outside light (Page 233)

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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

further inadequate coverage: in the clinic of avatars

Where augmented reality prevails over life, life ends (this goes for all political rationalisation as well). So, a cosmic myth [not a mythology], the mystery of biology vs. the entropy of [capitalist] production [incl. media and post-production]… and [the entropy of] conscience. – writes Louise Desrenards (on FB) regarding Carmen

where I spent many delightful hours from the Perseverance of Stains series

Get me to the last theatre show ever!

– motto, i-camp, Neues Theater, München …because I should be there, participating in Natalia Borissova and Gívan Belá’s project THE LAST THEATRE SHOW EVER THE LAST THEATRE SHOW NEVER, I am asking for donations towards my travel costs to Munich, where the project will take place over the week

under blue planet from the Perseverance of Stains series