This post is about the art of serial killers and serves the purpose of referencing a couple of very good blogs/bloggers. © Joe Coleman, And a Child Shall Lead Them [Mary Bell], 2001 There’s a dark-toned blogger I’ve been following for some years now, which I love for its very unique voice (it actually appeared…
Read More┐ PS, a love affair └
In another place, in another life, I mentioned North Koreans’ love for Photoshop. While reading about North Korea’s recent declaration of war I come across several other examples of this love affair, which will follow below. Alan Taylor, at “The Atlantic”: While researching a photo entry about North Korea’s recent threats of war, I discovered…
Read More┐ The hard issue of innocence after Vinterberg └
In the last couple of months I’ve come across the issue of paedophilia for different reasons, all related to my research on art theory and artists’ work. It’s not an easy issue and I’ve found it very difficult to discuss with friends. This post comes about after watching the latest Vinterberg‘s movie The Hunt and…
Read More┐ Lena Amuat & Zoë Meyer, a thing for scientif design └
© Lena Amuat & Zoë Meyer, Mathematisches Modell Nr.5, 2010 © Lena Amuat & Zoë Meyer, Artefakte und Modelle, 2009-12 “Lena Amuat and Zoë Meyer have won the Swiss Federal Design Award for their project ‘Artefakte und Modelle’. As the title suggests, in this project the two photographers look at scientific models through the lens…
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┐ Oleg Kulik, the “it”, the “his” and the “I” dog └
“A man is an animal first of all. And then he is a Social animal, Political animal and so on. I am an Art animal, that’s why, spectator, I need your physical and psychological efforts to make sense.” Oleg Kulik © Oleg Kulik, Mad Dog Performance (photographs), 1994 © Oleg Kulik, I bite America and…
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┐ The House With the Ocean View └
This post serves the sole purpose of sharing documentation about my favorite Marina Abramovic’s performance: “The House with the Ocean View”. There are not many photographs available on the web, so here is a a contribution. photo documentation (day 1 – day 4) photographs by Attilio Maranzano photo documentation (day 5 – day 8) photographs…
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┐ Tomas Young’s last letter └
from Eugene Richard‘s series War is Personal Days after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Tomas Young, then a 22-year-old from Kansas City, Mo., made a decision repeated by many other Americans around the country: He was going to enlist in the military in hopes of getting even with the enemies who had helped…
Read More┐ Arnold Odermatt, an ordinary life └
© Arnold Odermatt, Hergiswil, 1982 Hors service (handtücher) “Arnold Odermatt’s photographs are essentially forensic. For over 30 years he was a Swiss traffic policeman who managed to incorporate his hobby into his job. His original intention was for the photographs to augment his written reports, to illuminate and help reconstruct the how and why of…
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┐ Andrea Galvani, ways to space out └
Conceptually, Andrea’s work is amongst the most interesting I’ve seen recently. His works have their own language, both conceptual and documentary, buh also appealing to the senses, evoking sound and parallel universes. His photographs not only evoke sculpture as they are presented like one, as much as they are performances, with their own body, breathing…
Read More┐ I Will Swim to You └
I’ve said it here before: Jason Molina is my favourite musician. I’ve said it here before: he was an alcoholic. Jason Molina died last Saturday, 16th March, aged 39. I’m lost for words, not because this is overwhelmingly sad but because it just builds on anger. He was an extraordinary soul and his premature departure…
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┐ Ahmet Ögüt, Mind the System └
“image © Ahmet Ögüt,Strategic Diagram for Non-hierarchical Participatory Radical Democracy, 2011. In: Mind the System, Find the Gap “I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.” -Malcolm X © Ahmet Ögüt, from the project…
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┐ Andrea Polli, memories as possessions in virtual space └
© Andrea Polli, Appetite 4, installation detail, Here Space, NY, 1995 © Andrea Polli, Appetite 4, detail from installation WWW site showing a studio photograph of objects on a plate, 1995 “Research into the concept of appetite led me to consider my personal appetite for possessions. It became clear to me that I (like many…
Read More┐ She-wolf, a needle in the pile └
© Pilar Albarracín, She-wolf, 2006 “in She-wolf (2006), where she revisits Joseph Beuys’ I Like America and America Likes Me (1974). In this work she proposes a very special relationship between the wild, untamed, an imal and its “greatest predator”, man. The approach to the she-wolf is staged by Albarracín as a picnic where the…
Read More┐ digital manipulation, oh well, we can choose to laugh about it └
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Read More┐ Thomas Sauvin celebration of women └
“I really don’t want to know. It would kill a bit of the magic” TS Thomas’ facebook, where he posts one vintage photo from his collection per day
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┐ Emile Barret – photography as an experience └
© Emile Barret, from the series Magnet3 © Emile Barret, from the series Magnet3 © Emile Barret, from the series La Vanité est un Plaisir des Reins © Emile Barret, from the series La Vanité est un Plaisir des Reins © Emile Barret, from the series La Disparition © Emile Barret, from the series La…
Read More┐ Breaking Point …………………………………………………………………………….└
© Sofia Silva, 2M Demonstration @ Lisbon, 2013 It’s definitely the last time we hit the streets peacefully. There’s no turning back from here. “almost 24 hours after these events neither the President nor the government spoke about the massive demonstrations.” If you want to read a brief description (in english) of what happened yesterday…
Read More┐ Occupy and Resist └
Today, 2nd March 2013, all over Portugal, demonstrations against this government and the austerity measures will hit the streets. I’ll join, of course. Wouldn’t be able not to. That said, I will not be laughing and singing along to songs that symbolize the country’s last revolution (April 25th 1974). I avoid all these nostalgic and…
Read More┐ The almighty body of Mia Eve Rollow └
Not often have I came across an artist’s work and find nothing else about it. This came to me by my friend and photographer Ana Marta, but besides Mia’s videos on youtube and her involvement in EDELO (En Donde Era La ONU) with fellow artist Caleb Duarte, there’s not much about her performances.
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