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XVI. Crossed Hands and Closed Eyes From ‘Maud’ By Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) DEAD, long dead, Long dead! And my heart is a handful of dust, And the wheels go over my head, And my bones are shaken with pain,        5 For into a shallow grave they are thrust, Only a yard beneath the street, And the hoofs of the horses beat, beat, The hoofs of the horses beat, Beat into my scalp and my brain,        10 With never an end to the stream of passing feet, Driving, hurrying, marrying, burying, Clamour and rumble, and ringing and clatter, And here beneath it is all as bad, For I thought the dead had peace, but it is not so;        15 To have no peace in the grave, is that not sad? But up and down and to and fro, Ever about me the dead men go.

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“Do you know what a poem is, Esther?' No, what?' I would say. A piece of dust.' Then, just as he was smiling and starting to look proud, I would say, 'So are the cadavers you cut up. So are the people you think you're curing. They're dust as dust as dust. I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.' And of course Buddy wouldn't have any answer to that, because what I said was true. People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing poems people would remember and repeat to themselves when they were unhappy or sick or couldn't sleep.

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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Matthew Stadler joins with Smoke & Dust, a non-profit record label and publishing house in Ghent run by Tim Bryon, Valentijn Goethals and Tomas Lootens, contributing the essay “So Many Dark Gifts” to this photo-rich volume exploring the group’s varied, cross-media output. From #punkrock shows, #posters and #screenprinting, to nomadic #radio and providing a platform for #young artists, the group enforces confrontation with an audience and a #publicspace. Constantly on the hunt for new impulses, whether visually or musically, the focus is always on #experimental artistic forms. In his essay, Stadler emphasises the role Goethals plays, and also what fascinates him. A delicious cacophony of images ensure, with host of #images featuring vernacular #typography, hand-lettering, and the ephemeral cultural trappings of #youthculture. Designed by Valentijn Goethals, Tomas Looten, and Jurgen Maelfeyt. Printed in a #limitededition of 400 copies

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http://berghain.de/event/2415 Halle am Berghain

"Dust is a deformation. Dust can not be counted, he steals his forms from others. Dust fades, he copies. As a form he belongs to the past, but I am interested in his current existence. "

Katarzyna Krakowiak

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A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water

“A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water” is a vital natural phenomenon and ecological interpretation of order describing the cycle of creation and extinction. Dust suggests noise and cries, covers the objects of our conspicuous consumption that are remains of our industrial society. A drop of water suggests the medium of creation, animates the inanimate thus allowing the cycle of life. Dust, together with water, heals the negative elements of the contemporary society, thus revitalizing the new cultural & aesthetics values in the present world.

https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/42730/a-grain-of-dust-a-drop-of-water/

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From Dust to Dust - Melvin Moti

http://www.wiels.org/en/exhibitions/230/Melvin-Moti-From-Dust-to-Dust

Moti puts failure and dust at the center of a new project that is over one year in the making. 

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http://www.wiels.org/en/bookshop/11/Melvin-Moti

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Berlin

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You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Maya Angelou

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https://laurelhalo.bandcamp.com/album/laurel-halo-dust-hdblp036

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DUST IS A BIANNUAL MAGAZINE BORN IN 2010 BASED BETWEEN BERLIN AND LONDON AND DISTRIBUTEDWORLDWIDE. THE INTENT OF THE PROJECT IS TO EXPLORE THE UNIVERSE OF YOUTH, IN THE CONTEXT OF A PRESENT TIME MARKED BY A CONTINUOUS STATE OF CRISIS. OUR INTEREST IS TO ENLIGHTEN THE GENUINE AND NON-CODIFIED ASPECTS OF YOUTH AND OF THE NEW EMERGING GENERATION BY DIRECTING OUR GAZE FAR FROM INSTITUTIONALIZED GEOGRAPHY AND TRENDS, AND ABOVE THE CURRENT STANDARDIZATION THAT TENDS TO CONFORM THE EXPERIENCE OF YOUTH IN REGULATED FORMS. IN OUR RESEARCH WE CROSS CONFLICTING TERRITORIES, WHERE STRUCTURES COLLAPSE AND THE WESTERN CODES OF APPEARANCES DISSOLVE INTO DIFFERENT KINDS OF CHOICES, DIFFERENT KINDS OF DYNAMICS. WE LIKE TO UNDERLINE A SILENT GEOGRAPHY, AT THE MARGIN OF MAINSTREAM PATHS, IN ORDER TO REDISCOVER A STRONGER ATTACHMENT TO LIFE, SOMEHOW MORE VITAL, GENUINE AND AWAKE; SOMETHING THAT IS HARD TO FIND IN THE ANESTHETIZED YOUTH PRESENTED BY THE DISORIENTED CIRCULATING CULTURE. THE TERRITORY IN WHICH WE DIG IS ‘THE CRISIS’ AS THE ELECTED PLACE WHERE TO REDESIGN FORMS, IDEAS, VALUES AND STRATEGIES FOR OUR GENERATION TO EMBRACE A DIFFERENT WAY TO CONCEIVE OF LIFE. WE OBSERVE THE COLLAPSE OF STABILITIES TAKING PLACE GLOBALLY AS AN IRREVERSIBLE SHIFT OF SCENARIO THAT’S PUSHING YOUTH TO AN URGENCY OF CHANGE, AN URGENCY TO FIND A NEW AND PROPER VISION. AS MANY DO, WE FEEL RENEWAL TO BE NECESSARY IN ALL FIELDS, BASED ON A MORE PERSONAL SENSIBILITY. IN LIGHT OF OUR CONCERNS AND INTERESTS, THE REALMS OF COMMUNICATION, VISUAL CULTURE, ART AND FASHION NEED TO BE RECONSIDERED FROM A NEW POINT OF VIEW. OUR MAGAZINE IS INTENT ON CREATING, WITHIN THE LIMITS OF ANY CULTURAL PRODUCT PRESENT IN THE MARKET, THIS NEW VISION. WE CONSIDER THE MAGAZINE A LABORATORY OF IDEAS AND CONCEPTS THROUGH WHICH WE SEARCH FOR A NEW ESTHETIC AND TO GIVE THE IMAGE NEW VALUE. OUR PERSONAL INTERESTS GO BEYOND THE IDEA OF COOLNESS, TRENDS, WAVES OR ANYTHING ESTABLISHED BY POP CULTURE. WE PREFER TO DIRECT OUR GAZE TO THE BASIC, GENUINE WAY THROUGH WHICH YOUTH EXPRESSES ITSELF, FROM WHERE EVERYTHING SHOULD BE RECONSIDERED.

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DUST IS A BIANNUAL MAGAZINE BORN IN 2010 BASED BETWEEN BERLIN AND LONDON AND DISTRIBUTEDWORLDWIDE. THE INTENT OF THE PROJECT IS TO EXPLORE THE UNIVERSE OF YOUTH, IN THE CONTEXT OF A PRESENT TIME MARKED BY A CONTINUOUS STATE OF CRISIS. OUR INTEREST IS TO ENLIGHTEN THE GENUINE AND NON-CODIFIED ASPECTS OF YOUTH AND OF THE NEW EMERGING GENERATION BY DIRECTING OUR GAZE FAR FROM INSTITUTIONALIZED GEOGRAPHY AND TRENDS, AND ABOVE THE CURRENT STANDARDIZATION THAT TENDS TO CONFORM THE EXPERIENCE OF YOUTH IN REGULATED FORMS. IN OUR RESEARCH WE CROSS CONFLICTING TERRITORIES, WHERE STRUCTURES COLLAPSE AND THE WESTERN CODES OF APPEARANCES DISSOLVE INTO DIFFERENT KINDS OF CHOICES, DIFFERENT KINDS OF DYNAMICS. WE LIKE TO UNDERLINE A SILENT GEOGRAPHY, AT THE MARGIN OF MAINSTREAM PATHS, IN ORDER TO REDISCOVER A STRONGER ATTACHMENT TO LIFE, SOMEHOW MORE VITAL, GENUINE AND AWAKE; SOMETHING THAT IS HARD TO FIND IN THE ANESTHETIZED YOUTH PRESENTED BY THE DISORIENTED CIRCULATING CULTURE. THE TERRITORY IN WHICH WE DIG IS ‘THE CRISIS’ AS THE ELECTED PLACE WHERE TO REDESIGN FORMS, IDEAS, VALUES AND STRATEGIES FOR OUR GENERATION TO EMBRACE A DIFFERENT WAY TO CONCEIVE OF LIFE. WE OBSERVE THE COLLAPSE OF STABILITIES TAKING PLACE GLOBALLY AS AN IRREVERSIBLE SHIFT OF SCENARIO THAT’S PUSHING YOUTH TO AN URGENCY OF CHANGE, AN URGENCY TO FIND A NEW AND PROPER VISION. AS MANY DO, WE FEEL RENEWAL TO BE NECESSARY IN ALL FIELDS, BASED ON A MORE PERSONAL SENSIBILITY. IN LIGHT OF OUR CONCERNS AND INTERESTS, THE REALMS OF COMMUNICATION, VISUAL CULTURE, ART AND FASHION NEED TO BE RECONSIDERED FROM A NEW POINT OF VIEW. OUR MAGAZINE IS INTENT ON CREATING, WITHIN THE LIMITS OF ANY CULTURAL PRODUCT PRESENT IN THE MARKET, THIS NEW VISION. WE CONSIDER THE MAGAZINE A LABORATORY OF IDEAS AND CONCEPTS THROUGH WHICH WE SEARCH FOR A NEW ESTHETIC AND TO GIVE THE IMAGE NEW VALUE. OUR PERSONAL INTERESTS GO BEYOND THE IDEA OF COOLNESS, TRENDS, WAVES OR ANYTHING ESTABLISHED BY POP CULTURE. WE PREFER TO DIRECT OUR GAZE TO THE BASIC, GENUINE WAY THROUGH WHICH YOUTH EXPRESSES ITSELF, FROM WHERE EVERYTHING SHOULD BE RECONSIDERED.