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.

Звуки Му – Постовой

a/v,research — chris @ 11:35 am

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Гражданская Оборона – Всё идёт по плану

a/v,research — chris @ 11:29 pm

ON BEING AN ARTIST, NIKOLA TOSIC

reblog,texts,theory — chris @ 9:11 pm

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you are not an artist if your goal is to sell or to be supported by an established institution.

i am sure of this.

these options can be a small part of a path to your true goal, but never an end goal by itself.

if you are just trying to sell you are a salesman, if you are trying to be supported by institutions than you are a politician.

what does it mean to be an artist?

i do not know.

i know it is not sales and politics.

nothing wrong with either, they are great, but they are not art.

but as an artist you can use sales and politics just as you can use oil and canvas.

life is to short not to be an artist.

are things so clear? can one be just an artist? i do not know. try and let me know.

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FULL/OPERATIONAL/TOOLBOX

etc,explorations — chris @ 9:04 am

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The exhibition Full/Operational/Toolbox, curated by KERNEL, intends to investigate a range of contemporary artistic practices that negotiate the ways of management and distribution of information in the context of the creative process.

(…) Collecting works that represent different approaches and intentions, Full/Operational/Toolbox doesn’t start from a given ideological incitement or fixed point of reference. It intends to communicate and highlight those artistic practices that reassess the relations between the expert and the amateur, functioning in a inspirational and educative manner that opens up to comprehensive and dynamic creative processes and possibilities. The works to be presented in Full/Operational/Toolbox highlight and realize, each one in its own way and using its own codes, ideas and creative strategies that concern the management of the artistic work mainly as “information”. The works, thus, set out new conditions for the access and distribution of culture and of the viewer’s participation in it.
Exploring the dynamics and the status of these creative activities, Full/Operational/Toolbox, aims at functioning as a platform of debate on the ways of management of the cultural product in terms of directness and immediacy, as well as on the reconsideration of material and institutional processes and limitations.

With Otto von Busch, Forms of Melancholy curated by Chris Coy, Aleksandra Domanovic, Seth Price, Let’s Remake, Dexter Sinister, Damon Zucconi

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Index of Potential
The on-going project Index of Potential, an on-line “library” of texts and titles related to the ideas and issues proposed by Full/Operational/Toolbox operates in the same context. In the exhibition, a part of this digital library will be realized with the assistance of KERNEL’s construction structure, including digital printings of texts, lists of titles as well as original publications borrowed by the participants.

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14 May – 30 May 2010
Temporary project space M21, Athens, Greece

THE MONKS, LIVE IN GERMANY (1965)

a/v,etc — chris @ 10:33 pm

MUHARRAM IN IRAN

a/v,reblog — chris @ 10:42 pm

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“After Ramadam, Muharram is the holiest month of the Muslim calendar. Fighting is prohibited and people wear black to mourn the death of Imam Hussein bin Ali حسين بن علي بن أﺑﻲ طالب‎ . Imam Hussein was brutally murdered in Karbala, Iraq, 1,300 years ago. It was filmed in a congregational hall known as a Hussainia, in the city of Yazd, which is the oldest continuously inhabited city on earth (7000 years old). The ceremony lasted three hours.”
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КРИК

a/v — chris @ 7:58 pm

THX FOR THE TIP BARDHI –

a/v — chris @ 8:25 pm

EMAIL HUMOR W/ COMPRESSION ARTIFACTS

found — chris @ 11:26 am


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