Your favorite revenant is back! Did you miss me? I hope you weren’t expecting me to narrate every day – that would be so 2016-2017! Believe it or not, I have better things to do than ramble on about every book on these shelves I call home in my endless afterlife. Sometimes I want to […]
The 2017 exhibition and book Algirdas Šeškus: TV commemorated the 60th anniversary of Lithuanian television. On April 30, 1957 the first program was broadcast from the new Vilnius television studio and Šeškus took many photographs at this studio between 1975 and 1985, where he worked as a television cameraman. Below I have arranged a few […]
My favourite symbol is the Tree of Life. The human race is the trunk and branches of this tree and individual humans are the leaves, which appear for one season, flourish for a summer and then die. I am like a leaf of this tree, and one day I shall decay and fall, and become […]
Paul B. Preciado writes in his lecture/report to a psychoanalytic Academy Can the Monster Speak?: Today, once monstrous bodies produced by the patriarchal-colonial regime of sex, gender and sexual difference speak for themselves and produce knowledge about themselves. Echoing Kafka’s Red Peter in his short story ‘A Report to an Academy’, Preciado describes how through […]
[No, the title isn’t the obvious pun (hole for whole), although if you read it quickly another, less tangible pun may emerge. The post you are about to read is in fact a hole. And no, not ‘like a hole’, but a real hole, in and of itself. Before I begin, let me offer you […]
Politics aside (ha!), how many times during your virtual travels through Pandemic Land have you stumbled across some website or other and thought to yourself ‘Well, this looks good’, only to realize, a few clicks in, that your attention hits an impasse (it only runs skin-deep) and so you move your cursor on? So much […]
Taking public matters into your own stained cybergloves again? – suppose the bearded sage avatar braying (to the tune of REM’s Everybody Hurts (sometimes/So hold on, hold on), whom the social media managers of Agorapulse canceled. With what qualifications? Do tell us the answer, great Trump fluffer Joshy, share your insight, discharged, no doubt, as […]
Links: NOTES: Elegy for Annie Pootoogook (1969–2016) by Candice Hopkins https://www.documenta14.de/en/notes-and-works/1053/elegy-for-annie-pootoogook-1969-2016- Links: ARTISTS: Sanja Iveković https://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/13552/sanja-ivekovic SOUTH Issue #9 (documenta 14 #4): Lost and Found by Susan Hiller https://www.documenta14.de/en/south/25219_lost_and_found CALENDAR: The Society of Friends of Halit: An homage to Pavlos Fyssas https://www.documenta14.de/en/calendar/25022/an-homage-to-pavlos-fyssas Links: PUBLIC EDUCATION: Interview with Narimane Mari https://www.documenta14.de/en/public-education/25831/interview-with-narimane-mari VENUES: Parko Eleftherias, Athens Municipality […]
After some delay, what says the public? It’s Joe’s time! So now, at long last, the smooth transition of a backwards flow towards normalcy softens the bite of an increasing viral death toll, trimming the long nails of Trumpism…for now. But in the meantime, what can art do for US? Either draw a line in […]
documenta 14 is not owned by anyone in particular. It is shared among its visitors and artists, readers and writers, as well as all those whose work made it happen. We write incarcerated by the myth of individual authorship. Whether poetry or prose (or whatever this is) I blow out hard from these puffed-up lungs. […]