torsdag den 28. januar 2016
søndag den 17. januar 2016
Death and Desire. Dissertation prep.
To dance with joy in the forest. Umberto Eco, Interpretation and Overinterpretation. On the syndrome of the secret in western culture, sacred text, Pars pro toto. Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy, Apollonian, Dionysian. Hermann Nitsch. Eurypides, Bacchantinderne. Heinrich Heine. Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs. Furies. Ecstasy. Transgressions. The Devil. Paganism and Christianity. Praz, The Romantic Agony, Medusean beatury, the metamorphoses of Satan. Walter Pater. Bullen, The Sun is God. Arthur Evans, The God of Ecstasy. Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan -> Clark Ashton Smith, Lovecraft, Weird Fiction. Stefano Evangelista, British Aestheticism and Ancient Greece. Théophile Gautier, Les Dieux et les Demi-Dieux de la Peinture, Mes fantômes. Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality. René Girard, Violence and the Sacred. Brian de Palma, Richard Schechner, Dionysus 69. Kleist, Penthesilea. Karl Heinz Bohrer, Skrækkens æstetik. Rita Felsky, chok. Balzac, La Peu de chagrin. Bloody fairytales. Mysticism, religious delirium. Taste for evil. Marquis de Sade. Fr. Paulnan, Le Nouveau Mysticisme, 1891. Gothic flesh. Vernon Lee, spectres of antiquity, walking art. Satanism, occultism, LaVey. Joost van den Vandel, Lucifer. Joseph Roth.
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lørdag den 16. januar 2016
søndag den 10. januar 2016
Immanent Evil

Writing report.
Like a proper nineteenth-century artist-genius I like to do my work last minute in fits of desperation and sublime inspiration.
Tonight we are developing a grand theory, which has nested in our minds for weeks, reading Vernon Lee's gothic tale "A Wicked Voice" as an intricate critique of hegemonic ideals of aesthetic theory from the side of those ideals. The chilling ghost story relates a musicological battle between Wagner and the baroque opera set on the stage of fin de siècle Venice, as the effeminate ghost of a castrato singer hunts down the composer Magnus and tragically prevents him from finishing his Tannhäueresque grand work. Venus in the Mountain is an over-sexualised, uncannily high-pitched voice which troubles the composer's composition.
In a surprising twist everything is revealed to the avid student of history, as its complete contradiction. The author in reality hated Wagner with a passion (or rather, without a passion), and the protagonist/narrator has by the end of the work, rather than simply become obsessed with the past, actually finally, after years of copying his idol, come across some original inspiration. It is frigtening to him only, we realise, because he is the inadequate product of his time.
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universitetet
onsdag den 30. december 2015
tirsdag den 29. december 2015
DREAMSCAPES AND WATERY WOMEN:
Essay insanity has hit (finally). Hard. Am now, as by magic, pulling out words from invisible sleeves, building a new theory: The theory of painting as dreaming (as Freudian wish-fulfilment), delivered through pictoral landscapes which are both symbolic (clearly narrating of sexually desirable water women etc.) and only vaguely referential, ornamental, patches of colour, abstract shapes illustrating the unclarity of the dream-language, un-understandable by the waking mind as whispers from subsconscious, mildly neurotic voices.
By the end of this year I shall have discovered the language of inspiration. A half-mad language, a grammar of Saussure and the abyss. Monsters shall rise as golden-coloured fireworks also memories, and all shall shudder and despair with (stressful) wonder.
By the end of this year I shall have discovered the language of inspiration. A half-mad language, a grammar of Saussure and the abyss. Monsters shall rise as golden-coloured fireworks also memories, and all shall shudder and despair with (stressful) wonder.
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dreamworld,
universitetet
lørdag den 5. december 2015
torsdag den 3. december 2015
For love
Keep my secrets. Treat me kindly when you can, and respect the walls of dignity and honour that I build. Listen to me when I need to tell of worries or of victories, and understand, that they are not more than me, that they do not lift nor lower me from that level where we found each other standing in the shade.
And I will help bury the bodies deep beneath the ground where the earth sings to those who yet have living ears to hear with.
And I will help bury the bodies deep beneath the ground where the earth sings to those who yet have living ears to hear with.
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eksperiment,
kærlighed
søndag den 29. november 2015
Det klør
Irriteret: min hud kravler over mine knogler, langsomt, mine indre organer murrer, min højre nyre er stadig ikke overbevist om, hvad det er, den skal her i livet, ligesom jeg heller ikke selv er, ikke mere siden d. 16. september. Jeg har i stedet, primært, været syg. Fordi et eller andet sted må man jo stoppe, og når man er ustoppelig, så må det ske igennem organernes fejlfunktion. Ha. Host. Har også læst, er, sådan set, forfærdeligt interesseret, samtidig holdt tilbage, i både 1900 Wien, de sidste romantikere og æsteticismens småreligiøse tendenser, stadigvæk alt, hvad der er centreret omkring lidelse og længsel, fængslende indrammet i Klimtguld og vildtvoksende plantegrønt med dertil rådnende idealer, der er megen skønhed her i verden. Mit projekt:kunsterliverkunst, også velsignet med samme slags spænding som i mit "arbejde", jeg er gartner, jeg fremdyrker det og i min have, der er dunkelt, her er ingen helt sikre på, hvad de vil, hvem de er, hvor de er på vej hen, i en eller anden forvirring af romantiske forviklinger, hvor der ikke er skelnes kvalitativt mellem relationstyper eller følelser, så længe det kan mærkes. Jeg gennemgår alle slags eksperimenter, så jeg til enhver tid kan sige, at jeg har smagt livet, jeg har set verden. Det er selvfølgelig en lille smule bullshit, men også kun lidt, for jeg holder som regel tilbage, en buket af hemmeligheder, som jeg nogle gange kommer til at vise, og så bliver folk bange, og så har man mistet dét venskab, man må passe på. Til gengæld for diskretion får jeg almindelig respekt, det er markedsværdi, det kan byttes til mange ting. Eksisterer med en slags kontinuerlig intensitet, fuldstændigt uundværlig, men hele tiden nærmende sig en ny normal, kan let glemme, at alt, hvad der gør det værd, i virkeligheden er helt vildt meget mere end hvad der normalt forventes, at hvis jeg falder ned, hvis jeg pludselig en dag åbner øjnene og der ikke er flere giftplanter, så vil der heller ikke være nogen skønhed tilbage. Jeg kan ikke nøjes med hverdagen, den generer, den strammer, den er det rene polyester, eller nej, den er fin, den er nødvendig, men det går jo ikke. Jeg kan ikke rende rundt og præstere noget som helst ekstraordinært på en diæt af høfligheder og lejlighedsvis orientalisme.
Jeg er træt af ikke allerede at vide, træt af pludselige opblomstringer, der forsvinder igen med det samme som gløder i damp, træt af at opmønstre panik blot for at gøre det, for situationer der sejler i forbipasserende, livsflod og snart vil være væk.
Jeg er træt af ikke allerede at vide, træt af pludselige opblomstringer, der forsvinder igen med det samme som gløder i damp, træt af at opmønstre panik blot for at gøre det, for situationer der sejler i forbipasserende, livsflod og snart vil være væk.
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mit liv
torsdag den 19. november 2015
tirsdag den 10. november 2015
Schedule
Goal for the next three days:
Read for Art Theory: Fashion and Temporalities. Feel mortally offended by Nietzsche's view on women's wear, continue onwards in good spirits to Barthes and The Language of Fashion. Be thankful that my classes are on such interesting subjects. Supplement with some Lehman and other thoughts on clothes and language.
Educate myself on Victorian writing and empire. Think fondly of Edward Said while battling John Ruskin and Rudyard Kipling. Be upset with Britain in general but inspired by the British university system.
Enjoy some quality time with the Pre-Raphaelites' relationship to the past. Read through no less than seventeen texts on time before and after Raphael.
Formulate a plan for an essay on the subject of transgressions of hyperrealism into the fantastic in art inspired by the Dutch masters. Must include either phenomenology or semiology. Read Wittgenstein's philosophy of pictures. Mold own methodological approach. Attempt to find some theory on Otto Frello. Consider the decay of matter and how nothing really matters. Do the same for the 19th century, except look at Vernon Lee and Kant's sublime, possibly Faust, Carlyle, Kristeva, the uncanny, and discuss the artist hero's fatal attraction to an immanently evil inspiration which will surely consume him just as if it was a woman (because yeah, that didn't happen last week, as you are SUPPOSEDLY not supposed to cough up blood. Who knew, right?). Cry. Read about the devil. Come up with yet another essay and do the research and put together a bibliography for Eleanor F-Brickddale's The Little Foot Page which hangs in Liverpool, look up cross dressing as a performative but totally normal act in theatre of earlier ages. Read all the Scottish ballads, stare at Queen Guinevere and her bread rolls while meditating on memory, mourning and the modern life subject. Tinker with tensions between old and new, and possibly, possibly contrast evil and neutral androgony.
Tactic so far:
Get drunk and draw. Repeat.
Read for Art Theory: Fashion and Temporalities. Feel mortally offended by Nietzsche's view on women's wear, continue onwards in good spirits to Barthes and The Language of Fashion. Be thankful that my classes are on such interesting subjects. Supplement with some Lehman and other thoughts on clothes and language.
Educate myself on Victorian writing and empire. Think fondly of Edward Said while battling John Ruskin and Rudyard Kipling. Be upset with Britain in general but inspired by the British university system.
Enjoy some quality time with the Pre-Raphaelites' relationship to the past. Read through no less than seventeen texts on time before and after Raphael.
Formulate a plan for an essay on the subject of transgressions of hyperrealism into the fantastic in art inspired by the Dutch masters. Must include either phenomenology or semiology. Read Wittgenstein's philosophy of pictures. Mold own methodological approach. Attempt to find some theory on Otto Frello. Consider the decay of matter and how nothing really matters. Do the same for the 19th century, except look at Vernon Lee and Kant's sublime, possibly Faust, Carlyle, Kristeva, the uncanny, and discuss the artist hero's fatal attraction to an immanently evil inspiration which will surely consume him just as if it was a woman (because yeah, that didn't happen last week, as you are SUPPOSEDLY not supposed to cough up blood. Who knew, right?). Cry. Read about the devil. Come up with yet another essay and do the research and put together a bibliography for Eleanor F-Brickddale's The Little Foot Page which hangs in Liverpool, look up cross dressing as a performative but totally normal act in theatre of earlier ages. Read all the Scottish ballads, stare at Queen Guinevere and her bread rolls while meditating on memory, mourning and the modern life subject. Tinker with tensions between old and new, and possibly, possibly contrast evil and neutral androgony.
Tactic so far:
Get drunk and draw. Repeat.
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universitetet
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