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Nº 168. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 ^TH , 2003

FUSIONED - DIRECTED - WRITTEN AND CORRESPONDED BY: MENASSA 2003

WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO SPEAK BUT WE DO IT IN SEVERAL LANGUAGES 
SPANISH, FRENCH, ENGLISH, GERMAN, ARABIAN, 
PORTUGUESE, ITALIAN, CATALAN

INDIO GRIS, IS A PRODUCT
OF  A FUSION
THE BRIGTHENESS OF THE GREY
AND
THE JARAMA INDIAN
THE FUSION WITH MORE FUTURE  OF THE 
21st CENTURY

Indio Gris

INDIO GRIS Nº 168

YEAR IV

   Dear readers, as we had told you, we have been in Buenos Aires because of the "OIL PAINTINGS EXHIBIT BY MIGUEL OSCAR MENASSA, IN THE GENERAL SAN MARTÍN CULTURAL CENTRE, HALL 1. From the 5^TH to  the  31^ST of August and the XIV Cero Group International Congress "THE WOMAN AND I". A Congress on sexuality according to the poetics posed  in the book " The woman and I" by Miguel Oscar Menassa  and this has been the result:

REPERCUSSION IN THE MEDIA

· Cable TV

 Plus Satelital Channel

 Programme: Up to date culture. Conducted by Patricia Altmark and Julio Sapolnik.

 Interview with Miguel Oscar Menassa, made on occasion of the opening of the exhibit on the 5^th of August. This interview was broadcasted in the programmes of Wednesdays 13 and 20 of the same month.

 Nueva Imagen Channel

 Programme: Styles. Conducted by Miriam Manfredini

 -Interview with Menassa held at the opening of the exhibit. Broadcasted on 9, 10, 11, 13 and 15 of August.

 -Interview held at the Cero Group Psychoanalysis and Poetry School, in relation to the Congress The Woman and I. Interviewees: María Chévez and Carmen Salamanca. Broadcasted on August 16^th at 9.30 PM with successive repetitions. 

 -In the column dedicated to art, there is a commentary about the closing of the painting exhibit with some images of some of the paintings exposed there. Saturday 30^th, and successive repetitions.

· RADIOS

 Tuesday 5:

 LA NUEVA RADIO, of Vicente López

 Programme. Tuesday's Café. Conducted by Alberto Feder. Via telephonic communication, Menassa is on the air in the opening of the exhibit.

 Saturday 9:

 RADIO DEL PUEBLO. R. Peña 408 1^st floor. At 12 midday.

 Programme: Bonds. AM Radio 740. Conducted by Raquel Len. Talk about the book "The woman and I" and the Congress. Interviewee: Alejandra Madormo.

 Monday 11:

 RADIO NACIONAL, AM. Maipú 555

 Programme: The boar: directed by Daniel Chirom at 12 midnight.

 Programme dedicated to Menassa. Talk about Cero Group, reading of poems, listening of the CD from the book "The woman and I", in the air. 3 books were raffled among the attending public.

 Tuesday 12

 RADIO NACIONAL, FM.

The lighthouse. Programme In my own tongue. Conducted by Tom Lupo.
Guests: Miguel Oscar Menassa and Carmen Salamanca.

Sunday 17

CIUDAD ONCE DIEZ RADIO, CULTURE RADIO

Programme Literary Café. Sundays at 9.30 PM. Conducted by José Luis Mollo.

Telephonic conversation on the air with Alejandra Madorma concerning the Congress and the book "The woman and I".

Monday 18

LA NUEVA RADIO, of Vicente López.

Programme Tuesdays' Café

Alberto Feder interviews Miguel Oscar Menassa for an hour, about writing, poetry, psychoanalysis, Menassa's thinking. It was broadcasted in two parts on Tuesdays 19 and 26 0f August.

RADIO NACIONAL, AM, Maipú 555.

Programme The boar. Conducted by Daniel Chirom. Guests: Inés Barrios and Alejandra Menassa, awarded by Pablo de Menassa de Lucía Association.

Tuesday 19

RADIO NACIONAL, AM

Programme Tiempo de Sumar (Adding Time). At 10 PM.

Miguel Oscar Menassa was invited to the programme which is conducted by Hector Paredero and Omar Cerassuolo, who read the poem number 19.

RADIO NACIONAL, FM.

Programme In my own tongue. Menassa closes together with Tom Lupo the programme. Conversation and reading of poems from the book "The woman and I". 

Wednesday 20

RADIO NACIONAL LA TRIBU

Programme A round of friends. Conducted by Azucena Brumel. Programme dedicated to the awarded persons: Alejandra Menassa, Manuel Menassa and Fabián Menassa.

Talk with the psychoanalysts Alejandra Menassa and Alejandra Madormo about the Congress, writing, the workshops, the formation in the Cero Group Psychoanalysis and Poetry School.

Reading of poems by the guest poets.

Saturday 23

 CIUDAD ONCE DIEZ RADIO

Cultural Agenda. Print note about the Congress The Woman and I and the writings which have been read up to the moment.

Monday 25

RADIO NACIONAL, AM. Maipú 555

Programme The boar. Conducted by Daniel Chirom. Guests: Carmen Salamanca and Cruz Gonzalez, Spanish poets awarded by Pablo Menassa de Lucía Association.

·PRINT MEDIA

 Saturday 15

Debate Magazine

Interview with Miguel Oscar Menassa held by Daniel Chirom. Published on Friday 28/08/03.

Wednesday 20

PAGINA 12

Interview with Miguel Oscar Menassa held by Florencia Gemetrio. Published in the supplement LAS 12 on Friday, August 29. 

"THE WOMAN AND I"
A book by Menassa

The characters of the myth and those from Homer only spoke through the gaze and the desire. They spoke as Miguel Oscar Menassa does in "The woman and I" (Madrid-Buenos Aires, 2003) with incandescent desire. As Aegisthus did before Clytemnestra's ivory-like body, Agamemnon's wife.

Who diluted our bodies in the word love?

What happened in the world while we were making love?

   And Aegisthus entertained the hero who was coming from Troy, that unavoidable Agamemnon and his friends. And after the banquet he killed all of them.

   It was the design of sex and of desire. The sex, whose centre was everywhere and the circumference nowhere. The sex which was highlighted by Menassa in those enigmatic signs as in the "totemnight" expressed in Olivero Girondo's insomnious book "En la masmédula"

   The dilution of the bodies which was highlighted by Menassa in "The woman and I", was the dilution of love that returned to pick up its fragments,  because of those erotic instances which founded the being and the drive of life.

   Homer knew of it. However, he wrote or conceived his hexameters so that the protagonists of desire wouldn't blush. He knew of the Deity that we call Sex and of its influence in the myth which made the world move., the incessant creation and the ideal of the imminent transfiguration of each one of the events.

   Then, as Menassa, Homer also says: "what happened, happened". Time slided until it diluted itself, and in spite of that going by desire was the root of time.

   The woman and I, a book of that deity which we call Sex and of which we don't know how it finds a place in the desire to create other worlds and other laws that man will have to glorify to reaffirm his existence.

  When Aegisthus loves Clytemnestra, moves forward creation without measuring its consequences. Miguel Oscar Menassa's book is a portrait of human dimension.

Juan-Jacobo Bajarlía
Buenos Aires, August 2003

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