Pina Bausch will be dearly missed
Leave a Comment June 30, 2009
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‘The reversibility of appearance and reality is the only means of artistic access to the real.’ – Luigi Pirandello
Leave a Comment June 30, 2009
This means that the dialectic of semblance and Real cannot be reduced to the rather elementary fact that the virtualization of our daily lives, the experience that we are living more and more in an artificially constructed universe, gives rise to an irresistible urge to ‘return to the Real’, to regain firm ground in some ‘real reality’.
―Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real!, 2002
Leave a Comment June 29, 2009
An enduring inspiration
Leave a Comment June 26, 2009
Henryk Górecki Symphony No. 3
Digging this old favorite on a sunny day in Londontown… and Mandalay’s sampling of it…
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Random Rules: A Channel of Artists’ Selections
The second edition of this wonderful channel is due out later this year.
Leave a Comment June 2, 2009
Internet Pavillion of the 53rd Venice Biennale
I’m heading to Venice this week for the Biennale Vernissage, but I’m very excited to see what this project is and it doesn’t even require travel. For those unable to jet all the way to Venice, try knocking on the door of the Internet Pavillion: The Internet Pavillion of la Biennale
And for a broader description of the Pavillion click here.
Leave a Comment June 2, 2009
Brilliant Clip of Greg Parker
See full clip here.
Excerpt: “Once I start to move past that or into it or through that place where I’m accessing the inner part of who I am, the painting starts to reveal itself as something that is foreign to me for the first time. I start to move past what I know I’ve done and past what I know I can do, and the painting then starts to talk to me, it starts to reveal itself and it starts to become something bigger than all the parts that I’ve put into it.” – Greg Parker
Leave a Comment May 27, 2009
Bacon on working from the intuition, chance as a strategy for unearthing truths that aren’t facts
David Sylvester as an interviewer is brilliant. Bacon discusses private ritualistic art-making; accessing sensation, the Real and immediacy; “psychological ways of seeing” and painting from the “nervous system”.
But this is what really interests me, that thing which Bacon is searching for, the moment during which a new form comes into being:
DS: “But what are you thinking about (as you paint)? How do you suspend the operation of rational decisions?”
FB: “…At that moment I’m thinking of nothing but how hopeless and impossible this thing is to achieve and by making these marks about which I don’t know how they will behave, suddenly there comes something which your instinct seizes on as being for a moment the thing by which it could begin to develop.” (Italics added)
Bacon, lounging on his bed, is so beautiful and elegant and gentle…
Leave a Comment May 25, 2009