Les Fantaisistes de Carrefour?– B6 – La femme. 1969
Vocalist : Ricot Mazarin
Legna Rodríguez Iglesias interviewed Tana Oshima.
Text is published in Rialta.
Tana Oshima offers interesting responses to Legna Rodríguez Iglesias‘s questions.
A veces me gusta ir a lugares inhóspitos, sí. Con el objetivo de narrarlos, pero la narración que viene después de visitar esos lugares es sólo una vía para canalizar una exploración que es más emocional que intelectual. Me atraen los márgenes, los lugares marginales habitados por personas marginales. Hablo de los márgenes en un sentido social. Me atraen porque me muevo con cierta facilidad entre esas personas y me gusta comunicarme con ellas. Me atraen los márgenes porque una vez estuve ahí, por motivos distintos a la mayoría de los que están ahí, y siento mucha empatía por esas personas.
Haiti, January 12, 2010
10 years ago, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti.
Edwidge Danticat in the New Yorker. Other newyorker Haiti related articles (most informs on a post-earthquake Haiti).
Jacqueline Charles in the Miami Herald and in Pulitzer Center.
NPR revisits. Another article.
Elizabeth Withstandley’s Searching for the Miraculous
A trilogy of video-installation works by Withstandley that uses Bas Jan Ader‘s final work, “In Search of the Miraculous”, as an entry point for a new experiential journey. The exhibition opens tonight at AC Institute.
Searching for the Miraculous is a trilogy of video/installation works that uses Bas Jan Aders final work, “In Search of the Miraculous”, as an entry point for a new experiential journey. The works explore identity, time, transcended experiences, and the romantic vision of a quest for something better. The project uses video, audio, music and sculptural elements to create a contemporary version of the trilogy. It starts with a cinematic short, then a connected journey between two people and finally concludes with a journey of a pair of glass jars floating across the sea.
Elizabeth Withstandley is from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She is one of the co-founders of Locust Projects, a not-for-profit art exhibition space, in Miami, FL.
Her work is routed in conceptual art taking the form of video installations and photographic series. Artifacts, individuality, and music are all central themes in her work. In addition to exhibiting her own work she has organized a number of exhibitions including Smoke & Mirrors at the Torrance Art Museum, 20/20 at Locust Projects and a the 2019 residency project, work from artists at The Curfew Tower.
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An image, a site to gather, to see, and to ponder that blackness, that’s out there, that’s seems infinite, that must hold all that we can image.
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Vessels for speculative use, though this pot could flowers. From 11-12_2019 batch.
Baldessari
John Baldessari, 1931-2020, a favorite and in whose long shadow I often find myself. via unframed.
David Salle engaged in the practice, in the Paris Review, 2010.
Mungo Thomson’s Baldessari antenna ball (2002).
Our tasks
Imagination, justice, beauty, art, misery eradication, repair and mend (what has been torn or a torn world), wisdom (“cold frugality of the wise”), openness to the world (in harmony with it), finding meaning in life, tending to friendship, cultivation of happiness.
Our task as [humans] is to find the few principles that will calm the infinite anguish of free souls. We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more to peoples poisoned by the misery of the century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But superhuman is the term for tasks [we] take a long time to accomplish, that’s all.
Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays.
via Popova. Also, Camus on meaning, Weil on attention as grace and generosity.