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A Curious Calling: Bonnie Kemske
We speak to a tactile sculptor who believes touch is what makes the world go round
Written by Xanthi Barker. Published on December 5th 2011.
HOODIES and Staffies aren't the only ones in need of hugs. 'At least hug your family!' might be another worthwhile campaign. As a culture we are so starved of hugs, so scared of them, that volunteers are taking it upon themselves to provide us with much needed affection. Figure out where they got all the excess and the campaign might make some progress.
Dr. Bonnie Kemske gives people their hug-fix in an entirely different way. Bonnie's sculptures are not art objects but art experiences, created to be held. Bonnie's concept of 'grounded sensuality' means going deeper than our sight-centric, dualistic culture and getting 'back in touch', literally. She is also the editor of Ceramics Review.
I sit naked in the studio with these huge, latex balloons filled with liquid plaster and I hug them until they set. I use my legs, my arms, my head.
You make your sculptures with your body?
I was working as a ceramicist making sculptures that were very textured. That came from my training in Japanese tea ceremony – you handle all the ceramics. There are no handles that distance you from it. You caress the bowl. You cradle the bowl that cradles the tea. I applied to do a research degree looking at texture. I realised it wasn't about texture, it was about touch – coming at it from the other angle. I began to investigate what touch is; what happens in the body when you touch? What's this experience that we have?
Was it different to what you'd expected?
I learnt that across the body there isn't a sense of touch, there are about 28 senses of touch. They're all different receptors. To perceive pain uses a different nerve than to perceive cold, which is also different to hot. They certainly overlap and sometimes the neurons double up. There's even a touch that the press called 'The Lover's Caress'. It's a very, very light touch.
And you wanted to make ceramics that affected these different senses?
We always touch ceramics with our hands – the sink when we're brushing our teeth, our coffee cup. I decided to find ways of engaging the rest of the body. I had a conversation with an anthropologist at the British museum about African pots and the women who make them. He mentioned that in the tribe he studied, the women made pots to fit their bodies to make them easier to carry. I thought I'd make sculptural works to fit the body. I made a body cast of myself sitting down and started building things on it. But they were still incredibly visual. I wanted them to be tactile.
How did you make them tactile?
I went to Japan on exchange and I didn't have the body-cast so started to build the clay against me. The first thing I realised was it was warming up, responding to me. As I was holding these things I began to sense it was sort of part of me. Here I was, the subject, the 'I', and there was this thing I was creating, this object, this thing. But when I was holding it, there was a blur between the subject and object. I realised this gave me an amazing sense of groundedness. In the end I called it 'grounded sensuality'.
Do you think our culture removes us from objects?
We live in a culture that's starved for touch. You can see it all over. Amma, the Indian holy woman who goes around the world giving hugs has been here this week with the free hug campaign that has gone around the world. I'm creating objects so there's none of the personal boundary issues. You have to feel safe in order for touch to be a positive experience.
How do you make them?
I sit naked in the studio with these huge, latex balloons filled with liquid plaster and I hug them until they set. I use my legs, my arms, my head. It takes a fair amount of force. It takes about twenty minutes and the plaster gets hot as it begins to set. I got burnt on one of the casts I did. Then I take a mold of the cast, fill it, make it in clay and texture it. Your hands are so receptive to texture.
Some of them look a bit like living creatures...
It was quite important to me that they weren't figurative, although all the curves echo body shapes. If it's too figurative or looks too much like a creature then people won't have the same sense of it becoming part of them when they hug it. It'll be Other.
Do they project themselves onto it?
That's a big part of my thinking. I feel that it's a tactile mirror. Like a visual mirror, where you see your reflection. You get back what you put into it. It begins to respond to you even though it's made out of fired clay. It doesn't do anything. It reacts to you. You wouldn't believe what people say: "It doesn't want me to put it down" and "I feel like I own it but it owns me."
Do you ever get any extreme reactions?
It's quite amazing how much it solicits emotion. There was a man from Korea at a conference in Amsterdam last year. He held my piece for a long time. When he put it down I asked if he had a reaction and he said he couldn't talk about it. The next day he came to me and said, "I just had to tell you, as I sat there holding it I realised that I never get hugged. I never hugged my children. I think I hugged my wife once or twice when we were first married but it's not part of my life." And then he proceeded to tell me of all the hugs he had experienced in his life. He was near tears talking about it.
www.BonnieKemske.com


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Arsenic a challenge to Avebury mine reopen
Chinese-owned miner Minmetals Resources Ltd is facing a major technical challenge to revive its mothballed Avebury nickel mine in Tasmania.
Avebury was closed by previous owners OZ Minerals Ltd in 2008 - less than six months after production started - due to a dramatic fall in the nickel price.
Minmetals Resources chief executive Andrew Michelmore said the company aimed to decide later this year whether to re-open Avebury, where there were technical challenges related to arsenic that naturally occurs with the nickel, affecting the concentrate.
"When we produce a 20-plus per cent nickel concentrate, we end up with over 2,000 parts per million arsenic and the permit for shipping that is 2,000 (parts per million)," Mr Michelmore told a teleconference on Tuesday.
"We have that technical challenge of how do we actually generate a concentrate that is still good recovery on the nickel, but meets the arsenic requirements?
"We believe we have the solution for that and are working through our next phase of engineering work on that."
The miner had also been doing considerable exploration work around Avebury to identify further orebodies.
"If we could find some higher grade nickel sulphides in the same area and we're quite bullish about that, we could upgrade again the concentrate, the recoveries through the plant and hopefully dilute some of that arsenic."
Mr Michelmore said a decision to re-open Avebury would take into account an expected rise in global nickel supply, with five significant nickel laterite projects about to come on stream and low-cost nickel pig iron production expanding in China.
Industry observers say Avebury has been bought and sold at both the bottom and top of the market in recent years.
The acquisition of Avebury by Zinifex in late 2007, when nickel prices were at historic highs, was the key reason for its $852 million takeover of Allegiance Mining NL.
Zinifex later merged with Oxiana to form OZ Minerals, which was forced in 2009 to sell Avebury - along with a suite of other major assets including the Century zinc mine in Queensland - for $US1.21 billion to China Minmetals Non-Ferrous Company Ltd as it strove to pay down debt.
Also on Tuesday, Minmetals Resources said it hoped to marginally extend the life of the depleting Century mine, which is slated to close in calendar 2015.
Executive general manager business development Mike Nossal said the closure could be pushed back to 2015/16.
"It is unlikely at this stage that there will be a major change to that (schedule for closure) because it (the Century orebody) is quite structurally defined," Mr Nossal said.
"And while we've spent a lot of time looking for another Century in the same region, we have not (found one)."
The company hopes to replace some of the lost output with nickel from the neighbouring Dugald River project, for which a final investment decision is expected in the third quarter of 2011.
Mr Nossal said the company aimed to start production at Dugald River in early 2014.
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Секу Бангура (, род. 26 июня 1993 года) — белорусский кикбоксер.

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Ранние годы
Секу Бангура родился 26 июня 1993 года в Минске. Его отец — гвинеец, мама — белоруска. В детстве по маминой инициативе 7 лет играл на скрипке, но незадолго до окончания музыкальной школы бросил занятия и записался в секцию баскетбола, которую посещал 4 года. В возрасте 17 лет начал заниматься кикбоксингом в клубе «Синьтяо». Его первыми тренерами были Игорь Городилов и Юрий Сацук. Через несколько лет перешёл в клуб «Чинук». В данный момент тренируется в Gridin Gym у Андрея Гридина.

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Свой первый профессиональный поединок Секу провёл возрасте 21 года на турнире в России, где победил нокаутом в первом раунде. После этого за год он выходил в ринг ещё 6 раз: одержал три победы и потерпел три поражения.

В 2016 году Секу впервые выступил на турнире Татнефть, где на стадии 1/8 победил Камола Турсунова, но на следующем этапе уступил Семёну Шелепову решением судей. Завершился год для него двумя победами на турнире Осьминог над Владиславом Яблонским и Игорем Паиком.
2017 год прошёл для него без боёв и в следующий раз в ринг он вышел в начале 2018 года в поединке против Сергея Парчинского в Минске. Поединок завершился ничьей. В октябре Секу снова вышел в ринг Royal Fight, где уступил Вадиму Роличу из Молодечно.
В октябре 2019 года Секу впервые выступил на турнире Fair Fight в Екатеринбурге, где уступил Гаджи Меджидову техническим нокаутом во втором раунде.

В феврале 2021 года он принял участие в поединке на турнире BFC 66 в Минске. Против него в ринг вышел беларус Дмитрий Жаврид. Бой закончился победой Секу техническим нокаутом. В июле того же года он боксировал со своим давним соперником Евгением Волчеком и уступил ему решением судей.

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 2016 Чемпионат РБ по кикбоксингу «WAKO»  86 кг
 2020 Чемпионат РБ по кикбоксингу «WAKO»  86 кг

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Beyonce's 2018 Coachella festival headlining act is the focus of "Homecoming," a documentary premiering on Netflix. Timing on this couldn't be more perfect as it's sandwiched between Coachella's 2019 first and second weekends.
It took just one word for Netflix to send Beyonce fans into a full-on freak out.
The streaming giant on Sunday posted on its social media channels a yellow image with the word "Homecoming" across it. The only other information was a date: April 17. Netflix teased Homecoming – a nod to the collegiate undertones of the Coachella performance, including Beyoncé's Beta Delta Kappa sorority and a full marching band – on social media on Sunday. Earlier this year, the singer, through her BeyGood initiative, announced the Homecoming Scholars Award Program.
That's when Netflix is expected to premiere a Beyonce special that may feature her performances at last year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Though Netflix declined to share any more information, the font and color and of the announcement was the same as Beyonce's was for her Coachella appearance.
Beyonce also last year launched a scholarship program dubbed the Homecoming Scholars Award Program.
R. Kelly attends a Party at Gold Room on August 7, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia.
R&B singer R. Kelly made a paid appearance early Sunday at a club in Illinois' capital city, but the fans who each shelled out $50 to $100 for tickets got only a 28-second performance, followed by a half-hour meet-and-greet.
CNN anchor Don Lemon has announced his engagement to New York real estate agent Tim Malone.
Lemon, who has two dogs with Malone, posted on Instagram photos of customized canine tags that read: "DADDY WILL YOU MARRY PAPA?" on Saturday.
Other photos show Lemon and Malone together with friends for Malone's birthday celebration at a New York restaurant Friday.
Page Six and People report the two began dating in 2016. They shared an on-air kiss during CNN's New Year's Eve coverage last year.
Lemon anchors CNN's weeknight news show.
The long-running British TV soap "Coronation Street" is welcoming its first black family in its 59-year history.
The soap opera is set to introduce the Baileys, a family with two sons. It will explore themes of racism and homophobia in sport, with a story line featuring one of the sons, a soccer player, coming out as gay.
The show has charted the goings-on in the fictional northern England community of Weatherfield since 1960. It has cast individual black characters but not brought in a black family together before.
Wrestler Bret "The Hitman" Hart was tackled by a spectator Saturday while he was giving a speech during the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
The attacker was promptly subdued by several people, including other wrestlers, who came to Hart's defense. Hart, 61, is OK.
The person ran toward the ring from the crowd, spectator Alan Fisher told media outlets.
New York City Police arrested 26-year-old Zachary Madsen, of Lincoln, Nebraska. He faces assault and criminal trespass charges. An email to the district attorney seeking someone who could comment on Madsen's behalf wasn't immediately answered.
Several shocked onlookers posted footage of the tackle online.
The induction event resumed, with Hart continuing his speech, after the fan was taken into custody.
"He should have never attacked Bret Hart especially at such a special moment in his life," Fisher said.