“MESSIDONA” VIDEO + ARTFORUM QUOTE ON “REPERFORMANCES”

a/v,research,texts,theory — chris @ 10:26 am


“Much is being made of the decision to include what the artist calls ‘reperformances’ in Abramović’s retrospective. To me, this debate is largely beside the point: If you believe in the sacred authenticity of the original, then by definition no redo could threaten it; if you think performance is always already meditated, then live bodies are as much a form of representation as any other. More interesting than whether reenactments are art-historically correct is what they are asked to do– whether they close down or open up the potentiality of performance.”

Lambert-Beatty, Carrie. “Against Performance Art.” ARTFORUM May 2010; 209.

touches (13)
duration (13 seconds)
number of opponents (6)

Vormittagsspuk by Hans Richter (1927)

a/v,research — chris @ 7:09 pm

thx paul

IN TIME OF EMERGENCY: A CITIZEN’S HANDBOOK ON …NUCLEAR ATTACK …NATURAL DISASTERS (MARCH 1968)

found,library,research — chris @ 7:27 pm


GUILLAUME NERY BASE JUMPING AT DEAN’S BLUE HOLE

a/v,reblog,research — chris @ 6:51 pm

via Nikola Tosic

STUDY FOR INTERIOR (I)

a/v,explorations — chris @ 8:14 pm

LES MAÎTRES DU TEMPS, 1982 (parts 1-4 of 8)

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Jean Giraud (Moebius)

thx jack

Bahá’í Faith

research — chris @ 2:08 pm

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Shoghi Effendi, the appointed head of the religion from 1921 to 1957, wrote the following summary of what he considered to be the distinguishing principles of Bahá’u'lláh’s teachings, which, he said, together with the laws and ordinances of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas constitute the bedrock of the Bahá’í Faith:

The independent search after truth, unfettered by superstition or tradition; the oneness of the entire human race, the pivotal principle and fundamental doctrine of the Faith; the basic unity of all religions; the condemnation of all forms of prejudice, whether religious, racial, class or national; the harmony which must exist between religion and science; the equality of men and women, the two wings on which the bird of humankind is able to soar; the introduction of compulsory education; the adoption of a universal auxiliary language; the abolition of the extremes of wealth and poverty; the institution of a world tribunal for the adjudication of disputes between nations; the exaltation of work, performed in the spirit of service, to the rank of worship; the glorification of justice as the ruling principle in human society, and of religion as a bulwark for the protection of all peoples and nations; and the establishment of a permanent and universal peace as the supreme goal of all mankind—these stand out as the essential elements [which Bahá'u'lláh proclaimed].

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KOTA EZAWA – BEATLES ÜBER CALIFORNIA (2010)

a/v — chris @ 9:13 am

COULDN’T HELP MYSELF

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EXCERPT FROM INFINITE JEST (1996, P. 988) WALLACE, DAVID FOSTER

library,texts — chris @ 9:26 am

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Cage III – Free Show. B.S. Latrodectus Mactans Productions/Infernatron Animation Concepts, Canada. Cosgrove Watt, P. A. Heaven, Everard Maynell, Pam Heath; partial animation; 35mm.; 65 minutes; black and white; sound. The figure of Death (Heath) presides over the front entrance of a carnival sideshow whose spectators watch performers undergo unspeakable degradations so grotesquely compelling that the spectators’ eyes become larger and larger until the spectators themselves are transformed into gigantic eyeballs in chairs, while on the other side of the sideshow tent the figure of Life (Heaven) uses a megaphone to invite fairgoers to an exhibition in which, if the fairgoers consent to undergo unspeakable degradations, they can witness ordinary persons gradually turn into gigantic eyeballs.
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