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EINSTELLUNGSRAUM e.V. : The paradise and the car. 24.06.2005 6 p.m. Doris Cordes-Vollert performance with Harald Finke The perception of paradiese:
is pretty much an accidental affair. About its interpretation too many wars were fought. the bordering. drugs, escapes into a trance and other suggestive methods and technics are used to lure people into this paradise-trap. I have the feeling that the I am speaking about a tiny aspect of ruined term for paradise, about the populare paradiso vulgaris, which has been and is abused through wrong promises, punishment and powerclaims. The characteristic of this paradise is the wall, moment of the expulsion, which stands against the withholding of knowledge, is the moment of an important event of thought and that most still want to stay in a state of sleepy non-identification for most of the time. In the last 50.000 years humans have invented fantastic imaginations. And today there are as many paradise imaginations as there are games of dice of all people constantly throwing the dice. A responsible consciousness for our dependency of nature and the well-being for our fellow humans can only grow outside of such an abusable paradisoin my opionion, in grown responsi- bility. The old Persian Garden Eden, the origin of (our christian defined) pairi-dae-za, was a piece of land bordered by a wall, which was taken away from the wild and wasted nature around it and which was not accessible to be looked in and entered by the normal population. A 'park of a castle' which only much later became an idyllic allotment garden or a pubic accessible park. A refuge which was in contrast to its surrounding land. |
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for those accessible, who took the liberties for
themselves for this demarcation. An artificial operation, an idealized nature with the aim for
self-crowning of this claim for power. Doctrinaire, exclusive and with
high walls shunned from the untidy world, those gardens excluded the nature, that could not
be domesticated and the simple folks. Martian
closed walls separated the world of the 'knowing' possessors of
those have-nots in any sense and fanned their longings. The wall stimulated the phantasie of the excluded and was fertile ground for huge sublimation and suppression phantasies. The hidden means of those gardens was the will for power of the owner, to put oneself on the same level like god or the prophetes. As nature created by it (by its bought foreign workers) the garden has become metaphore for the similarity to the creator himself and the hybrise of the humans (natura naturata). Still, I find the picture of the paradise much more complex and more interesting than an advertisement for Marlboro- or Toyota-publicity, with which the capitalism suggests its way of paradise: the shopping paradise, in which one is surrounded by (almost) anything what one wishes for (or should wish for). So-called "Zukunftskonferenzen" (future conferences) research today!! intensively the inner effect mechanisms of myths and religions for the populare culture. The tryouts of new paradise promises to take peoples' minds off the globalizing mechanisms of the oligarchs, and guide their minds in an irresistable paradise of consumers' market with vulgare certainty for redemption through brand-lust-make-up. To stay within the picture: the one who picked the apple to get away, must have had some presentiment of art (the aimless, non-sellable game) and the democratizable science. one actually should ask: who invented the picture of paradise and why? Most populare pictures of paradise seem to be sleeping rooms to me in which unconsciousness, empty promises and obligations for obedience rule. The heave-ho hence is a thrilling moment. |
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