Together with Millie Chen's writing, which interests physically and conceptually with the artworks, this exhibition will work upon the viewer as visual and textual
incantations for acts of incorporeal transformation.
i am thinking of performing some spells and
incantations for him also.
There are prayers too, one on building a house (3:12); one for success at gambling (4:38); and particularly in playing at dice (7:50);
an incantation for the exorcism of evil dreams (6:46), etc. etc..
Not exact matches
In my book, Dying to Religion and Empire, I talk about how some Christians view baptism as a magical
incantation in which the right words need to be said in order
for the magic spell to actually work.
When we do this, we are treating the words «in Jesus» name» like they are some sort of magical
incantation by which we will get whatever we ask
for in prayer.
It looks as if prayer
for other persons might be mere wishful thinking — at best an attempt at thought transference, at worst a relic of primitive magic and
incantation.
We'd better do some
incantation, incense burning and chanting
for Aubameyang.
While
for a fan that's three months of waiting,
for the devs and publishers that's three months of crunch time: production, distribution, and performing eldritch
incantations in the server room hoping that launch day won't overload everything (like it almost always does).
The lack of serious content concerns makes it tolerable
for most older children who won't be frightened by Frieda's evil
incantations.
Playing the taped
incantations, the youths unwittingly summon up dormant demons living in the nearby woods, which possess the youngsters in succession until only one is left intact to fight
for survival.»
It was a puzzle, and Mr. Robot's brilliant Reddit obsessives figured it out and unlocked a teaser
for Season 3, which shows a Hooverville inside a subway station, Bobby Cannavale (whose bizarre look was also revealed Friday) with some henchmen in dragon masks, and soldiers in Times Square sniffing around an Escalade, set to the Leonard Cohen's solemn
incantation with the music removed, just leaving the bleak lyrics that threaten «democracy is coming to the USA.»
While it contains few language and sexual concerns, the film's theme of sorcery and witchcraft (including the possession of bodies,
incantations and the raising of the dead), may be problematic
for some family viewers.
Its ye olde pages provide the
incantations required to conjure Lucifer
for the explicit purpose of striking up a deal.
That's one of the things I love about travel; our motivations and
incantations of a dream trip is different
for everybody.
In fact, one of the earliest
incantations of such a project was the World Nomads Ambassador program (in 2008), in which my partner (at the time) and I had use of a camper van and some complementary toys
for a 6 - week Australian adventure.
I never used any items, nor did I cast any spells except
for Warp to save myself some travel time (in the Japanese version, that is; Working Designs chose to leave that particular
incantation out of the US game).
Exorcists are known
for their typical exorcism tools such as a cross, a Bible, maybe some prayer beads and ancient
incantations but these guys are different.
Other significant works: Simon Denny, Secret Power; Anthea Hamilton, Project
for Door (After Gaetano Pesce); Marguerit Humeau, Cleopatra, Synthetic Voice and
Incantation; Anne Imhof, DEAL; Rachel Maclean, Feed Me; James Richards, Video at Night; Anicka Yi, Grabbing at Newer Vegetables
Ultimately, the works presented in
Incantations: The Modern Cave are tied by what Georges Bataille refers as a form of transcendental experience explored by artists in their creation process: «to create a sensible reality whereby the ordinary world is modified in response to the desire
for the extraordinary,
for the marvelous».
Mr. Chen's «Daily
Incantations» refers to the ritual emptying of the wooden chamber pots that have been a feature of Chinese life
for several centuries.
As an introduction
for his show «Hippias Minor» at Deste Project Space this summer in Hydra, Paul Chan uses a beautiful
incantation: «A breath that unites contraries is what one is always looking
for.»
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For some, declaring a problem to be «randomized» is an
incantation with the same purpose and effect as those uttered by an exorcist to drive out evil spirits; i.e. it cleanses their subsequent calculations and renders them immune to criticism.
When the gentleman two ahead of you, adequately attired in houndstooth with a shock of salt and pepper hair, holds up the line arguing to no avail that his papers include the routine
incantations that the clerk demands of him, but only slightly amended
for some utterly logical reason, pay attention.
Sure, it's a Frankenstein's monster of existing tools stitched together by a few lines of Python that
for you are nothing more than an unintelligible
incantation, but IT»S ALIVE!
Even if you are a lawyer good at science or math, it's unlikely you're designing computers or curing cancer because you're probably an IP lawyer, who fled the lab bench
for «money and prestige» (the magical lawyer
incantation.)
«In the time since this paper was published, some people have treated the 35 - pass overwrite technique described in it more as a kind of voodoo
incantation to banish evil spirits than the result of a technical analysis of drive encoding techniques... In fact performing the full 35 - pass overwrite is pointless
for any drive since it targets a blend of scenarios involving all types of (normally - used) encoding technology, which covers everything back to 30 + - year - old MFM methods (if you don't understand that statement, re-read the paper).