L'univers visuel des Talking Heads

sur scène

et l'un des rares video clips ("raw" au possible)

Eyeball Massage, Pipilotti Rist, Hayward Gallery

 Administrating Eternity, 2011

Lobe of The Lung, 2009

Kourosh Yaghmaei

Spider webs, Pakistan – Melancholia

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Caravaggio de Derek Jarman

L'arche de Noé de John Huston

Monsieur L'ambassadeur

Francis Alÿs, The Ambassador, 2001

"Charlot (...) montre sa cécité au public de telle sorte que le public voit à la fois l'aveugle et son spectacle"

(cit. Mythologies, Barthes)

Le désir, c'est du constructivisme

L'incroyable scène du ballet

Red Shoes de Michael Powell et Emeric Pressburger (1948)
http://youtu.be/BksDeYMlbMo

Just plain and simple relevance

"I haven't finished with my exposition and definition of Modernism. The most essential part of it comes, finally, now. Modernism has to be understood as a holding operation, a continuing endeavor to maintain aesthetic standards in the face of threats -- not just as a reaction against romanticism. As the response, in effect, to an ongoing emergency. Artists in all times, despite some appearances to the contrary, have sought aesthetic excellence. What singles Modernism out and gives it its place and identity more than anything else is its response to a heightened sense of threats to aesthetic value: threats from the social and material ambience, from the temper of the times, all conveyed through the demands of a new and open cultural market, middlebrow demands. Modernism dates from the time, in the mid-nineteenth century, when that market became not only established -- it had been there long before -- but entrenched and dominant, without significant competition.

So I come at last to what I offer as an embracing and perdurable definition of Modernism: that it consists in the continuing endeavor to stem the decline of aesthetic standards threatened by the relative democratization of culture under industrialism; that the overriding and innermost logic of Modernism is to maintain the levels of the past in the face of an opposition that hadn't been present in the past. Thus the whole enterprise of Modernism, for all its outward aspects, can be seen as backward-looking. That seems paradoxical, but reality is shot through with paradox, is practically constituted by it."

Clement Greenberg, Modern and Postmodern, 1979

Adaptability

Franz West, Lisa de Cohen with Adaptive, Vienna,
1983, Wood, papiermache, and wall paint. 8 5/8” x 14 1/8” x 37 1/2”.
Photo: Rudolf Polansky. Courtesy Archiv Franz West.

Franz Erhard Walther, Connection (Head), number 31 from 1.Werksatz,
1967, coton

"Quête de l'ordre" - Ethos de la lutte armée - Industrialisation de la mort

"Pour Max Weber, toutes ces formes de rationalisation de la vie institutionnelle, initialement issues d'une source militaire, devaient déboucher sur une société dont les normes de fraternité, d'autorité et d'agression étaient également de caractère militaire, quand bien même les civils n'avaient sans doute pas conscience de penser comme des soldats. Observateur des temps modernes, Weber redoutait ce qui devait effectivement se produire : un XXe siècle dominé par l'éthos de la lutte armée. En tant que spécialiste d'économie politique, il lui semblait que l'armée était un modèle de modernité plus conséquent que le marché."

Richard Sennett, La culture du nouveau capitalisme, 2006

Céline et Julie vont en bateau

'Un boa con qui m'adorait quoi'

Les armées de la nuit - TAXI GIRL