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...group outside, where he expanded his discussion to Eastern medicine, capitalism, “inner assurance” (his alternative to health insurance), and the gods and goddesses of the body. He argued that deep ecology is a way of life, drawing on the more-than-human in the everyday. It is this sense of continuousness between art and life that Berensohn stressed above all else throughout the weekend.“Both dance and pottery are the practice of innocence, the practice of awe,” he emphasized. “What we need is not more objects...
...Victoria and Albert Museum, and Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary Art is including the brothers in its "Space for Your Future" exhibition (Oct. 27 to Jan. 20, 2008). Favela chic seems to offer pointers for sustainable living. "It is our job to find beauty and meaning in the everyday," Humberto has said. The siblings wove wicker around cheap plastic seats to create larger, sculptural but still functional shapes, and turned plastic jerry cans into surprisingly attractive lamps...
...professor told the 50-odd audience members gathered yesterday in the Thompson Room in the Barker Center. In a speech titled “X-Underrated—Pornography and Popular Culture,” Pound Visiting Professor of Law Catherine A. MacKinnon criticized the encroachment of pornography into everyday life. The belief that pornography operates underground, she said, causes people to ignore obscene material that is right under their noses. “No matter how real and harmful pornography gets, it seems to live in this parallel universe where everything that happens is rendered harmless and unreal...
...personal tone, asking, “What could your children boast about you?” He then turns to the tendency of history to repeat itself despite man’s pledges to learn from past mistakes. The poems in the second section become extended definitions of everyday objects. Pinsky argues that every word “is an assembly of countless voices,” and here, each poem expands the significance of otherwise mundane things. In the final third of the book, Pinksy moves further into the abstract, addressing a myriad of ideas as unconnected as Inman...
Steinemann hopes that the audience will walk away with a deeper understanding of how aesthetics and performance are used to create meaning in everyday life...