Mini Work Makes Mama Melt
Mini Work Space
Brian Ladd, “The Ghosts of Berlin, Berlin Walls.”
One wall, one people divided. Two systems, one circumstance, two situations. Two reactions, two outcomes. Freedom encourages art, art encourages inquiry, inquiry leads to resistance, resistance leads to resilience. Resilience might be our number one stem against psychological ailments. Totalitarianism makes wall disease. Disease kills the spirit and has generational impacts.
Hannah Ardent, “Eichmann in Jerusalem.”
Eichmann, you suck at life. You believe yourself. You lack discernment. You are patronizing.
Topography of Terror
Sustenance of Terror. Nazis need to eat. Let’s not aesthetisize someone else’s trauma, like we do when we give children cowboys and Indians games, or cops and robbers, or let the football team haze future columbine shooters. Propaganda begins at birth. Working through the past is delicate.
Ein Bericht fur eine Akademie, nach Motiven der Erzahlung von Franz Kaftka
Will you forever remember me as the great Jewish German writer? Will you forever remember me as the Monkey that became a Mann? Will you forever remember me as the punker that made it to college? Will you forever be foreign in your own country? Will we always suffer from “us and them” syndrome?
A man in a cafe today, when we talked of equality, pointed out that when seeking equality we always look up, never down.
Definitions to find on your own. HAHA!!!!! Sorry, sorry, I got a little carried away…
Solemn remembrance
Inner emigrant vs enforced migration
Expulsion and genocide
Historical confidence
Validating pushing otherness
Accumulation of memory (commodification of trauma into monuments)
Curating memory
(I did this my way, because I’m a rebel like that. But also I’m playing catch up after an incredibly full week.)