Order here: https://circadian.co/product/lucky-disasters-between-the-mistake-and-the-miracle/ On disastrology, unlucky stars, paradoxes of fate seducing chaos and other impossible love stories. This book researches the enigmatic alliance with the whims of chance to attract disasters that bring an end to certain aspects of our lives. Sometimes the end never ends, sometimes we become entangled in a perpetual cycle of … Continue reading
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Biting the Night. Experiments on Voluntary Insomnia
Written by Maryna Makarenko and Diego Agulló. Illustrations by Ronja Polzin. Published by Circadian. This book is a kaleidoscope of texts written by two lovers during the insomnia winter nights in Berlin and it is an attempt to give form to the experiences and findings that we collected during the nocturnal research combining essays with … Continue reading
The Conversation Book
Published by Circadian. Questions to open the portal into parallel lives. This book is comprised of the hypothetical questions that propose to imagine alternate realities. Best practiced with a partner, every question can be used as a conversation starter to explore a different version of yourself and of each other. By Dmitry Paranyushkin and Diego … Continue reading
The drama of dramaturgy: a contradictory equilibrium between nonsense and meaning making
The drama of dramaturgy: a contradictory equilibrium between nonsense and meaning making Notes from the ongoing never ending practice of life Across chaos and cosmos In this text, dramaturgy is proposed as the art of navigating across chaos and cosmos (the nonsense of chaos and the cosmos of meaning making, not only intellectual meaning but … Continue reading
Del poder virulento del arte
Lo que define a un evento es justo su poder para partir la historia en dos. Hacer un corte sin escrúpulos y escindir la realidad en un antes y un después. Y la realidad actual es la realidad que es porque se impone, y no porque se propone. Lo que nos está pasando no es … Continue reading
Imagine that you are a tattoo
Kuba is sitting on a chair in the middle of the stage in a meditation position (I assume he is meditating). Dressed a little bit mystically, but definitely eclectic. Apart from a leather jacket, scarves tied at the wrists of his hands, jewelry, he is wearing a black robe in dervish style. There is silence … Continue reading
Risking the Self. Philosophy, Tai Chi and Psychedelics
Order it at: https://circadian.co/product/risking-the-self/ This book has been written over the course of two different seasons and the reader can probably still notice the fluctuation of temperatures as the pages are turned. It contains the words from both winter and spring. Implicitly it tells the story of a transition, or, rather exorcism. Possessed by the … Continue reading
Dancing on the Threshold. Blurring the invisible borders of the worlds we make
Text published on the frame: What does it take to cross a border? A PERFORMANCE AND WORKSHOP PROGRAMME ON BORDERS, BODIES AND PERFORMANCE curated by Sandra NoethWhat does it mean, and what does it take, to cross a border? How do we experience borders, both spatially and physically— on an everyday basis and when we … Continue reading
Tiempos de habitar
edición de Óscar Cornago Bernal (ILLA) y Zara Rodríguez. Este volumen un proyecto de investigación dedicado a las prácticas escénicas como forma compartida de conocimiento práctico. Las formas de administrar el tiempo, qué hacemos y qué queremos hacer, están en la base no solo de la política, sino también del arte y las formas de producción y gestión … Continue reading
Betraying Ambition
Third edition of 100 exemplars published by CIRCADIAN. Order it at: CIRCADIAN CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PART 1. DISSECTING AMBITION Etymology of Ambition – Definition of Ambition – Ambition in the Ambience – Professionalism and Publicity – Desire to Be the Chosen One – Self-Promotion – The Opportunistic Mind and Networking – Capitalism and Ambition – The Ambitious … Continue reading