Year 2: Month 12: Volume 1
Becoming Free
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As always this volume is absolutely bursting with contemporary art, fashion, music, literature, videos, and other uncategorizable materials…
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Screens Series Online: Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa
The man of the house turns off the war just before a bomb lands on a
hospital.
She blames the sky for pouring molten gold over the ratshit sofa.
Silence yawns, stretches, lengthens its legs like a meow stranded on
summer’s sidewalk.— from “Why the Revolution Sits Beside a Willow and Braids Its Own Hair” by Alina Stefanescu, via Iterant
Edgar Calel is a Maya Kaqchikel artist and poet from the midwestern highlands of Guatemala.
Akira Ikezoe (b. 1979) is a New York-based artist born in Kochi, Japan.
“Can you take a deep breath? And then another?”
Lo, who are you talking to? Don’t give them your email address. Shadow entities love email.
“Should I become one with the flame.” The answer is always yes, Lo. Yes.
Like, yes I held the text up to a mirror to read it.
When reading Casket Flare, I recommend becoming one with the flame. Let the spirit move you.
— from “[De-Con-Struc] Casket Flare // Logan Berry [guest-written by: Danika Stegeman]” via Psycho Holosuite
Oda Iselin Sønderland (b.1996 in Oslo) is a Norwegian/Irish artist currently living and working in Oslo.
What does Palestine require of us, as writers writing in English from within the imperial core, in this moment of genocide? I want to offer here some notes and some directions towards beginning to answer this question.
— from “Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide” by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, via Protean
Amalia Pica “is a London-based Argentine artist who explores metaphor, communication, and civic participation through sculptures, installations, photographs, projections, live performances, and drawings.”
Felipe Mujica “(b. Santiago, Chile; lives in New York) creates works comprised of installation, drawing, collapsible sculptures, and printmaking.”
Objects,
life, words, texts, syllables, sounds, matter, silence, memories, corporal movements, political movements, images, savor, smells, the body, the mind, architecture, anger, frustration, desire, concepts, air are some of the many materials that are generally used to produce what we denote “work of art.” An “art piece” is generally recognized by us when an artist disrupts what we have until now designated limits “of perception”—and “of senses,” and “of meaning.”
— from “Maniac Vicious Circles’ by Karin Schneider, via Roth Archive
Hellen Ascoli “(b. 1984 in Guatemala City, Guatemala) works with text, sound, video, textile, sculpture, and installation to explore the politicized relationship between body, object, and place.”
Jessica Kairé is a Guatemalan artist. She is based in New York and Guatemala.
Johanna Unzueta “(Santiago, Chile, 1974) studied art at the Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago and lives in New York City since early 2000.”
Vivian Suter is an Argentine-Swiss painter.
Earth @ Alex Theatre Los Angeles CA 12-01-2023
After all, what is a chronotopology? It’s a map of time. Kenji Siratori’s chronotopologies: he is generating shadow maps, like a biocomputer trying to navigate deathly new landscapes in order to enforce its strange design. The map and the territory are starting to coincide; the black star emerges from the ruins of language itself. As Nietzsche reminds us, the night is also a sun.
— from “Cybergothic Human Typewriter: On Kenji Siratori’s Chronotopologies” by Michael Uhall, via 3:AM Magazine
Dutch artist Klaas Kloosterboer (born 1959)
Regina José Galindo is a Guatemalan performance artist who specializes in body art.
Art has its place in this era of ersatz automation. There’s more of it than ever, and no one would propose its abolition. Art no longer seeks solace in its rival, the commodity, mirroring it inimically. It merges with it, and mocks itself.
— from “On Dominique Routhier’s With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation” by Jason E. Smith, via e-flux
Hamiet Bluiett, William Parker, Hamid Drake - Not A Police State / Arts for Art - Jan 15 2016
Radamés “Juni” Figueroa lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
