This is a futile chronicle, but at the very least, I hope to point to that body, that corpus, that library, the book as collective humanity. – Shubigi Rao ‘Afterword’ from ‘Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book, Volume 1 of V’, Rock Paper Fire, Singapore, 2016, p. IV
A voice (not mine) says something like: Borders open to an endless moment It sounds as if the voice is speaking in a large auditorium. The accent is American, although it is hard to pinpoint what region. There was once a recording of this voice, but now it is lost. It makes him think about […]
A common thread in these two works [STAGED?, 2016, and STAGING, 2017] and my previous live installations is the very strict script that the dancers follow, which is transcribed on paper, describing each movement and their counts – we call it the Bible. The original material for the diptych is a two-hour solo, which I […]
Notes on my white librarian’s Whiteness: When I was a alive my shelves were brimming with the canonical texts of a white-washed version of the ancient Mediterranean cultures of Greece and Rome. I can still feel within me the litany of white male editors’ names on the spines of those rows of green (Greek) and […]
Joining filmmaker and writer John Waters and art historian Miwon Kwon as blurb writers for the back of the 2008 book Long Life Cool White: Photographs & Essays by Moyra Davey, introduced by Helen Molesworth and which my librarian received as a generous gift from the artist and writer, Moyra Davey herself, choreographer and filmmaker […]
Libraries are not silent places. I should know, as I like to sing as a move through the books squeezed onto the shelves I haunt. I don’t know what old Lucius thinks he hears when I sing, perhaps it is beyond the pitiful range his human hearing. He does, however, seem to be open to […]
Trigger Warning: This post, written by a fictional ghost of a professor’s library, describes metaphorical cannibalism. No one was eaten or harmed in any way in the writing of this post. No persons named in this post, with the exception of artist Tracey Rose and art historian Kellie Jones, equate in any way with real, […]
I promised him that this one would be short, but I just couldn’t keep my word. With the new arrival of Art and its Worlds: Exhibitions, Institutions and Art Becoming Public, a book that my Prof. will be centering his Spring course Philosophical Problems in the Arts (Worlds, Minus Plato), I threw out at him […]
