Sam Contis Interview: Deep Springs
“I think the darkness at the periphery of the work also comes from a desire to acknowledge a certain brutality inherent to the history of the western landscape, and to the struggle for survival within it.”
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Pasquale Bove and Luca Santese: Vamos a la Landfill
“Perhaps she is transsexual. My only real experience with Italy prior to 2002 is when I tried desperately to buy weed from a transsexual prostitute along the outer wall of the Protestant cemetery in Rome. It ended in an angry dismissal of my interests and my being from said prostitute. “No sex, No weed Fucking American””
Goodbye America: An Interview with Brad Feuerhelm
“I did recognise the irreplaceable object and destroyed it and my embattled state of mind with America continues.”
Cucurrucucu: Considering the Crime
“Perhaps it is a fantasy that one could wield power over the representation of death by its abstracted nature? Is this not a dangerous game to play god over the image of death?”
David Fathi: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO WHAT Claudia Seidel
“And beyond Fathi’s unique picture album that circles around Pauli and the so-called “Pauli Effect” the publication captures all the facets that finally determine a notable bookwork”
Aaron Schuman: Remote Hereditary Object-hood in FOLK
“It is often confusing being an American. We are a country deeply concerned with our personal histories, yet there is something peculiar about all of this in so much as that it seems to deflect from what we actually are: American”
Lee Friedlander: “The American Monument” (1976)
Vince Aletti describes The American Monument as “almost maniacally inclusive, rounding up everything from Plymouth Rock to a plaque commemorating the Pony Express in Salt Lake City and treating them with the same nonchalance. The doggedness of Friedlander’s quest is at once astounding and hilarious… History stalks the landscape at every turn.” The American Monument. […]