Year 2: Month 7: Volume 1
we spend half our lives asleep
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“The work of Lawrence Malstaf (1972, Bruges, Belgium) is situated on the borderline between the visual and the theatrical.”
We’ve just received a complaint that the artwork we asked you to action vis-a-vis resituating location-wise is still in the same spot in the ground floor lobby?? Could you let me know ASAP as possible current status of the artwork, re: physical location and any potential blockages you see moving forwardly?
— from “DP FICTION #98A: Re: Your Stone” by Guan Un, via Diabolical Plots
Markus Amm is an artist based in London.
Edward Kienholz: The Story of an Artist (1961)
Carolina Caycedo “is a multimedia artist based in Los Angeles. Born to Colombian parents, Caycedo's art practice is based on environmental research focusing on the future of shared resources, environmental justice, energy transition and cultural biodiversity.”
In his book The Parasite (trans. Lawrence Schehr), Michel Serres invokes a pun on the word “parasite”: a word that (in French) means both a biological creature that lives off another creature, and a noise or interference with the original message in an act of communication. Serres argues that there is no communication – no system even – that does not also include this noise or deformation. There are always parasites involved. But unlike so much thinking about both noise and parasites, these two figures are not negative in his conception.
— from “THE PARASITE OF TRANSLATION” by Johannes Göransson, via Hopscotch Translation
Neha Choksi (b. 1973, Belleville, New Jersey) works in Inglewood, California, and Bombay, India.
Scene 1 of Agnes de Milles ballet "Rodeo" American Ballet Theater 1973
Christine Sarry (Cowgirl), Terry Orr (Champion Roper), Marcos Paredes (Head Wrangler), Music by Aaron Copland, Settings by Oliver Smith
Summer Wagner “is a photographer from the rustbelt region of the Midwest, United States. Her work contemplates the spiritual and psychological threads of everyday life and the blur of poetry that is our society's collective dreamscape.”
Daniel Arfib, "Musique Numérique" [CP-088]
The bubbling, overloaded overtone-blobs & distant wind-creep & resonant jaw-harp-like attacks of “Voyelles d’Eveil” - based on interpolations of the harmonic series - start out the disc, making way for the considerable more noise-oriented - pitched, narrow-band noise, that is - “Le Souffle du Doux” - slow arcs of octave-doubled tones slide in & around morphing mathematically-proportioned drones. But the real clincher for me is the side-long “l’Approche de la Lumière” - starting out as a shifting morass of dissonant tone-combinations before a series of chugging, low-bit white-noise formations - not entirely dis-similar to the sort of crunchy bit-rate distortions emanating from beloved SN 76477 I.C. found in many Space Invaders-lineage console arcade games - pave the way for a full-volume explosion of rippling, panning harsh noise - seriously ; listen to this at a fair clip & tell me it doesn’t resemble certain factions of the contemporary chip-noise / circuit-bending wave.
Mercedes Dorame is a Native American indigenous artist working in fine art photography and installation.
Time dissolves its blotter, shirking the past, smearing the future bright and dumbly wide open. Like a supernova, Susanne is there until the very end, even after the explosion. She holds everyone together as long as possible but, like an acid trip or the commune, the film must end. Susanne’s is the last face we see before the credits roll. May we learn to bear witness to both ourselves and others, and may we understand when it’s time to go, like Susanne.
— from “ANNE LOUISE HASSING as SUSANNE in THE IDIOTS (1998)” by DAVID KUHNLEIN, via Goodnight Sweet Prince
Jean Isabel Smith is a Canadian writer, painter and the lead singer of the Vancouver band Mecca Normal.
Paul Gisbrecht is an American artist.
Carmen Argote is a Los Angeles-based artist. She hails from Guadalajara. She is known for performance art and sculpture.
Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923-2019) “was a Venezuelan artist said by some scholars to have been one of the greatest artistic innovators of the 20th century."
Jérémie Deschamps Bussières lives and works in Trois-Rivières where he teaches visual arts at his region's Cégep.
Now it is summer, so I read outside and write in my notebook. If I sit beneath a tree, or in the grass, I am interrupted by insects: a fly lands on this page, a spider falls onto my shirt. I’m trying to make sense of why I read, why I’m writing. In their books about writing, Annie Dillard and Marguerite Duras write about little insects: in The Writing Life, Dillard describes the writer as probing, ‘delicate as a worm’, but then interrupts herself to notice the absurdity and wretchedness of every inchworm she has seen; in Writing, Duras spends nearly ten pages describing the time that she watched a fly die in her house—the house in which, as she points out in the first sentence of the book, she is never alone.
— from “On Being Tickled by Insects” by Anna, via Philosophical Crumbs
Diedrick Brackens is an American artist and weaver.
Brendan Monroe is an American artist who was born in 1980.
Matt Connors is an artist working predominantly in abstract painting. He lives and works between New York and Los Angeles.
Martin C. Herbst “is an Austrian painter, whose work focuses on an elaborate reevaluation of art historical themes and theories of classical portraiture and human figures.”
Lakwena Maciver is a London-based artist, born in London in 1986, with mixed Ugandan and British heritage.
Saâdane Afif is a French conceptual artist.
Richard Ernst Artschwager was an American painter, illustrator and sculptor. His work has associations with Pop Art, Conceptual art and Minimalism.
Toshifumi Hinata - Sarah's Crime (1985)
Lynda Benglis is an American sculptor and visual artist known especially for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures.
