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Says Barbara Kruger. I know, I said. I am a self in the making. I am a non-essential subject, a body caught in a performative act of normalising; of manifesting utterances; validating pre-conditions, albeit far less than most people. She is right, you are not yourself because your self-concept is nothing more than a story that has been told so often that everyone believes it. So if I am not me and you are not you, then who are we?

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Frank Carter & The Rattle Snakes - Rotten Blossom

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Frank Carter & The Rattle Snakes - Rotten Blossom

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Rotten Blossom contemplates life after death, by using the vast contrast between scientific and spiritual/religious views of death.  This juxtaposition is a constant theme throughout the song and is exemplified in the title Rotten Blossom.  My interpretation of the meaning behind the art, is that it aims to portray the grim reality of death from a scientific point of view versus the prosperous view of death with endless possibilities that a spiritual interpretation presents.  It also illustrates the artist’s struggle with their beliefs of what happens after death.

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Frank Carter and The Rattlesnakes - Rotten Blossom (Official Audio)

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It's certainly true that music/song is a great medium for contemplation of the deeply spiritual.   Is anything real?  Well that's a very broad question and ones answer will no doubtedly be influenced by your belief system.
Aryn sings - Maybe the realest things are things you can’t touch with your hands
The realest things are things you can’t see with your eyes
Maybe the realest things are things like hope and love and peace
The realest things are things you believe!
Is anything real?  Maybe the ontological argument first derived by Anselm of Canterbury in his 1078 work is still relevant today? “Which is greater: the artist’s idea of the painting or the painting itself as it really exists? Obviously the latter, for the painting itself not only exists in the artist’s mind, but in reality as well. Similarly, if God existed only in the mind, then something greater than him could be conceived, namely, his existing not only in the mind, but in reality as well.”
-William Lane Craig Reasonable Faith (95)
Is anything real?  Something tells me we'll continue to ponder that for longer than I'm alive on this earth.

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Pierre Auguste Renoir painted the piece "Dance in the Country" in 1883, it depicts a couple having a flowing, spontaneous dance in the countryside, abandoning their meal and not paying attention to anything else, like the person watching, one of their hats having fallen off or the women having trouble holing her fan but not caring, simply because they must have this moment with one another.

The ancient Greeks devised seven different phrases for expressing different types of love. If we are to use these seven different phrases and depictions of love as a tool for illustrating the diversity of love then we could say that this depiction
could be categorised as  “Philia” or Affectionate Love.
Love is a chemical reaction in the brain, but it can be more, it is very personal and diverse, its personification and various expressions mean different things to different people, it is a feeling we as people constantly wish to be reciprocated, it can come very easily and vanish as quickly as it came, so we express it to others with the promise that you want this feeling to never leave.
Some of the simplest things can inspire explosions of affection and love, even something as simple as a dance in the country side.

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Country Dance - Pierre Auguste Renoir - Google Arts & Culture

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Renoir liked dance scenes. These two paintings were designed as a pair: the format is identical and the almost life-size figures represent two different ev...

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“Addicted To You” by Avicii (2013) is a song about falling in love and being addicted to someone. The song begins by talking about how love isn’t planned, that it was just by chance that it had happened but once the writer had fallen in love, it was “like a powerful drug” and had become “addicted to you, hooked on your love.” The song describes love as someone that is by surprise and takes over your life, becoming all you can think about and ultimately submit to the feeling of it. Throughout the song, there is a constant theme of love being a drug and becoming high on the feeling of it. The title itself describes an addict with references to addiction, being high, being out of control, flowing through veins and directing saying “like a powerful drug.” The song also states that without this love that the writer would go insane and wouldn’t be able to stand the pain. The video for this song brings another theme to the song suggesting that love can be destructive as the women in the clip end up in a shootout whilst robbing a bank, where they die. I think overall that this song describes what love means from a romantic prospective.

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Here is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Dan Mangan that I find interesting. I am drawn to songs with complex or conflicting emotions and this one has the singer as subject, reflecting on how he will continue to write songs now that he is happy in love. I suppose because all of his previous work came from heartbreak. I think I find it interesting and sad-beautiful that the function of love for an artist might be different (or is that about the function of art as therapy?). Toby Wren.

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Dan Mangan - Et Les Mot Croisés [Nice, Nice, Very Nice - Track 08]

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Immortality, Inc. - Robert Sheckley (1959).

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Immortality, Inc. - Robert Sheckley (1959).

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This book caught my attention when I was 15 regarding it's concept of life and death. In the future people are able to transfer their consciousness to another body. This was something really just for the wealthy due to the cost.  There is a part in the book where the people that have lived in multiple bodies go on a final "hunt" to the death as they are bored with living for so long. Poorer people in the society are able to end their lives by going into suicide booths provided by the government.  At the core it's about that money can buy an extended life and this is not something affordable to those without money.  While this is a sci fi novels it has parallels to life now in that the wealthy are normally privileged with a longer life.  In the future, what's in the book may well be possible.

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Immortality, Inc. is a 1959 science fiction novel by American writer Robert Sheckley, about a fictional process whereby a human's consciousness may be transferred into a brain-dead body. A striking concept in the novel is its description of random killings of strangers by people who intend to die.

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From One Culture to Another. The Culture novels By Iain M Banks.

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From One Culture to Another. The Culture novels By Iain M Banks.

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Is there life after death?

A very big question.

I was raised as a Roman Catholic, by an Irish Catholic Mother and a atheist father, talk about mixed messages.

From the one hand I had the teachings of the church, the resurrection to life ever lasting, as long as you repent your sins. The iconography , the imagery of the church in this period of my life has cast a long shadow in my life.

On the one hand I followed my father down the path of material rationalism to a godless life, free of the constraints of religion, but on the other I find, particularly as I get older, that the idea of life after death resonates with me.

But through a rather peculiar medium. I have not returned to the church, not even paying lip service to the ideas.

But through the Culture novels by fellow Scot, Iain M Banks.

Better living through science fiction? Can that be a thing?

The basic idea is that out in the universe is a dispersed group of peoples who live in a post want society, like some super charged anarcho syndicalistic group. Countless billions who need not work, as machines provide all, they need not suffer as there is no war, and need not die as their science has made this a thing of the past.

The Culture has no government, and all decisions are made collectively, by those who are so inclined to, or have been selected for their suitability to help. The selected are gathered by a collective of artificial intelligences, known as Minds. These inhabit impossibly massive ships all with self self selected names, such as “No More Mr Nice Guy” or “Prosthetic Conscience”.

The people are as diverse was any population, but they are free to indulge their interests as they please, be that wild hedonism or to live as an ascetic hermit.

The point of all of this is that despite the opportunity to give Methuselah a run for his only, many people opt for death, or at least its variants.

Some voluntarily accept death after a long life, whilst others opt for Storage.

Their consciousnesses are recorded and their bodies placed in a state of suspended animation, to await either a set period of time or for a set of conditions to be met where they feel they would be interested in resuming life.

I was hooked.

It sat somewhere between my formative exposure to the idea of life eternal, and my atheistic thinking.

The idea of this spoke to me at a fundamental level.  The idea of life ever lasting,  but free from the, to me, corrosive effects of religion, had me pining for this all to be real.

The long sleep until something interesting to me occurred was a salve to the tump of my religiosity.

One of the Minds that actually are the ships and rings of centrifugally contained atmosphere called Orbitals had a use for the stored.

The General Systems Vehicle “Sleeper Service” a 90x40x20 kilometre box has no living person aboard.

The ship had long since gone “Eccentric”, meaning it had become a hermit eschewing the company of fellow Culture citizens, be they biological or Artificial Intelligences, it drifts where it pleases doing what it likes.

And what it likes is making dioramas of famous battles.

Whole  mountains and river systems are built and populated with the plants, trees and grasses.

Then The Sleeper Service uses its cargo of sleeping humans to recreate the Battle Of Gettysburg in minute detail, a full scale perfect tableaux of the opening day, populated by slumbering Dead people, clothes as Conferderate or Yankee, static in their individual poses.

Vaulting out of the trenches, running a bayonet into an enemy, cowering from the cannon.

It was life after death, but a death imitating life, both at once.

It has always touched that debris of my faith.

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The Dresden Dolls - Coin Operated Boy (Roadrunner, 2004)

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The Dresden Dolls - Coin Operated Boy (Roadrunner, 2004)

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Dresden Dolls' singer Amanda Palmer wrote the music and the lyrics of this piece. Just using drums, piano and vocals (and a few sound effects), this song shines some light on the the pain and frustration that can come with love. She sings very emotional, and fantasies about her 'coin operated boy' who makes love so simple and manageable. In between the lines I read her frustrations that come with complex human relationships, hence her desire for a boy just the way imagined. (Jan Muths)

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The Dresden Dolls - Coin Operated Boy [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

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The Dresden Dolls' video for 'Coin Operated Boy' off the album Yes, Virginia - available now on Roadrunner Records.

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This art exhibition is incredibly evocative and begs the question and contemplation around that we are more than just our bodies. It also ties into "Is there life after death?". The art allows visitors to experience what it is like in another persons skin. I believe this art cuts to the core of what it means to love, to exist, and to be human. Whilst I love this type of experiential art, I believe it may leave some (perhaps more conservative types) feeling uncomfortable - and this excites me!
Enjoy!
Bron

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BODYSUITS " başkasının bedenini giymek ister misiniz"?