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Brechtian Theater Techniqes

After hearing psychedelic music, I became a rock music fan and went to many concerts. In the early 1970s, the general trend was for pompous, self-involved rock theatrics. The beatnik notion of “poet-is-priest” became “rock star-is-priest,” and the rock concert … Continue reading

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Mike Kelley

R.I.P.

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10 trashy ideas about the environment from the Guerrilla Girls’ Compleat 1985–2008

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Patriotisches Wandbild

Sebastian Hempel

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I’VE HAD IT AND A HALF

“What will say, finally, when you have seen the whole of all the parts as well as the parts of all the parts?”* FRANCES STARK PERFORMS I’VE HAD IT AND A HALF Due to the adult themes of some of … Continue reading

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Born in Flames

Help Occasional Papers publish Born in Flames: The publication “Born in Flames poses the question of whether oppression against women will be eliminated under any kind of social system. […] It is a fantasy presenting a group of women who, … Continue reading

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my crappy life, in crappy 3d animation

Via Fredrik Sterner

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Pontus Alv

In Search of the Miraculous

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681 677 days

In anticipation towards / preparation for the potentiality of total Planetary Shutdown (as has been predicted by the Mayans, NASA, Terence MacKenna, the Nostradamus, possibly some Australophithecus proto-shaman named ‘Zhembg’, and many other interesting people), I am devoting the next … Continue reading

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Chuck Close

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait … Continue reading

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Christopher Nemeth

I guess I’m pretty out of the loop—I just learned that Christopher Nemeth passed away a few months back. Truly sad. It somehow seems fitting that I learned of his death from the same friend who introduced me to him. … Continue reading

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Basquiat

Rare Polaroids and Snapshots of Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Viktor v. 5,000 Years of Chairs

Viktor, 2008, Jürg Lehni DC motors, tool head, sprung steel coils, cables, Scriptographer software Developed in collaboration with Bruno Thurnherr and Marcell ackerknecht, Defekt GmbH The video shows Viktor illustrating the lecture «5000 Years of Chairs» by Michael Marriott about … Continue reading

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The Embarrassment

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The Realist Archive Project

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DubaiLand

From DubaiLand by Aleix Plademunt

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Cabinet insert

Found this in an old issue of Cabinet magazine (Issue 18, Fictional States, Summer 2005). I now love Die Keure even more. [click image to enlarge]

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Oslo Editions: Contra Mundum I–VII

THE INITIAL invitation to curate a lecture series came in the spring of last year from Justin Beal, who asked us to put something together for the Mandrake, an artist-run bar in LA. The title Contra Mundum comes from Brideshead … Continue reading

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The Locked Room

Imagine this scenario: you are locked in an empty white room. You share this cell with twelve other people, but you are not allowed to speak. You are under constant observation. [...] it is the first day of the 1969 autumn … Continue reading

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The Lake

The Lake Edgar Allan Poe, 1927 In youth’s spring, it was my lot To haunt of the wide earth a spot The which I could not love the less; So lovely was the loneliness Of a wild lake, with black … Continue reading

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