Bloomsday Psychodelia
Schedule
Sun Jun 16 2024 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Beyond Baroque | Venice, CA
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Free admission. Join us for PSYBERNETIC DREAMING with live music, readings, dance by RIA LIVE CINEMA.
Imagine the flaneur Bloom wandering Dublin tripping on mushrooms, à la mind-altering mind-altering psychogeography.
Bloomsday is a celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce, observed annually in Dublin and elsewhere (like Venice, CA) on 16 June, the day his 1922 novel Ulysses takes place in 1904, the date of his first sexual encounter with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, and named after its protagonist Leopold Bloom.
Celebrate Bloomsday and James Joyceness the Venice way. Turn your eyes into ears with poets, dancers, live music and avant-garde films.
As James Joyce quipped, "Let us pry."
Artists/Social engineers Will Erokan & Gerry Fialka's post-hypnotic triggering and hyper-maximum multi-media "live cinema" event reinvents McLuhan's Menippean satirized Gesamtkunstwerk and breaks the Finnegans Wake code: "what can't be coded can be decorded if an ear aye seize what no eye ere grieved fore."
"It is based upon individual thinking, scientific know-how, quick exchange of facts, high-tech ingenuity, and practical, front-line creativity." "We call the free-agent who thinks for him/herself 'cybernetic' from the Greek word for pilot. The word 'psychedelic' means ecstatic or mind-opening. 'Psybernetic' refers to psychedelic experience expressed in electronic form." RIA is "composed of quick-thinking, open-minded, change-oriented, innovative individuals who are adept in communicating via the new cyber-electronic technologies."
Quotes from Timothy Leary, The Other Side, 1998. Diaper is repaid backwards?
This interactive psychedelic art party (actually a laugh-out-loud media yoga session with rigorous intelligent exercises) enables participants to meta-analyze the dualities of form and content. Embrace contradictions. Examine electronic interdependence, all-at-onceness, effects preceding causes, sense-ratio-shifting, metaphor and abstraction. Discern patterns that emerge in perceiving perception itself!
Reading Joyce aloud with others is like tripping on acid.
Marshall McLuhan was beginning to come clear about these matters around 1950 (in a labyrinthine search which would culminate in 1958). Here he is (in a passage discussing Joyce which will require detailed examination elsewhere) claiming that the consideration of the modalities of the “adequation of mind and things”, modalities to be specified in terms of “the exterior and interior senses”, can itself uncover/recover relation to the prior “the dance of being” aka “the gestures of being itself” (by finding itself being them):
"Whereas the ethical world of Ulysses is presented in terms of well-defined human types the more metaphysical world of the Wake speaks and moves before us with the gestures of being itself. It is a nightworld and, literally, as Joyce reiterates, is “abcedminded”. Letters (“every letter is a godsend”), the frozen, formalized gestures of remote ages of collective experience, move before us in solemn morrice. They are the representatives of age-old adequation of mind and things, enacting the drama of the endless adjustment of the interior acts and dispositions of the mind to the outer world. The drama of cognition itself. For it is in the drama of cognition, the stages of apprehension, that Joyce found the archetype of poetic imitation. He seems to have been the first to see that the dance of being, the nature imitated by the arts, has its primary analogue in the activity of the exterior and interior senses. (James Joyce: Trivial and Quadrivial. By Marshall McLuhan. 1953)...https://pfsuzy.medium.com/marshall-mcluhan-finnegans-wake-reading-club-by-gerry-fialka-e90829d2c2c6
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.The Story is Not Over by Gerry Fialka Venice BeachHead June 2023
The Story is Not Over by Gerry Fialka Venice BeachHead June 2023
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The Story is Not Over by Gerry Fialka Venice BeachHead June 2023
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Where is it happening?
Beyond Baroque, 2015 Pisani Pl, Venice, CA 90291-3816, United States,Los Angeles, CaliforniaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
