Yizheng Ke (b. 1988)
柯一正
Shanghai, China
The wish to walk on earth—there beneath the last firs standing in the sunshine, to smell their resin and listen to the water, which is probably roaring, to drink water.
- Max Frisch, Homo Faber /瑞士建築師、劇作家和小說家,二戰後德語文學代表人物。其作品著重關注個人認同、道德、責任與政見等話題,富於反諷。
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Gottfried Honegger, Computerzeichnungen, in collaboration with ETH Zürich [CDC 1604-A mainframe + app. in FORTRAN programmed by Beat Kleiner], 1970 [© Gottfried Honegger Estate]
Exhibition: Max Frisch & Gottfried Honegger: Der Zufall hat es gut gemeint, Max Frisch-Archiv an der ETH-Bibliothek / ETH-Bibliothek / ETH Zürich, Department of Mathematics, Zürich, May 11, 2017 – September 29, 2017 [Galerie Römerapotheke]
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Ich weiß nicht, wie du darauf geantwortet hättest, aber ich weiss: die Gewöhnung setzt sich so leicht an die Stelle einer Lösung, so leicht und mächtig, dass man Jahrzehnte braucht um einzusehen, was man schon einmal wusste, eben dass es keine Lösung ist.“
"I don’t know how you would have responded, but I know: habituation so easily takes the place of a solution, so easily and powerfully, that it takes decades to realize what you already knew, that it is not a solution.
Max Frisch in a letter to Ingeborg Bachmann, Thalwil 2nd July 1959
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(Biedermann and the Zionists)
be real.
Just be fucking real for one moment.
Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity
Just drop the moralism and the ideology, and aknowledge humans
are humans, wherever you go.
Between life and ideology,
almost everybody would choose life.
If someone's desperate enough to blow themselves up,
why don't you ever wonder why that is?
Don’t you recognize this trick from the whole mess with Iraq?
Tyranny is bad alright, but warzone is still worse.
I’m told by those directly affected
that they are tired of only being allowed as weeping pitiful toothless victims;
I am told, by those directly affected,
that they almost prefer the honest wolves to holier-than-thou sheep.
I don’t say anything, because it’s not my place and they wouldn’t be receptive,
but inside, I reach for hanlon’s razor.
As a fallible being oneself,
one doesn’t want pliable goodwill to go to waste.
I turn on the computer.
Of all the authors, Max Frisch had it right:
An honest wolf announces bald-faced that he is an arsonist,
and going to set you all on fire.
The leopards will be helping themselves to your faces,
but they will eat your neighbor first, and isn't that delightful.
He doesn’t even have to spin it.
They all gladly spin it for him.
No one wants to believe in arson,
especially not when their job depends on it.
Not when they make a business and a lifestyle and a reason-of-state
out of being respectable citizens.
As if states needed excuse or reason.
As if states and not people had rights to exist,
bloody lines on paper.
As if those antiquated concepts were never changing over time
‘Surely they won’t’ yaps Shirley Exception.
Surely they do.
Again and again and over, twisting the knife.
Cruelty need not know bounds when one is so certain that nobody is looking.
I am told by those directly affected
that they almost prefer the honest wolves to holier-than-thou sheep.
Honestly, I cannot fault them.
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Gottfried Honegger, Computerzeichnungen, in collaboration with ETH Zürich [CDC 1604-A mainframe + app. in FORTRAN programmed by Beat Kleiner], 1970 [© Gottfried Honegger Estate]
Exhibition: Max Frisch & Gottfried Honegger: Der Zufall hat es gut gemeint, Max Frisch-Archiv an der ETH-Bibliothek / ETH-Bibliothek / ETH Zürich, Department of Mathematics, Zürich, May 11, 2017 – September 29, 2017 [Galerie Römerapotheke]
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