Comments for Rome http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome 8 months in Rome. A colossal blog. Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:09:16 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on 109- Inaugural Closure, Closing Inauguration by jg http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=1582&cpage=1#comment-19 jg Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:09:16 +0000 http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=1582#comment-19 BRAVO ! BRAVO !

]]> Comment on 105- Transcription of the Speech by yohsuke http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=1506&cpage=1#comment-18 yohsuke Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:07:16 +0000 http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=1506#comment-18 AT LAST THE TIME HAS COME...! AT LAST THE TIME HAS COME…!

]]> Comment on 73- Earthquakes by JG http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=1117&cpage=1#comment-17 JG Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:03:07 +0000 http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=1117#comment-17 I think you will need to do the sensorial session again, especially the tactile one, as you may be more equipped to chack if there has been any damage to the stones. I think you will need to do the sensorial session again, especially the tactile one, as you may be more equipped to chack if there has been any damage to the stones.

]]> Comment on 1- Coliseum by Beate and Flo http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-16 Beate and Flo Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:18:34 +0000 http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=3#comment-16 It`s so typical for your type of art, that`s what I`ve liked all the years I know you! B. I really love your idea and found it funny from the very first moment on:-) I'm really looking forward to your visit in muenster and I'm excited to hear from the result of your project! Flo It`s so typical for your type of art, that`s what I`ve liked all the years I know you! B.
I really love your idea and found it funny from the very first moment on:-) I’m really looking forward to your visit in muenster and I’m excited to hear from the result of your project! Flo

]]> Comment on 62- Resilience by ingrid http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=865&cpage=1#comment-15 ingrid Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:25:01 +0000 http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=865#comment-15 Manuel, don´t give up! Ver la esquina superior del Coliseo durante 2 frames, en este caso, no equivale a "VER el Coliseo". Y este post es más emocionante que un thriller francés! Manuel, don´t give up!
Ver la esquina superior del Coliseo durante 2 frames, en este caso, no equivale a “VER el Coliseo”. Y este post es más emocionante que un thriller francés!

]]> Comment on 55- Representation by C http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=715&cpage=1#comment-14 C Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:02:56 +0000 http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=715#comment-14 The real killing of Ceaucescu and his wife was in fact a representation of the killings in the Coliseum. In other words, Ceaucescu's killing was a re-enactment of well rehearsed (one could argue: ritualised) killings for the public. The fact that the tyrant died did not make the act of killing original. However, since the executors involved were most certainly not aware of the representational quality of their actions Ceaucescu's killing did not contain an artistic element, an artistic expression. The real killing of Ceaucescu and his wife was in fact a representation of the killings in the Coliseum. In other words, Ceaucescu’s killing was a re-enactment of well rehearsed (one could argue: ritualised) killings for the public. The fact that the tyrant died did not make the act of killing original. However, since the executors involved were most certainly not aware of the representational quality of their actions Ceaucescu’s killing did not contain an artistic element, an artistic expression.

]]> Comment on 6- Architecture of mass murder by yohsuke http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=40&cpage=1#comment-13 yohsuke Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:46:17 +0000 http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=40#comment-13 When you come back to my town, you will be able to find very similar structure quite nearby my home. At now, it's still on constructing, but until you visit here, it will be completed. You shoul hire a helicopter. http://map.yahoo.co.jp/pl?type=scroll&lat=35.64762094&lon=139.69111555&sc=3&mode=aero&pointer=on&home=on&hlat=35.63830611&hlon=139.701855 When you come back to my town, you will be able to find very similar structure quite nearby my home.
At now, it’s still on constructing, but until you visit here, it will be completed.
You shoul hire a helicopter.

http://map.yahoo.co.jp/pl?type=scroll&lat=35.64762094&lon=139.69111555&sc=3&mode=aero&pointer=on&home=on&hlat=35.63830611&hlon=139.701855

]]> Comment on 31- Wrap up by Reuben Henry http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=345&cpage=1#comment-12 Reuben Henry Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:19:04 +0000 http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=345#comment-12 this entry really contextualises the project well for me. I find that life is best lived within preset parameters- contrary to popular definitions of freedom. But the reason is so that these barriers might be pushed and teased- and how you tease them in your previous photo with the Colosseum behind you in the distance! What tension- your trip to Rome surely has become nothing short of cinematic. this entry really contextualises the project well for me. I find that life is best lived within preset parameters- contrary to popular definitions of freedom. But the reason is so that these barriers might be pushed and teased- and how you tease them in your previous photo with the Colosseum behind you in the distance! What tension- your trip to Rome surely has become nothing short of cinematic.

]]> Comment on 14- Dinner parties are risky by jaime http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=141&cpage=1#comment-11 jaime Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:39:59 +0000 http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=141#comment-11 sorry. It's "Los autonautas en la cosmopista" sorry. It’s
“Los autonautas en la cosmopista”

]]> Comment on 14- Dinner parties are risky by jaime http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=141&cpage=1#comment-10 jaime Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:51:39 +0000 http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=141#comment-10 Now this blog reminds me of one (perhaps last) book by Julio Cortázar ”Los Argonautas en la Cosmopista”. Him and his partner co-wrote it in a highway. The rule was that they were going to cross France, North to south, taking a whole month, on a camper van, NEVER LEAVING THE HIGHWAY, So stopping only in the allowed stops en route. Now this blog reminds me of one (perhaps last) book by Julio Cortázar ”Los Argonautas en la Cosmopista”. Him and his partner co-wrote it in a highway. The rule was that they were going to cross France, North to south, taking a whole month, on a camper van, NEVER LEAVING THE HIGHWAY, So stopping only in the allowed stops en route.

]]> Comment on 19- The second expedition by jaime http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=200&cpage=1#comment-9 jaime Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:36:46 +0000 http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=200#comment-9 Yesterday night after writing in your blog I watched Antonioni´s "L´eclisse". This one being (I think) particularly broken up as a film, it has a completely gratuitous scene in the middle, where Mónica Vitti flies with her friend in a small plane.... guess through which city? You can see a beautiful image of Il Colisseo from the clouds. No picture shows Mónica and the building, so I didn´t take a picture. She does actually look at it!! Yesterday night after writing in your blog I watched Antonioni´s “L´eclisse”. This one being (I think) particularly broken up as a film, it has a completely gratuitous scene in the middle, where Mónica Vitti flies with her friend in a small plane…. guess through which city?
You can see a beautiful image of Il Colisseo from the clouds. No picture shows Mónica and the building, so I didn´t take a picture. She does actually look at it!!

]]> Comment on 13- The first expedition by jaime http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=123&cpage=1#comment-7 jaime Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:50:03 +0000 http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=123#comment-7 It is getting funnierandfunnier It is getting funnierandfunnier

]]> Comment on 12- Networks management by jaime http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=106&cpage=1#comment-6 jaime Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:46:53 +0000 http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=106#comment-6 This table is very funny. I hope you are well despite the restricted zone. This table is very funny. I hope you are well despite the restricted zone.

]]> Comment on 1- Coliseum by Reuben Henry http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-5 Reuben Henry Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:20:30 +0000 http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=3#comment-5 I went to the Forbidden City in beijing last year. I wish I hadnt. It wasnt even the starbucks in there, the swarms of people dropping litter, or the fact the main palace was depicted only as a picture on its scaffold hoardings; it was just generally dissapointing. I'd built it up in my mind as a myth so much that the reality was always going to fall short of expectation. I would say the same for the Great Wall, where I have never felt so little in the mountains, if it werent for the amazing and completely dangerous breakneck-speed toboggan that took you back down. And also for Tienanmen Square, if it werent for the fact that you are supposed to feel some kind of contempt when you visit. I think you make a good choice avoiding this colossus- it will only do you harm. Going there will only give you a feeling of mediocrity, and reaffirm the cynicism harbored within yourself. Best of luck Manuel, and be careful in taxi's. I went to the Forbidden City in beijing last year. I wish I hadnt. It wasnt even the starbucks in there, the swarms of people dropping litter, or the fact the main palace was depicted only as a picture on its scaffold hoardings; it was just generally dissapointing. I’d built it up in my mind as a myth so much that the reality was always going to fall short of expectation. I would say the same for the Great Wall, where I have never felt so little in the mountains, if it werent for the amazing and completely dangerous breakneck-speed toboggan that took you back down. And also for Tienanmen Square, if it werent for the fact that you are supposed to feel some kind of contempt when you visit.

I think you make a good choice avoiding this colossus- it will only do you harm. Going there will only give you a feeling of mediocrity, and reaffirm the cynicism harbored within yourself.
Best of luck Manuel, and be careful in taxi’s.

]]> Comment on 1- Coliseum by Menchu Gutierrez http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-4 Menchu Gutierrez Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:17:55 +0000 http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=3#comment-4 It is almost impossible not to interact with your exciting project. The first thing that comes to my mind is something I read in Joseph Brodsky’s ‘Watermark’. He recalls a friend of his at the sight of the Roman Colosseum; in his words ‘somebody invented the arch and couldn’t stop’. Then I think that, in the same way the sunlight excites the phantasia of the eye, which, once closed, keeps on seeing the sun -or the negative of the sun, now black- those arches, or the negatives of the avoided arches of the Colosseum, may become a very powerful phantasia in daylight. Roman arches were made to stay, by all means. And I think that Jung would have enjoyed the fact that this very morning, before finding out about about your project, I was reading a book with a selection of texts by Henri Michaux on painting. In one of them, about Zao Wu-Ki, Michaux comments on the paralelisms between Chinese architecture and painting, and writes something like this: while any people, as soon as they become a civilization, no matter how poor or mediocre their constructive techniques may be, cannot resist the tentation of building the most solid, rigid, massive structures -those that will transmit the idea of power- the Chinese, who have the means to build such structures, are contented to build palaces which are like tents. This, I think, acts as another kind of negative or phantasia of the Roman Colosseum. It is almost impossible not to interact with your exciting project.
The first thing that comes to my mind is something I read in Joseph Brodsky’s ‘Watermark’. He recalls a friend of his at the sight of the Roman Colosseum; in his words ‘somebody invented the arch and couldn’t stop’.
Then I think that, in the same way the sunlight excites the phantasia of the eye, which, once closed, keeps on seeing the sun -or the negative of the sun, now black- those arches, or the negatives of the avoided arches of the Colosseum, may become a very powerful phantasia in daylight. Roman arches were made to stay, by all means. And I think that Jung would have enjoyed the fact that this very morning, before finding out about about your project, I was reading a book with a selection of texts by Henri Michaux on painting. In one of them, about Zao Wu-Ki, Michaux comments on the paralelisms between Chinese architecture and painting, and writes something like this: while any people, as soon as they become a civilization, no matter how poor or mediocre their constructive techniques may be, cannot resist the tentation of building the most solid, rigid, massive structures -those that will transmit the idea of power- the Chinese, who have the means to build such structures, are contented to build palaces which are like tents.
This, I think, acts as another kind of negative or phantasia of the Roman Colosseum.

]]> Comment on 1- Coliseum by manuelsaiz http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-3 manuelsaiz Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:50:22 +0000 http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=3#comment-3 All things are allowed except the real thing. Unless you are blind you cannot walk 20 metres in Rome without seing a representation of the Coliseum. Yesterday I saw "Roman Holidays", today Bruce Lee's "The Rule of the Dragon": Bruce in one side of the tiers and Chuck Norris in front of him. All things are allowed except the real thing. Unless you are blind you cannot walk 20 metres in Rome without seing a representation of the Coliseum. Yesterday I saw “Roman Holidays”, today Bruce Lee’s “The Rule of the Dragon”: Bruce in one side of the tiers and Chuck Norris in front of him.

]]> Comment on 1- Coliseum by Marko Daniel http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-2 Marko Daniel Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:25:04 +0000 http://manuelsaiz.com/Rome/?p=3#comment-2 How is Rome without the Coliseum? And does seeing it in tourist brochures and on postcards count? How is Rome without the Coliseum? And does seeing it in tourist brochures and on postcards count?

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