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?”
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Graham Macindoe: Excavation. Internalization. Elevation.
“There is some nostalgia, certainly. Music often shares a correlating value to memory, which leads easily to nostalgia. It is no different with photography”
HOLLYWOOD, ANKARA: SUPERFAMILIARITY and TERROR
“What is at work here is not that the image is iconic, but that it is graphic and SUPERFAMILIAR, which legitimizes its effect and distribution”
Martin Kollar: The Post-Soviet Cinematic Detail
“As we ponder the future fugue states of Europe, the diplomatic inadequacy of the New West and Russia, questions arise”
Nadav Kander: ICON Propaganda TIME
“Images are certainly unavoidable in a future broadcast by terms of repetition over that of substance and acknowledgement in their immediacy of display”
Star Mangled: Interview with Harlan Levey
“The presentation of politics has become pure entertainment; just another unhealthy consumable good and both candidates got chewed up and swallowed that night, which felt very appropriate and was more therapeutic than I would have imagined.”
Iris van der Zee: Violence is an Art Form
“When is an artwork finished? Are the World Trade Centers only finished when the planes sink into their steel bellies? Can we assume Babylon’s work at an end when pneumatic drill erases their façade?” We spend long hours illustrating our human form. We seek a representation of ideals and we look backwards over the canons […]
Tiane Doan Na Champassak: Tamarind Ghosts Full Text
“In any event, this numbness behind the eyes reminds me that I live and I die for next to nothing”
Gregory Halpern: “ZZYZX” This Town Could Be Anywhere
“The bucolic west is no longer a benign horizon in which to measure the imagination and fantasy of pioneer aspirations”
Improbable Parables: Considering The Prismatic and the Void in the Work of Inka & Niclas
“The wandering couple coerces themselves towards enlightenment by consulting their unease through a distorted prismatic light, and hence gives their world a credence not found in the symbolic disorder of howling winds”
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”
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.”