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“The shadowless light” Montage #4

jeudepaumeblog — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 10:33:27 +0000

“The shadowless light. Simply to be gone. Or for affair as now. A single leg appears. Seen from above. You separate the segments and lay them side by side. It is as you half surmised. The upper is the longer …

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Pictorial and Textual Thinking: Montage Exercises with Elsa-Louise Manceaux

jeudepaumeblog — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 14:38:21 +0000

“But by far the greater part of what is said cannot be verified”1Samuel Beckett, Company, London: Calder, 1979 For the following series of juxtapositions, I invited Elsa-Louise Manceaux to pair up some of her drawings with fragments from Samuel Beckett’s …

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Desilluminations By Elsa-Louise Manceaux

jeudepaumeblog — Wed, 29 May 2019 14:23:58 +0000

Why do people see what they see? There must be conventions. There must be expectations. We see nothing otherwise; all would be chaos. Types, codes, categories, concepts. Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing World, p. 58. According to Hito Steyerl, the new …

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Miguel Ventura

jeudepaumeblog — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 07:56:43 +0000

Miguel Ventura’s (b. 1954, San Antonio Texas, U.S., based in Mexico City) collages juxtapose an array of apparently disparate elements: Classic Modern architecture and contemporary iconic Starchitecture, modern and contemporary art, images of celebrities, contemporary artists, politicians, dead bodies, a …

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Crossing the Margins of the Encounter and the Ghosts of Coloniality: Clarisse Hahn’s Mescaline (2017)

jeudepaumeblog — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:21:02 +0000

Dismantling the organism has never meant killing yourself, but rather opening the body to connections that presuppose an entire assemblage, circuits, conjunctions levels and thresholds, passages and distributions of intensity, and territories and deterritorializations measured with the craft of a …

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Sara Eliassen

jeudepaumeblog — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 06:13:52 +0000

Sara Eliassen’s (b. and b. in Oslo, 1977) site-specific video-intervention for her project The Feedback Loop, which also encompasses a film and conference program and an exhibition at Munchmuseet on The Move – Kunsthall Oslo, Dronning Eufemias gate 34, was displayed …

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Julieta Aranda

jeudepaumeblog — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:12:14 +0000

“Ghost fishing” describes a highly destructive phenomenon that is activated when fishing nets get detached from their vessels and begin catching fish, coral reefs and other forms of marine life autonomously. As a consequence, entire ecosystems are being wiped out, …

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Uprisings at MUAC

jeudepaumeblog — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 10:05:11 +0000

If an art necessarily imposed the shock or vibration the world would have changed long ago, and men would have been thinking for a long time. Gilles Deleuze, Cinéma II, p.152 The crowd’s chaotic moment is indeterminate, but to fetishize …

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Modernization as Consensual Abuse: Contemporary Art for Cuauhtémoc Medina

jeudepaumeblog — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 07:00:07 +0000

I disagree with the way in which power is exercised in Mexico, but I participate in the consensus, as I choose not take up as a personal task to bring power down. Cuauhtémoc Medina (AM, 38) Art has a political …

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Neoliberalism, Modernity and Panic of Entropy: Undoing the Knot of the Anthropocene?

jeudepaumeblog — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 09:28:09 +0000

When we are not elucidating the fact that the reality of humanity in the second decade of the 21st Century has literally become sci-fi, we can ponder that neoliberal common sense implies hostility to caring about others and to contributing …

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