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“The Abbey Theatre is delighted to present the world premiere of OUTSIDERS by leading economist and commentator David McWilliams. … McWilliams believes Ireland’s political and social divide is not so much about rich and poor, young and old, urban and rural, but about Insiders and Outsiders. The Insiders – found in every village, town and city – are those with a stake in our country who believe that today’s status quo must be preserved at all costs. The Outsiders – who might live next door – are those who realise that the status quo is part of the problem.”
- Excerpt from the website linked above.
Those living in the Dublin area can visit the exhibition in the flesh at the National Library of Ireland.
Visit the NLI website for more information.
1- How was Zentropa born and who are you?
Zentropa was born from friendship and common political will. We are a community of comrades that try to fight the cultural, spiritual and moral desertification caused by modernity.
2- What are Zentropa’s goals?
There are many… First of all we aim at creating a physical community, alive and interdependent. A community of which each member is united by the ideal and their friendship. We also want to puzzle and create doubt in people’s minds. We want them to question their way of life, their future, push them to refuse materialism and initiate an intellectual and political revolt.
3- The most common critic made to the ‘Third Way’ is its anachronism, like other alternative ideologies. These anachronisms can be found in the symbols, methods and the political discourse. How can this attitude of looking backwards and the status quo be put to a stop without loosing the main focus?
Looking at the modern world, how can one condemn all types of nostalgia? Nostalgia is also the vivid and painful memory of everything which has been destroyed by the modern madness. The real issue posed by this nostalgic attitude is that it shouldn’t become an end in itself. The past should not be transformed into a dream of long gone and fantasized golden era or in a folkloric faithfulness to a time which was only an interlude in our long memory. On the other hand, nostalgia can be a fuel for fighting and building on! We’re not going backwards, this is a certainty, but we can dip the resources as well as paradigms in the past to build a future faithful to our ancestral identity and adapted to the modern world’s challenges.
4- Zentropa seems to be willing to compensate the fact people read less and less with a great sense of aesthetic and simple visual messages. Can you tell me more about it?
Let’s be clear, nothing can replace reading when you speak about culture or training militants. Articles and (even more) books are key for structuring the mind and for understanding of our world.
Unfortunately reading practices are lower and lower and we have to work around this.
We have to find ways for our message to be understood and to encourage people to seek deeper answers though reading. For us, image and sound aesthetics are ways to catch our readers’ interest and to push them to look further.
“Arditarte is a graphic arts contest open to all creative professionals, graphic designers, photographers, painters and designers, aimed at promoting new artistic realities outside the norm.
The theme chosen for this edition is “The Fight” understood in all its forms and nuances.
Works (paintings, drawings, photography, photomanipulation, computer graphics) will be displayed in new and alternative art spaces, to boost the autonomy of art and the creative process.” – Arditarte
