The Afrikaner (extract)

who is the Afrikaner and what has this (my) nation to show for after a very short history that includes the dark shadows of Apartheid? anything to learn here? by HA!Man | 14 October 2020 TO READ THE FULL ESSAY -and  receive regular new releases, as well as many morecatalogued videos, music tracks, writings, visual …

IMPROVISATION NOW Part 6 – improvisation is political (preview)

the sixth installment - how improvisation is political. the essay investigates the root meanings of politics and leadership, how this reflects on the way we practise democracy today and how improvisation can inform and inspire a more fully participatory form of democracy. it proceeds from the premise that how the individual is internally organized ultimately …

CULT (open release)

a biief treatment of the evolution of religion and cults, how Christianity started out as a cult to become a world religion, and how its cultic roots impacted on western societies - up to the crises of the present day by HA!Man | 10 October 2020 --------------------------------------- they always come crashing down. these cults. but …

THE NINE PARTS (preview)

explaining the nine parts of a HA! performance on the basis of the "3D analysis" to Joke by HA!Man | 30 July 2017 TO READ THE FULL ESSAY -and  receive regular new releases, as well as many morecatalogued videos, music tracks, writings, visual art, etc go here for more info &SUBSCRIBE

the false split between The Left and The Right

there is a retreat of religion world-wide, but also a rise of rightwing extremism. how to square these, and how to find common ground between Conservatives and Liberals who treat each other like aliens. and yes, why this is a necessary thing to do. by HA!Man / 31 August 2020 the world is split. especially …

on educating a toddler at the piano (extract)

thoughts around music education on occasion of Mira's first musical expression on the piano (barely) by HA!Man | 27 June 2020  TO READ THE FULL ESSAY -and  receive regular new releases, as well as many morecatalogued videos, music tracks, writings, visual art, etc go here for more info &SUBSCRIBE

race, racial, racist (preview)

during times of protests against racism all around the world, my thoughts work around the meaning of race, what it is to be racist when everybody seems to confess colour blindness and how to go about race relations in a more mature way by HA!Man | 21 Jun 2020 TO READ THE FULL ESSAY - …

IMPROVISATION NOW Part 5 – the structure of flow (preview)

the fifth installment - reflecting on the notion that improvisation is without structure, because it does not start out from an idea, because it is not con-structed. but this is a misrepresentation of what improvisation is, and should be  by HA!Man | 25 July 2020 TO READ THE FULL ESSAY - and  receive regular new …

virus-krisis-piessus (voorsmakie)

Mira verjaar en die aarde staan uiteindelik stil met die hulp van 'n piepklein organismetjie. Selfs die heiliges bly nie onaangeraak nie. deur  HA!Man  | 26 Maart 2020 TO READ THE FULL POEM - and  receive regular new releases, as well as many more catalogued videos, music tracks, writings, visual art, etc go here for …

IMPROVISATION NOW Part 1 (preview)

first delivery on the practice of improvisation, how it is needed in a world dominated by machines, how it is needed for us to preserve our humanity by HA!Man | 23 April 2020 TO READ THE FULL ESSAY and subsequent parts, along with regular new releases, and  many more catalogued videos, music tracks, writings, visual …