NOW I SPEND MY WHOLE DAY INSIDE HERE I HAD TO LEARN MY HOME ALL OVER AGAIN ALTHOUGH I AM SITTING IN THIS ROOM SOMETIMES I FEEL AS IF I AM IN TRINIDAD text from Stephen Willats ‘Concrete Windows’, included in the catalog ‘…AND OTHER SUCH STORIES’, edited by Yesomi Umolu, Sepake Angiama, and Paulo […]
Here we are at the culmination of this week’s build-up – drum-roll please! There is no place in the book I am communicating to you from – Kunstforum International Bd. 248/249 on documenta 14 – for the works that I have been alluding to located in the basement of the Neue Galerie in Kassel. There […]
Tomorrow will be the big reveal and you will finally understand where all of this week’s posts have been building towards. But for today, a hint of things to come; a staged pretext, as it were. The book whose pages I have been flitting within this week has been the Kunstforum International tome devoted to […]
LAMAKH VALERII/VALERY PAVLOVICH LAMAKH 1925 He was born on March 6 in the city of Lebedyn in Sumy region. 1939 Enrolls in the Voroshilovgrad State Art College, his studying there will be disrupted by the war. 1942–1945 He is used as a forced labor worker in Germany. Despite the extreme living conditions, this period turned […]
From where I haunt, I cannot see the catalogue Work Ethic (edited by Helen Molesworth), but if I could I would open it to page 229 – the exhibition checklist – and read the entry for George Maciunas. Here is what I would have seen (courtesy Google Books – please excuse the poor resolution): I […]
– pages 124-125 la cuisine Russian window Farewell May your journey be as easy as water trickling down the stairs! – pages 126-127 THINKING OF OUR LITTLE PAPIER-MÂCHÉ HORSE IN MILAN, I HAD THE DESIRE TO DRAW HORSES – pages 128-129 Furious Little by little – pages 130-131 At rest Alone – from Yervant Gianikian […]
This morning I passed through the pages Philip J. Deloria’s Becoming Mary Sully, looking past the names, for a word: ‘Gossip’. Beyond the above image, there was nothing written there or here online about this work or word by Sully and so I took another – well-worn – route, back to documenta 14. Here is […]
