Charming Thanatological Matter into a Chance Dance: Daisuke Yokota @ Unseen
Daisuke Yokota’s Subversive Appreciation of Time.
Tag Archives: Michael Salu
Noémie Goudal @Unseen – “Inaction, no Falsifying Dream.”
Noémie Goudal’s magical realism and our language of decay.
#UnseenASX – Associative Methods, Inherent Algorithms and History Through the Self-portrait: A Conversation with Peter Puklus
“It is about expressing an idea freely. As soon as you say you’re a photographer, you’re immediately blocking yourself inside a medium or a technology. “
A Conversation with Pieter Hugo – Xenophobia, Self-Censorship and the Commodity of ‘Blackness’
“We live in an era where artists constantly have to self censor. In my experience more often to pander to a disingenuous idea of political correctness than to conservatism.”
The Enemy Today: ‘Let Us Now Praise Infamous Men’
For the authors Feuerhelm and Salu, theirs’ is an act of frustration at our willingness to sit back and be spoon-fed bullshit while behind us a cartoon mouse holds a gun to our head. By Poppy Coles, June 2015 This book reads as an unrelenting portrait of “the enemy” today. Using the historic […]
‘That Dark’, Melancholy and Death in the Works of Catherine Anyango
Mike Brown @ Catherine Anyango “One may say that the Negro in America does not really exist, except in the darkness of our minds.” James Baldwin – Notes from a Native Son By Michael Salu, ASX, February 2015 It is THAT dark. You know, the dark that exists under your fingernails that you idly […]
We Continue On Blithely With Our Own Economic Flagellation (2014)
@ Penelope Umbrico We continue on blithely with our own economic flagellation. By Michael Salu, ASX, December 2014 Earlier this year during a trip to Moscow, I neglected to switch off the data roaming on my smartphone. As you might expect, wandering environs beyond the remit of our communication overlords, I ran up […]