25 August 2016

Cave Youth

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 How he sees himself, and by association the artist, anywhere, anytime, is part of the mystery of his late works, and can only be disen...
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3 June 2016

This represents not simply a process of social conditioning; it normalises those incestuous corporate relationships that are part of the web infrastructure. It neutralises our ability to find alternative communication routes beyond the restrictive realms of Facebook/Twitter/Microsoft etc. It dulls our critical capacities to be able to mediate the relationships between corporate and public space. To be able to think critically and creatively beyond the insular and asocial boundaries of neoliberal social space.

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Subject: Your Response From Liberté - 2016/05/31-1639CA info@liberte.ca Jun 1 (1 day ago) to me Dear Mr. Knowles Eddy Knowles,

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29 May 2016

Apotropaic images

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"But what of those more intangible aspects of the New World—the inscrutability of Native American religious practices, for instance...
2 May 2016

A female artist wrote to me in an email about her experience, five years ago in New York, of “dorky, angry white guys streaming down from Columbia University, immigrating back from their stint at Staedl,” “circle jerking each other to the tune of French theory” and “giggling about 4chan.”

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Where was the woman who said she'd come. She said she would come. Erdedy thought she'd have come by now. He sat and thought. ...
27 April 2016

Keys

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Joker Of all human nudity — and there's no other kind of nudity — the penis is the only part that reveals more than, or something...
23 April 2016

Metallic Luther

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     She drove on downtown, being extra careful because she felt like doing harm to somebody, found a liquor store with a big Checks ...
24 March 2016

Robbie just did not have a passion for labels

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        In November 2002, then immigration minister Denis Coderre put forward a recommendation for a national debate on the issue of ide...
10 March 2016

TIL That Joseph Stalin signed his name on documents in red crayon

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8 March 2016

Unsubscribing from Akimbo

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aborted proposal for a public art commission in Mississauga, © 2015 I am drifting, adrift. No matter how much we talk about drift...
2 March 2016

Rankin Family

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"More than ever today, nature has become inseparable from culture; and if we are to understand the interactions between ecosy...
1 March 2016

Spa

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My point isn't to split hairs around definition and semantics but rather to underscore the emerging buzz around social practice art....
28 February 2016

Pantone 448C

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FS: "Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975" (Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, October 1995) caused a stir in ...
11 January 2016

the infinite tweet

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'As concepts such as "good enough" mothering suggest, Winnicott is a fairly sanguine soul. But he also takes pains to remi...
2 January 2016

"Where has the human connection gone? Share 1 minute of eye contact with 1 person"

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"Prior to the 1970s one finds no trace of U.S. twentieth century folk art as a cultural field. The Museum of American Folk Art wa...
1 November 2015

affect fencing

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"I am living on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, working for the Fogo Island Arts Corporation. Ai Weiwei's current situation, the que...
28 September 2015

zero-sum

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In the slums . . . the closer colors are to the rainbow, the more enticing they are.  —Louis Cheskin, Color Research Instit...
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9 September 2015

Sign here

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Sapporo Tenjin-yama Art Studio observes The Sapporo Ordinance for Eliminating Organized Crime Groups (Boryoku-dan Haijyo J...
3 September 2015

Burqa of Skin

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Juggalos The Juggalos, a loosely-organized hybrid gang, are rapidly expanding into many US communities. Although recognized as...
28 August 2015

Clasical Economic Theory as expounded by Round Baldwin

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"For De Certeau, the walking body moves in search of a familiar thing in the city. He invokes Freud, saying that walking recalls ...

The fuzz in Alberta

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The Song of the Smoke BY W. E. B. DU BOIS    I am the Smoke King    I am black! I am swinging in the sky, I am wringing w...