journal
of course as a contributing writer you may find yourself on a beautiful site (designed) with some beautiful writing (actual critique) and you may ask yourself…
the answer is: the perverse delights of artistic incest & nepotism in NZ — introducing the pantograph punch
listen / hear
step out of line: an exhortation to the Untimely & Questions from Alfredo Véa’s overwrought & overwringing timely book (the prison is to hide the fact society is the prison)
…in the first photo of the triptych the young man is still alive. Can you see his eyes? He doesn’t have long. …
His black body is shining and radiantly serpentine at the base of a tree. His skin is glistening, and his musculature is as chiseled and defined as
what remains. Robert Shults’s The Washing Away of Wrongs. Decomposition.
– photo Robert Shults, from the series The Washing Away of Wrongs
Allison Meier: “clothing and personal items from suspected migrants found on the US-Mexico border”
(at Hyperallergic)
– photo Robert Shults, from the series The Washing Away of Wrongs
Allison Meier: “with flowers from a nearby tree fallen across a donor’
The Warrior of Capestrano (Italian, 6th C. BCE)
– photo: Francesco Salerno inscription on the sculpture (left strut) reads, Me, a beautiful image made Aninis for King Nevio Pompuledio. first known dedication to an artist. (from here)
utopian machine network things
While the idea of ‘utopia’ appears naive and even hysterical under capitalist realism, the pathologization and irrationalization of anti-capitalist longing presents an enduring threat. In the face of the hard-right global turn, these problems must come to the foreground of our struggles.
the weird and the eerie
…the weird is