October 2011
2 posts
Looking Promiscuously
lareviewofbooks:
BRIAN SHOLIS on Bruce Hainley’s experimental art criticism. Untitled © Vincent Fecteau 2010 Bruce Hainley Pep Talk 5: Bruce Hainley Pep Talk, June 2011. 111 pp. I became aware of Bruce Hainley’s writing on art a little more than a decade ago, while I was in college. Amid the monotony of a magazine’s review section, coming across his description of an exhibition by Ingrid...
linedandunlined →
A filing cabinet on the internet by Rob Giampietro, featuring design, art, philosophy, education, and more.
April 2011
7 posts
Monoskop: "Living Archive of Writings on Art,... →
Again, I love the internet.
afterlights, a concrete poetry blog →
Minimalist Concrete Poetry site →
I love the internet.
Phonetic clues hint that language was born in... →
LANGUAGE TO BE LOOKED AT AND/OR THINGS TO BE READ →
March 2011
3 posts
Without a contradiction between language and reality there is no mobility of concepts, no mobility of signs, and the relationship between concepts and signs becomes automatized. Activity comes to a halt, and the awareness of reality dies out.
—Roman Jakobson, What is Poetry? 1933
December 2010
4 posts
“Derrida said ‘The image always has the last word,’ but did he go far enough? Did the delight of his wit spoil the continuation of his logic? The word is after all an image.” — Peter Greenaway
WatchDavid Wojnarowicz (with Diamanda Galás), Fire in my Belly
This work was removed from an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery called “Hide/Seek,” which deals with issues of gay/lesbian/bisexual/trans sexuality, because the Catholic League (aided by Rep. John Boehner) deemed it “sacrilegious.” Or, moreover, because the powers that be at the museum did not see fit to...
November 2010
6 posts
De Conversa / Cravo E canela →
Close your eyes and listen to Caetano Veloso’s De Conversa /Cravo E canela from the album Araçá Azul (released after his exile in London). You can hear the connection to the Concrete Poetry of Harold and Augusto de Campos.
Paul Chan, ALTERNUMERICS V.3 →
Freedom's just another word for...
Paul Chan, “What Art Is And Where It Belongs”
I highly recommend this amazing essay, which appears in issue 10 of e-flux journal and on the artist’s website. What follows is an excerpt:
“What art ends up expressing is the irreconcilable tension that results from making something, while intentionally allowing the materials and things that make up that something to change...
As it is, the museums give nothing. They pretend to give you art and then take it away after 2 or 3 weeks. This is a disgusting performance. When you think that art could be free. Everything should be free and it could begin with art.
[He points at a museum outside the frame.]
Make that goddamn place open til midnight! Or put something interesting in it and keep it open until 5 in the...
October 2009
8 posts
Allen Ruppersberg →
Terrific article on the literary art of Al Ruppersberg, as seen in “You and Me or The Art of Give and Take” at the Santa Monica Museum of Art
“Even artistic experimentation and creation that is not explicitly political can do important political work, sometimes revealing the limits of our imagination and at other times fueling it.” —Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
September 2009
7 posts
Artists' Books on the Web →
Wonderful website with animated documentation of artists’ books in Reed College’s Special Collections
“The spectrum of modern and contemporary Artists’ Books in Reed College’s Special Collections and collected on this website include traditional letterpress printed books of poetry, conceptual book works, sculptural and visual works, concrete poetry, and...
Poetic Research Bureau →
newest hangout…
August 2009
7 posts
Look what I have to do in order to think of thoughts. I have to forget language. All I can do with no education, nothing, no advice, an insane mother I mean no background, nothing, nothing, and I have to make art, but I know that under these conditions the one thing I had to find out was if I could think of a thought that has never been thought before, then it could be in language that was never...
"In(ter)ventions: Literary Practice At The Edge: A... →
Super-cheesy po-mo title aside, they have assembled a great group of people. Hope to make it there myself.
Gathered, Not Made: A Brief History of... →
This paper originally appeared in March/April 1999 edition of the The American Poetry Review
“Combining his quest for total objectivity with passionate bibliophilia, Walter Benjamin once dreamed of authoring an essay that would consist entirely of quotations from his sources. I’m not sure what my motivations were, but last year I wrote a poem largely composed of direct quotes from...
July 2009
13 posts
Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, much less to squeeze more content out of the work than is already there. Our task is to cut back content so that we can see the thing at all.
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art—and, by analogy, our own experience—more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show...