It turned the Dutch Reformed Church’s role as the guardian of morality, and the party’s role as protector of Christian civilization, into the concept of *baasskap*, bossism, the white man’s right to control the labour of others.
— De Villiers, M. (1988). White Tribe Dreaming, p.307
It is quite impossible to prescribe a way of making experimental works of art. In the relevant sense of ‘experimental’ we are looking for outcomes that, because they are unexpected, cannot in principle be intentionally generated.
— Donald Brook, 2012. “Experimental Art.”, p.4
But nobody will call, not really. It’s the end and we go our separate ways. And the issue of separation is so important in love that one can also define love as a successful struggle against separation.
— Alain Badiou and Nicholas Truong, 2013. In Praise of Love, p.91
Privilege similarly encourages people to be self-centred and unaccountable to others. It encourages whites and men and other advantaged groups to behave as less than adults. It makes avoiding responsibility for what they do and don’t do a path of least resistance. And yet, at the same time, these are the groups in charge of social institutions.
— Johnson, Allan G. 2001. Privilege, Power, and Difference, p.135
… sociologist David Wellman argues for a broader definition of racism that includes but goes beyond the personal. Racism is the patterns of privilege and oppression themselves and anything—intentional or not—that helps to create or perpetuate those patterns. If we extend this to other forms of privilege, then sexism and heterosexism are also more than personal expressions of hostility or prejudice, but include everything that people do or don’t do that provosts male privilege and heterosexual privilege.
—Johnson, Allan G. 2001. Privilege, Power, and Difference, p.112
We thus learn that friends are those who hold all things in common, and are useful to each other. This is the picture we have in mind when we read Socrates’ passionate assertion that the one thing he has always, with all his heart, longed for more than anything else, is friends …
— Grayling, A C. 2013. Friendship. Yale University Press, p.23
A Separation “unapologetically stages a trauma”
– Colin Poole
Performance by Colin, Simon and I.
27 March 2014, Lilian Baylis Studio, London
Image by Camilla Greenwell
The first difference is in the area of *directness*. A working-class audience likes to know exactly what you are trying to do or say to it. A middle-class audience prefers obliqueness and innuendo. It likes to feel the superiority of exercising its perceptions which may have been so expensively acquired, thus opening up areas of ambiguity and avoiding any stark choice of attitude.
– McGrath, John. 1981. A Good Night Out. London: Methuen p.54
Previously we’ve explored violence, care and the things that draw us together and unite us. In this project we focus on what separation might be in collaboration.
a separation notes 