STAND FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

DOM HELDER CAMARA [1909-1999] ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF OLINDA AND RECIFE

O1.'WHEN I GIVE FOOD TO THE POOR THEY CALL ME A SAINT, WHEN I ASK WHY THE POOR HAVE NO FOOD THEY CALL ME A COMMUNIST'.

O2.'WITHOUT JUSTICE, LOVE AND HAPPINESS WILL ALWAYS BE THE GREAT ILLUSION'

THE SPIRAL OF VIOLENCE. 1971:

ON THE INJUSTICE OF POVERTY WITHIN NOT ONLY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES BUT THOSE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES TOO. THE RICH DO NOT FEAR TALK OF AID YET ABANDON THE IDEA OF 'JUSTICE, RIGHTS AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES'.

'HOW CAN THE MORAL PRESSURE BE BROUGHT INTO ACTION IN ORDER TO STIR CONSCIENCES AS A PRELIMINARY CONDITION FOR A CHANGE OF STRUCTURES-IF ACCESS TO THE NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES, TO RADIO AND TELEVISION, IS FORBIDDEN WITHOUT FORMAL PROHIBITION BUT BY SECRET, BUT EFFECTIVE ORDER, IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY?.' SPIRAL OF VIOLENCE

RISE TO THE LIBERATION OF THOUGHT VIA THE MEDIA. THE MEDIA IS THE GATEWAY TO INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND YET COLLECTIVE SOLUTIONS TO STRUCTURAL CHANGES WITHIN THE GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS, THROUGH AUDIBLE AND VISIBLE THOUGHT PROCESS.

'ALL HUMANS ARE BORN EQUAL IN DIGNITY AND RIGHTS.' [ART. O1]

REFERENCE: ALBERT CAMUS, MAN WITH GOD AND MAN WITHOUT GOD

Albert Camus [1913-1960][french author, journalist + philosopher]

'In his essays Camus presented the reader with dualisms: happiness and sadness, dark and light, life and death, etc. His aim was to emphasize the fact that happiness is fleeting and that the human condition is one of mortality. He did this not to be morbid, but to reflect a greater appreciation for life and happiness. In Le Mythe, this dualism becomes a paradox: We value our lives and existence so greatly, but at the same time we know we will eventually die, and ultimately our endeavours are meaningless. While we can live with a dualism (I can accept periods of unhappiness, because I know I will also experience happiness to come), we cannot live with the paradox (I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless). In Le Mythe, Camus was interested in how we experience the Absurd and how we live with it. Our life must have meaning for us to value it. If we accept that life has no meaning and therefore no value, should we kill ourselves?'

the outsider 1942. by Albert Camus.

afterword: ‘Meursault is not a reject, but a poor and naked man, in love with a sun that leaves no shadows. Far from lacking all sensibility, he is driven by a tenacious and therefore profound passion, the passion for an absolute and for truth. The truth is yet a negative one, a truth born of living and feeling, but without which no triumph over the self or over the world will ever be possible’.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. — Albert Camus

THE REVELATION OF MAN WITH GOD:

IN CONFESSIONS: ST. AUGUSTINE PROMOTES IDEA OF CONNECTION BETWEEN MAN AND GOD IN RELIGION. CAMUS, AN ATHEIST, YET AWARE OF THE ABSENCE OF PURPOSE WITHOUT GOD. GOD AS MAN'S' SALVATION AND MEANING'. PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS FOR CONCEPT OF THE ABSURDIST PHILOSOPHY OF ALBERT CAMUS.

ESCAPISME (IN FISH TANK 2009)

ONE GIRL. ONE COUNCIL ESTATE. ONE BAD RUN. ONE LIFE. ONE DECISION: ESCAPE.

THE STORY OF ESCAPISME. ESCAPE FROM THE RAWNESS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION

INTO A STATE OF CONTROLLED DECISIONS.

FACTS:

O1. 4 MILLION PEOPLE: COUNCIL ESTATES [ENGLAND]

O2. DYSFUNCTIONAL COMMUNITIES

O3. RESULTS: SUMMER RIOTS 2011

For years now, too many people have remained unaware of the true nature of life on some of our estates. This was because we had ghettoised many of these problems, keeping them out of sight of the middle-class majority. But last month the inner city finally came to call, and the country was shocked by what it saw.

-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WORK AND PENSIONS [IAN DUNCAN SMITH]

GOD DEPARTMENT INSTALLATION

GOD DEPARTMENT FULL PLAY HERE

INSTALLATION: 24/7 PRAYER: 24-30 OCT. 2011

CATACOMBS OF ST ALDATES. OXFORD

GOD DEPARTMENT CONCEPT:

WE ARE ALL THE SAME AND YET ALL DIFFERENT

(UNDER GOD'S NAME)

WE ARE ALL JUST A NUMBER [IN A WAY] IN THE WAITING ROOM:LIFE

CAN YOU DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN US?

01.INDIVIDUAL MUGSHOT :

diversity of sex/religion/race/nationality/profession/social class

02. GROUP LINE UP

particular features of 'mugshot' individuals

pin point specific attributes to the same features (ie eyes/ears/hair/feet/legs) that

compose us into human beings

ARE WE ALL THAT DIFFERENT?

01.INDIVIDUAL MUGSHOT

02. GROUP LINE UP

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WE ARE ALL THE SAME AND YET ALL DIFFERENT. WE ARE BUT A PRODUCT OF SOCIETY. A NUMBER IN THE CAPITALIST MARKET. HAVE WE ALL BEEN BOUGHT? OR ARE WE STILL FREE TO BE INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THIS FRAMEWORK WITHOUT LOOSING OUR SENSE OF MORAL VALUES?

THE WAITING ROOM [FOR EDEN] SHORT: REWIND TO EXISTENTIALIST RAWNESS:

FULL SHORT PRESS PLAY

Buckle Up.
Destination: Eden
Journey Time: 3 minutes

Everybody is condemned to freedom - Jean Paul Sartre

Awake or Asleep
Eden is a state of mind
Eden as a false statement
You choose Eden

Eden
The Essence of Nothingness
An absent architecture
A space of Impression
Feeling is fact
An architecture of Nothing and yet everything

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fistful hand that reared him - A modern Utopia. HG Wells. 1905.

≠01 SHUT EYE [short]

FULL SHORT PRESS PLAY

An explanation of the oeuvre:

A psychological exploration of false truisms in reality versus the creative ones in the imagined with a deep vein in surreal-ism based on the supernatural premises of a horror film. An escapisme from the solid form to the mental state of mind. The transition between the real and imagined worlds and the blurred boundaries are unravelled, from The Waiting Room [for Eden][to rebel against the notion of idealism in modern society and religion. And to applaud the small fundamentals of our existence.in reference to existentialism that emphasises the existence of the individual person as free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will] to the liberation of incarcerated thought.freedom in all shapes. in the imagined external forest sequence ‘thoughts’ as ghosts with the false identies of mechanical flowers. May we lay to rest our ‘thoughts as ghosts’ now or forever hold our peace?

dystopia in UTOPIA [MECHANICAL FLOWERS CONCEPT]

A GUIDE TO SELF LIBERATION MANIFESTO

Sartre once said, [La Nausea.1938} in a time between battlefields:

Existence, liberated, detached, floods over me. I exist.

Today, in a soceity of homeland battlefields, consumerist idealism and youthful bro- ken notions of fraternity, whereby religion no longer chain us to our morals, we live in blurred worlds of true and false realities in what we hate to call our best friend, the media, I am

AGAINST: the greed driven identity of the economical/moral consumerist in soceity false thoughts of the best products of soceity’s mainstream ‘supermarket’ shelves. judgement/justification of alternative creative ideas

false notion that imagined states of anti moral behaviour via the media, is a hindrance to the collapse of soceity

FOR: the self liberation of the consumerist soceity. the creative self driven by independant forces, detached from ideological, economical or social ones art for arts sake. art does not have an obligation to soceity but an obligation to the self. true instinctive self. the abstractions in art come alive in intuition. falling in love with an idea and not knowing why the creative idea as valuable, because you value them. their value is based on sensation not rationalization the realization of our beautiful futile existence in everything we create. this is our consciousness. this is our limit. religion doesnt say it for us.the earth

already does it for us

and I say now :

I do not want to shock. I want to provoke. I do not follow. And I do not want to be an existentialist. But i do want you to be true. We are here once. I do not want a reason to do. to think and talk. I want to feel and I want to create. Liberated from the epidemic social/consumerist greed. I create. Go and live out loud. And forget me not. My name is death.

01 FUCK DEATH

tell death to go to hell.

02 LIVE FOREVER start living your thoughts. hold them tight. don’t let them go. be a free agent: make choices of the will.

Go fast. Live Forever Carpe diem.

03 OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE

let ‘thoughts’ not become ‘ghosts’ but truisms in the absurdity of reality. See it as it is. If you do: Speak now or forever hold your peace.

dystopia in UTOPIA [CONCEPT SHORT]

FULL SHORT PLAY

Original concept to Shut Eye Short:

Dystopia in Utopia

Artificial versus Nature

Artificial flowers never die and always remain beautiful like a

memory of a faded beauty

Existentialism

Always things of beauty come to an end. Rejoice in them as they

last only in a fleeting moment

≠02 PICTUREBOOK OF DYSTOPIAN TRUISMS

Long gone but not forgotten

How you coloured my hues with false truths

Peepshow

Roses are red. Violets are blue.

Sugar is sweet. And so are you.

Too wild to live. Too beautiful to die

Blood red, the colour of humanity

Sleeping Beauty

Fly me to the moon. And play amongst the stars. Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars. In other words, I love you - Frank Sinatra

For You and I are past our dancing days - shakespeare

A tissue, a tissue. A pocket full of posies. We all

fall down

≠01 PICTUREBOOK OF DYSTOPIAN TRUISMS

The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restore my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.' Psalm 13.