6But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.7What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law.
For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."
8But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. 9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. 11For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. 12So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
8But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. 9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. 11For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. 12So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 18For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. 19For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do-this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. 21So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me
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I miss you like Hell is a video-installation diptych that traces the limits of apocalyptic political ideology and experiments with a radical imaginary discourse on absolute authority. It addresses anxiety, nothingness, the absolute Telos; the unbearable lack and the return of the Master after the Death of God. The image/text arrangement mimics lacanian topographical graphs of the psychic orders of the symbolic, imaginary, real and the sound follows new age, contemporary tech-fetishist aesthetics.
2-channel video installation in basement cell •Exhibition Invisible Governments: Gnosis as a State of the Self, Circuits & Currents, curated by Kostis Stafylakis. •Screening at Film Poetry Symposium, Greek Film Archive, Athens. audio: Black Jazz Consortium - Be And Not Know (feat. Christina Wheeler)
photo: KostisStaf & aA, installation view at Circuits and Currents edit & cgi: aA Athanasios |
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All images and texts courtesy of Athanasios Anagnostopoulos unless otherwise noted.
© Athanasios Thanatos aA
© Athanasios Thanatos aA
