Lima OH multicultural fair (September 30, 2023)

On 9/30/2023 I really enjoyed a multicultural fair in Lima, OH, featuring Indian, Nigerian, and other cultures. 

For India, a Lima young lady danced a wonderful dance of Siva (afterwards she told us that she learned the dance online - she was from Lima OH), and a boy (I suppose less than 8 years old) presented the activities of the latest Moon landing of the India space program. 

Then a team of African American ladies (I understood they came from Chicago) performed a really professional series of amazingly athletic team dances. 

I am including some photos and recordings (two Nigerian dances) from the event. 

It was well-organized, fun, and artsy.

 

And now the two recordings (short clips):

 

Tolkien - on trees

"Every tree has its enemy, few have an advocate. In all my works I take the part of trees against all their enemies" ~ JRR Tolkien

via FB - Aragorn

Rilke moment

 

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night." (Rainer Maria Rilke)

When The Levee Breaks feat. John Paul Jones | Playing For Change | Song Around The World

Opt Art: From Mathematical Optimization to Visual Design | Prof. Robert Bosch | Talks at Google

 

Robert (Bob) Bosch - James F. Clark Professor of Mathematics at OBERLIN COLLEGE

A human archaeology attempt - rediscovering my sister (4) on art and gender fluidity - Februarie 17, 2014

On February 17, 2014, commenting on Visconti's Ludwig, Carmen wrote on how...

• art and gender fluidity have potentiated the typical aesthetic fascination with gender transgression (trans-gender)
• the religious moral dogma of gender purity somewhat severed the spontaneity of artistic inspiration
• in art you can talk about anything, since in art everything is understood differently
• seriously ignorant on the mysteries of art, ideologue preachers caught in a moralizing mania put out diluted discourses about love, sex and marriage and place art in bed of Procrustes, demonizing gender fluidity on the grounds that the force of ambivalent suggestion can tempt man (yet the Gospel's spirit of implies that he who is not tempted will not live)
• as beauty gets closer to the ineffable essence of art, it gets accompanied by the phenomena of transgression seen as trans-gender horizon.
  

"Filmul Ludwig este o capodopera a lui Visconti si o mare reusita interpretativa a lui Helmut Berger, in rolul principal. Homosexualitatea lui Visconti si bisexualitatea lui Berger n-au nimic de-a face cu judecata de valoare artistica. In nici un caz nu o infirma. Dimpotriva, as zice, a potentat fascinatia tipic estetica a transgresiunii genurilor. Lectura biologica a transgresiunii poate potenta, dar nu este identica cu lectura suprabiologica a transgresiunii, tipic estetica. Mutatiile ,,tropice'', definitorii pentru figurile de stil, sunt un arhetip imaginar vag al mutatiei de gen sau al ambiguizarii genului. Crestinismul cu dogma sa morala a puritatii genurilor a cam retezat din temelii spontaneitatea inspiratiei artistice, asta-i sigur. Realitatea este ca in arta poti sa vorbesti despre orice, pentru ca aici totul se lasa inteles ALTFEL. Ideologia crestina grav ignoranta in ceea ce priveste misterele artei interzice acest lucru, pe motiv ca...FORTA SUGESTIEI AMBIVALENTE poate ispiti omul. Nimic mai penibil . Cine nu va fi ispitit nu va trai, afirma pe de alta parte Evanghelia. Cele mai diluate discursuri despre iubire, sex, casatorie le intilnim la prostii predicatori crestini, cei care schingiuiesc arta asezind-o in Patul lui Procust care e mania moralizatoare. Dezambiguizarea morala devenita un TIC MALADIV actioneaza aici ca o caracatita ucigasa ce a prins in tentaculele ei fiinta vie si fecunda a ambiguitatii estetice."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just before the pandemic lockdowns...

 

 

Yayoi Kusama: Fireflies on the Water - exhibition at Toledo Museum of Art (and me in the middle of it - March 15, 2020, just before the first pandemic lockdown orders in US were issued)...