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Antoni Tàpies writing a fragment for an autobiography cut, incised and pasted here, interrupted by Tomas Kulka, illustrated by Tàpies’s tàpies

I was obsessed by materiality, by the paste-like quality of phenomena. – Antoni Tapies, A Personal Memoir: Fragments for an Autobiography , trans. Josep Miquel Sobrer, Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, and Indiana Uni. Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2009, p. 173 In Spain there was not a word about content, about motivations, about

WEBSTYLE: excerpts from Geert Lovink’s interview with Vito Campanelli

commercial mass communication modern mediated mass communication is poles apart relative to any aesthetic feeling: vulgarity and arrogance nullify any hypothesis of meaning. On the contrary, the research of an aesthetic point of view is the attempt to assign – again – a sense to our human paths. ÆSTHETICS In my opinion

AD: LOOKING FOR WORK

as if it arose from the ocean one afternoon 6 or 7 hundred years ago showering the neighbours with ash flakes some as large as confetti and they idly watched it dye the evening sky red before finally walking away leaving it to cool off

not before time: whip for my back

snaps requiring no commentary in so far as for your viewing safety no commentary has occurred & none will be forthcoming apart from that they include a strange relationship to the media, tech fetishes & other diseases of the green ghetto

heavy signs, sacred vibes, sites, Customs St., Mt. Eden, return to Rutland St., Mission Bay

why would you record it when you can go up there any day and see the same thing? what kind of permanence does that imply? … and the feeling persists with the slogans written on street signs that to be careful is here an act of political complicity … EVERYBODY is being