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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

Pickle Damien Hirst, stuff Sarah Lucas and put Tracey Emin to bed!

– a detail, inverted, from Damien Hirst’s exhibition invitation to The Dead , from here (the skulls which follow are from the same source). The above title (and all subsequent quotation) is from here. The Guardian article by Fiachra Gibbons from which it’s drawn actually says, “All that remains is

Depth, Freedom & Two ruses – excerpts from Deleuze on Kant – by way of preparing the former’s own transcendental aesthetic

… determining judgement and reflective judgement are not like two species of the same genus. Reflective judgement manifests and liberates a depth which remained hidden in the other. But the other was also judgement only by virtue of this living depth. If this were not so it would be incomprehensible that

today is the new black (so that toadyism is the new leadership): Zizek’s First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

it has become impossible to ignore the irrationality of global capitalism. Just a few months before the crash, the world’s priorities seemed to be global warming, AIDS, and access to medicine, food and water—tasks labelled as urgent, but with any real action repeatedly postponed. Now, after the financial

“What is material? A necessary evil,” Thom Puckey: “The possibility of a sculptural language comparable to words in literature or flickering images in film: i.e. not locked in material or trapped in an obsession with material.”

– Lyrical Sculpture, Thom Puckey, 1995

excerpts from Sylvère Lotringer, in interview, with diverse illustrations

– “Mene tekel peres,” from 1975 We’re in a society where nothing is simply what it is. All the more reason to try and drive a wedge, in concrete situations, between active and reactive forces. – The Nothing Nothings, Thom Puckey, 2006 The art market … is so bloated at the core

Andy Warhol’s Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick (1965) 16mm, b & w, silent, 4 minutes at 16 fps

– soundtrack: “It Don’t Rain in Beverly Hills” performed by Dean and Britta ANDY WARHOL: “I’ve never met a person I couldn’t call a beauty… I always hear myself saying, ‘She’s a beauty!’ or ‘He’s a beauty!’ but… if everybody’s not a beauty, then nobody is.”

COMPULSORY THEATRE is not Forced Entertainment: as representation were the crime, so bearing witness is like a jury duty; an art of political necessity

Since a representation is an event, those who do not muster within themselves, for the exact moment of its duration, the resources to implicate themselves in that from which a truth proceeds, are for all intents and purposes in the same position as the one who remains quiet in his