Vicente Segura in India 1976
Vicente, 17 years old. running in the Malecon
of Barranco
In the boardwalk of Barranco (Malecon de Barranco)
Lima
Jumping with a friend in one street of Barranco District
Lima
Excercising in the bars modules
of the park Manuel Montero.
Behind, is the church Sagrado Corazón de Jesus
under construction, of the El Reverendo Padre Wiesse.
Barranco -
Lima
Vicente in the Plaza de Armas (Palacio de Gobierno)
with my friend Henry.
Lima
THE TRIO
(Rocco, Ricky and Rocky)
In the Plaza San Martin - Teatro Colon - La Colmena
- Gran Hotel Bolivar
Lima
Rocky and Ricky in Pasaje José Olaya, in the center of Lima,
near the Plaza de Armas.
Lima
Santa Eulalia (Carretera Central) Lima
Matucana Lima (Carretera Central)
Vicente in a excursion and party (Carretera Central).
Chosica Lima
Vicente in a excursion and party.
Chosica Lima
Caminando en Jesus Maria con Sara
Here we are:
Myself, Henrry and Jorge in Chorrillos.
Starting one of the severals trips through Perú
and South America.
A pausa in the Panamerican highway
Looking at the port of Chala.
624 Kilometers south of Lima.
A ghost town of Chala.
Old chapell constructed in wood.
Chala - Arequipa
In the monument of Miguel Grau,a hero of the War
of the Pacific, against Chile.
The Parabolic Arch of Tacna.
Friends of us in the Parabolic Arch of Tacna, also traveling,
and sharing the same dreams.
(This arch was raised in honor to the heroes of the
War of the Pacific against Chile, Admiral Miguel Grau
and Colonel Francisco Bolognesi).
Friends of us send us a dedication from Tacna,
sharing the same dreams
I founded a Cultural Club of Travellers in Barranco-Lima
(A Lovely Vagabond School) to give advices and to encourage
young people, from our distric, to travel the world and keep moving.
We use to give information on a low budget travelling in the continent.
My nickname was Rocky. As soon as I start to use the name Rocky, others
friends start to do the same, they liked the sound. So, one call himself
Ricky and another friend call himself Rocco
Here we are in the Plaza de Armas of Tacna.
Myself, Jorge, Tony in the church of Arica.
Looking down the Arica Port from the Morro of Arica.
Myself, Jorge, Tony y amigos chilenos en Arica.
Contemplando el puerto de Antofagasta.
With a very nice lady we met in the street /
Antofagasta - Chile
Artur Prat street - Antofagasta.
An interview in a chilean radio
Santiago - Chile
Travelling to Rio de Janeiro
Here we are in the Portals of Arequipa
Plaza de Armas
Plaza de Armas
Here we are in Puno with a view of the Titikaka Lake.
Brazil 1964
Praia Vermelha & O Pao de Azucar - Rio de Janeiro
O Cristo Redentor in Corcovado
Vista de Niteroi desde O Corcovado
Vista da cidade maravilhosa de Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro 1966 [ Art School ]
Rio de Janeiro 1966 [ Art School ]
Copacabana - Rio de Janeiro 1966
Ipanema - Rio de Janeiro 1966
Ingvor, arranging my hair in the Art School 1968
Vicente and Ingvor under the Christ the Redeemer.
1968
Romantic performance, 1968
Romantic performance, 1968
Experimental portrait of Ingvor 1968
BY THE LIVING THEATRE TO LIVE AND WORK TOGETHER
IN A VEGETARIAN COMMUNITY IN OURO PRETO
We rented a big house of 20 rooms to live together
more than 20 people between men and women
1970
Ouro Preto House, Brazil 1970.
Judith Malina, Julian Beck, Mary Mary Kraf,
Luke Theodore, Pierre Biner, Pamela Badyk,
Ivanildo Silvinho and Vicente Segura
Vicente Segura performing with the Living Theatre
in Rio Claro, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1970
Vicente Segura performing with Echnaton (Hans Schano)
in Rio Claro, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
THE PRESS .
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil ( 1970)
Reportage about the Living Theatre in Ipanema - Rio de Janeiro - 1970
While the guitar from Echnaton gentle plays
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of Jim Morrison with the Living Theatre.
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where Keith mentions The Living Theatre.
Click
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UNDER A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP
Ouro Preto
Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais - Brazil - July 1971
From the book of John Tytell:
"The Living Theatre, art, exile and outrage"
Colonia Penal, Alojamiento Campos Christo
Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais - Brazil - July 1971
A Rock Star Tour to Jail
THE LIVING THEATRE ARRESTED IN BRAZIL
Cultural Revolution under a Military Dictatorship
The New York Times(August 1971)
Living Theater: Arrested in Brazil
Read here:
Brazil to Expel Living Theater Troupe
Read here:
Der Spiegel(August 1971)
Read in German
Read here:
Read in portugues
Read here:
WIKIPEDIA in portuguéz
Read here:
Der Spiegel(August 1971)
"La Invención del Paraiso: El Living Theatre y el Arte de la Osadía".
Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais - Brazil - July 1971
El Decreto de la Expulsion
Brasilia - Brazil (1971)
La Prensa
Lima-Peru (1971)
Lima-Peru (1971)
Vicente Segura arrive to San Francisco - California,
after a year in New York in 1971.
Photo by Swami Chaitanya in 1974
Vicente Segura first year in Cuzco - Perú
(Photo by a street photographer with a box camera)
Vicente Segura first year in Cuzco-Perú
with supporters of the Samana Project
with supporters of the Samana Project
The Samana Project in Cuzco 1973
I´m a Peruvian and I was away from Perú for many years
(Rio de Janeiro, New York and California).
I arrived from San Francisco, after taking part in
the counterculture movement and working and living together with the Living Theater there,
to live and work in Cuzco. Some time later I initiate
a very successful cultural-center project called Samana.
We were a group of artists living in an ecological and vegetarian community.
We had a vegetarian restaurant, a cafe and a gallery.
In this space we promoted ourselves with exhibitions and
performances, but in the same time we were promoting other
talented artists-travelers from all over the world,
as musicians, poets, performers, etc. we were
promoting people not only in our saloons, but, also in others
public spaces.
A lot of talented travelers who come to mystical-Cuzco in search of spiritual assertions and Pachamama,
loved to interact creatively with us. Very soon we become an
international cultural-center where travellers and artists were meeting to exchange information.
This actions was very fashionable those years.
(Photo by a street photographer with a box camera)
With Samana supporters in the Plaza
With my friend Michel Fisson, from France,
a great mystical painter, a great artist.
(Photo by a street photographer with a box camera)
With Samana supporters in the Plaza
With Samana supporters in the Plaza
With Samana supporters in the Plaza
With Samana supporters in the Plaza
(Photo by a street photographer with a box camera)
With Samana supporters in the Plaza
Anonymous image
Here, with a good friend of mine, Williams
(today he is a Swami), in a Yoga performance.
He came from San Francisco USA to work in Perú
for a film production
(today he is a Swami), in a Yoga performance.
He came from San Francisco USA to work in Perú
for a film production
( Photo from a street photographer with a box camera, Cuzco)
( Photo from a street photographer with a box camera, Cuzco)
The especial affair
I met Gisela and we fall in absolute love.
And from then on start a romance
that becomes our Renaissance.
(Gisela and Vicente in the Plaza San Marco, Venezia).
Let me begin the story by introducing you
our contemporary romanticism that becomes
our counter-cultural Renaissance.
Travelling by land to India
The Silk Road
We were planning to start our adventure-trip from Venice
to Athens (Greece) by train (via Yugoslavia) and then
by bus to Istambul, following the Silk Road to India.
We will use every mean of transportation as buses, trains,
ships, etc., (flight only in exceptional cases). We wanted
to explore our senses and feel the changes entering other
cultures, weather, languages, people, food, smell, sounds,
etc., and be profoundly involve into humanity in its
highest splendor.
our contemporary romanticism that becomes
our counter-cultural Renaissance.
The Silk Road
We were planning to start our adventure-trip from Venice
to Athens (Greece) by train (via Yugoslavia) and then
by bus to Istambul, following the Silk Road to India.
We will use every mean of transportation as buses, trains,
ships, etc., (flight only in exceptional cases). We wanted
to explore our senses and feel the changes entering other
cultures, weather, languages, people, food, smell, sounds,
etc., and be profoundly involve into humanity in its
highest splendor.
(Gisela and Vicente in the Basilic of San Marco-Venezia,
before departing to Greece)
Vicente sitting in the beautiful arched terraces
of Pushkar (Jharokha architecture gallery)
The Goddess of the Sea
Gisela enjoying the beach, the sun and the sand
in Arombol beach.
Goa-India
Finally we were totally free in Goa and we could swim
and be in the sun naked.
The Pancha Rathas in Mamallapuram (Mahabalipuram),
58 kilometres south of Chennai (Madras) -Tamil Nadu
The temples of Mamallapuram are portraying events described in the Mahabharata.
These monuments carved out of rock are dated to the 7th and 8th centuries:
rathas (temples in the form of chariots), mandapas (cave sanctuaries),
giant open-air rock reliefs such as the famous Descent of the Ganges,
and the Shore Temple dedicated to Shiva, Durga, Vishnu, Krishna and others.
The complex is part of the UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Each of the five monuments in the Pancha Rathas complex resembles
a chariot (ratha), and each is carved over a single, long stone or
monolith, of granite which slopes in north-south direction with a
slight incline.
The purpose of their construction is not known as
the structures were not completed. Work on these five rathas was
discontinued following the death of Narasimha Varman in 668 AD.
Mamallapuram (Mahabalipuram), Madras (Chennai) Tamil Nadu, India
Gisela in the Trimurti Cave Temple.
This Shiva Temple depicts the Hindu trinity:
Brahma (left), Shiva (centre) and Vishnu (right)
Mamallapuram (Mahabalipuram),
Madras (Chennai) Tamil Nadu, India
Vicente in the Shiva Temple
Mamallapuram (Mahabalipuram)
Gisela & Vicente in the hands of a Tibetan Buddha at
the foot of the Swayambhunath Temple or Monky Temple.
The name of our new house was called "The Rose Garden" near to Durbar Square in Kathmandu
With a view to Swayambhunath Stupa in the hills
( Here is where Gisela got inspired to become mother of the universe).
Gisela inside our studio
Gisela in the studio of our "Rose Garden" House
Gisela playing a Nepali flute
But, she was, also, very happy with her beautiful belly:
she become pregnant in Kathmandu after we was back
from Bali.
Writting my diary
Vicente learning the traditional Buddhist Thanka Painting
Vicente into a work in progress painting a Mandala
Work in progress finishing a Mandala
The unfinished work.
This is the final result of my Mandala painting
A Buddhist Thanka titled "Maya".
A Sacred Art
This is the final result of my Mandala painting
A Buddhist Thanka titled "Maya".
A Sacred Art
Lisbeth is visiting Gisela for a chat
...and, also, for a photo
We had a visit of Monique, a french friend
with her daughter
In the garden of our Rose Garden home
Vicente with a Tibetan holy man
Gisela in front of a Tibetan souvenir shop
Gisela in the Naga Temple making Puja
Vicente in the Golden Gate Door of the
Taleju Bhawani Temple
in Bhaktapur
One of the most beautiful and artistic examples of the
ancient Nepali (Newari) architecture, built by the Malla
King, Ranjit Malla in the year 1753. The top of the door
is adorned by a figure of the Goddess Kali and along with
the image of Garuda (a mythical bird) powerful Hindu
assisted by two heavenly nymphs.
Gisela and Vicente in the Changu Narayan Temple in Bhaktapur
This shrine is dedicated to lord Vishnu and held in special reverence by the Hindu people. This temple is considered to be the oldest temple in the history of Nepal. The Kashmiri king gave his daughter, Champak, in marriage to the prince of Bhaktapur. Changu Narayan Temple is named after her.
In the Changu Narayan Temple in Bhaktapur
In the Changu Narayan Temple in Bhaktapur
On our way to Swayambhu
Gisela before the Swayambhunath Temple
Swayambhunath (स्वयम्भूनाथ स्तुप)
Its an ancient religious complex atop a hill in the Kathmandu Valley, west of Kathmandu city. It is also known as the Monkey Temple as there are holy monkeys living in the north-west parts of the temple. The Tibetan name for the site means 'Sublime Trees'.
For the Buddhist Newars in whose mythological history and origin myth as well as day-to-day religious practice, Swayambhunath occupies a central position, it is probably the most sacred among Buddhist pilgrimage sites. For Tibetans and followers of Tibetan Buddhism, it is second only to Boudhanath.
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The Monky Temple
Gisela with a friendly monky over a giant Dorje or Vajra,
a symbol of Vajrayana Buddhism (a thunderbolt
sceptre-weapon)over Swayambhu.
Trekking Permit
Vicente in the high hills of Ghandruk valley
Gilbert Garcia and his girl friend Lizbeth join us
on the trekking.
( Gilbert is shooting some fotos of Lisbeth and Gisela
during the trek )
One of our many breaks in our gentle pace
to Ghandruk valley
Gisela is relaxing, Lisbeth making Yoga
and Gilbert contemplating.
Gisela in a pose of "Hasta la victoria, siempre".
Gisela having a liaison with native Gurung people around
Gilbert Garcia and Lisbeth
Impressive Annapurna in our backs
Impressive Annapurna in our backs
Impressive Annapurna in our backs
Machhapuchchhare in our backs.
From Machupicchu to Machhapuchchhare: this was our dream and motto.
Now we are exactly in the antipode of the Andes. Two magnetic fields
We could not cross by land through Bangladesh and Burma because of geografic, political and atmospheric conditions.
This was our first flight on our Hippie Trail trip. We didn´t have other choice than to take the chance.
From Bangkok we took a train to Malaysia, and more exactly, to Penang.
In the border of Thailand/Malasia we get this notice from the authorities:
After this immigration warning I was asking to myself how can they allow me to cross the border to Malaysia, when I was looking exactly the person they were questioning: the last hippie."
Photo: Gisela Schütze - Vicente in the Snake Temple in Penang
By the end of 1977, I was looking like this
(I didn´t saw myself in the mirror for quite a long while).
I had transgressed the holy sanctuary of neoconservatives corporate capitalists.
Singapore and Malaysia were very prosperous nations and they preferred to welcome Yuppies, rather than Hippies.
Allowing me to enter to Malaysia were putting in danger their national security and their national interest.
My presence here could trigger much confusion and dispair.
Maybe we were not "bona fide" tourist, but, for sure we were not Hippies either. We were artists of the counterculture revolution travelling the world.
Gisela and me, by now we were traveling almost two years visiting different nations, cultures, people, religious and absorbing all cultural diversity.
At this point we were above good and evil and we were integral to life on Earth. We become global but with local indigenous life interest, so, we were world citizens exercising our freedom, here and now, mixing with natives wonderful human beings.
Gisela in the Snake Temple of Penang.
A gentil experience with some snakes
Photo: Gisela Schütze
Writing and reading in our room in the Hotel of old Penang.
Photo: Gisela Schütze
Taking some Rays of Sun while writting my diary.
Gisela, having some reflections after reading a book.
Photo: Gisela Schütze
Gisela is greeting me from the train we embarked in
Jakarta to go to Yogyacarta.
Learning Batik. Much fun about it.
Gisela contemplating the Tanah Lot Temple above an island.
Gamelan music and Frangipani smell were in the air.
Gisela inside the Tanah Lot Temple.
Some litle wells of water formed around Tanah Lot.
Gisela in touch with her favorite element: water.
Vicente in a Yoga performance
Vicente in a Yoga performance
Motorbike drivers licence in Bali
Entrepenours for fun
Exclusive jewellry designed by ourselves in Kathmandu to be sold in the flea market of Bali.
The precious stones were from India and Kathmandu.
Beautiful Legian Beach with giant waves.
Melasti ceremony
A hindu ritual at sea to appease and please the Gods and demons spirits hanging around.
The melasti ceremonies are the blessings for the external, the symbols of ancestors, of good and evil, they at the same time purify the self.
The blessed items are symbols of the cosmos, the universe, Bhuwana Agung (the larger world), whilst we humans are Bhuwana Alit (the little world).
Gisela loved the deserts, the mountain, the jungle, the sea, etc. She loves the world and the diversity of cultures, life and humanity. Planet Earth were her paradisiacal home.
