The young people of Commune Ten were healthy, their bodies were fine and supple and strong. The girls had long, luxurious plaits which were arranged carefully. For the commune strictly followed the rule that every member should have time for relaxation and the care for his or her person. The communards loved beauty and simplicity, […]
Marcus Gammel: What was the first record you found for your collection, and why did you buy it back then? Dani Gal: The first record I found was the “Victory Album” of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the so called Six-Day-War. So many copies of it were printed that you can still find them in most […]
Dear Eneko, Your aita, our librarian, has asked me to write a few words here today to celebrate your 12th birthday. I usually don’t do what he asks because I don’t like him very much. That said, I do like you and think about you and your future quite a lot from the perspective of […]
Footnote added June 9, 2024 In Ali Smith’s Companion Piece, which I mentioned in yesterday’s footnote to the post after following the link in the article ‘Companion, Peace’, from Experiments in Art Research: How Do We Live Questions Through Art?, edited by Sarah Travis, Azlan Guttenberg Smith, Catalina Hernández-Cabal, Jorge Lucero, a post-Minus Plato dialogue with Angela […]
Galanin is constantly shifting in modalities, mediums, and aesthetics, allowing the conceptual reality of a work to dictate its physical manifestation. In his 2017 work White Noise, American Prayer Rug, a monumentally sized textile, lying flat on a low plinth, appears to levitate. The imagery of the rug calls to mind “snow,” or the white […]
I appreciate that today of all days it may be hard to read the musings of a fictional ghost. Orange Shirt Day, otherwise known as Truth and Reconciliation Day, which this year has been elevated by the Canadian government from the level of an observed to a statutory holiday, is a day to educate and […]
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 […]