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“How can you make an in­formed de­ci­sion about whether to save the world if you nev­er leave your tiny part of it?”
—Shaun David Hutchinson

“I thought if we made an al­bum that tried to change the world, or give it hope, it would re­al­ly hap­pen. But all peo­ple found was death and de­struc­tion and mis­ery and self-hate. I learned that the world doesn’t want to be saved, and it will fuck­ing punch you in the face if you try.”
—Ger­ard Way

“Graph­ic de­sign will save the world, right af­ter rock n roll does.”
—David Car­son

“Beau­ty will save the world.”
—Fy­o­dor Dostoevsky

“That is what rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies do. We sac­ri­fice our­selves to save others.”
—Viet Thanh Nguyen

 

Mod­ern society 
            is an in­side out, mi­croscopy, gy­ne­col­o­gy, brain surgery. We are not in­ter­est­ed in that, we are in­ter­est­ed in the mere skin of re­al­i­ty where pas­sions and emo­tions mean some­thing and where they per­pet­u­al­ly at­tach to.

           1.  mex­i­co city “The World De­sign Or­ga­ni­za­tion named Mex­i­co City the World De­sign Cap­i­tal of 2018, a nod to its unique pub­lic ar­chi­tec­ture, vi­su­al cul­ture and in­no­v­a­tive de­sign … To­day, the Mex­i­can capital’s un­de­ni­able en­er­gy has made it a go-to city for vi­brant con­tem­po­rary art, of­ten with an un­flinch­ing po­lit­i­cal skew.”

To be engaged 
            is an eth­i­cal stan­dard, you ex­ist in the eyes of oth­ers alone and you should look at them too. The cri­sis pre­sumed and lived, by a storm of op­por­tu­ni­ties doesn’t not mean this stan­dard shouldn’t be obeyed. The per­pet­u­al con­de­s­cence over every­thing which is just means to see and be seen. The is­sue is what you do with it. In the ro­man­tic and the clas­sic era they did plen­ty with it. I mean, the old, white guard is even­tu­al­ly go­ing to shriv­el up and die off – like, it’s not go­ing to not hap­pen. Tho this mod­ern ni­hilism is an illusion.

           2.  shar­jah “Of­ten over­shad­owed by its flashier neigh­bours Abu Dhabi and Dubai, Shar­jah is fi­nal­ly get­ting its chance to shine … The city is cre­at­ing a rep­u­ta­tion as the place in the UAE for cre­ativ­i­ty and a cut­ting-edge cul­tur­al agen­da, and in re­cent years its cul­tur­al cal­en­dar has flourished.”

It’s true
            that I main­ly re­act to the con­de­scen­dance on ar­ti­san re­al­i­ty. Peo­ple will not eas­i­ly un­der­stand when I’m spout­ing filth like that.

           3.  bel­grade “Long cut off from the in­ter­na­tion­al move­ments, Bel­grade is a hub for con­tem­po­rary art in Eu­rope once again … fu­elled by a vi­brant youth cul­ture, the city is fast be­com­ing the world’s top des­ti­na­tion for nightlife thanks to a par­ty scene that spans every­thing from gyp­sy folk to new-wave Ser­bian hip-hop. It is also a des­ti­na­tion for Bru­tal­ist ar­chi­tec­ture aficionados.”

But the filth 
            is an il­lu­sion, and not very avant garde. What is more im­por­tant is that we did­n’t change, so we ARE all those gen­er­a­tions of past times, this is nec­es­sary to break time open.

           4.  dakar “With 60% of its pop­u­la­tion un­der 25 years old, Africa is the youngest con­ti­nent on the plan­et … Dakar is at the cen­tre of the youthquake. Senegal’s cap­i­tal is the west­ern­most city on Africa’s main­land and a hotbed for the nation’s new gen­er­a­tion of artists, de­sign­ers and students.”

It is my 
            fun­da­men­tal be­lief that we should not ac­cept mod­ernism as a time period —

           5.  bangkok “Through rap, graf­fi­ti, con­tem­po­rary art and pho­tog­ra­phy, Thai cre­atives are in­creas­ing­ly fight­ing back against cen­sor­ship. A new gen­er­a­tion of artists and cu­ra­tors are gath­er­ing the courage to speak out in new and sub­ver­sive ways, and have found their voice by cre­at­ing an anti-dic­ta­tor­ship arts movement.”

In­stead
            we should only ac­cept a nü era where all dec­o­ra­tive fea­tures are pos­si­ble. As cos­play proves we need to re­al­ize this in every city, in ar­chi­tec­ture, sculp­ture and all of art.

 

—tris­ti­tia languorem

Flom­mist Tris­ti­tia Lan­guorem eats tragedy. They have many names but it doesn’t change much the whole premise of the ideals. Antwerp, Bel­gium is where home is. It’s time for a fresh start. Copy­right © 2020 Tris­ti­tia Lan­guorem. Red seg­ments quot­ed from: Lib­by Banks, The five most cre­ative cities in the world, BBC, 2019.

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