Life After Life

Jane Goodall - Is er leven na de dood/ Is there life after death?

Memories of Rome

Wandering around the Campo Santo Teutonico in thunder and lightening, literally stepping on graves, some of the tomb slabs being so old that on one of them only an engraved skeleton is faintly visible.
Discovering the burial site of a 'Bruderschaft/ brotherhood' where only two women are buried.

The Play's the Thing

in which to achieve unity, which is an interesting point because of the diversity of the members of the audience as explicitely referenced by Peter Brook. Yet the experience should be a common one, even more a unifying one.

Spine

Tragedy and Dignity

Thinking about Ferdinand von Schirach's play 'Terror' in which an army pilot shoots down a civil plane that has been hijacked by a terrorist in order to save the people in a stadium that is targeted by said terrorist. A trial ensues and the audience is the jury. This play is very popular in Germany and at the end of most performances so far the pilot has been acquitted, though most lawyers would argue that the pilot is guilty according to the German law since he violated the first article of the Grundgesetz, the German constitution: Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar/ The dignity of a human being is inviolable.
Since it is a play it made me think about tragedy and guilt in general. And at one point it became quite obvious to me that one purpose of a tragedy might be to make the audience and the character see what exactly went wrong and to see - and for the character to embrace - the guilt and this is essential to the character's dignity, it feels like only this way it might be restored.

Beuys' Logic

The artist Joseph Beuys loathed the developer who loved his art, because he was turning cheap housing into expensive, driving away the former tennants. Nevertheless Beuys sold his art to him, but only to financially support the tennants.

Scars

Some have to wear them openly because of the way and the place they were applied. There is a kind of strength to be had from it.

"Rage, rage against the dying of the light."