It's funny for me having written on this quite a long ago... That she decides to quit, right now. End of the media, advertising mogul who based her B'Model in the Lack of Privacy? No more adventures of the swedish gossip-girl?
Being honest, music to my ears to hear that. I don't get what's wrong on this society, where you're free to study, where you get help to learn, to open your mind, to become part of that intelectual elite that some call creators, who will rule the soon-cominginterdisciplinary world...
One just needs to keep eyes wide open and take the challenge. What's the purpose then on so many people focusing on her? I don't feel any inspiration. Maybe I'm biased, for my age and nationality. And anyway, I shouldn't close my eyes to this celebrity-blogger thing, becoming Business with capital B. A global one. From Tv to fotolog princes and princesses.
It's just scary, the extent to which Big Brother lives within mankind.
Just a quick thought to contrast the previous one...
When will this arrive to Spain? Last Friday, I got the following email in my job's inbox:
Hi, I would like to thank you all for the flowers that we received for our wedding one and a half week ago. I also want to inform you that I have taken my wife's name which is (..)
Still amazed though hoping that, as well as there are more women in managerial positions than men, conducting the project I'm currently working for, this sticks and extends into other areas like politics and eventually, permeates society in the less-advanced countries, like my own. I hate people rising an eyebrow when hearing about papaledighet: There's written nowhere that we - women, black or any other discriminated group - are less so, let's hope for the best.
Luxury hotels in Stockholm - Sheraton, Grand Hotel, Radisson bl a - bombarded with Club Privé's flyers. Blame my innocence but I thought these things didn't happen here, in the land of equality, respect and papaledighet.
After observing they way of a group of middle-aged, nuptial-ring wearers, spanish b'men gazed - like deer hunters - a beautiful asian-looking girl... Started to question my views.
And it's just maybe the fact that a growing single frequent-travelling generation of professionals demand having fun after the meeting. Some made business out of it, like networking dinners where you share table with other lonely-interesting people during the b-trip evening.
Who makes the money out of Privé? Aren't we going backwards like kräftor?
I drop everyday around Kista Galeria. Neither do I like it as a shopping mall, even less as a place for lunch. However, I find the mix quite interesting. On one hand, the card-army, bluetooth headset in one ear, smartphone on the hand, constant boring work-centered conversation overall. On the other, the naturals. That massive amount of immigrants - kinda funny - who like I did, moved to Sweden in the search of a shiny new life in the full-of-opportunities to learn, work and be-happy Scandinavian society.
More than 2 years being regularly around da hood and I still cannot help gazing the women who still wear the scarf. Well-educated, sitting beside me at school; fashion and beauty conscious - even obsessed - but still sticking to their roots, to their religion, to the scarf, to Ramadan.
I don't understand why. I don't get what's the power of the scarf. So, after being stroke of seeing a girl wearing - in this fashion - my beloved, recently bought & trendy leopard-printed scarf I tried to wear it myself. Just for fun, to see what happens.
I felt uncomfortable at the beginning but, then started to realize the power of hiding. They say that you are slave of your words but owner of your silence and it's just maybe that, combined with the tendency of sticking to something that all of us have.
However, my concern goes further from the surface, drowning in the perturbing question about the future: What will come out of such a fast-growing group whom, despite being merged in a completely forward-thinking and equalitarian society, sticks to its traditions and probably to tremendously old-fashioned social roles too?
Well... Let's play some Manu Chao - in Spanish ;P, anyway.
Moderna Museet might be having a Birthday all through this year but, its soul becomes everyday more forward-looking. A heart beating faster day after day whose blood's sped up with inner renovation, outrageous artists on display, disruptive voices and various events to spread the arty soul among the community - so official geeks, like the one on the QWERTY right now, are no longer extranous but keen on art.
That I wished for me too, while blowing those 24 candles yesterday night, to keep my soul open and never feel bored but amazed of what reality hides beyond the eyeshot.
But getting back to what I was about. When I have a B'Day, I bring my friends home for some strawberries & bubbles. When Moderna has a B'Day, brings a ballet:
Judge by yourself
No clue? Well... That's what was he trying to say:
"It’s quite a special task to exhibit Cullberg Ballet and dance students at Moderna Museet. The installations will among other things question our notion of time and look at art criticism as a phenomenon. The installations are created with the pressure of only one week’s rehearsal time which adds a special energy and shows Cullberg Ballet’s talent for improvisation." Alexander Ekman
Frozen there, struggling to steer within that storm of thoughts - while hands-on camera, by the way - everything stopped with a dejà-vu in the back of my head - no, I don't have eyes there yet ;) And suddenly - as Jobs'd say - dots merged into a clear path.
From dancer to bailaor, from Cullberg to Amargo, from Stockholm to Madrid, from September 2008 back to 2005, to a teen broken heart healing in front of the show... DQ, Pasajero en Tránsito Unlike sets for a common glass cabin isolating the human.
DQ was - among other things - a reflection around Hikikomori as much as what I clearly perceived yesterday pictured canned emotions.
Stigmatize my simplicity, but maybe the inapprehensible answer for last wedneday's WHY? is more inferred from the overall circumstance rather than weird mental issues that happen to be ordinary in Finland. Maybe is just the lack of effort - which is actually quite common - that comes hand in hand with that everything ready-to-reach what bores this generation - Katharina referred them to - what eventually turns against themselves.
My concern has however more to do with the increase on the number of boredom-derived psychomaniacs who - funnily enough - use the net which could be the actual cause of their issues (i.e. not learning to love or relate in a corporal way) to distribute their user-generated bloodbath.
If they continue to grow so steeply, a downward spiral of fear and violence might boom in front of more faces too.
Amy W. an english white woman with a deep black soul. Barack Obama... Will he eventually get the power? Black panthers walking down the catwalk under the big names of Fashion - newcommer Jourdan Dunn historically becoming the first black model to walk for Prada in over ten years - because iit seems that"(...)black models rarely get jobs on catwalks, in magazines and on billboards. According to executives, they do not inspire women to spend money."
Vogue Italia The Black Issue, July 08
Politics, art and market... Finally intertwined? Will this apparent end of racism trigger a new era nazism if combined with global crisis... We'll see. But this southern brunnette invandraretruly hopes that it will not.
