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Workshop Notes – Performing the Archive
On Kawara - Marking the experience of life and time. Lejeune writes extensively on diaries - proof of life Linda Montano & Jamie McMurray - 365 Performances Joshua Sofaer - Perform Everyday (what>, 2008) - includes objects & instructions - book is over $80 on Amazon (rare) Thanasis Chondros & Alexandra Katsiani - Greek couple who … Continue reading Workshop Notes – Performing the Archive
Anne Frank Project
Among others, this artist and her Anne Frank project came up during the Performing the Archive workshop Ellen Rothenberg Ellen Rothenberg Check out also Jane Gilooly (sp?) Suitcase of Love and Shame (audio tapes)
Night of the Black Snow
The Bombing of Tokyo (東京大空襲 Tōkyōdaikūshū) often refers to a series of firebombing air raids by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaigns of World War II. On the night of 9–10 March 1945, Operation Meetinghouse was conducted and is regarded as the single most destructive bombing raid in human history:[1] 16 … Continue reading Night of the Black Snow
Michael Landy – Stuff and Nonsense
Michael Landy famously destroyed all 7,226 of his possessions. One year on, Tim Cumming finds that life for the artist is more complicated than ever https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/feb/13/artsfeatures.arts
READING DIARY: Artistic Research in the Era of Globalization (Butt)
The 3 readings on Thomas Hirschhorn's Gramsci Monument at Forest Houses in the Bronx, NY introduce us to a broad range of perspectives on the work. First, Hirschhorn's short essays on the origin of the monument as part of the 4 in the series, offer also his theory behind Unshared Authorship and the “presence and … Continue reading READING DIARY: Artistic Research in the Era of Globalization (Butt)
READING DIARY: Performing the Archive (Avgitidou)
UPDATE: I've been thinking about the readings and contemplating the variety of ideas, practices and theories presented. Archives and collections fascinate me. And although I didn't exactly set out to create an archive for my first year project, I did have to figure out a way to track and "store" my collection of invisible things … Continue reading READING DIARY: Performing the Archive (Avgitidou)
READING DIARY: Dis/placement and art (Marcevska)
Of all the readings, I'm most interested in Shahram Khosravi's Engaging Anthropology: An Auto-Ethnographic Approach piece. I was first introduced to auto-ethnography when you (Elena) were advising me over the first year of my MFA program. While I didn't quite understand it at first, I have found this writing style to be among the most interesting … Continue reading READING DIARY: Dis/placement and art (Marcevska)
Sticker Residue – What the Conservators Do
Aboubakar Fofana – Indigo (documenta – Athens)
I appreciate the way the author describes the artist's spiritual practice in the article below. I'd love to see what Fofana's work looks like - and to witness his process... From; http://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/13516/aboubakar-fofana Aboubakar Fofana Dried ngalama leaves being prepared for the dye pot, photo: Riley Salyards Works Aboubakar Fofana (b. 1967, Bamako, Mali) Ka touba … Continue reading Aboubakar Fofana – Indigo (documenta – Athens)
Mounira Al Solh – “time documents”
This project seems to resemble my Sin Paredes project in some ways... audio, drawing, personal stories about immigration... It sounds really great - I'd love to see it! From: http://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/13500/mounira-al-solh Mounira Al Solh Mounira Al Solh, four drawings from “I Strongly Believe in Our Right to Be Frivolous” (2012–17), ink, graphite, marker, paint, and thread … Continue reading Mounira Al Solh – “time documents”
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Betty Tompkins: WOMEN Words
Check out this project: https://www.artsy.net/show/the-flag-art-foundation-betty-tompkins-women-words-phrases-and-stories Press Release The FLAG Art Foundation presents Betty Tompkins: WOMEN Words, Phrases, and Stories from January 20 – May 14, 2016, on FLAG’s 10th floor gallery. The exhibition marks the first comprehensive presentation of 1,000 intimately-scaled, hand-painted works, each of which features a word or words used to describe women. … Continue reading Betty Tompkins: WOMEN Words
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SIN PAREDES : STORIA #1
https://vimeo.com/211256612 Sin Paredes: Storia #1 Sin Paredes is a collaborative project created with the aim to give voice to the people who culturally and economically enrich our communities through their hard work, community engagement, and cultural contributions, yet who are not free to enjoy the same liberties as others because of their nationality, immigration status, … Continue reading SIN PAREDES : STORIA #1
The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss. Italo Calvino
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Paul Robeson HUAC Hearing
Someone posted on Facebook this comment, so I had to look it up... Paul Robeson was not only a great singer, he had a law degree. Google Paul Robeson McCarthy hearing to hear him play with his accusers!!! It is great!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Qxr1wdxbg
Reduce Prejudice with a Conversation
Prejudice is the absence of curiosity. - A great phrase that I heard today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN6O5LTaGyg
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The Yes Men’s Guide to Resisting Trump
I found this enlightening: http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/11/19/yes-mens-guide-resisting-trump
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I Send You This Cadmium Red
In I Send You This Cadmium Red, John Berger and John Christie traded letters about art to the music of Gavin Bryars. (Found reference to this work in an article by Stuart Jeffries in the Guardian on Gavin Bryars.) Gavin Bryars website
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February Process Blog (Part 3)
Here's a rough edit of the video I'm working on... https://vimeo.com/204138451
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Girls quickly learn that a woman’s beauty can be a liability…
André St. Clair and Tavet Gillson of AndréTavet André St. Clair and Tavet Gillson of AndréTavet, i usedta live in the world, 2016 In this work we interpreted Dr. Shange’s poem, i usedta live in the world, which is about the universality of women’s experience of being pinned under the weight of masculinity. The threat … Continue reading Girls quickly learn that a woman’s beauty can be a liability…
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February Process Blog: INVISIBLE THING (PRINTS)
These prints are barely legible in real life, on a computer screen, they are virtually impossible to make out... (I'm working on a better way to document these.)
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Marco Tirelli: Painting the Invisible
From an 2012 New York Times article by Roderick Conway Morris: Over the last decade, Mr. Tirelli’s painting has given rise to a series of large-scale canvases of geometric objects and arresting contrasts of light and darkness — rendered with an extraordinary combination of boldness in design and subtlety in perspective and painting technique to … Continue reading Marco Tirelli: Painting the Invisible
NYC Winter Residency (Installation Views)
Some images from my Winter Residency installation in NYC...
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Valuable Archiving Resources
I've found these sites online, which I believe, will help me with archiving -not just my 1,000 invisible things, but with archiving my work in general. Check them out: Artists' Studio Archives Practical strategies for artists, archivists, librarians, and museum curators to collect and preserve artists' archives. Artwork Inventory for Artists Powerful, easy-to-use tools to manage … Continue reading Valuable Archiving Resources
ARCHIVE FEVER
How the Art World Caught Archive Fever By Artspace Editors JAN. 22, 2014 Oliver Croy and Oliver Elser's collection of houses by the Austrian insurance clerk Peter Fritz at the 2013 Venice Biennale ... Of course, the archive is hardly a new theme in contemporary art. The art historian Hal Foster's 2004 essay "The Archival Impulse" … Continue reading ARCHIVE FEVER
Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography
Recommended by Jean Marie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IisUlACrqM
Gregory Sholette on Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice With Gregory Sholette by Thom Donovan | Aug 26, 2011 Action Figure encased. Photo courtesy Gregory Sholette Artist, scholar, organizer, and professor, Gregory Sholette embodies multiple ways that artists can interrogate history, politics, and public discourse. Through his initial work with the group REPOhistory (1989-2000) (as in, “repossessing history”), he, along … Continue reading Gregory Sholette on Contemporary Practice
Dammi i colori. Anri Sala.
I stumbled across this film on YouTube - very poor quality file, I could barely read the subtitles, but I was moved by it nevertheless. I have experienced the phenomena of color and it's power to transform. It is not surprising to me that a colorless, depressing hellhole of a city could be transformed with … Continue reading Dammi i colori. Anri Sala.
Measuring the Invisible
Frequently, as I ponder each potential invisible thing that I might add to my archive of 1,000 invisible things, I ask if the thing is measurable in some way - for example, happiness. Can you measure happiness? How about conversation - Can you measure it? Other than the basic, "Can you see it?" question, additional … Continue reading Measuring the Invisible
Must-See Exhibitions: NYC – 12.06.16
AAAAARGH! I was really hoping to see the Carollee Schneeman shows at PPOW and Galerie Lelong, but sadly, they both ended on 12.03.16. Rats! I just missed it. What a drag! CHARLOTTE MOOREMAN GREY ART GALLERY / NYU @ 100 WASHINGTON SQ. EAST (Btw. Waverly & Washington) (Tu/Th/Fr 10 - 6 | We 11-8 | … Continue reading Must-See Exhibitions: NYC – 12.06.16
Mark Rothko: Dark Palette @ Pace
Must see the Rothko show at Pace - up through January 7, 2017. Hyperallergic review here.
Art from Cologne, Cosima von Bonin
From the TATE website: Rhinegold: Art from Cologne, Cosima von Bonin Cosima von Bonin is one of the most influential and prolific artists working in Germany today. Making painting, sculpture, installations, textiles, performances and films, her art is not limited to a single medium or genre. Von Bonin’s approach is often collaborative; she has organised … Continue reading Art from Cologne, Cosima von Bonin
Who is Kai Althoff?
After seeing Kai Althoff's huge installation at MoMA last month, I've been left wondering "Who is Kai Althoff? And what is he all about?" Unfortunately (or fortunately?) I didn't have a shred of context about his work prior to seeing the show, except that Jean Marie suggested I go see the show, since he (like … Continue reading Who is Kai Althoff?
Pathalogical Altruism, or the perils of being too selfless
I'm interested in understanding more about this condition... one of my former professors, Barbara Oakley has published a book on it. I've tried to order it through the C/W MARS library system, but it doesn't seem to be available through that route... Anyway, from the Amazon page: The benefits of altruism and empathy are obvious. … Continue reading Pathalogical Altruism, or the perils of being too selfless
Protected: 2nd Advisor Meeting with Jean Marie: 11/28/16
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Protected: HONG-AN TRUONG: The Past is a Distant Colony (2007)
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Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas & Other Warburg Inspirations
Cornell University Library | The Warburg Institute | Cornell University Press | Signale Ten panels from the Mnemosyne Atlas The last project of the German Jewish “cultural scientist” Aby M. Warburg (1866-1929), the Mnemosyne Atlas is an unfinished attempt to map the pathways that give art history and cosmography their pathos-laden meanings. Warburg thought this … Continue reading Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas & Other Warburg Inspirations
Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art
Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art Elizabeth Grosz Duke University Press, Sep 12, 2011 - Science - 264 pages In Becoming Undone, Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related concepts—life, politics, and art—by exploring the implications of Charles Darwin’s account of the evolution of species. Challenging characterizations of Darwin’s work as a form of … Continue reading Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art
Chasing Ghosts
From Enda's Blog: Latton National School, Co. Monaghan 1941Contemporary ruins can provoke an unusual emotional response that is difficult define. A familiar environment that has fallen into decay can be both unsettling and intriguing, inspiring fascination and fear as a tangible reminder of the scale of your own lifetime. Kate Brown talks of the concept … Continue reading Chasing Ghosts
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November Process Blog
A few notes on my process... I was really struggling with how to manage/store/categorize/track/organize such a huge number of invisible things... Although the "things" don't take any physical space, they did take up a great deal of mental space - and clearly more than any one human could hold in one's head. So I decided … Continue reading November Process Blog
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On Trump: an Open Letter to the Brokenhearted
In case you haven't seen it, this is a moving and apt piece for the day that I just had to share. On Trump: an Open Letter to the Brokenhearted By Adebayo Akomolafe I want to invite us to slow down and pay attention to the stark grief that haunts us now. She stares us … Continue reading On Trump: an Open Letter to the Brokenhearted
The sacred is awkwardly closer than you think
Worshipping Lali ~ From Bayo Akomolafe's site: The sacred is awkwardly closer than you think "According to one account I have since lost touch of, people were fond of seeing ‘comets’ as angels on errand. Halley’s shocking prediction thus became a line drawn in the sand, because if he was right, then what use did … Continue reading The sacred is awkwardly closer than you think
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SlussenProject, Archiving the ephemeral
From Jacek Smolicki's website: SlussenProject aimed at building an extensive audio database of stories, memories and field recordings characterizing the Slussen area in Stockholm and in particular its unknown and invisible dimensions. The realization of the project has been maintained over six months between December 2012 and May 2013, when the process of demolishing was … Continue reading SlussenProject, Archiving the ephemeral
Living Archives Research Project (Malmo)
JULIETTE DUMAS @ ART 3
Artwork JULIETTE DUMAS Strategies of Resistance Plastic tarp, nails, rocks Exhibition view 2015 “Winter Studies” at Kunstverein Gaestezimmer E.V, Stuttgart, Germany Curated by Alf Setzer
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Trinh T. Minh-ha on Boundaries & Invisibility
Center for Teaching and Learning (UCal Berkeley) Interview on YouTube.
Museum of Forgotten Things (in WRJ)
(AKA) Main Street Museum How is it I never knew about this place??? Curiosities Collection ~ Live Event Venue ~ Community Space The Main Street Museum is a small, public collection of curiosities and artifacts, each one of which is significant and each one of which tells some kind of story about human beings and … Continue reading Museum of Forgotten Things (in WRJ)
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Driven by Fear…
#postinprogress 11.01.16 | New Thoughts A new possible lead: FEAR, the fear of... fear of being erased fear of being seen fear of being hurt
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1000 Invisible Things 