JH Engstrom: Confusion is a Kind Mentor
“Honesty is as transient and fluid as it is integral to the material necessity of its host. We gain, we lose, we ignore and we digress”
Author Archive: Brad Feuerhelm
Robin Cracknell’s Automatic Topographic Family
“Cracknell plays with aversion and identity politics while also employing the device of youth and the embattled ideology of innocence that comes with it.”
Martin Bollati: The Brutal Form of Obsolete Icons
“The stone, which once was hit to produce an image was now being hit again to produce another one. History cannot be destroyed, but it can be misread”
Joseba Eskubi: Biomorphic Abattoir
“The paintings are beautifully grotesque and at one with the human condition. The bubbling and fungal masses are crude stand-ins for our own nature of fucking, feasting and dying”
Brad Feuerhelm: Photography Class of 2016?
“you think…”Well Sweetheart if you don’t want to hear this …Why the fuck are you here in the first place? Go forth and make your way towards the golden honey pot of money and museum exhibitions, you terrible fuck”. Don’t let me stop you or waste my time with your bullshit. Seriously”
Bruce Connew: Pascal Invented Horse Porn From the Void
“all theatres must end in tragedy or the glorification of banality to succeed in the minds of their small audiences”
Alejandro Cartagena: Cultural Picture Coding and Collapse
“This symbology, this fervent fabric of decline is screened within the book, but it is subtle and perhaps that is why, it is doomed, like human behaviour and meaning, to the sidelines of a genetic and shared understanding of images. “
Richard Kern Interview: Decanting Transgression, Fortnight Institute
“If anything the entire movement (my films at least) was anti-sex or about how sexual desire and relationships fuck up everything.”
Kenta Cobayashi’s Radiant Techno-dissolved Glitchgraphy
“The glitch is worshipped and the dream weave of the matrix spews forth an undeniable feeling of dissolve”
2224 Kolkata: Plums Deep In Corpse Fat
“I mean corpse fat and soap, I remember the nazis doing something like that…is that why the women wash their clothes in it while the naked children, with their distended bellies, watch?”
Takashi Homma: Polis and the God EYE Goodbye
“Takashi Homma is indebted to Robert Frank. This much is clear. He is as sick of goodbyes as are the best of the Swiss and as are the best of photographers”
A Conversation With Salvatore Vitale: Security is Hereditary?
“You’re right in saying that it is an examination of power, because power needs to be examined in order to be structured”