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In a way, I have many voices inside with this project. So I first tried to talk to the four Reformers, those here in front of the city wall. I started in the way that was architectural, like thinking of the Panopticum. I think that wall is architectural because it is a representation, of human, but now in a huge size, meaning power, God, education, all the things that the Renaissance was also trying to reclaim as humanism.
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I was also working with declaration of human rights, the fifth is related to torture.. and I worked with de Sade, and the dichotomy of the law itself and the way he wanted to discover.
He was on trial for his ethical speeches, not his medical.
I wanted to talk to those reformers to try to analyze the situation now in Geneva. That kind of neutrality, the Protestantism that can be open to things, but also is a way of controlling. The way that work is a spirit of everything, and in a similar way, money, and then money and God.
We came to this school, It is a dichotomy. The (permanent) director is missing, the students want to know what is going on with the school.
And so I was reconstructing this dialog with the Reformers - how to be more concrete in the relations to power.
What I found in de Sade he was very skeptical of being slavish, he took all the pleasures, but it is not only physical. So he was cataloguing everything.I wanted that all the reformers talk together. Each of them wanted something in particular, an ideal. To separate the old from the new way. They wanted a representation of God. All agreed we were born guilty.
Sade does not – never.
They reformed the law but were slavish to the new one. They want to see society in another position, that people can be free to act. I think you have the representation of power and so you are afraid of that, as you have to be controlled. The Reformer’s speeches are tricky, they point to a big enterprise that they can not stop. Like the revolution itself becomes too huge to stop.
Reformation is a deformation, a repititon with a small change, while the revolution is changing everything. Repercussions are in the law. Human behaviorists are accepting laws and space of controls. The idea we are born guilty is part of that.
In a way, how the school wanted to be open, creative, is the same way that the Renaissance proposed to take people by themselves, the autonomy of the spirit and freedom by Kant later. But then, it always seems they need control. We need to be pushed to be creative by ourselves, in relation to the institution doing this. Even if we are skeptical of all these pressures, it seems we need to be in these institutions to have a position in this society, and this is one thing I can’t understand very clearly.
So I need to do the workshop and I am able to comprehend. But the reality is different , The examination is a lot of work, The institution tries to be open, but they are marking the way. I don’t know what to satisfy what they are thinking, so I just go ahead and do it. It is an academic study also, and I am realistic. You have to present clean and clear, but the things are not clean and clear.