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"Production is used four times more often in the e-flux corpus than in the BNC, negation three times..."

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:30:25 -0500

“Production is used four times more often in the e-flux corpus than in the BNC, negation three times more often, totality twice as often. Dialectics occurs six times more often in the e-flux corpus than in the BNC; at 9.9 instances per million, dialectics is nearly as common to IAE as sunlight to the BNC”

- http://canopycanopycanopy.com/16/international_art_english

Book #12 La Maison De Rendevous- Alain Robbe-Grillet This was...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:30:18 -0500

Book #12 La Maison De Rendevous- Alain Robbe-Grillet

This was in French.

I can’t really speak French. Seems like there were prostitutes/ drugs/ narrative ambiguity.

I think I enjoyed it.

Untitled (Makuhari Messe no.7.1), 2009 TAISUKE KOYAMA

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:01:47 -0500

Untitled (Makuhari Messe no.7.1), 2009

TAISUKE KOYAMA

Photo

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:02:54 -0500

Book #11 On The Line- Deleuze & Guattari Maybe I know what a...

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:01:47 -0500

Book #11 On The Line- Deleuze & Guattari

Maybe I know what a rhizome is. Seems like I will definitely pretend I do.

Book #10- Trout Fishing In America- Richard Brautigan Something...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:01:27 -0500

Book #10- Trout Fishing In America- Richard Brautigan

Something of a game changer.

Book #9 Ooga-Booga Frederick Seidel Seems like I don’t...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:01:45 -0500

Book #9 Ooga-Booga Frederick Seidel

Seems like I don’t know when I have finished a book of poetry. I don’t know. This made me want to write poems again. Nice combination of profundity and profanity.

“I spend most of my time not dying.

That’s what living is for.

I climb on a motorcycle.

I climb on a cloud and rain.

I climb on a woman I love.

I repeat my themes.”

(from Fog)

Thanks Fred.

thejogging: vacuum sealed PURPLE MAGAZINE (anniversary issue)...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:21:17 -0500

thejogging:

vacuum sealed PURPLE MAGAZINE (anniversary issue) with mtv CATFISH (hit show, youth) Serve a meal and learn about culture / Unique, 2013

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"One question that inevitably arises when painting is being discussed is why painting should be..."

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:17:00 -0500

“

One question that inevitably arises when painting is being discussed is why painting should be considered in isolation from other media? Does it make sense to make a single medium the subject of a text or an exhibition? Is this still relevant? Or is it not? A possible first answer is, ‘No it is not. Any consideration of painting in isolation tends to be reactionary, because the dismissal of Modernism’s dogmatic restriction of artistic practice to a particular medium must be understood as the most significant progress in art in recent decades. Today every medium represents only one possibility among many. The only thing that counts is the artist’s conceptual project. The choice of a particular medium only has meaning inasmuch as it relates to a strategic gain within the overall project. If a conceptual statement can be adequately formulated in terms of painting, then artists paint, but if a different medium proves to be more useful, they turn to video or build installations. In this context anybody who looks at the medium alone is missing the most important thing.’

A second possible answer is, ‘Yes it is. It is even necessary to discuss painting qua painting, because that is the only way to investigate its true significance. The enormous potential of what art can do as art only emerges when art deals with the laws, limits and history of a specific medium. The semantic depth of a painterly formulation can only be adequately appreciated if it is understood as the result of a process of dialogue with the medium. Any kind of art or art criticism that excludes all of that must necessarily be superficial. Anyone who reduces art to transferable concepts and readily comprehensible ideas has lost sight of what art is, and what it can achieve by virtue of its nature as a non-verbal language. Any art that defines itself solely in terms of content, and not in terms of its medium-specific form, becomes the kind of issue-related speciality art that critics and curators love, because it always comes with ready-made categories to file it under, such as “identity politics”, “institutional critique”, “critical urbanism” and so on. No valid art or criticism can avoid dialogue with the medium qua medium.’

”

- Why Are Conceptual Artists Painting Again? Because They Think It’s a Good Idea

Jan Verwoert

Book #8- Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov Felt embarrassed I...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:01:30 -0500

Book #8- Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov

Felt embarrassed I hadn’t already read this. Feel ok about the whole experience. I don’t know. I feel like I already had a sort of tertiary reading of it, in that it is something I am sort of aware in a societal sense. I guess what I’m trying to say is that it didn’t seem as shocking as I expected.

Book #7- The Mattering of Matter, Tom McCarthy, Simon Critchley,...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:09:15 -0500

Book #7- The Mattering of Matter, Tom McCarthy, Simon Critchley, et al.

Ridiculously nice edition. The art texts were nicely offset by interviews that showed how the ideas behind the INS declarations were formulated.

"Whether transporting us to the south of the United States, to Turkey or to a flat in England, the..."

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 06:55:32 -0500

“Whether transporting us to the south of the United States, to Turkey or to a flat in England, the dimension of sound arranges a period of poetic suspension that favours studied reflection, like so many interpretive spaces standing as acts of resistance.”

- Taken from the press release of:

Give Piece a Chance
Sam Durant – Haroon Mirza – Bojan Šarčević
19 January–3 March 2013

Le Grand Café Contemporary Art Centre, Saint-Nazaire

http://www.maplin.co.uk/3-channel-wireless-intercom-23041

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:00:28 -0500

http://www.maplin.co.uk/3-channel-wireless-intercom-23041

http://helmutsmits.nl/public-spaces/pamphlet

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:55:41 -0500

http://helmutsmits.nl/public-spaces/pamphlet:

Title: Pamphlet
Year: 2006
Materials: computer, software, printer
People could type a message on the laptop. By pressing ‘send’ a pamphlet was printed and dropped from the 10th floor.

Book #6 So Long, See You Tomorrow- William Maxwell Seemed...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:38:30 -0500

Book #6 So Long, See You Tomorrow- William Maxwell

Seemed interesting to write a book featuring a dead mother that didn’t talk about the dead mother (much). Shifting perspective of the narrator also interesting.

I Intend to submit to this and i am making this blog post to remind me to do so

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:40:52 -0500

I Intend to submit to this and i am making this blog post to remind me to do so

Book #5 J.M.G. Le Clézio- The Interrogation My flatmate is...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:40:03 -0500

Book #5 J.M.G. Le Clézio- The Interrogation

My flatmate is listening to musicals in the background. Musicals are the opposite of this book.

Book #4 Pataphysical Essays-René Daumal Feels like pataphysics...

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:01:45 -0500

Book #4 Pataphysical Essays-René Daumal

Feels like pataphysics could be seen as post-ironic, in that by assuming an absurd stance something sincere can be related.

Feels like that is wrong. Pataphysics is just absurd.

Highly recommend “The Pataphysics of Ghosts”. Basic argument is that ghosts do exist as an absence defined by people (sort of).

pecunningham: Sedmikrásky / Daisies (1966)

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:01:41 -0500

pecunningham:

Sedmikrásky / Daisies (1966)

"At the time I defined ‘objects’ as “static artworks attempting to articulate social situations..."

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:01:35 -0500

“At the time I defined ‘objects’ as “static artworks attempting to articulate social situations through representation”.”

- http://oliverbraid.tumblr.com/post/39308294011/oliver-braids-top-ten-1997-2012-number-2