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We began Doing Nothing as a formal programme in 2013. Informally, we've been exploring different techniques of being, introspection, | We began Doing Nothing as a formal programme in 2013. Informally, we've been exploring different techniques of being, introspection, | ||
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+ | === Stillness === | ||
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+ | Photographic experiments in ethereality, | ||
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+ | * http:// | ||
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=== Futures of Doing Nothing === | === Futures of Doing Nothing === | ||
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+ | ==== Space Out === | ||
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+ | A few weeks ago, on a Sunday afternoon, about 70 people gathered at Ichon Hangang Park in Seoul, South Korea, to do absolutely nothing. There was not a smartphone in sight, no texting or taking selfies, and no one rushing to get anywhere. | ||
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+ | The crowd was taking part in South Korea' | ||
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+ | "I was suffering from burnout syndrome at the time, but would feel extremely anxious if I was sitting around doing nothing, not being productive in one way or another," | ||
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+ | ==== Keeping Quiet ==== | ||
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+ | by Pablo Neruda | ||
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+ | A callarse | ||
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+ | Ahora contaremos doce\\ | ||
+ | y nos quedamos todos quietos.\\ | ||
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+ | Por una vez sobre la tierra\\ | ||
+ | no hablemos en ningún idioma,\\ | ||
+ | por un segundo detengámonos, | ||
+ | no movamos tanto los brazos.\\ | ||
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+ | Sería un minuto fragante,\\ | ||
+ | sin prisa, sin locomotoras, | ||
+ | todos estaríamos juntos\\ | ||
+ | en una inquietud instantánea.\\ | ||
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+ | Los pescadores del mar frió\\ | ||
+ | no harían daño a las ballenas\\ | ||
+ | y el trabajador de la sal\\ | ||
+ | miraría sus manos rotas.\\ | ||
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+ | Los que preparan guerras verdes,\\ | ||
+ | guerras de gas, guerras de fuego,\\ | ||
+ | victorias sin sobrevivientes, | ||
+ | se pondrían un traje puro\\ | ||
+ | y andarían son sus hermanos\\ | ||
+ | por la sombra, sin hacer nada.\\ | ||
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+ | No se confunda lo quiero\\ | ||
+ | con la inacción definitiva: | ||
+ | la vida es solo lo que se hace,\\ | ||
+ | no quiero nada con la muerte.\\ | ||
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+ | Si no pudimos ser unánimes\\ | ||
+ | moviendo tanto nuestras vidas\\ | ||
+ | tal vez no hacer nada una vez,\\ | ||
+ | tal vez un gran silencio pueda\\ | ||
+ | interrumpir esta tristeza,\\ | ||
+ | este no entendernos jamás\\ | ||
+ | y amenazarnos con la muerte,\\ | ||
+ | tal vez la tierra nos enseñe\\ | ||
+ | cuando todo parece muerto\\ | ||
+ | y luego todo estaba vivo.\\ | ||
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+ | Ahora contare hasta doce\\ | ||
+ | y tú te callas y me voy.\\ | ||
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+ | Keeping Quiet | ||
+ | Now we will count to twelve\\ | ||
+ | and we will all keep still.\\ | ||
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+ | For once on the face of the earth,\\ | ||
+ | let's not speak in any language;\\ | ||
+ | let's stop for one second,\\ | ||
+ | and not move our arms so much.\\ | ||
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+ | It would be an exotic moment\\ | ||
+ | without rush, without engines;\\ | ||
+ | we would all be together\\ | ||
+ | in a sudden strangeness.\\ | ||
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+ | Fisherman in the cold sea\\ | ||
+ | would not harm whales\\ | ||
+ | and the man gathering salt\\ | ||
+ | would look at his hurt hands.\\ | ||
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+ | Those who prepare green wars,\\ | ||
+ | wars with gas, wars with fire,\\ | ||
+ | victories with no survivors, | ||
+ | would put on clean clothes\\ | ||
+ | and walk about with their brothers\\ | ||
+ | in the shade, doing nothing.\\ | ||
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+ | What I want should not be confused\\ | ||
+ | with total inactivity.\\ | ||
+ | Life is what it is about;\\ | ||
+ | I want no truck with death.\\ | ||
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+ | If we were not so single-minded\\ | ||
+ | about keeping our lives moving,\\ | ||
+ | and for once could do nothing,\\ | ||
+ | perhaps a huge silence\\ | ||
+ | might interrupt this sadness\\ | ||
+ | of never understanding ourselves\\ | ||
+ | and of threatening ourselves with death.\\ | ||
+ | Perhaps the earth can teach us\\ | ||
+ | as when everything seems dead\\ | ||
+ | and later proves to be alive.\\ | ||
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+ | Now I'll count up to twelve\\ | ||
+ | and you keep quiet and I will go.\\ | ||
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+ | —from Extravagaria |