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Day 24-25 – September 24-25 2024 – Berlin: Hamburger Bahnhof, Phase Shifting Index; Contemporary Art; Sisyphos – ‘Stamboul to KL

Above, Joseph Beuys taught B’s father. Below, Mark Bradford, A host of theatrical attractions at the Hamburger, Maurizio Nannucci’s Idea, 1997 and Time, 1997, (a book cover for Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema?) Bruce Nauman’s Room With My Soul Left Out, Room That Does Not Care, 1984/2010
Simon Taylor 03 Nov 2024

Day 23 – September 23 2024 – Berlin – Zehdenick

To Zehdenick by VW, where my brother and his partner have a wonderful project, a journey into the inner space that 150 years have carved out, Montag, draußen alles ist still … inside, blinds are rustling, people are peering out, perhaps the ones from that other country which as Anna Funder’
Simon Taylor 31 Oct 2024

in the blink of an eye or, as Lahr to Orton, “an expert in your ear”

between two books, Walter Murch’s and John Lahr’s biography of Joe Orton (about which, here), that is where I’d situate the several poorly chosen and badly put words which reading about Blinklist elicits from me. Not even trying the app (I talk about apps, app being a
Simon Taylor 30 Oct 2024

Day 22 – September 22 2024 – Berlin: Damiano Michieletto’s Messiah with Komische Oper at Tempelhof & plus some stops along the way

Flohmarkt, Boxhagener Platz, to the opera, air-filled bladders, sound baffles around the outside of the hangar-auditiorium, a kite-symbol and bush-symbol, the kite would be chased, its cruciform structure, and bush uprooted (not burst into flame–which’d be more fun), interval, no snaps during show, and into second half, curtain
Simon Taylor 25 Oct 2024

[] … this?

In 1993 [Robert Longo] made Death Star, consisting of 18,000 rounds of ammunition suspended in a sphere. It evoked the 18,000 American gun casualties the previous year. In 2018, he updated that sculpture, this time using 40,000 bullets – roughly the number of gun casualties in 2017. This
Simon Taylor 24 Oct 2024

the taxi to the airport

I had a dream the night before we left that Jefe was the word for life. … At the first cab I asked for a set price from the ferry terminal to the airport.$80 said the driver of a taxi van. Too expensive! I said. How much, then? asked the
Simon Taylor 22 Oct 2024

spring

fucking birds fucking everywhere this springkaka in the pohutakawa like a lawnmower with wingstui in the shit-native near me nownobody knows but I do keruru smoke after sex
Simon Taylor 21 Oct 2024

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