Jim Fouratt: CulturalInstigator: January 2019

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Songs to Aging Children Come - Carol Lipnik

Carol Lipnik and Rachelle Garniez did a magic-filled night of music covering some lesser know Joni Mitchel and Laura Nyro songs.

Last Sunday at Pangia to an audience that contain the creative support group for downtown artist: including Nicky Paradiso, Barbara Maier Gustern, John Kelly, David Cale, Paul Soileau (just moved back after a residency Austin) aka Christeene, Joseph Keckler , Penny Arcade, Mike Thorn (legendary English music producer now resident in NYC with his wife and soul partner Layla imagine 40 years together) , just to name a few.. it was an unforgettable night of music magic, Pangia has survived this terrible period of gentrification somehow thanks to Stephen and Arnaldo, I go there regularly to listen and discover,

Carol and Rachelle opened the show with this video of an obscure Joni song that they just released as a single and is as you can see on youtube, Yes it was a night to remember,

(also give a youtube listen to the songs that each artist has written and sung in other performances. Carol does a cover of Heaver that I adore .. the talking heads song)

On February 20th 1939, 20,000 Amercian fachists gathered in Madison Square Garden for an ralley to identify themselves as true American Patriots. (note the language ). This shocking footage put together by Marshal Curry, released by Field of Vision published by the Artlantic Monthly looks like a Tump ralley except for the flags and the uniforms.
At the same time in Germany Hitler was building his 6th concebtratiobn camp.

Watch it.Share it . . . Can it happen here again?

https://fieldofvision.org/a-night-at-the-garden

Praxis, my dear, is the only real way to succeed in the culture war.

Praxis, my dear, is the only real way to succeed in the culture war.
Yes indeed there is a culture war going .. but you know that if you have arrived here. We suggest that you put theory into practice by taking virtual you and virtual ideas into the reality of real live physical and cognitive action.

MEANING: get up and out of your chair and do something physical in real time. OCCUPY YOUR BODY. Be physical.

The fuel is love, compassion and curiosity. Anger is a result of the repression of fear and distances one from compassionate change ... do the Che Che cha cha cha .. or if you prefer the Stiegler tango! or the Shulamith Firestone death metal raga!

PRAXIS is the action of putting into practice the thoughts, theories and desires running through your bio-magnetic, nerve sensitive self. Reality propelled by the friction of input/output.

Damn it, it should be fun !

I will share with you my interaction in the real world and the theoretical world and invite you to do the same.

Politics is an everyday affair. Politics is how we live our lives Every action or non-action we do is a political act. Culture is the expression of desire in public interactive way.

So jump in please.

Join me in participating in life. Making change starts with self and ripples out. Pop culture is where I live ..not in some isolated, white tower, postmodern, distancing intellectual thought or theory. Theory in practice is praxis . It used to be called dialectics .. still a good word even if dressed up in new theory drag.

Serious fun has it consequences including changing the status quo.

We are all at the same life party. Find the door you can come through to make PRAXIS a full time act of creativity .

jim fouratt