Ingmar Bergman interviews himself (1947)

Dream English Kid, 1964 – 1999 AD (2015). Mark Leckey

Dream English Kid, 1964 – 1999 AD, 2015
video courtesy MARK LECKEY


Lucille Clifton. Lorena (1995)

Woman cuts off husband’s penis

later throws it from car window. – News Report

 

it lay in my palm soft and trembled

as new bird and i thought about

authority and how it always insisted

on itself, how it was master

of the man, how it measured him, never

was ignored or denied, and how it promised

there would be sweetness if it was obeyed

just like the saints do, like the angels

and i opened the window and held out my

uncupped hand; i swear to god

i thought it could fly

Stone Butch Blues (1993), Leslie Feinberg

Asphalt Rundown (1969), Robert Smithson

Much talk – some of it real, a lot of it fake – has been in the air over the last decade about empathy for the “other,” for people different from us. But no one has dwelled on the essential otherness of a work of art. There is, after all, that hackneyed but profound notion of a willing suspension of disbelief. Genuine art makes you stake your credulity on the patently counterfeit. It takes you by surprise. And for art to take you by surprise, you have to put yourself in the power of another world – the work of art – and in the power of another person – the artist. Yet everything in our society, so saturated with economic imperatives, tells us not to surrender our interests even for a moment, tells us that the only forms of cultural expression we can trust are those that give us instant gratification, useful information, or a reflected image of ourselves. So we are flooded with the kind of art that deprecates attentiveness, tells us about the issues of the day, and corresponds to our own personalities. – Lee Siegel, Eyes Wide Shut, Harper’s Magazine, October 1999

 

Metahaven

http://metahaven.net/

Karl Holmqvist. Another War is Possible (2019)

 

To Live and To Think Like Pigs, The Incitement of Envy and Boredom in Market Democracies, Gilles Châtelet, 2014

the book is available in pdf 

Haim Steinbach. Appear to Use

all images: Appear to Use, HAIM STEINBACH, exhibition views at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, image courtesy: Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles

Appear to Use, a solo exhibition HAIM STEINBACH is on view at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in Los Angeles until May 18, 2019. STEINBACH presents a new body of work including objects, sculptures, site-specific installations, wall paintings and language-based work.

The stuff of conceptualism (the weather reports, the statements of fact, the list of shops in a shopping mall) can be easily understood by anyone. (For purposes of this conversation, ”anyone” is a certain kind of Westernized citizen.) Also easily misunderstood, which is a different form of understanding. I know what to do with a urinal. I know less what to do with a urinal on a pedestal. I may or may not turn to theory for a kind of understanding or at least interpretation; either way, I may just use it for a piss. – Vanessa Place, Notes on Conceptualism, February 22, 2012, Jacket 2

wfw weekend #467

Inventaire (exhibition view), MARCIA HAFIF
seen at MAMCO, Geneva
on Friday, April 12, 2019
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wfw weekend #466

La Langosta Loca (2019), FABIAN BOSCHUNG
seen at Quark, Geneva
on Friday, April 12, 2019
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Sidsel Meineche Hansen. An Artist’s Guide To Stop Being An Artist

A monologue by SIDSEL MEINECHE HANSEN written for the work An Artist’s Guide to Stop Being an Artist (2019) that is on view at SMK in Copenhagen until July 28, 2019.

The exhibition booklet is available online and features an essay by writer and independent curator, KARI RITTENBACH.

Julius von Bismarck and Julian Charrière. I Am Afraid

Utah Arch Destroyed, source: World Wide Leaks, December 10, 2018

Read also How Two Berlin Artists Fooled American Media, SWANTJE KARICH for welt.de, published on March 31, 2019 https://www.welt.de/kultur/kunst/article191120827/Exploding-Rock-Videos-How-Two-Berlin-Artists-Fooled-American-Media.html

I Am Afraid by JULIUS VON BISMARCK and JULIAN CHARRIERE is on view at Sies + Höke in Düsseldorf until May 11, 2019.