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object of importance but little value, too

February 3, 2025February 3, 2025 digLeave a comment

mel bokner (notes on value)
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Saturday, February 8, 5 – 7pm. On view through April 5, 2025

Join us on Saturday, February 8, 2025 from 5 – 7 pm for the opening reception of mel bokner (notes on value), an exhibition featuring over twenty five 8.5 x 11in drawings. All drawings—in disregard of the consensual magic that subtends the external determinates that structure their current value—will be for sale at $250 during the course of the exhibition.

Dennis Balk Kitty Brophy Yamel Molerio

Alyssa Andrews Paul Mullins Cynthia Cruz

Avi Young Beatriz Monteavaro Kevin Arrow

Adam Putnam Tonel (Antonio Eligio Fernández) Jennifer Printz

Lucía Aquino Sue Montoya Melissa Wallen

Rosemarie Chiarlone Brigette Hoffman AdrienneRose Gionta

Sebastian Restrepo Bhakti Baxter Tara Long

Robert Chambers Nicole Doran Yerrie Choo

Zachary Balber Corie Sharples Justin H Long

Ryan Foerster Dona Altemus Sarah Viviana Valdez

Onajide Shabaka Clifton Childree Adler Guerrier

Roxana Barba Amanda Keeley Ken Oliver Mercury

Jason Breeden Misael Soto Maitejosune Urrechaga

Tony Kapel Donna Torres Kayla Delacerda Tom Scicluna

Alisa Pitchenik Charles Daniel Joseph Martinez Francisco Masó

Jillian Mayer Mark Handforth Genesis Moreno

Alejandro Valencia Sterling Rook Regina Jestrow

Monica Lopez De Victoria Manny Prieres Casey Jargo

Tom Mickelson Hannah Buonaguro Theo Shure Kerry Phillips

Jessica Gispert Liduam Pong Westen Charles

Brooke Frank Nickolas Peter Chelyapov Claudio Marcotulli

Charles Humes Jr. Leo Castaneda Glexis Novoa

Max Estenger Dino Felipe Lee Pivnik

Mary Griffin Karen Rifas Sean T Randolph

untitled(object of importance but little value, too)ii — untitled (object of importance but little value, too) ii, spray enamel on magazine paper, 12 x 20 inches, 2012

Sweet freedom’s song

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Let Negroes smell the breeze
So they can sing with ease
Sweet freedom’s song;
Let justice reign supreme,
Let men be what they seem
Break up that lyncher’s screen,
Lay down all wrong.

The Negro’s “America”, Frank Barbour Coffin

if we stand together there is nothing that we cannot accomplish bottom line let us go forward and fight for a government and an economy that works for all not just a few we simply
Bernie Sanders, 013125

Pleasure augers survival

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“Mementos of the Sun” by T. Eliott Mansa at LnS Gallery.

Pleasure augers survival. (RK)

Somewhere, Nowhere

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go somewhere that exists only in our imaginations—that is, “nowhere”—… utopia

contemporary political spaces where the energies of love and imagination are understood and respected as powerful social forces.

surrealism is … an international revolutionary movement concerned with the emancipation of thought.

battle against all forms of oppression that aims to replace “suspicion, fear and anger with curiosity, adventure and desire”

Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, Robin D.G. Kelley

Somewhere better than this place
Nowhere better than this place

Félix González-Torres, 1989-1990.

disappears into the possibility of

January 30, 2025January 30, 2025 digLeave a comment

All lovers know it’s chemistry,
not physics, that makes the world go round

Androgyne, Stephen Dunn

Arrest occurs at a point of inconcinnity between the actual and the possible, a blind point where the reality of what we are disappears into the possibility of what we could be if we were other than we are. But we are not. (AC)

AG2023_1870869a or of a time

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They are trees that remind me of a time when I felt invincible. (RK)

AG2024_1133372a or build a cheap model

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And from the Journal: “‘It is difficult to know exactly how to make money on AI,’ said Mike Ogborne, founder of Ogborne Capital Management, a hedge-fund firm in San Francisco that oversees a position in Nvidia. ‘This could be the first day of a lot more pain.’” “It is difficult to know exactly how to make money in AI” does seem like an essential aspect of the AI trade; we have talked about OpenAI’s claim that “it may be difficult to know what role money will play in a post-[artificial general intelligence] world,” and also about a venture capital bet that the way to make money on AI is by buying up homeowners’ association management companies. But the actual answer turns out to be “build a cheap AI model and short Nvidia.” —Matt Levine, Bloomberg Opinion Money Stuff.

AG2025_1520719a or free from the private property of the image

January 27, 2025January 27, 2025 digLeave a comment

Serious thoughts need different cultivation and time to grow; planted as seeds of living speech in the ground of an appropriate soul, they will take root, ripen, and bear fruit as knowledge in due season

Written texts make available the notion that one knows what one has merely read.

From Plato’s Phaedrus, via Anne Carson’s Eros the bittersweet.

McKenzie Wark (2009): Détournement, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 14:1, 145-153

Détournement attacks a kind of fetishism, where

the products of collective human labour in the
cultural realm become mere property. But what is
distinctive about this fetishism is that it does not
rest directly on the status of the thing as a
commodity. It is, rather, a fetishism of memory.
Not so much commodity fetishism as co-memory
fetishism – collective remembrance as fetish. And
what is distinctive about détournement is that it
can restore to the fragment the status of being a
recognisable part of the process of the collective
production of meaning in the present, through
the combination of the détourned fragment into a
new meaningful ensemble. Détournement frees
the process of creation from the private property
of the image.