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Merz 14/15, 1925,The Scarecrow Kurt Schwitters, Kätte Steinitz...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:59:50 -0500

Merz 14/15, 1925,The Scarecrow

Kurt Schwitters, Kätte Steinitz and Theo Van Doesburg.

When Platitudes Become Form, Christopher Kulendran...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:44:49 -0500

When Platitudes Become Form,

“So, counter-manipulating the forces of globalisation, When Platitudes Become Form is an attempt to undercut the parameters of Contemporary Art through what philosopher Reza Negarestani might call a rigorous excavation of the ethics of humiliation. The patronising openness of instrumentalised cultural exchange is explicitly perverted here by the colonial trading patterns that it usually masks, setting in motion a conspiracy of contingencies that extend beyond the work’s as yet visible horizons.”

http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/blog/interview-with-young-gods-christopher-kulendran-thomas/

A you’re adorable…Bridget...

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:42:30 -0500

A you’re adorable…
Bridget Kennedy

2012

http://www.utopianrealismproject.blogspot.co.uk/

Carsten Holler PLANT SUICIDE, 1994 When it grows, it it dies of...

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 06:43:15 -0500

Carsten Holler

PLANT SUICIDE, 1994
When it grows, it it dies of electrocution…

gracewashko: “The symbolic forms which Mr. Betts has evolved...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 04:41:20 -0400

gracewashko:

“The symbolic forms which Mr. Betts has evolved through his system of Representation resemble, when developed in two dimensions, conventionalised but very scientifically and beautifully conventionalised leaf-outlines. When in more than two dimensions they approximate to the forms of flowers and crystals. …. The fact that he has accidentally portrayed plant-forms when he was studying human evolution is an assurance to Mr. Betts of the fitness of the symbols he has developed, as it affords presumptive evidence that the laws he is studying intuitively admit of universal application.”

DIETER ROTH, Diary

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 07:40:25 -0400

DIETER ROTH, Diary

mineralia: Cerussite from Namibia by Dan Weinrich

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:15:12 -0400

mineralia:

Cerussite from Namibia

by Dan Weinrich

For Chloe, play had always meant make believe. In the absence of dolls, the child Chole dressed...

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:51:00 -0400

For Chloe, play had always meant make believe. In the absence of dolls, the child Chole dressed her mother Sasha’s dinnerware in linen napkins - the spoons and forks were women, the knives men - and spun out great family sagas with criss-crossed plots unfolding over the course of days, or even weeks.

Rebecca Goldstein, “The Geometry of Soap Bubbles and Impossible Love.”

workman: alecshao: Famous Notebooks 1. Mark Twain - “He had his...

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:11:35 -0400

workman:

alecshao:

Famous Notebooks

1. Mark Twain - “He had his leather bound notebooks custom made according to his own design idea. Each page had a tab; once a page had been used, he would tear off its tab, allowing him to easily find the next blank page for his jottings”

2 & 3. Charles Darwin - “The notebooks were filled with memorandum to himself on things to look further into, questions he wanted to answer, scientific speculations, notes on the many books he was currently reading, natural observations, sketches, and lists of the books he had read and wanted to read. But the progression is far from orderly: the entries are chaotically arranged and wide-ranging; they jump from one scientific subject to the next and are interspersed with notes on correspondences and conversations. He would rest the notebook on his desk and write horizontally down the page with a pen, and, like Isaac Newton, he would sometimes start in from both ends of the notebook at once and work towards the middle.

4. Jack Kerouac - The notebook entry reads:

“Ginsberg — intelligent enuf, interested in the outward appearance & pose of great things, intelligent enuf to know where to find them, but once there he acts like Jerry Newman, the photographer anxious to be photographed photographing —— Ginsberg wants to run his hand up the backs of people, for this he gives and seldom takes — He is also a mental screwball

*(Tape recorder anxious to be tape recorded tape recording) (like Seymour Barab anxious to have his name in larger letters than Robert Louis Stevenson, like Steinberg & Verlaine Rimbaud Baudelaire”

5. Ernest Hemingway - The notebook entry reads:

“My name is Ernest Miller Hemingway

I was born on July 21, 1899

My favorite authors are Kipling, O. Henry and Steuart Edward White.

My favorite flower is lady slipper and tiger lily.

My favorite sports are trout fishing, hiking, shooting, football and boxing.

My favorite studies are English, zoology and chemistry.

I intend to travel and write.”

Photo

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:10:27 -0400

Photo

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:09:21 -0400

mythologyofblue: Joseph Beuys, Untitled, 1970 “In the...

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:22:32 -0400

mythologyofblue:

Joseph Beuys, Untitled, 1970

“In the foreground is ‘The Pack’, a group of twenty-four sledges. Each one has its own survival kit including fat for sustenance, felt for warmth, and a torch for navigation.”

[what is necessary for survival + books]

I don’t know what I want to say I don’t know what I want to say, but, to try to say...

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 05:10:00 -0400

I don’t know what I want to say

I don’t know what I want to say, but, to try to say something, I think I want to try to think. I want to try to see what I think. I think trying is a big part of it, I think thinking is a big part of it, and I think wanting is a big part of it, but saying it is difficult, and I find saying trying and nearly always wanting. I want what I want to say to go without saying.

Martin Creed, 2001

Gottlieb Theodor von Kempf (1871-1964)

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:03:00 -0400

Gottlieb Theodor von Kempf (1871-1964)

Vito AcconciRE (here)( )( ) ( )(there)( ) ( )( )(here...

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:02:19 -0400

Vito Acconci
RE


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Gottlieb Theodor von Kempf (1871-1964)

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:59:00 -0400

Gottlieb Theodor von Kempf (1871-1964)

Tony CraggAxe-head 1982 What science lacks are perceivable...

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:40:49 -0400

Tony Cragg

Axe-head 1982

What science lacks are perceivable images. Atoms, maths, programmes and other scientific elements … they are completely abstract, devoid of sensuality and eroticism … I am looking for associations, images and symbols which could enrich my vocabulary of responses to the world I see and even function as thinking models. (Quoted in A Quiet

Revolution, p.54-5.)

Peter Fischli David Weiss Equilibres 1984-1987

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:30:00 -0400

Peter Fischli David Weiss

Equilibres

1984-1987

Egon Schiele Gustav Klimt im blauen Malerkittel - 1913

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:26:41 -0400

Egon Schiele

Gustav Klimt im blauen Malerkittel - 1913

Ed RuschaThat was then This is now #2 1989

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:14:09 -0400

Ed Ruscha

That was then This is now #2 1989