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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

Mutants, a Kennedy and the Lula: the dictatorship in Brazil has not ended

– back row (left to right): Arnaldo Baptista, Caetano Veloso (holding portrait of bossa nova & MPB singer, Nara Leão), Rita Lee, Sérgio Dias and Tom Zé – front row (right to left): Torquato Nelo (lyricist-poet), Gal Costa (born Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos, somewhat resentfully renamed by Caetano Veloso), Gilberto

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The Terror Egg, Dignity before Life, Exile & N-exile: Manea’s Iron Defence of Irony, & how to gain entry to the past, an Anti-Pedagogy: the lessons of pride and solitude

to denounce the Big Lie that encased our lives like the thin shell of an egg … As you touched it, the membrane burst, and you suddenly found yourself alone and helpless, at the mercy of a whip wielded by authority. … The Big Lie, like a new placenta, prevented us from

excerpts from “Bush’s cultural legacy” – The Guardian, Friday October 31 2008. … What’s Helen’s?

Joyce Carol Oates: If Obama wins, very likely there would be an efflorescence of a kind, perhaps most evident in the more public artforms – dance, music, theatre. Gore Vidal: Oliver Stone, I gather, is doing father-and-son stories. I’m very fond of Oliver, but you don’t need Freud when

seriously, EVERYONE SHUT UP! and let’s talk seriously about art, the gentle art of placation :«Всем молчать!»

– Field (Поле), gold leaf, black printers ink, handprint on canvas, Alexei Belyaev (Guintovt) An Open Letter on the 2008 Kandinsky Prize We admit it upfront: we don’t care much for the artist Alexei Belyaev (Guintovt), and we don’t care about him. His art is beyond the pale of

theatre of communitage: “in any place, but not in a special place” – Augusto Boal

– Augusto Boal Excerpts from Tom Magill’s interview with Augusto Boal [full text here]: Communitage: The word community, communitage in Portuguese, we use to define sometimes a region of the city, e.g., a slum. In this state there is a communitage within that slum. Sometimes we can talk about