All month long, in celebration of March being my birth month, I’m posting one of my all-time favorite metal albums per day on my twitter, check it out here if you’re interested. At the end of the month, I plan to publish here on Beaucoup a second list of more of my favorite metal albums, call it the Honorable Mentions.
ALSO!!! Exciting news to share…in April I will release my first attempt at a Beaucoup podcast type thing, mixtape type thing, strange audio collage type thing, for all subscribers!! So be on the lookout for an audio soundscape of weirdness coming soon!
And now….as always, this issue of Beaucoup is absolutely bursting with contemporary art, fashion, music, literature, videos, and other uncategorizable materials…
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The collected mixtapes of DJ Screw (1971-2000), a pioneering Houston, TX based hip hop DJ known for creating the chopped and screwed DJ technique.
Nobel Minds 2022
The 2022 laureates in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine and economic sciences talk to Zeinab Badawi and students in the audience at the Royal Palace in Stockholm about their discoveries and achievements, and how these might find a practical application.
“Remi Dalton’s work investigates how internet culture has blurred the boundaries between art and life, aesthetics and ethics.”
Li-Ming Hu “is an interdisciplinary artist who employs a carnivalesque sensibility, to explore the relationships between cultural production and the construction of subjectivities.”
How do you describe yourself? A musician, composer, songwriter, DJ, artist? Something else?
Generally a lot of people call me a ‘noise musician’ or ‘noise artist’… however my stuff is so much more ‘musical’ than most harsh noise artists and is produced in a different way that has more in common with sound design. There’s bits of producing, performance art, songwriting, composing (with graphic scores, I can’t read standard notation), visual art and poetry, etc.
— from “Gear Talks: experimental sound artist Uboa takes cues from gaming sound design to craft her sonic world,” via Mixdown
“Dario Mohr is a first generation Grenadian, U.S. citizen born in 1988. Based in New York City, Mohr is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and non profit leader.”
“Colin Guillemet’s (b.1979) work highlights the difficulty of describing art, concepts and ideas. Where self-expression is concerned it seems words are not enough. Confronted with his work mixed senses of confusion and comprehension occurs, the viewer is convinced they understood something, but does not know exactly what.”
Anthony Braxton WHRB Interview
This interview was conducted by Eric Plaks during a WHRB Anthony Braxton Orgy in May 1996. WHRB is 95.3FM, the Harvard radio station.
José Morbán “(b.1987 Dominican Republic) is a visual artist who lives and works in Santo Domingo.”
At college, in Rhetoric, as in Philosophy, Ducasse never revealed, as far as I know, any particular aptitude for mathematics or geometry, whose enchanting beauty he celebrated with such enthusiasm in Chants de Maldoror. But he did have a good appetite for natural history. The world of animals profoundly excited his curiosity. I saw him admire a bright red beetle, which he had found in the college grounds during the lunch break, for a long time.
— from “The Schooldays of Isidore Ducasse” by Paul Lespès, translated from the French by Tobias Ryan, via Sublunary Editions
Versace Spring-Summer 2023 Women’s | Fashion Show
“Kenny Rivero's aim is to deconstruct the histories and identities he has been conditioned to understand as absolute, in order to reengineer those parts into new wholes, with new functions. This process allows him to explore, and come to terms with, the broken narrative of Dominican American identity, socio-geographic solidarity, familial expectations, race, and gender roles. As a result, he considers the products of his practice syncretic in nature.”
ELIE SAAB Haute Couture Spring Summer 2023 | A GOLDEN DAWN
Francesco Simeti “(b. 1968, Palermo, Italy) is an artist known for his site-specific installations, which aesthetically present enchanting scenes that reveal a more complex subtext upon closer inspection.”
Mandla Reuter is a contemporary South African artist.
In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are starving. Or it is hot and steamy with very short people who eat primates. Don’t get bogged down with precise descriptions. Africa is big: fifty-four countries, 900 million people who are too busy starving and dying and warring and emigrating to read your book. The continent is full of deserts, jungles, highlands, savannahs and many other things, but your reader doesn’t care about all that, so keep your descriptions romantic and evocative and unparticular.
— from “How to Write About Africa” by Binyavanga Wainaina, via Granta
“Devin Osorio (b. 1993, New York) grew up as a first-generation Dominican American in the Northern Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights, where they find inspiration from the strong Dominican presence and the cultural and socioeconomic diversity. Using shared and self-reflective symbolism, Osorio honors Dominican culture through shrine-like paintings that incorporate plants, animals and glyphs to create a visual vernacular of and for the Dominican American community.”
Being Blind cuts you off from the world, being Deaf cuts you off from other people. She has this phrasing, this very specific wording on a poster in her room forever on the wall of her mind. Jennifer is the only Deaf person she knows but she knows herself like she knows the back of her hand. She needs people, this has been decided, she has decided.
— from “I Will End Your Bloodline” by Richard Chiem, via Joyland
The Smile performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded December 15, 2022
Alice Ronchi (born in 1989) lives and works in Milan.
FP: What do you want to become?
BL: I won’t tell you. Not because I don’t know, but because I’m a superstitious man. People should not know who you are, at least not really. And more importantly, they should never know what you want. Life is at stake in desire.
— from “THERE ARE MORE THINGS”: BENJAMÍN LABATUT ON BETRAYAL, FICTION, AND THE FUTURE, interview by FEDERICO PERELMUTER, via Public Books
“mystifying sonic terrorists Stalaggh complete their hellish trilogy”
Caroline Walker “is a Scottish-born contemporary visual artist based in London. She is known for voyeuristic paintings of women working.”
Art, interested in voice;
Literature, desiring to listen;
and Sound Studies… Sound Studies wants to sing.
[thud]
[unbearable violent noises, of flesh being brutally torn]
[pause]
[voice from the other side]:
They ripped me apart in four,
ears, tongue, legs, hands.
I was drawn and quartered by the Interdisciplinary Nothing.
— from Daniela Cascella's Nothing As We Need It: a chimera (2022)
Patrick Bokanowski - La femme qui se poudre AKA The Woman Who Powders Herself (1972)
Riccardo Previdi (b. 1974, Milano) studied in Brera Academy of Fine Arts.
Official video for "Seppuku" by HXXS.
The first single from their debut EP on Captured Tracks.
Directed and Edited // Anders Ericsson
“Josephine Baan (also goes by the names Joseph, Jo, or any variation thereof) is an artist and educator based between Zurich and Rotterdam. Their practice engages in art, education and collaboration as ways to forge creative resurgence. They’re interested in the complexities of collectivity and in the possibility of establishing a solidarity that does not homogenise, but affirms difference.”
The sublime, by contrast, according to Kant, is a principle of disorder, of purposivelessness. It is the phenomenon of our understanding encountering something which it cannot organize or contain. It cannot determine a delimiting organizing principle in the thing because it cannot determine any limits to the thing. It cannot determine any limits to the thing because the thing defies the presentative powers of the imagination. It is beyond the powers of the imagination to present a sensible form to the understanding, and it is beyond the powers of the understanding to make sense out of nothing.
— from “Philosophical Beauty: The Sublime in the Beautiful in Kant's Third Critique and Aristotle's Poetics” by Richard Gilmore, via Aesthetics and Philosophy of Arts
Johanna Bruckner was born in Vienna in 1984.
To imagine literature as an act of parrhesia, a mode where one “says everything” one has in mind and relays one’s own opinion in “the most direct words and forms of expression,” is, at first glance, counter to what most of us expect. We usually expect linguistic refinement rather than transparency and maximalism. Parrhesia also runs counter to our American notions of freedom, which we usually define as the absence of limitations. In particular, we have strong feelings about freedom of speech, which is a constitutional right limited only when absolutely necessary.
— from “Writing Wrongs” by Rachel Zucker, via Harpers
“New York-based artist Landon Metz has garnered critical attention for his ability to imbue a spare language of abstraction with visual dynamism and sense of movement.”
Runo Lagomarsino was born in 1977 in Lund, Sweden.
Erythrite Throne - Spell of the Dragon's Twilight (Official Video) [Dungeon Synth, Black Ambient]
Music video for the first track off the upcoming Erythrite Throne album "Cursed to Wander the Shadowland Eternal", to be released June 19th 2023.
“Adam Cruces’ work is interested in how we interact with the landscape. His practice incorporates a wide variety of material approaches, including painting, sculpture, and video. These elements often culminate in installations that collapse notions of obligation and leisure, nature and domestication, the familiar and the foreign.”
More and more radically Godard has developed a counter-cinema whose values
are counterposed to those of orthodox cinema. I want simply to write some notes
about the mean features of this counter-cinema. My approach is to take seven of
the values of the old cinema, Hollywood-Mosfilm, as Godard would put it, and
contrast these with their (revolutionary, materialist) counterparts and contraries.
— from “Godard and Counter Cinema: Vent d'Est” by Peter Wollen, via Film Narrative and other arts
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