'São Vallis'
óleo sobre papel
59,5cm por 42cm
2009
ZMB
(fotografia de época)
(fotografia de época)
quarta-feira, 30 de julho de 2014
terça-feira, 29 de julho de 2014
The HEAD Revolution
Robert Anton Wilson
on "The trick top hat"
'
GALACTIC ARCHIVES:
Although the HEAD Revolution transformed the Terran primates at the time of this ancient Romance, nobody knows when it actually began. Some trace it to certain Alchemical cults of the early Dark Ages; some say it did not properly start as an organized movement until neuro-pharmacology began to replace old-fashioned "psychology" in the late Dark Ages (i.e., just before the time of this epic novel); some try to find its origins in primitive shamanism and yoga.
What is clear is that some primates on Terra began to transcend genetic four-circuit limitations many centuries, or even millennia, before true neuroscience appeared among them. Whether this was due to mutation, empirical hit-or-miss experimentation with alkaloid herbs, or other factors is unknown. In Egypt and China and other places, a few primates reported fifth-circuit raptures - the dawning of neurosomatic consciousness - two thousand or even three thousand years before the Space Age began.
The picture is the same on all planets. A few biots suddenly rise above the eat-it-or-flee-it imprints of the amphibian biosurvival circuit, above the dominate-or-submit imprints of the mammalian territorial-emotional circuit, above the either/or logic of the hominid semantic circuit, above the "good" and "bad" values of the tribal sociosexual circuit. They have transcended infantile feeding programs, childish emotional programs, adolescent philosophizing, and adult "responsibility" (pack role) all at once.
What has happened, of course, is that these biots have formed a fifth circuit in their brains. This is called the neurosomatic circuit because it allows conscious feedback between the nervous system ("mind", in prescientific primate language) and the soma ("body"). In the larval stages of this Hedonic Revolution, every planet exhibits the same monotonous pattern:
Mysticism and monomania appear. Many of the mutated biots become convinced that they control everything (the "I-am-God" syndrome), not realizing that they merely control their own perceptual field.
"Miracle healings" are reported. The neurosomatic ("mind body") feedback loop allows the mutant biots to become healthier, younger-looking, and sleeker ("handsome") than average. They soon believe, and are encouraged by their admirers to never doubt, that they can"cure" anything.
Neurosomatic intolerance appears. The mutated biots grow annoyed, and become extremely critical about, the robot-mechanisms of first-circuit approach-avoidance, second-circuit domination-submission, third-circuit either/or logic, and static fourth-circuit sex roles. They call on everybody to float free like themselves, or like the wind.
The other biots usually declare these five-circuit mutants to be divine, or else they kill them. Sometimes they do both.
The condition was just becoming understood on Terra at the time of this Quantum Comedy, as neuropharmacologists slowly traced the links between neurochemistry and the creation of perceived reality-tunnels.
'
on "The trick top hat"
'
GALACTIC ARCHIVES:
Although the HEAD Revolution transformed the Terran primates at the time of this ancient Romance, nobody knows when it actually began. Some trace it to certain Alchemical cults of the early Dark Ages; some say it did not properly start as an organized movement until neuro-pharmacology began to replace old-fashioned "psychology" in the late Dark Ages (i.e., just before the time of this epic novel); some try to find its origins in primitive shamanism and yoga.
What is clear is that some primates on Terra began to transcend genetic four-circuit limitations many centuries, or even millennia, before true neuroscience appeared among them. Whether this was due to mutation, empirical hit-or-miss experimentation with alkaloid herbs, or other factors is unknown. In Egypt and China and other places, a few primates reported fifth-circuit raptures - the dawning of neurosomatic consciousness - two thousand or even three thousand years before the Space Age began.
The picture is the same on all planets. A few biots suddenly rise above the eat-it-or-flee-it imprints of the amphibian biosurvival circuit, above the dominate-or-submit imprints of the mammalian territorial-emotional circuit, above the either/or logic of the hominid semantic circuit, above the "good" and "bad" values of the tribal sociosexual circuit. They have transcended infantile feeding programs, childish emotional programs, adolescent philosophizing, and adult "responsibility" (pack role) all at once.
What has happened, of course, is that these biots have formed a fifth circuit in their brains. This is called the neurosomatic circuit because it allows conscious feedback between the nervous system ("mind", in prescientific primate language) and the soma ("body"). In the larval stages of this Hedonic Revolution, every planet exhibits the same monotonous pattern:
Mysticism and monomania appear. Many of the mutated biots become convinced that they control everything (the "I-am-God" syndrome), not realizing that they merely control their own perceptual field.
"Miracle healings" are reported. The neurosomatic ("mind body") feedback loop allows the mutant biots to become healthier, younger-looking, and sleeker ("handsome") than average. They soon believe, and are encouraged by their admirers to never doubt, that they can"cure" anything.
Neurosomatic intolerance appears. The mutated biots grow annoyed, and become extremely critical about, the robot-mechanisms of first-circuit approach-avoidance, second-circuit domination-submission, third-circuit either/or logic, and static fourth-circuit sex roles. They call on everybody to float free like themselves, or like the wind.
The other biots usually declare these five-circuit mutants to be divine, or else they kill them. Sometimes they do both.
The condition was just becoming understood on Terra at the time of this Quantum Comedy, as neuropharmacologists slowly traced the links between neurochemistry and the creation of perceived reality-tunnels.
'
Nass El Ghiwane
Leur répertoire est puisé dans le creuset de la culture et la poésie marocaine et arabo-andalouse, mais aussi dans des textes religieux issus de grande figures religieuses de l'Islam.
Grâce à leurs paroles engagées et poétiques reflétant les malaises de la jeunesse marocaine de l'époque et à leurs rythmes puissants, joués à l'aide d'instruments traditionnels, ils ont révolutionné la musique marocaine et maghrébine et laissé une marque indélébile dans le paysage culturel du pays. Le célèbre réalisateur américain Martin Scorsese a qualifié le groupe de « Rolling Stones de l'Afrique ».
Ils se sont inspirés des chansons du style Aïta (Echems Ettalaa, Elhassada, Sif El Bettar, Ghadi Fhali ...), du Melhoun (Han wa Chfeq, Mezzine Mdihek, Qalet ...), des Gnaoua (Ghir Khoudouni, Lebtana, Mahmouma, Essadma, Jralek Ouach ...), des Hamadcha (Laayate Aalik) et des Jilala (Allah ya Moulana, Haoulouni) afin de créer une musique alliant le traditionnel du Maroc avec des sujets modernes.
Malgré les années, « Les Rolling Stones de l'Afrique » restent très largement connus au Maroc et ailleurs, mais désormais sans Larbi Batma, décédé d'un cancer des poumons en 1997 et qui a rejoint feu Boujmâa décédé le 26 octobre 1974.
segunda-feira, 28 de julho de 2014
Ad astra
Robert Anton Wilson
on "The trick top hat"
'
The majority of Terrans were six-legged, but we are not concerned with them. We are concerned with a tiny minority of domesticated primates who built pyramids and wrote books and eventually achieved Space Migration and entered into the galactic drama.
They were very clever primates - excellent at mimicry and even capable of creative thinking at times.
They never would have escaped from their planet and the boom-and-bust cycles of all life-forms adapted to planetside living if it hadn't been for the H.E.A.D Revolution.
HEAD means Hedonic Engineering and Development. It consists of learning to use the primate brain for fun and profit.
At the time of our story the HEAD Revolution, after an underground existence of many centuries, included only about 2 percent of the domesticated primates on Terra. The rest of the domesticated primates were still using their brains for misery and failure.
They did not know they were misusing their brains. They thought there was something wrong with the universe.
They called it the Problem of Evil.
Experts on the Problem of Evil were known as theologians. These were very erudite primates, skilled in primate logic, who wrote long books trying to answer the question "Why did God create an imperfect universe?"
"God" was their name for the hypothetical biggest-alpha-male-of-all. Being primates, they could not comprehend how anything could run if there weren't an alpha male in charge of it.
They assumed the universe was imperfect because it was obviously not set up for the convenience of domesticated primates.
The universe was not even designed for the convenience and comfort of the six-legged majority on Terra. The convenience and comfort of planetside species has very little to do with the cosmic drama.
A few of the primates had realized this. They were known as cynics.
Cynics were primates who realized the monotonous life-death cycle of terrestrial life, but were not imaginative enough to conceive of future evolution after longevity and escape velocity had been attained.
(...)
The six-legged majority on Terra, for instance, followed a life script of four or more stages. In general, the pattern was: (1) the embryonic or egg form; (2) the larval period; (3) the pupal or chrysalis stage; (4) the adult insect. During each stage the biot or biological unit - the so-called individual - passed through a metamorphosis during which it was totally or partially transformed.
The same was true of the domesticated primates. Most of them passed through, and kept neurological circuits characteristic of, the following four stages: (1) imprinting and using the self-nourishing networks of the primate brain - the neonate or infant stage (oral biosurvival consciousness); (2) imprinting and using the emotional-territorial networks of the primate brain - the "toddler" stage (anal status consciousness); (3) imprinting and using the semantic circuits - the verbal or conceptual stage (symbolic rational consciousness); (4) imprinting and using the socio-sexual circuits - the mating or parenting stage (tribal taboo consciousness).
It was all very mechanical - but that's the way planetside life is.
'
on "The trick top hat"
'
The majority of Terrans were six-legged, but we are not concerned with them. We are concerned with a tiny minority of domesticated primates who built pyramids and wrote books and eventually achieved Space Migration and entered into the galactic drama.
They were very clever primates - excellent at mimicry and even capable of creative thinking at times.
They never would have escaped from their planet and the boom-and-bust cycles of all life-forms adapted to planetside living if it hadn't been for the H.E.A.D Revolution.
HEAD means Hedonic Engineering and Development. It consists of learning to use the primate brain for fun and profit.
At the time of our story the HEAD Revolution, after an underground existence of many centuries, included only about 2 percent of the domesticated primates on Terra. The rest of the domesticated primates were still using their brains for misery and failure.
They did not know they were misusing their brains. They thought there was something wrong with the universe.
They called it the Problem of Evil.
Experts on the Problem of Evil were known as theologians. These were very erudite primates, skilled in primate logic, who wrote long books trying to answer the question "Why did God create an imperfect universe?"
"God" was their name for the hypothetical biggest-alpha-male-of-all. Being primates, they could not comprehend how anything could run if there weren't an alpha male in charge of it.
They assumed the universe was imperfect because it was obviously not set up for the convenience of domesticated primates.
The universe was not even designed for the convenience and comfort of the six-legged majority on Terra. The convenience and comfort of planetside species has very little to do with the cosmic drama.
A few of the primates had realized this. They were known as cynics.
Cynics were primates who realized the monotonous life-death cycle of terrestrial life, but were not imaginative enough to conceive of future evolution after longevity and escape velocity had been attained.
(...)
The six-legged majority on Terra, for instance, followed a life script of four or more stages. In general, the pattern was: (1) the embryonic or egg form; (2) the larval period; (3) the pupal or chrysalis stage; (4) the adult insect. During each stage the biot or biological unit - the so-called individual - passed through a metamorphosis during which it was totally or partially transformed.
The same was true of the domesticated primates. Most of them passed through, and kept neurological circuits characteristic of, the following four stages: (1) imprinting and using the self-nourishing networks of the primate brain - the neonate or infant stage (oral biosurvival consciousness); (2) imprinting and using the emotional-territorial networks of the primate brain - the "toddler" stage (anal status consciousness); (3) imprinting and using the semantic circuits - the verbal or conceptual stage (symbolic rational consciousness); (4) imprinting and using the socio-sexual circuits - the mating or parenting stage (tribal taboo consciousness).
It was all very mechanical - but that's the way planetside life is.
'
sexta-feira, 25 de julho de 2014
Burka
'Burka'
lápis sobre papel
40cm por 30cm
2008
ZMB
Este trabalho segundo as últimas indicações
terá sobrevoado o oceano.
quarta-feira, 23 de julho de 2014
Pottying the art of pot
'Pottying the art of pot'
óleo e pastel de óleo sobre tela
40cm por 30cm
2008
ZMB
terça-feira, 22 de julho de 2014
O olho do sujeito e o olhar da casa-objecto
'O olho do sujeito e o olhar da casa-objecto'
plástico autocolante sobre assemblagem de cor sobre placa de madeira
30cm por 37cm (com moldura)
2008
ZMB
Há no título deste trabalho uma alusão, que se perdeu,
a um livro de Zizek - "Lacrima rerum"
Disse recentemente à médica psiquiatra que visito regularmente
que o meu melhor livro é aquele que eu não escrevo e só o penso.
Quero com isto dizer que pouco do que penso retenho e se o tentar escrever
o pensamento foge e não é na direcção do papel, foge diletante como fumo de cigarro.
Na realidade, este quadro deveria representar a frontaria da associação
onde ia tomar café a 50 cêntimos.
É a prova de uma rápida deterioração do meu sentido de realidade
na altura cada pormenor de cor era o título de um conto
que a minha diletância deixava para escrever mais tarde
não fora no momento seguinte logo outra grande ilusão se viesse sobrepor.
No fim ficava a consciência, a borra de cor.
Numa espécie de teatro do absurdo sendo eu o único actor
este trabalho ficava exposto na mesa junto do café, do cigarro e do jornal
à espera de comprador e cada dia em sentido contrário do mercado
o preço aumentava cinco euros.
Ao fim de uma semana valia uma fortuna.
Acabei por comprar o quadro a mim próprio.
Também já não faço ideia de quem sejam as quatro amiguinhas:
'As 4 amiguinhas'
pastel de óleo sobre placa de madeira contraplacada
25cm por 25cm
2008
ZMB
segunda-feira, 21 de julho de 2014
A santíssima trindade
'A santíssima trindade'
plástico autocolante sobre pastel de óleo sobre placa de madeira
22cm por 32cm
2008
ZMB
You're not welcome to paradise
'You're not welcome to paradise'
óleo sobre papel
60cm por 42cm
2008
ZMB
(fotografia de época)
The saint she, the hairdresser, called me
'The saint she, the hairdresser, called me'
carvão e pastel de óleo sobre papel
60cm por 42cm
1998 - 2008
ZMB
sexta-feira, 18 de julho de 2014
Hu-Jin-Tao tie
'Hu-Jin-Tao tie'
óleo sobre tela
20cm por 50cm
2008
ZMB
Adenda:
Este quadro díptico foi destruído
e com as duas telas assim disponibilizadas foram pintadas duas novas obras.
Adenda:
Este quadro díptico foi destruído
e com as duas telas assim disponibilizadas foram pintadas duas novas obras.
quarta-feira, 16 de julho de 2014
«Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.»
'
(...)
The theory of sex-economy and its investigations of living phenomena can be stated in a few sentences.
Psychic health depends upon orgastic potency, i.e., upon the degree to which one can surrender to and experience the climax of excitation in the natural sexual act. It is founded upon the healthy character attitude of the individual's capacity for love. Psychic illness are the result of a disturbance of the natural ability to love. In the case of orgastic impotence, from which the overwhelming majority of people suffer, damming-up of biological energy occurs and becomes the source of irrational actions. The essential requirement to cure psychic disturbances is the re-establishment of the natural capacity for love. It is dependent upon social as well as psychic conditions.
Psychic illness are the consequences of the sexual chaos of society. For thousands of years, this chaos has had the function of psychically subjecting man to the prevailing conditions of existence, of internalizing the external mechanization of life. It has served to bring about the psychic anchoring of a mechanized and authoritarian civilization by making man incapable of functioning independently.
The vital energies regulate themselves naturally, without compulsive duty or compulsive morality - both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses. Antisocial actions are the expression of secondary drives. These drives are produced by the suppression of natural life, and they are at variance with natural sexuality.
People who are brought up with a negative attitude toward life and sex acquire a pleasure anxiety, which is physiologically anchored in chronic muscular spasms. This neurotic pleasure anxiety is the basis on which life-negating, dictator-producing views of life are reproduced by the people themselves. It is the core of the fear of an independent, freedom-oriented way of life. This fear becomes the most significant source of strength for every form of political reaction, and for the domination of the majority of working men and women by individual persons or groups. It is a bio physiological fear, and it constitutes the central problem of the psychosomatic field of investigation. It has been until now the greatest obstruction to the investigation of the involuntary functions of life, which the neurotic person can experience in a mysterious and fear-ridden way.
(...)
'
Page 6
'The function of the orgasm'
Wilhelm Reich
--
... portanto,
um gajo não ejacula saudavelmente,
fica ressentido e com medo,
torna-se reaccionário...
Nada melhor que ler os mestres..
terça-feira, 15 de julho de 2014
Telling stories
'Telling stories'
óleo sobre tela
40cm por 30cm
2008
ZMB
Vendido a preço de amigo
ao imperador Augusto e sua imperatriz Augusta,
mestres da guitarra boémia e da boa cozinha.
Romeu e Julieta
'Romeu e Julieta'
óleo e pastel sobre papel.
82.5cm por 70cm (com moldura)
2008
por ZMB
óleo e pastel sobre papel.
82.5cm por 70cm (com moldura)
2008
por ZMB
segunda-feira, 14 de julho de 2014
The Borama people in paradise
'The Borama people in paradise'
pastel sobre colagem sobre cartão canelado,
69,5cm por 68,5cm (com moldura)
2007
ZMB
A base deste trabalho é um desenho a partir de uma fotografia
num livro, editado nos anos 80, sobre povos ainda hoje aborígenes.
Neste caso, o povo Borama da Africa Central.
O paraíso é, para eles, a chuva.
quinta-feira, 10 de julho de 2014
Três santinhos
'Nossa senhora'
'Santo António'
'São José'
óleo sobre tela
2007
ZMB
A minha mãe reformada ocupa o seu tempo
numa lojinha de apoio aos pobres
e vai daí eu lembrei-me de fazer quadros de santos
'talvez quem dá esmola queira comprar e eu assim também ajudo a causa', pensei eu
na realidade e após leilão paroquial a reverter para a lojinha
as obram foram novamente por quem as comprou
doadas à lojinha e estão agora a ganhar pó nas paredes
por muito que o meu ego de pintor se ressinta:
uma pintura não mata a fome a um pobre
e um abastado só gosta de ter nas paredes
aquilo que tem valor de mercado
e que dará futuro lucro.
Tudo para dizer que me é extremamente difícil vender os meus trabalhos.
quarta-feira, 9 de julho de 2014
She doesn't like what she sees
'She doesn't like what she sees'
técnica mista sobre papel,
técnica mista sobre papel,
83,5cm por 65,5cm (com moldura)
2007
ZMB
segunda-feira, 7 de julho de 2014
domingo, 6 de julho de 2014
quinta-feira, 3 de julho de 2014
The legendary pink dots
Legendary Pink Dots - "Green Gang"
The Legendary Pink Dots feel it is our duty to inform an unwary public that the new number of the Beast is 834. In fact we, the Legendary Pink Dots were instrumental in this turn of events. Let us explain...
The change occurred on a rainy morning in August when the Legendary Pink Dots, Lisa and friends of the Prozhtet Militat were holding a party to celebrate the completion of AsYlum - a cage into which they could retreat from worldly matters.
Naturally, the party finished with the traditional burning of Oogchuu, the fire baby. (We must point out that the burning of Oogchuu is not an act of cruelty. Oogchuu's purpose in the order of things is to be burned, and he never protests when Poison Barbarella strikes the first match.).....
http://legendarypinkdots.org/
O álbum 'Asylum' de 1985 pela banda The Legendary Pink Dots
Gorgon Zola's Baby Lyrics :
Gold chain. Bronze skin. Cheese brain. Holes. Yes, Gorgon Zola rules the
beach. She strolls, she kicks some sand - the mild man winces, clears his
eyes. Despises her. She's tall and cruel and cool as sour cream. His dreams
are dry. She'll paralyze - an icepick in his spine. She'll fine him when
his wheelchair's parked on double yellow lines. He takes it because he has
to... because he's built like stale spaghetti. Zola's pointing the machete
- so he jumps!
quarta-feira, 2 de julho de 2014
Chakrasamvara and consort 2
'Chakrasamvara and consort 2'
óleo sobre pano crú
75cm por 51cm
2007
ZMB
Este quadro foi finalizado somente em 2013
com a introdução da grade de madeira.
Além do aperfeiçoamento da cor
também as suas dimensões estão lligeiramente reduzidas.
Este quadro foi oferecido num impulso e,
infelizmente também devido a tal,
não disponho de uma fotografia final.
Chakrasamvara and consort 1
'Chakrasamvara and consort 1'
óleo sobre papel
57cm por 42cm
2007
ZMB
Este estudo tem por base uma 'tangka'
que vi num livro sobre arte tibetana.
terça-feira, 1 de julho de 2014
Edgard Varèse - Ionisation
Edgard Varèse
Ionisation (1931), pour 13 percussions dont 1 piano
Editions Ricordi
Solistes de l'Ensemble intercontemporain
Elèves du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Susanna Mälkki, direction
Percussions : Gilles DUROT, Samuel FAVRE, Victor HANNA (Ensemble intercontemporain) / Matthieu DRAUX, Adelaide FERRIERE, Jean-Baptiste BONNARD, Noam BIERSTONE, Christophe DRELICH, Julien LACROUZADE, Thibault LEPRI, Sylvain BORREDON, Othman LOUATI
Piano : Sébastien VICHARD
Enregistré à la Cité de la musique le 20 novembre 2012, dans le cadre du Festival d'Automne à Paris
Réalisation et montage : Jérémie Schellaert
Enregistrement sonore : Radio France
Production exécutive Ensemble intercontemporain
Remerciements à Laurent Bayle, Directeur général de la Cité de la musique et à ses équipes, à Christian de Portzamparc
Copyright Ensemble intercontemporain 2012
Ionisation (1931), pour 13 percussions dont 1 piano
Editions Ricordi
Solistes de l'Ensemble intercontemporain
Elèves du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Susanna Mälkki, direction
Percussions : Gilles DUROT, Samuel FAVRE, Victor HANNA (Ensemble intercontemporain) / Matthieu DRAUX, Adelaide FERRIERE, Jean-Baptiste BONNARD, Noam BIERSTONE, Christophe DRELICH, Julien LACROUZADE, Thibault LEPRI, Sylvain BORREDON, Othman LOUATI
Piano : Sébastien VICHARD
Enregistré à la Cité de la musique le 20 novembre 2012, dans le cadre du Festival d'Automne à Paris
Réalisation et montage : Jérémie Schellaert
Enregistrement sonore : Radio France
Production exécutive Ensemble intercontemporain
Remerciements à Laurent Bayle, Directeur général de la Cité de la musique et à ses équipes, à Christian de Portzamparc
Copyright Ensemble intercontemporain 2012
ZMB - Storm is ready here to go
'Storm is ready here to go'
2008
ZMB
A segunda faixa de 'IRABCDJOL 7' ,
um álbum 'musical' de ZMB
editado pelas Edições Cassiber no formato cd-r.
Esta faixa é dedicada a W. S. Burroughs.
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