Antoine d’Agata: Your Dishonesty is the Codex for My Vitriol
“Mexicali, the capital of Baja California state, is not unique among border cities. All along the United States-Mexico border, women and girls are going missing.”
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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””
Stars and Stripes: Militarized Cocaine Camerawork
“Without naming it, I can tell you Brian motherfucking de Palma has a lot to answer for.”
Interview: Arnau Blanch’s Opium Induced Twilight
“I’ve been trying to transfer some of the states of altered perception resulting from opium use”
Where You Weren’t When We Were: SMILER
Thatcher was out, the false promises of Blair’s lying and callous maw was in. The 80’s and 90’s were different.
An Interview with Larry Clark: “If It’s Part of Life, It’s (Not) Pornography”
“No it’s not!” I said, “I’m going to prove to you that it’s not. I can do this and it’s not pornography!”
An Interview with Eugene Richards: ‘Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue’ (1995)
Excerpt from Popular Photography, August 1995 Q: When did you get the original assignment to photograph the drug scene? A: I made a trip to Detroit for Life in the late 1980’s to research the drug problem. It went badly. I couldn’t get anyone to help me break into the downtown Detroit scene. When I […]
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 […]
Tools of Mutilation, Death and Obsession in ‘The Void Ratio’
To become an absolute pariah of self through the visceral dis-corporation of one’s own body, which is needed to inject over 60,000 intravenous deaths is to claim godhood, and in 60,000 other parts, to subsequently claim self as the harbinger of one’s own death (Godhead incorporate). By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, January 2015 […]
Ken Schles on ‘Invisible City’ and ‘Night Walk’
“For generations the Lower East Side was a churning cauldron of activity. Site of immigrants (my own family passed through there more than a century ago), it already had a long history of renewal and decay.” Alex Bocchetto of Akina Books Interviews Ken Schles Alex Bocchetto: With Invisible City you narrated New York’s […]
Guided Inquiries into the Promised and Failed Utopian 90’s Rave Culture in ‘Close Your Eyes’
Gareth McConnell’s Close your Eyes is a salient tome of guided inquiries into 90’s rave culture. Gareth McConnell Close Your Eyes Self Publish Be Happy 2014 By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, December 2014 A Metaphor: Wavering, I stood with no grand hesitation towards the lip of the abyss. I shuddered to think once that my […]
Larry Clark on Cutting through the Bullshit and Hypocrisy of America (2007)
“People like Robert Frank inspired me. But I was really influenced more by people like Lenny Bruce.” By Raphaël Cuir, Art Press, August 2007 A year ago, seven short films by Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Gaspar Noé, Richard Prince, Marco Brambilla, Sam Taylor-Wood and Larry Clark were shown at Cannes under the title Destricted. […]