Category Archives: Other's Words
“Towards the end of the fifties, Nitsch experienced the death of language, its reduction to mere forms deprived of direct reality. His first actions in the sixties were formulated from a desire to make the spectator live directly, to make … Continue reading
Notes On DANIELLE COLLOBERT’S AUX ENVIRONS D’UN FILM: POETIC WRITING ON THE BRINK OF CINEMA by Christophe Wall-Romana
(from Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3 September 2005, pp. 265-273) “…the psychosexual entanglement of experience with alterity” “personal and esthetic choices: her mathematically exact point final is, after all, ultimate proof of the poet’s attention to … Continue reading
Notes from ART IN THE DARK by Thomas McEvilley
“This involves a presupposition that art is not a set of objects but an attitude toward objects, or a cognitive stance (as Oscar Wilde suggested, not a thing, but a way.) If one were to adopt such a stance to … Continue reading
GREGOR SCHNEIDER
Today I read the Weisse Folter catalog for Gregor Schneider’s show at K21 in 2007. I’ve been a fan of Schneider since I found out about him my freshman year of college, and it’s been kind of amazing to follow … Continue reading
Notes from THE QUICK AND THE DEAD Catalog
‘As Gino De Dominicis summarized, “invisibility is a form of immortality.”‘ (35) (About Lygia Clark) ‘She dreamed of being inside a house, looking out, and having that inside become the outside; coupled with her sense that “the house is the … Continue reading
THROW YOURSELF OUT AND SEE IF IT MAKES ME COME
That reminds me of a hot summer night in New York during those years. I was on the twelfth floor with a young film actress, brunette and extremely attractive. The window was open, we’d smoked quite a lot of hash, … Continue reading
Reason to Revisit Kafka
“I believe that you should only read books that bite and sting. If the book we are reading doesn’t hit us like a fist on the head, why are we reading the book? For it to make us happy, you … Continue reading
Paul Sharits & The Metaphysics of Material Film
“I wish to abandon imitation and illusion and enter directly into the higher drama of: celluloid, two dimensional strips; individual rectangular frames; the nature of sprockets and emulsion; projector operations; the three dimensional reflective screen surface; the retinal screen; optic … Continue reading
TRACES OF LIGHT: AN INTERVIEW WITH THEIRRY KUNTZEL
I requested this article through interlibrary loan, and the PDF they sent me was almost impossible to read, so I retyped the whole thing for posterity. I thought I would post it here. From ARTLINK, Volume 10 No 4 Summer … Continue reading
Interview with Rosmarie Waldrop
MC: In a conversation with Mark C. Taylor Jabès once said, “As I probed more deeply I began to realize that Judaism is an extended lesson in reading, which involves an endless questioning of the writer. Adorno once said that … Continue reading