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I think I conceive of myself as disobeying my readership a lot. I began the new work in fact denying their existence; it seemed to me I needed most at this point to work on my own existence so I couldn't afford to cater to them if they got in the way of my finding out things. But this is a work of mine, it should be published sometime. I'm now in a predicament I can't get out of, a form I can't manage for the reader, which just keeps leading me on and leading me on.
— from “The Poetics of Disobedience” BY ALICE NOTLEY, via Poetry Foundation
Futuro Optimisto - Printemps-Été 2023 Runway Show
Founder & Creative Director: Charaf Tajer
Contemporary British artist Dame Phyllida Barlow
Jon Rafman’s DREAM JOURNAL 2016 - 2019 (2019) - FULL MOVIE
The many-voiced author of this book writes in English as a second language. She is a stranger. No matter how fluent, she is never entirely in synch with words that are hers not all hers, a small variance is always perceived. Writing as a stranger entails the perception of both loss and haunting: the loss of references when working with Italian writers not translated in English, and how these writers haunt the text even if they cannot be quoted. Chimeric writing takes shape beyond and before translation, attempts writing when there seem to be no words, not only across languages but across different mediums, in a confusion, re-telling, and distortion of sources.
— from NOTHING AS WE NEED IT by Daniela Cascella, via Punctum Books
Contemporary Russian artist Sasha Frolova
i’m writing this down its obsoleting itself. whole time we talking we ain’t got no dictionary we guessing the spelling we deciphering the phrases through our slurs we slurring like we ain’t sure until we murmur a sure vow. whole time we blur the whole thing
— from “slave grammar” by Nate Marshall, via Kenyon Review
Contemporary French artist Guillaume Amat
Nina Cobham - por razones sentimentales
prod by Jack Laboz mastered by John Greenham Animation by Mike Cullen
Contemporary Lebanese artist Naji Chalhoub
Arthur King - "Caminando" (Official Music Video) (2022)
"Caminando" is an experimental visual compliment to the track of the same name from 'Changing Landscapes (Mina Las Pintadas)', the forthcoming new album from Arthur King. Composed of photographs taken by Aaron Farley and brought to life by animator/director Oliver Franklin Anderson, "Caminando" helps place the listener firmly within the space of the original source material - a copper mine in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.
Contemporary British artist Isaac Andrews
Contemporary Moroccan artist Mounir Fatmi
The Dior men Summer 2023 by Kim Jones show, set in a pastoral reconstruction of Monsieur Dior’s Granville villa and the Charleston Farmhouse.
Contemporary Hungarian artist Eva Beresin
When I was little, I came home with my pockets full of rocks from the playground weighing me down. I knew that if I didn’t hold on, I’d disappear.
— from Meep Matsushima’s “One Hundred Views of Tokyo,” via Second Chance Lit
Tadao Ando is a Japanese self-taught architect whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as "critical regionalism"
Khanvict - Closer
Written and Directed by Anjali Nayar
The first time I heard about the Kessler Syndrome, I was listening to a podcast while boarding a plane. I involuntarily stopped short in the aisle, dropped my bag, and crouched down as if to brace myself for impact. Perhaps I was responding to the vivid description of space debris smashing into and destroying spacecraft – not the nicest thing to imagine before takeoff.
— from "Domestic titans" by Elvia Wilk, via Welcome Collection
Contemporary Hungarian artist Rita Ackermann
The only thing he’d remember while he watched her disappear among the other pedestrians in the sticky afternoon light was the sound of the whirlwind in his ears. A faint tremor. A sharp whistle. The sonorous crash of trivial things. A dance of discarded items. And further back, once the fear had found its place in his stomach, the beating of his heart, the grinding of his teeth. The confluence of enamel and dust and saliva. A form of abrasion. True torture. He’d remember himself, many years before, in another place.
— from “The Last Sign” by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated by Sarah Booker, via The Baffler
SUSU - Atomic Love (Live at Tigre Den) (2022)
Contemporary American artist Monroe Isenberg
Kayee C is a fine art photographer born and raised in Hong Kong, currently living in France
Marina Herlop - abans abans (2022)
Directed by Invernomuto
Edited by David Camarero
Contemporary Ukrainian designer Natasha Zinko presents her SS23 collection as part of Paris Fashion Week:
Here are some books that suggest the exhilarating, if difficult, gifts of not knowing—what it means to remain open to that which is beyond the self, to the experience of beauty and wonder, to the strangeness of others and the world.
—from “Eight Books in Which Ignorance Is the Point: People are always searching for answers, but not knowing can be its own reward” by Anthony Domestico, via The Atlantic
The Aubreys - Live At Neptoon Records (12/2020)
Contemporary Greek artist Dimitris Ntokos
KFW 2018: Katarzyna Dworecka - European Fashion Accelerator
Contemporary Spanish artist Pedro Roldan Molina
isn’t that why you took to the sea to hold it all together here is your bed your sunset view your chocolate fondue tower your place to rest your dinner plate your last pillow mint
— from Emmy Newman’s “Every Cruise Ship Has A Morgue,” via Oyster River Pages
Thom Browne runway men's spring summer 2022
Contemporary Spanish artist Francisca Pageo
Maxim Zhestkov is a London-based digital artist and designer.
It may be hard to fathom, but thirty years ago, it was very much an open question as to whether Theory and Black Studies were compatible as domains of university-based inquiry…
— from “Splitting the Difference: Black Studies’ Theory Wars and bell hooks’s Postmodern Blackness” by Kinohi Nishikawa, via Post 45
Dewey Crumpler and Saidiya Hartman: Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists
Artist Dewey Crumpler and author and scholar Saidiya Hartman first met years ago in the Bay Area, and in the hour they spent together for this episode of Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists, they discuss many subjects including their work, the responsibilities that attend a calling, the exhaustive process of transformation, and the powerful “hum”— the potent frequency—of Black lives.
Contemporary American artist Mark Bradford