Flashback Lullaby

Flashback Lullaby

Performance artist
cast in a post matinee
week night Performance
a fight for your life drama
featuring the soundtrack for
Lullaby Flashback

Opening
with a melodious
declaration

"You are my sunshine..."

Drowned out
and then stopped
by
the howling creak of doors
opening and closing.

Muffled words
escalating with
Explosive intensity!

Resistant feet
play percussion
pound pound pound pound on the floor
as body is dragged
sound in motion
down the hall

Choking screams
are stylized vocalizations
punctuating
lyrics
shaped to strike like threats
warning
in loud hushed tones

Crashing dishes
are cymbals echoing down the hall

For an under aged audience
praying for nightmares
to interrupt
this god damn it lullaby.

Making Connections: The Tower is Haunted

Painting above is another from the most recent series. The poem below is one I wrote as part of an art based research dialogue on educational reform. The painting came first but is about the broader scope of interest to me as it has been expressed in cfAaP House of Cards diagram and installation concept..but as the thread connecting the frames shows some systemic elements link all the others. One of the major challenges is that most people are overwhelmed by the big picture but "solutions" made without this level of understanding often do more harm than good...and by the time that is obvious the damage is done. What is the alternative?

Warning: The Tower is Haunted

Ghosts of the plantations and overseers

loom and creak until

replaced

by Research Studios and the vision of Source Artists

Life

no longer outsourced

Birthed above shark infested waters

Tamed by the slyness of Red Riding Hood's Wolf

gnashing teeth

swallowing greed

devours

deny

redemption

reform

in transformation

within the alone-ness

growth

Institutional

healing

internal

Rotten to the core

ingesting proves fatal

exposure a hazard deterring

revelation

shared

once burned, twice shy

One love, One world

blooming ideals in a flower garden

should =

no fear of poisoned decoys

skull f***k

waiting to render pregnant winged ones flightless

Warning: Keep away from gardens in alabaster towers

Their basement bellies

in screaming silence

conceal bloody pulps

would be-s

ripped from the womb

time after time

blood trails and smudged prints

are not definitive evidence of robbery

our abortions are rebranded

Selective Birthing (TM)

sanctioned by Alabaster Towers Inc.

Clipped crimson buds

poorly cloned

and implanted into suitably branded uteruses

birthed by less suspecting

blind

ethereal extremities

who regurgitate

life sustaining after birth

into shark infested waters

Kafka & Art - a new day for learning?

An experimental documentary of a personal and creative journey

Recent research supports the rationale that art that pushes the boundaries of what is known and ushers in new mental models may be just the thing to help teach the masses to apply new mental models.

In the new book I am co-authoring with Ron "The Inner World of Innovation" I explore how new mental models emerge and take shape. In that process I am also producing the body of work and collaborations that have ushered in the realization of Cultural Fusion Art as Philosophy.

Why now? Because it is necessary for us to develop new ways of approaching learning, economics and growth. I believe it was Einstein who said (and I will paraphrase) we can't use the same thinking we used to create a problem to fix them...and art is more important that knowledge because art embraces the world.

New research suggest that exposure to bizarre, surreal storylines such as Kafka's "The Country Doctor" can improve learning. Apparently, when your brain is presented with total absurdity or nonsense, it will work extra hard to find structure elsewhere.

See Reading Kafka can improve learning

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Attention, Art & Social Capital in Branding

After a few requests and a bit of encouragement I am sharing what started out as storyboards for a presentation to get sponsorship for an event marketing solution project. I hope it encourages people to think and question some assumptions about branding, attention, social capital in sustainable profitability and of course - the role of Art Based research and the benefits to the private sector, organizations, and communities. Please feel free to contact me with questions or feedback.
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Cultural Fusion Art as Solution

This is Part 1 of a presentation I was encouraged to develop and share. It has evolved from storyboard slides I was working on for a project. With a slight bit of tweaking it works as slideshare presentation - I may convert these to eliminate the need to advance each slide but in the mean time...I hope it encourages people to think and question some assumptions about branding, attention, social capital and of course - the role of Art Based research.

Cultural Fusion Art as Solution

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Moving Forward with Determination

Over the weekend I watched "Rocky Balboa" again because my husband had not yet seen it. It was my recollection of two scenes, that made look forward to seeing it again. Like many of the books I read - after I see a movie I often forget much of it. However, this speech from the movie sticks with me - especially on those days or at those moments when I get discouraged.

While I feel ego has been put to rest in my quest - I also feel we are the vessels of the dreams that seek expression through us. That is what my journey as an artist has been about - and although it would be easier to just paint or do something that was easier for most people to comprehend, I realize that is the challenge of doing something new.

"When you have a dream - you have to protect it. People can't do something themselves they want to tell you, you can't do it." (from the movie Pursuit of Happiness)

Yes, I have had those moments where I wondered why I didn't have an easier dream, something easier - simpler.... like "normal people". For whatever reason(s) that is not what calls me - that is not who I am. I suspect like many of you, I seek to live a life that is authentic and true to who I know myself to be....and sometimes that isn't as easy as we would hope.

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." Chinese Proverb

No one else can walk your journey for you - even if others are with you, your experience feels like a solitary one. Because there will come a time, maybe more than once, that you will have to reach inside yourself and find out what you and your dream are really made of.

So what keeps you going?
What helps give one the persistence and tenacity to keep moving forward?
That is also part of who we are.

I share this clip because when you feel you have hit the wall....that life has knocked you to your knees and you are doubting that you can get back up and keep going. Please remember that it is in you to do it.

Details & Addendum

Update 10/25/08 2:58pm



Addendum



My observation since posting this is that often in marketing or public relations what is done/intended and what is said do not match. And consumer will accept the lie. This is another contrast with customer.



In Business there are companies that serve both, so it is not a matter of right or wrong but rather I feel it informs these ideas about value distinction in:

1. Branding- building a community brand where the community defines the brand

2. Messaging campaigns

3. Valuation metrics (must know what to look for in order to know what to measure)

4. Market positioning based on where value is delivered



I feel these may form converging points to transition between the old which is crumbling and the new which is emerging. This seems to be the points that are addressed in Cultural Fusion.



See Also

http://sourceartist-ydubel.blogspot.com/2009/05/big-pictue-and-risk-of-not-seeing-it.html

which adds Quality, not Quantity, as the main ingredient for the transaction