A Blind Horse: Fragments of Eschatological Significance in Curtis Hamilton’s “Tar Beach Blind”
Goin’ Grout Drinkin There was that pulsing light, the screams, the horns, the fighting words, and the women yelling for their dead and soon to be bloated children littering the streets. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, May 2015 A slow pulse throbs between my temples. I stumble forward, the light in my eyes is blinding. […]
The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” Lobby Cards (1970)
Scenes from Gimme Shelter, the 1970 documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin chronicling the last weeks of The Rolling Stones‘ 1969 US tour which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert. (All rights reserved. Images @ Maysles Films.)
Cameron Jamie, Necropharmacology, and the Razorblade in the Apple
Within the event of this testimonial, we have supervised a position of conducting, in negative harmonics, a passage between the afterworld of death and our ability to master control over its parts by maintaining formal contact with the sub-committee of horror. Candy apples and razor blades Little dead are soon in graves I remember […]
ASX.TV: Brad Feuerhelm in Conversation with Richard Misrach
“In 2009 I started noticing a major militarization of the US/Mexico border and since then I have been photographing the almost 2000 miles between the Gulf Of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean. Whatever the politics are about and they are very complicated… the migration… the tragedies… the humanitarian issues that these people go through to […]
Thomas Ruff ‘Sterne’ – Grand Design, Unknowing Darkness
It suggests that the first “thing” or structure to deploy God’s image as creator is that of an “unknowing”, a design for which, he had to create its anti-thesis. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, May 2015 Sterne is something of a conjecture in the cartography of the heavens. It is perhaps an anti-empirical look into […]
Suzanne Perrottet: A Fragmentary Discourse of Bodies in Subtle and Grotesque Exertion
“Perrottet was an obsessive recorder of the physical possibilities of the human body, from its most subtle gestures to its most grotesque exertions”. By Eugenie Shinkle, ASX, May 2015 When dancer Suzanne Perrottet died in 1983, she left behind an extensive archive. Amongst the notes, letters, documents, and photographs were a number of banana […]
Dis ’ Selfie Shtick – An Exercise in Brand Promotion
A short history of the selfie would trace the transformation from tawdriness for all to kitsch, for some. By Owen Campbell, ASX, May 2015 Dis, #artselfie, is a fun book that only half-bears the scrutiny it invites. The premise, that the collection of selfies taken in art spaces points toward a new method of […]
Jacob Holdt – Not Born in the USA, A Vagabond’s Views
Jacob Holdt would hitchhike over 100,000 miles through virtually every region of the United States without much more than his thumb.