pleiades: 4/13/08

Friday, April 18, 2008

Syri i Fotografit

Bote Materiale – Shqiperia e sapo dale nga Izolimi
Nga Altin Topi

Material World u konceptua si ide dhe u botua ne 1994 si nje liber i ilustruar me te dhena te marra nga ekspertet e OKB-se dhe te Bankes Boterore, dhe foto kryesisht te realizuara nga Peter Manzel dhe prej nje grupi fotografesh. Iniciatori dhe autori i librit eshte vet Peter Manzel. Shifrat dhe fotografite deshmojne per larmine e arkitektures te banesave, “landscape”-it perreth, madhesise te familjeve, veshjeve, etj. Mbi gjithshka, te impresionon dramaticiteti i prezantimit te inventarit material te orendive te shtepise, prej objekteve me te vogla, deri tek ato me te medha, te ekspozuara shumica perpara banesave perkatese.

A Living Metaphor

Culture is not static, culture is a living metaphor, culture changes, culture transforms. We should think about ourselves not simply as memes replicators of a given culture, we are the cultural agents of change. We are not some repository vessels of dusty cultural archeology; we are creators, artists, culture makers and transformers.

Nowadays, the Albanian culture is in complete disarray, in a total chaos. It is waiting for us to give it a new life, and draw again from its infinite complexity and the beauty therein. What would emerge, it should not be a recapitulation of the past, and it should not be a mere identity that has been recovered. What emerges, it should be a awareness of something new, an advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development, which can be called a new Albanian Civilization.

The eXodus, the archetype of liberation and freedom, remains the spiritual landscape, the essence of our times. Although freedom today has become a sort of escapism, myriads of mental arcade games of escapism from the real world, the meaning of true freedom is being connected to the reality of freedom. We have to escape from the narrow constriction of the dusty cultural memes. Now, more then ever, we have a golden opportunity, - a wide-opened window, - to connect us with this reality of freedom. Time should not pass us by; we should be the time travelers.