The Living Currency/La monnaie vivante is based on a practice of exhibition making that postulates that memory is not an archive. The project’s goal is to demonstrate this through performance as well as through both older and more recent works by visual artists that explore the relationship between the body and a reality shaped by economic […]
Women today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master’s concerns. Now we hear that it is the task of women […]
Dear New Red Order, Greetings from the Heirloom Café at the Wexner Center for the Arts, in Columbus, Ohio! As I sit here sipping coffee, thinking of your work CULTURE CAPTURE: TERMINAL ADDITION (2019) which was shown in The Box here back in October 2019, I suddenly had a flashback to the Wexner’s Film and Video […]
a place / in which the living shows itself visibly over the ordering / where the impossibility of a destruction turns again and again blossoms from its opposite / from the conceivable consequences of the non-sterile into the bold future. – from Lois Weinberger ‘In the Geography of Deer and Mole’, in DEBRIS FIELD: ERKUNDUNGEN […]
My poor fragile white male librarian! I always feel for him on those days, like Wednesday this week, when he comes home, all twitchy with nervous energy, standing before the shelves I haunt with some kind of earnest expectancy in the hope of finding there some answer to a question he had just been confronted […]
It took me three visits to Kinngait to gain the trust of many of the artists. Annie, in particular, was exceedingly evasive and private. She spoke about her drawings in vague terms, often denying that many of the stories were about her own life but rather those of “someone [she] knew.” Sitting quietly in the […]
As a library-ghost, I spend a considerable amount of time in my afterlife reflecting on life and death, not only my own, but also as part of the relationship between the books on these shelves I haunt. For example, and I can understand if you don’t believe me, but I feel a distinct shift from […]
The land is civilized, free, prosperous, law-abiding, moderate and cautious. Its many virtues may be summarized as the “banality of the good.” Asked by the tabloid BILD-Zeitung what feelings Germany awakens inher, Angela Merkel once famously replied, “I think of well-sealed windows! No other country can make such well-sealed and nice windows.” Timothy Garton-Ash, “The […]
