Join us at the mosaic event!
“Love is a will — the will to share happiness with everyone. Being happy and making happy — that’s the rhythm of love.”
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“As long as the achievements of culture are locked up in cultural ghettos, and as long as cultural creators merely measure their strength among themselves, rather than in dialogue with those for whom art is trully intended, we will continue to speak of a gap between art and the working people, of a so-called misunderstanding between the creators of culture and the people.”
Stane Dolanc, Secretary of the Executive Bureau of the Presidium of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1973 in a speech on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Moderna galerija, the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana
“I’m sorry for the nonsense, because until now it has been so rarely artistically molded …”
Kurt Schwitters, 1920
“And if I have prophecy, and if I know all mysteries, and if I have all knowledge, and if I have all faith – so that I can move mountains, but do not have love – I am nothing.”
Bible, NT, 1 Cor 13,2
The mosaic production of CAN YOU HEAR ME features: Blaž Šef, Boštjan Leskovšek, Igor Štromajer, Borut Savski, Marko Batista, Nina Meško, Sanja Simić, Stefan Doepner, Tatiana Kocmur, Chiara Duchi, Ivan Mijačević, Peter Tomaž Dobrila, Dominik Mahnič, Robert Klančnik, Simon Svetlik, Name: Zdenka, Sunčan Stone, Francisco Tomsich, Tjaša Ribizel, Francisco Tomsich, Tjaša Ribizel, Lana K. Gotvan and babaLAN.
Special thanks to Aleksandra Kostič, Andraž Torkar and Dragan Živadinov.
Can you hear me. You just have to look and see. Look at yourself, at your being. You know you exist and you like it. Let go of all imagination, that’s all. Don’t rely on time. Time is death. He who waits dies. Life is only now. Don’t tell me about the past and the future, they only exist in your mind. There is no need to practice anything. To know yourself just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don’t worry your mind about searching. You can’t gain anything. Let go of all imagination and know yourself as you are. Self-knowledge is non-attachment. All attachments mean fear because all things are transitory. But fear enslaves a person. Freedom from attachment is not a result of practice, but is something natural when one realizes one’s true nature. Love does not cling; clinging is not love. Every longing comes from a feeling of inadequacy. When you know that you lack nothing, that everything that exists is you and yours, desires disappear. Do you hear me. Oil on canvas levitates in ur sonata of the vast expanses of Mongolia. Because of the meanders, navigation on the river is slow. The compost of the mosaicism of the performance do you hear me non-stop delivers vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients to all genres of art and the fire – that burns up what we think we are. The temperature of the screen of consciousness does not change even by a hundredth of a Kelvin. We think with our palms. At the end (which, of course, there is none), all asses are golden. Il cielo e’ azzurro — zero Baby! Only nothing works! The equivalent of building castles in the clouds is pie in the sky, which flies straight out of the oven into Cirkulacija² and Kibla.
more on: http://babalan.kibla.org/me
Production: GVR Institute for Artistic Production
Co-production: Cirkulacija², Kibla Maribor, CUK Kino Šiška
The performance is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.
