Detroit Movement Festival 2023 Lineup Teaser
Detroit’s Movement Festival returns to Hart Plaza, Memorial Day Weekend, May 27-29, 2023. The lineup teaser has been revealed. Paxahau, the producers of the Movement Music Festival, have shared a sneak peek of the 2023 lineup, including the highly anticipated festival debut and headline slot from electronic music legends Underworld. This lineup teaser offers a taste of the festival’s wide-range…
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Marijuana-related businesses were highly visible at the international dance music celebration in a sign of growing mainstream acceptance of the drug
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In her 1932 painting Self-Portrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the United States, a defiant Frida straddles an imaginary boundary between Mexico and Detroit, where she was living at the time with her husband, the muralist Diego Rivera. The Mexican side is strewn with skulls, ruins, plants, and flowers with thick roots burrowed deep into the soil. The Detroit side contains factories, skyscrapers, and plumes of smoke—an industrial city that hides the natural cycle of life and death.
While living in Detroit, Kahlo became pregnant. She wrote of the pregnancy to her former physician, Leo Eloesser, her devoted correspondent from 1932 to 1951. She worried that pregnancy was too dangerous, that her body had been damaged by the famous streetcar accident that shattered part of her pelvis and punctured her uterus. Kahlo reported that her doctor in Detroit “gave me quinine and very strong castor oil for purge.” When the chemicals failed to end the pregnancy, her doctor declined to perform a surgical abortion, and Kahlo faced the prospect of carrying the risky pregnancy to term. She begged Eloesser to write to her doctor in Detroit, “since performing an abortion is against the law, maybe he is scared or something, and later it would be impossible to undergo such an operation.” We don’t know how Eloesser responded to Kahlo’s request, but two months later, she suffered a violent miscarriage.
In a painting she created after her experience, Henry Ford Hospital (La cama volando), Frida lies naked on a hospital bed, the sheets soaked with blood. Objects float in the space around her, attached to her stomach by umbilical cords made of red ribbon: a male fetus (her son), medical objects, and symbols like a snail and an orchid. Detroit’s stark, manufacturing skyline disturbs the background.
Regardless of her visceral distaste for Detroit and the horrible misfortune that occurred there, art historian Victor Zamudio Taylor claims it was here that “Kahlo, for the first time, consciously decides that she will paint about herself, and that she will paint the most private and painful aspects of herself.”
— From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, Caitlin Doughty
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Honestly, as much as a love the Gilded Age and glitz glamor of the wealth it shows...what has really caught my attention is the plotline unions and mills
I am once again starting my campaign for Hollywood to create a mini series based on the Progressive era
And I want it as dark, gritty, a realistic as possible.
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part camera roll, part bootleg, all movement
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detroit become racist is. so fucking awful but man it is such a great case study for death of the author type shit and. basically Everything not to do when making art w themes that r That serious n relate to the real world that explicitly
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The Detroit Movement Festival in Hart Plaza
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DU™️ #Repost @rebecca__goldberg ・・・ @313ACIDQUEEN DJ set incoming 🙂🙃 @movementdetroit ♥️♦️♣️♠️ Back to the source! Honored at another chance to represent Detroit in the city that started it all… See you in Hart Plaza ⛲️ 🏙️ 🔊 Tickets: movementfestival.com 📷 @monicas.view #detroit #techno #acid #313acidqueen #detroittechno #hartplaza #movement #movementdetroit #movementfestival #festival #detund #detroitunderground #rebeccagoldberg https://www.instagram.com/p/CpakGS8JmgO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Lecture 16: PUNK! Pioneering American proto-punk band MC5, founded in Detroit in 1964, performs at Wayne State University in Detroit on July 17, 1970. The group began as a fairly typical garage rock band, but evolved into a more politicized band with lyrics that emphasized resistance. They also became a regular fixture at anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, furnishing loud rock music to huge crowds of protesters. They also performed with an aggressive edge and angry style that would later characterize punk bands of the late 1970s and 1980s. (Cue at 2:55)
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