Welcome to (Month 4: Volume 2), the new exclusive collection for paid subscribers! Thank you again for supporting this project, I really appreciate it!
(Month 4: Volume 2) contains tons of contemporary art, music, fashion, literature, videos, and more stuff that resists categorization!
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Hungarian composer Réka Csiszér’s new project, as VÍZ, “Veils”
film trilogy with filmmaker Radiana Basso
Csiszér’s statement on the Veils project:
VÍZ is my chamber of soul, an intimate space in which I explore my sense of self, my past experiences, and my perception of reality. It is a playground for solitary audio-visual experimentation, as well as a platform for collaboration with artists working in different fields, to challenge each other and expand our creative minds. VÍZ is a Hungarian word and means water. It reminds me of where I come from. Water is formless and shapeless. Quiet, violent, mysterious, and dangerous at the same time. You can float on water but also drown. Water has an infinite quality and infinity makes me feel safe. Using a Hungarian word as an alias also symbolizes my attempt to connect on a deeper level with my Transylvanian roots and ancestors.
My conceptual work Veils is an elegiac body horror soundtrack in seven stages, the soundtrack to my own personal nightmares and traumas, and a requiem for my father Imre. The record deals with death, grief, cultural heritage, and identity.
Contemporary Paris-based fashion designer and artist Boya Wen
Anton Reva is a collage artist and photographer, sometimes video editor/director
A book should be like a lot of spit. But who would publish me? Who publishes a person who’s sort of soaking in pain, who can’t always walk, employed only pretty much in name?
Did writing exist in books anyway these days? I thought, perhaps very defensively. Maybe it didn’t.
Where does writing foment? Where does effulgence slip in the innerlining of which writing? That is what I meant.
— from Caren Beilin's new novel Revenge of the Scapegoat, via LitHub
Yung Lean ft. FKA twigs - Bliss (Official Video)
directed by Aidan Zamiri
Melanie Bonajo is a queer, non-binary, Dutch artist, filmmaker, feminist, sexological bodyworker, somatic sex coach and educator, cuddle workshop facilitator and animal rights activist.
BOUNDARY BOSS - melanie bonajo, slitter splatter & friends
Strike a match, light a candle, here we go. In this version of the story, the messenger urges his horse on, faster faster, away from the blood-soaked fields of Vlad the Impaler’s latest battle, off to inform The Impaler’s beloved that he is alive, he has conquered, he will return to you soon. But only messengers bearing bad news ever reach their destination in time.
— from “Candlelight” by K.C. Mead-Brewer, via hex
Contemporary American Artist Sophie Larrimore
Contemporary American artist Jenny Brown
RICK OWENS FW22 WOMENS STROBE (LIVE STREAM)
FASHION HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT COMMUNICATION, AND SIGNALING VALUE SYSTEMS TO OTHERS. VALUE SYSTEMS REGARDING PHYSICAL BEAUTY AND STATUS BUT ALSO ABOUT MORAL BEAUTY AND BEAUTIFUL BEHAVIOR. IN TIMES OF MENACE AND STRIFE, THE WAY WE PRESENT OURSELVES CAN EXPRESS WHAT WE ENDORSE AND ASPIRE TO— AN EMPATHETIC AND GRACIOUS WAY OF MOVING THROUGH THE WORLD AND TREATING OTHERS.
(you can read Rick Owens’s full statement about the show on the YouTube description here)
Contemporary Portuguese artist Leonel Moura makes “nonhuman art”:
Derived from the Greek words pan (“all”) and psyche (“soul” or “mind”), panpsychism is the idea that consciousness — perhaps the most mysterious phenomenon we have yet come across — is not unique to the most complex organisms; it pervades the entire universe and is a fundamental feature of reality. “At a very basic level,” wrote the Canadian philosopher William Seager, “the world is awake.”
— from “The Conscious Universe” by Joe Zadeh, via NOEMA
Contemporary Polish artist Iga Węglińska is a multidisciplinary designer and researcher specialized in human–garment interactions:
This will be my last life. Finally mountains are mountains again: ridges on the surface of a viscous liquid a river with its footsteps.
— from Lucy Wainger’s “Hagiography,” via The Journal
GERMANIER SS22
Creative Direction: Kévin Germanier
Contemporary American artist Maria Teicher
What will we do about all these rats? we say, because everyone is saying it and there are t-shirts: “What will we do about all these rats?” printed in glow-in-the-dark ink across the breast. There are t-shirts but no answers. Then Romeo visits our village dragging one thousand hissing burlap sacks. Romeo instructs us to insert our rats into the sacks and the modern wonder of snakes in a sack will take care of the rest. He delivers a sack to every doorstep, but, you know, nice try, Romeo. If we could catch rats we would’ve inserted them in sacks long ago, then hurled the sacks into the ocean. No snakes required.
— from “Rats and Cats and Snakes” by Dustin M. Hoffman, via Necessary Fiction
Jimi Lucid - Screens (Music Video)
Director, DP, Executive Producer and Editor - Eamon Colbert
Contemporary Peruvian artist Elena Damiani
Each child begins his or her life as a tree. While they are still able to move the children make a circle near the city hall building. The teachers water the children’s feet every day until they root into the dirt. Soon thereafter their legs fuse together & grow a tough brown coating. Their torsos do the same & the children must hold their arms above their heads as their fingers separate into hundreds of tight green buds & sprout.
— from “Three Texts” by Mathias Svalina, via Lamination Colony
A Self Guided Music Experience: Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse
This exhibition soundtrack [for the recently opened exhibit at LACMA], created by Bárbara Salazar and Alejandro Cohen of dublab, reflect McQueen’s vast, eclectic, and at times unpredictable musical taste that defined his runway shows. The soundtrack’s jarring changes and contrasting choices aim to not only reflect onupon, but also provoke a conversation about the meaning of McQueen’s work in the context of our present times.
With selections that range from classical, to post punk, dance, and pop, Bárbara and Alejandro try to not only represent the artist’s choices but also respond to the legacy of his work.
(Listen here)
Contemporary American artist Luke Butler
the tyranny of these hands.
of my with my
hands i feed
my love
the soil’s boiled blood— from "asylum love" by Victoria Stitt, via Blood Orange Review
Contemporary American artist Woody De Othello
David Lynch In Conversation (2015)
David Lynch shares his insights into his life, his work and his many passions – painting, film, music and meditation during his visit to Australia for 'David Lynch: Between Two Worlds'.
With David Stratton in Brisbane.
Contemporary American artist Clare Rojas
until becoming :: you think :: how living :: until you :: unbody your body :: how grateful :: you body :: how body become :: how are you ::
— "abolish the dead" by Stevie Redwood, via Flypaper Lit
Contemporary Israeli artist Amikam Toren
Contemporary German artist Nicole Wermers
Three part docuseries “Becoming Paul McCarthy”
Paul McCarthy was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at his studio in Los Angeles in November 2018.
Camera: Rasmus Quistgaard
Produced by Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen and Marc-Christoph Wagner
Edited by Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen
Contemporary Turkish artist Enes Güç
Contemporary Nigerian artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Akilah Oliver — “In Aporia” / “The Stand Still World” (2007)
Contemporary American artist Marcel Rozek
I hang out at the Chicago Art Institute––since 1972 I guess, when
pregnant I would come panting home from a visit with
the paintings and announce to my husband “The history
of art is hilarious” or “I finally realized today that
it must be as great to be Vuillard as deKooning.”
— from “MODERN AMERICANS IN THEIR PLACE AT CHICAGO ART INSTITUTE: AN ARTICLE” by Alice Notley, via ASAP Journal
Marilyn Crispell, Mark Helias, Tyshawn Sorey - at The Stone, NYC - July 29 2014
Marilyn Crispell & Tyshawn Sorey - Duo/Quartets/Sextet - CMS Workshop - Big Indian, NY 2014
“Though we perceive them as paintings, Margo Wolowiec's works are in fact intricate loom-woven textiles infused with images via dye-sublimation transfer.”
Contemporary French artist Emily Geirnaert
“Poetry remains living and evolves as a skill. It cannot be properly institutionalized. It can be taught (within the institution) but not felt. Perhaps a scholar can know more about poetry than the actual poet but the latter remains the one who feels language and invigorates its power far beyond the precipice of its seeming limit.”
— from Will Alexander in Conversation with James Goodwin, via Granta
Contemporary American artist Noah Kocher
“Theory Fiction, Mad Black Deleuzeanism and the Posthuman Void”
Foreign Objekt presents a book reading and panel discussion for David Roden's newly published book, Snuff Memories (Schism Press: 2021), which took place on March 7th, 2021.
Panelists: David Roden, Amanda Beech, Martin Rosenberg, Romina Wainberg, Corey McCall, and Simon Sellars.