Kibbo Kift: Arcane Premonitions of Techno-Degeneracy
It was a lifestyle to say the least and it radiated past the unnecessary notions of industrial progress for that of inner and group progress.
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The Non-Political Implications (and Motives) of Wolfgang Tillmans’ ‘Abstract Pictures’
A simpler question is, if this is what political art looks like, what does non-political art look like?
Shilo Group’s: From the Fog of the Barricades
‘Chronicle’ by the Shilo Group (Sergiy Lebedynskyy and Vladyslav Krasnoshchok) is a field guide study in monochrome of various fires lit to burn various bridges across the Ukraine.
Arthur Mole ‘Living Photographs’ : Patriotism and the Slippery Slope to Nationalism
“If these pictures have a palette, it is a logic of Caucasian biology and codified dress”. By Izabella Scott, ASX, December 2015 Arthur Mole’s “living portraits”, easily mistaken for small-town pansy decorations, are composed with bodies: ‘The Human Liberty Bell’ is concocted with the bodies of 15,000 soldiers; ‘A Living Portrait of Woodrow Wilson’, with […]
Christian Patterson “Bottom of the Lake”: Possibilities of the Subject “I”
“To not understand time or the chrono-contextualization of an image is to discover that our potential theories of pre-existing semiotic signifiers may be out of order”. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, November 2015 The theory of the subject in semiotic terms, concerns itself with the concept of personal perspective in the sense that the arguments […]
Daisuke Yokota’s “Taratine”: A Lexicon of Milk
Daisuke Yokota’s “Taratine” is a personal journey between the worlds he once knew of his mother to that of his lover.
Ivars Gravlejs ‘Early Works’ : A Sustainable Auto-Infanticide
What once was is now that of accouterments of a lifetime wasted in the stable of senseless mediocrity. I type trying bitterly (perhaps) to formulate the playful hypocrisies of a commanding youthful idiocy into a bittersweet doctrine of sustainable return for the elderly elite deprived of the inconsistent economy of childhoods that have been forgotten. […]
An Interview with John Gossage: Nothing and the Politics of Nothing (2015)
”I go to places and I have the belief that if I can photograph well, the places will educate me to things I do not know about them.”
Alberto García-Alix: Un Horizonte Falso
When Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died in 1975, decades of repressive cultural policy died with him. Swiftly, numerous counterculture movements sprang up to fill the void. La Movida Madrilena – ‘The Madrid Scene’ – was one of the first, and Alberto García-Alix was one of its pioneers. I know you. You’re a lot like me […]
Meryl Meisler : The World That Summer
@ Meryl Meisler “The change we monitored came to us through the shifting tides of our visual culture and the places that would slowly evaporate under the “future”. Disco Clubs, roller-skating rinks, the ma & pa stores, these places are where change happens”. Everything had changed quite dramatically in the neighborhood. The sounds of children […]
Daisuke Yokota / Yoshi Kametani: Cascading Granular Shadow
“Classon” is breakthrough in a way for artists Yoshi Kametani and Daisuke Yokota.
Hiroshi Sugimoto’s ‘Seascapes’: Measuring Time in Repetition
Hiroshi Sugimoto’s, ‘Seascapes’ is a meditation on time examined through repetition and constancy…